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https://doi.org/10.3141/1861-13

http://scholar.google.com...ille&publication_year=2003

The development of a new initiative for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to involve resident engineers and contractors in the project development process, especially for environmentally sensitive projects, is summarized. To meet the demands of human and natural environmental issues on transportation projects, many departments of transportation are embracing the tenets of context-sensitive design for their projects. Some have begun to expand this involvement to all participants in the project development process and are calling this initiative context-sensitive solutions. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet believes that it is critical to involve its resident engineers and contractors in the process to ensure success on environmentally sensitive projects. In the planning and design stages of project development, the commitments that are made are not always carried into the construction stage and implemented. Context-sensitive construction is the integration of the concepts of context-sensitive design into the construction process and adherence to all commitments made during the earlier stages of project development. The Kentucky Transportation Center and the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Kentucky developed a training program to introduce the concepts of context-sensitive solutions for the construction phase of a project to industry and cabinet personnel, and that program is described.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1861, Construction 2003.

English

p. 125-131

2003

Transportation Research Record

0309085985

Tables (2)

Context sensitive design; Personnel; Training programs

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

Project development

Kentucky

Construction; Highways; Society; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction

TRIS, TRB

Jan 13 2004 12:00AM

• APPLICATION OF INFRARED IMAGING AND GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR TO DETECT SEGREGATION IN HOT-MIX ASPHALT OVERLAYS
• CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT QUALITY WARRANTIES: HYBRID QUALITY ASSESSMENT MODEL
• DEVELOPMENT OF TEST METHODOLOGY AND MODEL FOR EVALUATION OF CURING EFFECTIVENESS IN CONCRETE PAVEMENT CONSTRUCTION
• EVALUATION OF INFRARED IGNITION FURNACE FOR DETERMINATION OF ASPHALT CONTENT
• INVESTIGATION OF TENDER ZONE IN COMPACTION OF COARSE-GRADED SUPERPAVE (REGISTERED TRADEMARK) HOT-MIX ASPHALT MIXTURES
• MAINTENANCE OF HYPERTEXT-BASED SPECIFICATIONS FOR STATE HIGHWAY PROJECTS
• MULTICHARACTERISTIC PERFORMANCE-RELATED SPECIFICATION FOR HOT-MIX ASPHALT PAVEMENT: COMPLETE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
• OPTIMIZING OPENING OF PORTLAND CEMENT CONCRETE PAVEMENTS USING INTEGRATED MATURITY AND NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTS
• PROCESS FOR SELECTING STRATEGIES FOR REHABILITATION OF RIGID PAVEMENTS UNDER HIGH TRAFFIC VOLUMES
• SIMPLIFIED ANALYSIS OF HEAT-CURVED STEEL GIRDERS
• STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL AND QUALITY ASSURANCE EVALUATION OF STRUCTURAL AND PAVING CONCRETE
• STUDY ON PROCUREMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR PUBLIC WORKS: CASE FOR QUALIFICATIONS-BASED SELECTION
• SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION OF GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE-QUALITY CONTROL OF NEW PAVEMENTS
• TOWARD A COMPREHENSIVE POLICY OF NIGHTTIME CONSTRUCTION WORK
• USE OF A RIDE QUALITY INDEX FOR CONSTRUCTION QUALITY CONTROL AND ACCEPTANCE SPECIFICATIONS