Document Details
- Document Number:
- EI 09-024
- Title:
- Section 203 - Excavation and Embankment
- Status:
- Inactive
- Issue Date:
- 12/21/2009
- Effective Date:
- 5/6/2010
- Expiration Date:
- 1/7/2015
- Resp Organization:
- Geotechnical Engineering Bureau
- Contact:
- Randall J. Romer
- Phone:
- 518-457-4714
- Email:
- rromer@dot.state.ny.us
- Item Numbers:
- 203.02,203.03,203.05,203.06,203.07,203.0801,203.0802,203.10,203.12,203.13,203.1601,203.20,203.21,203.25
- Drawings:
- M203-1, M203-2, M203-3R1, M203-4R1, M203-5
- Keywords:
- soil, fill, borrow, select material, settlement rod, settlement gauge, piezometer, subgrade, sand, backfill, disposal, slope protection
- Shelf Notes:
- Yes
- Standard Book:
- No
- Modifies These:
- (02-005)Standard Specification Sections 203, 204, 304 and 667
- Superseded By:
- (14-010) Standard Specification Section 203 Excavation and Embankment
- File:
- EI 09-024
- Abstract:
- The NYS Department of Transportation is implementing Trns *port SiteManager, including both Construction and Materials functionality. Implementation of standard AASHTO software enables SiteManager to allow revising this agency's practices to be more consistent with industry-accepted best practices. The revisions to the Standard Specifications are to conform to SiteManager's methodology in defining its Material Codes and Pay Items. The revisions include: (1) The material requirements have been moved to Section 700. This move was required to embrace and align with the future that is SiteManager. To do this, The Geotechnical Engineering Bureau is changing how some of its specifications are written to align them with most Standard Specifications, which separate materials from pay items. Specification 733-08 through Specification 733-16 are being assigned the material specifications related to earthwork. Specification 733-17 and Specification 733-18 are being assigned the material specifications related to embankment construction control devices. These changes align the specifications with SiteManager's methodology in defining its Material Codes and Pay Items, with Items referring to one or many Materials. (2) The entire Section was re-organized to institute corresponding subsections. Each subsection was arranged as a counterpart to the pay items. (3) The restriction on winter earthwork operations has changed. The revision requires a Contractor to provide a submittal outlining the modification to the materials, methods for placement and methods for controlling weather effects on both the material and existing ground. The material requirements for winter earthwork are provide in 733-16 Winter Earthwork.
