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CIVIL ENGINEERING SPECIFICATIONS AND CONTRACTS PREPARED BY RICHARD I. D. ASHBRIDGE CIVIL ENGINEER MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS - CONTENTS PAGE Introduction 1 General instructions 1 General provisions Details prior to beginning work 9 Grouping provisions 9 Drawings, plans, etc 10 Measurements, lines, and grades 12 Fulfilling the contract 13 Execution of work 13 Inspection of work 15 Protective and labor clauses 17 Miscellaneous obligations of contractor 18 Interference with travel 22 Damages, claims, alterations, etc 23 Payment, liens, estimate, bond, etc 25 Typical illustrative specifications 9 29-130 Railroad grading 29 Foundations 35 Masonry 36 Lumber 51 Interstate rules for classification and inspection of yellow pine 52 Terra cotta drain pipe for culverts 53 Cast-iron pipe culverts 54 Structural steel for buildings 55 Steel bridge specifications 56 Kailroad bridges 57 Highway bridges 71 Tunnels 72 Borings for subaqueous tunnel 76 Pile trestle for an electric railroad across an ocean inlet ... 76 Timber and framing 77 Piling 78 Treatment of timber with creosote 81 Iron work for timber trestles . . 84 2 CONTENTS PAGE Typical illustrative specifications continued Track laying 85 Preparing roadbed 86 Laying the track 87 Ballasting 89 Surfacing 90 Crossties 90 Overhead construction of an electric railway 93 Stone road 95 Concrete macadam 100 Pavements and curbing 102 Vitrified-clay brick or block paving 104 Granite block paving on concrete base 105 Telford paving 107 Curbing 107 Granite block paving on sand base 108 Asphalt paving Kenned asphalt Wood-block pavement Granolithic sidewalk pavement Brick pavement Elevated tanks and standpipes Contract or articles of agreement Essential elements 131 109 114 120 124 Analysis of conditions 134 Forms of agreement 136 General form 140 Proposals 125 125 131 Railway form 143 Instructions to bidders 161 Typical proposals Advertisement 171 160 165 Typical advertisements , 173 Metal work 173 Bridge work 173 Macadam roads 174 Practice in specification and contract writing 175 General instructions 175 Typical problems 176 INTRODUCTION IN engineering work, often involving millions of dollars and the labor of thousands of men for months, there can be no more important matters for the interested parties to consider than exactly what is to be done, how it is to be done, and what it is going to cost. An important contractual relation, which is to last some- times for years, is to be entered into and, litigation, the meeting to avoid trouble and of the minds must be exact on all points. On the one hand the interests of the corporation or individual for whom the work is to be done must be carefully safeguarded on the other hand, n injustice must be done the contractor, nor any provisions introduced or omitted which will prevent him from making an honest profit on his work. I The author, who has a wide experience in Civil Engineering work, has tried first to develop a logical system of preparing specifications, and to present a method of avoiding the mistakes and omissions all too common in papers of this kind. He has also attempted to cover all types of specifications from railroad work, bridges, culverts, excavations, fills, tunnels, and road-beds to coun- try and city paving. In addition to typical specifications, the proposal, agreement, and contract forms are discussed and illus- trated...

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• Published on: 2007-10
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 196 pages