Legal Aspects for Performance-Based Specifications for Highway Construction and Maintenance Contracts

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Publication Date:
Jan 01, 2013
Sector:
Transportation
Region:
North America (NA)
Language:
English
Nature:
Report
Country:
United States
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Legal Aspects for Performance-Based Specifications for Highway Construction and Maintenance Contracts

Legal Aspects for Performance-Based Specifications for Highway Construction and Maintenance Contracts - TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Legal Research Digest 61, Transportation Research Board (TRB), July 2013

This publication explores how performance-based specifications differ from traditional design or method-based specifications and the risk allocation differencesbetween the these methods.  It includes a discussion of case law, commercial risks, and other aspects not often covered. 

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