Highway Engineering: Contracts and Supervision

This course has been discontinued.

Good highways are so interwoven with every phase of our daily activities that it is almost impossible to imagine what life would be like without them. Practically all highway construction projects in the United States are public works, which are constructed with public funds. The agency authorizing this construction may be a federal, state, municipal, or county governmental unit, but the greatest number of highway construction projects today are authorized through the various state highway agencies. More than 95 percent of the construction done under state highway supervision is done by contract. The remaining 5 percent is done by the state's own forces organized and equipped to do this work.

This 1-hour interactive online course covers the procedure generally followed by most state highway agencies in preparing contractual documents and in supervising construction. The course reviews unit pricing, the bid process, documentation, subcontracting, prequalification, state and federal agreements, bidding mechanics, unbalanced bids and construction supervision. This is the seventh course in a series on highway engineering.