Pathfinder - Highway Construction

Scope Note :

Highway construction is the process of adding infrastructure to our built environment. Owners of these projects are usually government agencies, either at the national or local level. As in building construction, highway construction has design, financial, and legal considerations, however these projects are not usually undertaken for-profit, but to service the public interest. However, highway construction projects are also undertaken by large private corporations, including, among others, the golf courses, harbors, power companies, railroads, and mines, who undertake the construction of access roads, dams, railroads, general site grading, and massive earthwork projects. As in building construction, the owner will assemble a team to create an overall plan to ensure that the goals of the project are met.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction#Heavy.2FHighway_construction)

Use For :

  • Highways
  • Roadways
  • Thoroughfares

Broader Term :

  • Transportation

Related Term :

  • Highway Engineering
  • Pavements

Narrower Terms :

  • Airports- Access Roads
  • Beaches- Access Roads
  • Bridge Approaches
  • Causeways
  • Commercial Strips
  • Creeper lanes
  • Driveways
  • Express Highways
  • Ferries- Access Roads
  • Fishing- Access Roads
  • Forest roads
  • Frontage roads
  • Gate roads (Mining)
  • Harbors- Access roads
  • High occupancy vehicle lanes
  • Highway bypasses
  • Highway communications
  • Highway relocation
  • Indian roads
  • Left-turn lanes
  • Low-volume roads
  • Military roads
  • Mountain roads
  • Parkways
  • Portages
  • Post roads
  • Potholes (Roads)
  • Private roads
  • Race Tracks (Automobile racing)
  • Railroads- Design and construction Access roads
  • Roads, brick
  • Roads, gravel
  • Roads, macadamized
  • Roads, plank
  • Roads, rubberized
  • Roads, tarred
  • Rural roads
  • Scenic byways
  • Slush on pavements, runways, etc.
  • Streets
  • Toll roads
  • Trails
  • Truck lanes
  • Under passes

BOOKS

Reference sources located at the Information-Reference Section, 2nd floor:
Texts Located at the Circulation Section, 3rd floor:
Texts Located at the Filipiniana Section, 4th floor:

PERIODICALS

PRINT (Periodicals Section, 2nd floor)

ELECTRONIC

American Society of Civil Engineers
http://www.pubs.asce.org/

Proquest Online
http://www.umi.com/pqdauto

ScienceDirect
http://www.sciencedirect.com

VERTICAL FILE
(Information-Reference Selection, 2nd floor)

ADB COLLECTIONS
(Information-Reference Selection, 2nd floor)

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

LOCAL
(Archives, 4th floor)

INTERNET WEBSITES
(Cybernook, Ground floor, Graduate corners, 2nd and 3rd floors)

Interstate Highway Construction
http://www.ihcinc.net/
[Retrieved May 28, 2007]

"IHC is a full-service heavy-civil contractor whose focus is building highways, airfields, streets & local roads, parking lots, industrial pavements and water resource projects. They primarily serve the Rocky Mountain West, the Midwest and the Southwest United States. IHC strives for efficient operations and to be accountable while maintaining principled relationships with their customers."

Oregon Department of Transportation
http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/CONSTRUCTION/
[Retrieved May 28, 2007]

"The Construction Section’s role in ODOT’s Construction program is to lead and manage continuous improvement of overall construction program quality and statewide consistency by: Establishing performance expectations for statewide construction program with the concurrence of the Project Delivery Leadership Team’s Standing Committee on Construction; Establishing, administering, and interpreting statewide construction policies, procedures and processes and; Providing construction expertise and training programs."

Southeast Construction
http://www.southeastconstructionmag.com/
[Retrieved May 28, 2007]

"’Southeast Construction is a monthly magazine providing local, in-depth and comprehensive coverage on heavy engineering, highway, building and industrial construction news in the four-state area of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Each issue spotlights many of the industry's most visible projects and addresses our industry's hottest topics. Southeast Construction's experienced industry journalists provide in-depth challenge-solution local feature stories, a calendar of events, new product announcements, to-the-point law and financial columnists, industry and association news, who's on the move. Their TOP lists will help define the market and their "Best Of" awards program will recognize the Southeast's best constructed projects. Southeast Construction's staff works diligently to cover construction associations' involvement as they engage in facilitating the industry's needs"

Texas Department of Transportation
http://www.dot.state.tx.us/
[Retrieved May 28, 2007]

"TxDOT, in cooperation with local and regional officials, is responsible for planning, designing, building, operating and maintaining the state's transportation system. Their goals are to reduce congestion; enhance safety; expand economic opportunity; improve air quality; and increase the value of transportation assets"

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Compiled by : Mrs. Yolanda F. Odsinada & Mr. Arvin N. Robles.
Date: June 2007