Managing Transportation Projects with ASTM International Standards

Muthiah Kasi, Chief operations officer of Alfred Benesch & Company in Chicago, Illinois.

2/18/2008
(Original Publish Date: 11/1/2007)

This paper shows that the use of five ASTM International standards on building economics can pay big dividends in the planning and managing-to-cost of major transportation projects. Three examples are given: a billion-dollar reconstruction of an urban expressway, a complex bridge on an interstate expressway, and a successful proposal for the rehabilitation of a complex, 60-year-old viaduct in the heart of a large urban city. The first two projects won national recognition awards and in the third case study, the designers received a contract for their skill in cost management using ASTM International standards.