Professionals involved in Highway Projects:

(From releasing a Project under any scheme to till end of construction of Project road)

CLIENT/AUTHORITY CONSULTANT CONTRACTOR

Helps to client/contractor in Executes the construction
MINISTRY OF ROAD preparation of various of the Highway
TRANSPORT & HIGHWAYS Designs, Reports & Supporting Example:
documents etc.,
• DPR CONSULTANT

NATIONAL HIGHWAY • DETAILED DESIGN

AUTHORITY OF INDIA CONSULTANT
Nagarjuna
• PROJECT MANAGEMENT Construction
CONSULTANT Company
Limited
• INDEPENDENT ENGINEER
PUBLIC WORKS
DEPARTMENT, ROADS, • PROOF CHECKING Hindustan
STATE GOVERNMENT Construction
CONSULTANT
Co. Ltd
• SAFETY CONSULANT
etc., etc.,
Highway Design Consultant Firm:
Role: Providing Technical Support to Client and Contractor based on project stage.

Project Stage.?

Detailed Project Report, Pre-bid Services & Detailed Engineering Services

Teams in Consultancy..?

 Highway  Geotechnical

 Traffic & Safety  Estimation & Costing

 Pavement & Materials  Survey

 Hydrology  Environment & Social

 Structures
Steps involved in Road Development Process:
If Client wants to complete execution of any Road (NH/SH) of length (say 500 kms)
under any Road Development Scheme, divides complete 500kms length into packages.
From here following steps will be carried out:

 Step-1: Selection Process for Consultant by Client

 Notice for inviting EOI (Expression of Interest)
 Short Listing - Filters some best consultants among applied consultants
 Invitation for RFP (Request For Proposal) – RFP consists of formats & explains how to submit
proposals
 Technical & Financial Evaluation of Proposals received from Consultants
 Negotiation between client and consultants
 Award of Project to consultants
By end of Step-1, client will Award packages to the consultants by considering qualifications & work
experience, financial status, credentials of personnel in the consultant company.
As a part of Request For Proposal (RFP), client will provide Terms of Reference (ToR).
ToR clearly explains and guides consultant about requirement of the client. From here
onwards actual consultancy work will start.
 Step-2: Preparation of Detailed Project Report (DPR)
 Quality Assurance Plan: Describes detailed working approach & methodology for surveys &
investigations (road inventory & condition, structure inventory & condition, traffic, material,
geotechnical surveys), designs such as highway, pavement, structure, Financial & Economical
Analysis, Environment and Social Impact Assessment.
 Inception Report – Site Appreciation (Overview about project road by the experts and their teams),
Manning Schedule
 Alignment Report – Alignment Option studies (Bypasses, Realignments) and Best alignment proposal
in terms of cost, length, connectivity etc.,
 Feasibility Report – Main Report, Drawings (Highway & Structures), Cost Estimates, Supporting
Documents. Explains feasibility of the project. If project is not feasible, terminates.
 Detailed Project Report - Main Report, Drawings (Highway & Structures), Cost Estimates,
Supporting Documents
 Technical Sanction Documents - Highway and Structure Drawings, Cost Estimate, Concession
Agreement, Request for Proposal for Contractor, Technical Schedules
 Land Acquisition & Clearance Reports (Tree cutting, Utility shifting etc.,)
By end of Step-2, client will be able to upload tender documents & inviting contractors for bidding in their
respective websites to initiate tendering process.
Contractor will go through projects uploaded for bidding in client websites
(NHAI/MoRTH/PWD). If contractor interested to bid any project, he appoints technical
staff of his own company or consultant to carry out study the technical sanction
documents for bidding the project.

 Step-3: Pre bids & Construction work awards to Contractor

 Studies Technical Sanctioned documents: Drawings (Highway & Structure), Reports, Technical
Schedules
 Site visit: After understanding all received tender documents, team will make site visit. During site
visit checks existing road, pavement & structure condition and compares existing details with proposed
details (feasibility of proposals), proposed pavement crust details, borrow areas, soil type etc.,
 Estimation of Quantities: Based on available drawings and site understanding work out quantities
 Project cost for Bidding: By considering all quantities, rates, percentage of profit etc., will arrive to a
project cost for bidding
 Interested contractors will bid to the project, based on estimated cost & keeping in view of experience
on dealing with construction work, profit/loss risk
 Client will evaluate bids received from contractors and awards work to one of the contractor based on
qualifying criteria
After contractor got project for execution, he will engage in house design team or hire
a design consultant for detailed engineering design services.
 Step-4: Detailed Engineering Design for Execution Work
 Studies Technical Sanctioned documents: Drawings (Highway & Structure), Reports, Technical
Schedules.
 Site visit: Based on understanding of Drawings, Reports & Proposals etc., Highway, Pavement and
Structure design teams will make site visit for clear understanding of proposals.
 Detailed Surveys & Investigations: Topo Survey, Material Surveys & Investigations, Geotechnical
Surveys & Investigations, Tree enumeration surveys etc., will be carried out as a part of Detailed
Design.
 Detailed Design & Drawings: Highway & Structure designer will design and produce Good For
Construction(GFC) drawings. After approval from client, independent engineer or Supervision
consultant, Contractor will start working in site with approved construction drawings.
 If in case any problem found at the time of execution, design and drawings will be revised according to
Site constraint and completes road construction work.

Highway is Open to Traffic

 Roles & Responsibilities of Highway Engineer in consultancy:
 Co-ordinating & Managing project at every stage

 Designing Alignment options (Bypasses & Realignments)

 Design of Highway, Drain, Junction

 Preparing Drawings (Typical Cross Sections, Plan & Profiles (Road, Drain & Junctions), Signage
plan & Miscellaneous Drawings etc.,)

 Preparing Reports, Technical Sanction documents

For Co-ordinating project, Preparing Design and Drawings, we are using some software
mentioned below:

 Google Earth, My Maps – For locating Project road and identifying our location during site visit

 MX Road, Civil 3D, Open Roads etc., - For Highway, Drain, Junction Designs

 AUTO CAD – For preparation of Drawings

Reference:
NPTEL
Course: Introduction to Transportation Engineering
Lecture1: Transportation engineering & Road Development Process
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/5zKC_aq4ypM