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1-Intro To Heavy Construction

Heavy civil construction involves large infrastructure projects like bridges, dams, highways, and tunnels. It is characterized by high equipment costs, spread out work areas, public owners, engineering-driven specifications and plans, and susceptibility to weather. Major projects in the past involved rural interstate construction, but now focus more on complex, expensive urban infrastructure and rehabilitation projects.

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1-Intro To Heavy Construction

Heavy civil construction involves large infrastructure projects like bridges, dams, highways, and tunnels. It is characterized by high equipment costs, spread out work areas, public owners, engineering-driven specifications and plans, and susceptibility to weather. Major projects in the past involved rural interstate construction, but now focus more on complex, expensive urban infrastructure and rehabilitation projects.

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INTRODUCTION TO
HEAVY CONSTRUCTION
Characteristics and Divisions
L AND E
CIVIL ONMENT
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RING
TAL ENGINEER Overview of the Construction
Industry
The construction industry is broken down
by the type of construction:
Residential
Residential Construction;
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Commercial Construction;
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Industrial Construction; and


Heavy
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Heavy
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Division by Function:
Tall Buildings or Skyscrapers
Bridges
Domes and Stadiums
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Dams and Canals


Highways
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Airports
Tunnels
Fo ndations
Foundations
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Sewers
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Characteristics
TAL ENGINEER

Equipment cost ten times higher than in


commercial or residential construction (25-
30% vs. 2-3%).
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Spread out in the horizontal plane: more


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space for material handling
g and storage,
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trailers and parking.


Owner: public. Therefore at least 50% of
L AND E

work done by GC vs. 80-100% sub


contracted in other types.
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Characteristics
TAL ENGINEER

Specs are written by public owner for a


few hundred projects and do not apply to a
particular project plans govern.
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Plans and specs are written by the civil


g
engineer.
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More susceptible to weather higher


overhead.
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Almost always based on Unit Price


contract
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History
y and Future
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1950s: Interstate infrastructure program.


Past 25 years: evolution in the type and
y construction p
size of heavy projects:
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From rural to urban projects;


More complex and more expensive; but
ENVIRO

Less volume of earthwork.


Future: more infrastructure rehab projects
projects.
L AND E
CIVIL
CIVIL
L AND E
ENVIRO
ONMENT
TAL ENGINEER
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