Guides, Handbooks & Reports Updates
Guide Specifications for Highway Construction, 10th Edition
This April 2020 updated guide specifications provide guidance for developing transportation contract specifications and are the national standard for best practices in highway and road construction. This consensus-based guide is used by states and local agencies as a standard requirement for roadway construction contracts and is a basis for those in developing their own construction specifications. This edition focuses on electronic submittals, updated environmental requirements, and revised materials specifications. The guide is designed for use with the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Construction Specifications, 4th Edition, and the AASHTO Partnering Handbook, 2nd Edition. This 2020 10th edition supersedes the 2008 9th edition.
COC Mental Health: Discussions Among Peers (NEW!!!)
In 2023, the Committee on Construction identified Mental Health and Suicide Awareness in Construction (and construction-adjacent) workers to be a national priority to address. With the help of the AGC, ARTBA, and active committee members, a 12-month script and monthly meeting resource was developed. The goal is to give COC leaders a resource for discussing this topic, and providing a safe community in which conversations about mental health and wellbeing are the norm.
This program provides short scripts and optional question prompts to help open or close your monthly virtual meetings with a moment of reflection on mental health and well-being. These topics can be sensitive, and that’s okay—there’s no one right way to approach them. Use the script, the questions, or both—whatever feels most comfortable. The goal is to simply create space for conversation.
AASHTO Partnering Handbook 2nd Edition
The AASHTO Partnering Handbook was developed to educate key customers and partners on the benefits and methods of adopting partnering principles, in both new and existing partnering programs. The handbook’s first edition, published in 2005, was written against a context of traditional design–bid-build project delivery, where highway projects were awarded to the lowest bidder. Since that time, the advent of alternative contracting methods, like design–build, construction manager/general contractor, and public–private partnerships, has fundamentally changed the way projects are being delivered and have resulted in increased integration and collaboration between state departments of transportation and their partners in the design and construction industries. The goal of this handbook is to encourage agencies to create a project delivery environment that integrates partnering principles into routine business practices.