Specification

MCHW Volume 5 Contract Documents for Specialist Activities Part 4

National Highways, 1997
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Document Status

Current

Supplement

Civil & Structural Supplement

Series

MCHW Volume 5 Contract Documents for Specialist Activities

Abstract

Details requirements for ground investigation contract specifications, including boreholes, rotary drilling, pits and trenches, sampling and testing, instruments, monitoring, and reporting.

History

Manual of contract documents for highway works (MCHW). Volume 5. Contract documents for specialist activities. Section 3. Ground Investigation. Supersedes MCHW Volume 5 Section 3 Part 4. Contract documents for specialist activities. Ground investigation. Specification for ground investigation (HA, 1997).

Subjects

  • Civil engineering, infrastructure and public utilities
  • Site investigation
  • Legal issues and management
  • Contract documents for highway works
  • Contracts

Publisher History

National Highways is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Transport. It has responsibility for operating, maintaining and improving motorways and major A roads in England. Formerly known as Highways England, between 2015-2021 and Highways Agency, between 1994-2015.

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