ABSTRACT
Various parties are involved in the development and delivery of a conventional highway bridge project. Owner’s design engineer, the engineer, is responsible for designing the bridge as per the governing specifications. Subsequently, the contractor selected for the project is responsible for developing the means and methods of construction, and submitting construction plans and associated calculations for review and approval by the engineer. Lack of systematic and detailed evaluation of structural element and system responses during construction by both parties results in change requests by the contractor and/or other safety issues. In response to this need, a framework that encompasses constructability analysis cases during each stage of construction, and guidelines and tools for performing necessary evaluations were developed and presented in this article. Also, this article presents an application case study.
