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... 3 Introduction Background Over the years, as-built plans have been the method used by the construction industry to capture and record construction changes and additions that are not represented in the original plan drawings. The accuracy and completeness of these plans are essential for operations, maintenance, and rehabilitation of current transportation infrastructure.
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... 4 Development and Use of As-Built Plans by State Departments of Transportation collecting the following types of information relative to as-built development, preservation, and usage: • How STAs define as-built plans; • Information being documented and included on as-built plans; • Methods used to capture and document changes to design plans during construction; • Platforms used to establish the as-built plans (e.g., paper markups, electronic models) ; • Entity used to develop as-built plans; • How as-built plans are approved; • How as-built plans are retained and preserved; • How as-built plans are used once approved (e.g., asset management)
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... Introduction 5 The interviewees were selected not only to achieve diversity in size and complexity of the agencies, but also to question those with varied and innovative as-built procedures. The goal of the interviews was to provide depth to the information gathered from the survey.

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