Design and Construction Project Support
The Design & Construction Support Site is constantly being updated. Please use our search function above if you cannot locate the document you are looking for.
This Design and Construction Project Support page contains websites that are used in the design and construction of CDOT Highway projects.
Below is a brief outline indicating what information can be found in these websites. You may also use the links located to the left to access these websites.
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: (ARRA) Related Documents.
- Accelerated Bridge Construction Documents: To see if ABC is recommended or not.
- Construction Specifications: This area contains standard specifications appropriate for use on CDOT construction Projects and revisions thereto. The 2017 Standard Specifications are now available and should be used on all projects advertised on or after October 01, 2017.
- Bulletins and Manuals: Links to various Construction and Design Bulletins, Manuals, Memos, and other related documents.
- M&S Standard Plans: The M Standard Plans and the S Standard Plans.
- Other Specifications: ITS, FIPI, Material Specificiations Checklist, Pilot Project Special Provisions.
- Miscellaneous Design Documents: Safety Selection Guide and other documents not included in any of the other specifications websites.
- CDOT's Office of CADD & ProjectWise programs, and Highway Engineering Design Processes: This website contains information on CDOT's CADD (MicroStation/InRoads) and ProjectWise (file sharing) softwares. Also, Consultant Access information, Software Upgrades, CADD and ProjectWise Training Videos and Materials, CADD and ProjectWise User Manuals, How-to-Workflows, Tips and Tricks, a Library of Detail Drawings, Software Configurations, and other CDOT CADD related resources.
- Innovative Contracting and Design - Build: A process of systematic decision-making, risk identification and allocation, identification of goals and objectives, identification and development of strategies, and creation of a competitive procurement environment.
- Dispute Review Board: The DRB assists in the final resolution of disputes and claims between CDOT and hired contractors.
- CDOT & Local Agency
- Materials and Geotechnical: Bulletins, Manuals, Policy and Procedures, Guidelines, the Approved Products List, Misc. documents, and Archived references.
- Chief Engineer Memos: Memos sent out by the Chief Engineer.
- Policy Memos
- CDOT Emergency Engineering Projects SharePoint site: A link to CDOT's Emergency Engineering Projects on SharePoint.
- Water Quality: Protecting the quality of our water.
- CDOT/FHWA Stewardship Agreement: How CDOT informs FHWA of its performance across a number of mutually agreed upon indicators associated with the administration of the Federal Aid Highway Program (FAHP).
- Software / Support Information: Links to information on Engineering Applications and AASHTOWare Project SiteManager.
- Value Engineering (VE): The independent review of a project during the planning and design
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