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Announcements - December 2022
Specifications Comment Form
Government Agencies in the Specifications
2020 Road and Bridge Specification Book
Adobe PDF - 6.96 MB (4/2020)
The 2020 Road and Bridge Specifications book will be effective starting with the July 2020 Advertisements. All projects advertised with the 2020 Specifications Book will continue to use the 2016 Pay Item Table until further notice.
- Changes from 2016 Spec Book
- Order a hard copy of the 2020 Specifications Book
- Commonwealth Employees: Contact the State Specifications Engineer at specifications@vdot.virginia.
gov before purchasing. - ZIP file of current specifications, Special Provisions, and Copied Notes - October 2023
Revisions to the 2020 Road and Bridge Specifications
Locally Administered Projects (2020 Spec Book)
- Local Administered Guidelines for Federal Funds (ZIP) - July 2023
2016 Road and Bridge Specification Book (Final)
Adobe PDF - 18.3 MB
Please note that the 2016 Road and Bridge Specifications
book will be effective starting on the July 2016 Advertisement.
Revisions to 2016 Road and Bridge Specifications
- The Adobe files are broken up according to the eight divisions of the Spec Book - updated February 2020
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- Division 1 - General Provisions
- Division 2 - Materials
- Division 3 - Roadway Construction
- Division 4 - Bridges and Structures
- Division 5 - Incidental Construction
- Division 6 - Roadside Development
- Division 7 - Traffic Control Devices
- Division 8 - Intelligent Transportation Systems
- 2017 Supplement to the 2016 Spec Book
- 2018 Supplement to the 2016 Spec Book
- 2019 Supplement to the 2016 Spec Book
- WinZip Format File - 2019
Locally Administered Projects (2016 Spec Book)
- Local Administered Guidelines for Federal Funds (PDF) - February 2020
- Local Administered Guidelines for Federal Funds (ZIP) - February 2020
2007 Road and Bridge Specifications (Imperial)
- Adobe PDF file - 2007 Spec (3.2 MB)
- WinZip Format File - 2007 Revisions (Imperial 31.5MB)
Revisions to 2007 Road and Bridge Specifications
- The Adobe files are broken up according to the seven divisions of the Spec Book
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- Division 1 - General Provisions
- Division 2 - Materials
- Division 3 - Roadway Construction
- Division 4 - Bridges and Structures
- Division 5 - Incidental Construction
- Division 6 - Roadside Development
- Division 7 - Traffic Control Devices
Locally Administered Projects (2007 Spec Book)
- Local Administered Guidelines for Federal Funds (PDF)
- Local Administered Guidelines for Federal Funds (ZIP)
Older Publications
- Adobe PDF File- 2002 Spec
- WinZip Format File - 2002 Spec Sections
- Adobe PDF File- 2002 Revisions
- WinZip Format File - 2002 Revisions (3.88 MB)
- 1997 Spec Book (Scanned Copy) - 790 pages (Reduced to 28.4 MB)
- Adobe PDF - 1997 Revisions
- WinZip 1997 Revisions (4.58 MB)