Building a Construction Inspection Toolkit

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's (KYTC’s) construction program has an annual budget that exceeds $1 billion. Section Engineers assume considerable responsibility for delivering this program by spearheading management and inspection services. However, the loss of senior personnel and a contracting workforce have increased the challenge of streamlining processes needed to deliver projects on time and on budget. Knowledge gaps created by the departure of experienced staff must be filled to shore up the construction program’s resiliency and efficiency. To fill knowledge gaps, KYTC must develop inspection resources and best practices documents that Section Engineers, project inspectors, and consultant inspectors can review to work through field inspection requirements. Making inspection workflows accessible via mobile devices will give in-house and consultant construction inspectors easy access to resources they need to perform effective inspections.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $225000
• Contract Numbers:

  KYSPR-25-669

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

  200 Mero Street
  Frankfort, KY  United States  40622
• Performing Organizations:

  University of Kentucky, Lexington

  Kentucky Transportation Center College of Engineering, 176 Raymond Building
  Lexington, KY  United States  40506-0281
• Principal Investigators:

  Palle, Sudhir

• Start Date: 20240701
• Expected Completion Date: 20260630
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Inspection; Knowledge management; Road construction
• Geographic Terms: Kentucky
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01926975
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: University of Kentucky, Lexington
• Contract Numbers: KYSPR-25-669
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Aug 12 2024 1:26PM