Highway Bridge Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

This comprehensive book provides the tools and methods needed for building, maintaining, planning, and scheduling effective highway maintenance, giving readers experience-based suggestions on how to evaluate highway bridges to determine maintenance priorities, and also including methods for the evaluation of all completed work for technical acceptability, productivity, and unit-cost standards

Mark A. Hurt (Author), Steven D Schrock (Author)

9780128020692, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 2 March 2016

348 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.2 cm, 0.54 kg

Highway Bridge Maintenance Planning and Scheduling provides new tactics for highway departments around the world that are faced with the dilemma of providing improved operations on a shoestring budget. Even after the much needed infrastructure funding is received, the question of which project comes first must be answered. Written by a 20-year veteran with the Kansas Department Of Transportation Bridge Office in design and in maintenance, this book provides Senior Bridge Maintenance Engineers with practical advice on how to create an effective maintenance program that will allow them to not only plan, schedule, direct, and monitor highway bridge repair and rehabilitation projects, but also evaluate all completed work for technical acceptability, productivity, and unit-cost standards.

1. Introduction2. Bridge Elements and Materials3. Bridge Inspection and Evaluation4. Preventative Maintenance5. Substantial Maintenance and Rehabilitation6. Bridge Life Cycle Costing7. Bridge Management

Subject Areas: Transport technology & trades [TR], Building construction & materials [TNK], Structural engineering [TNC]