Road structures and road standards
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Highway Structures Unit provide specialist structural assessment, design and contract services for DfI Roads.
Policy and Procedures Guides
DfI Roads policies, procedures and documents relating to the standards, construction, design, and approval of structures on the roads network
- DfI Roads design standards RSPPG E003
- Design departures from standard RSPPG E006
- Design relaxations of standard RSPPG E007
- Geotechnical certification procedure RSPPG E008
- Assessment and design of masonry parapets RSPPG E020
- The supplementary load testing of bridges RSPPG E046
- Technical approval of low risk highway structures RSPPG E077
Director of Engineering Memorandums
DfI Roads memorandums relating to the standards, construction, design, and approval of structures on the roads network
- Post-tensioned grouted duct concrete bridges DEM 005 99
- Technical approval of highway structures (BD2/02) DEM 040 02
- The use of gabions in road construction DEM 044 02
- Implementation of new reinforcement standards DEM 095 06
- Principal and general inspection of sign/signal gantries and gantries with low handrails or open mesh flooring DEM 102 06
- Substandard parapet connections DEM 106 07
- The use of BS8500 (2006) for reinforced concrete structures DEM 107 07
- The anchorage of reinforcement and fixings in hardened concrete DEM 112 08
- Matrix signs on gantries DEM 115 08
- Deflection of permanent formwork DEM 126 10
- The use of foamed concrete DEM 133 11
- Use of eurocodes for the design of highway structures DEM 134 11
- Precast concrete copings - inspection DEM 139 12
- Modular/multi-element expansion joints DEM 145 13
- Scheme design approval procedures for non-trunk roads DEM 162/16