The purpose of this manual is to provide an official guide to CDOT Field forces for the sampling and testing of materials on construction projects and the subsequent documentation. To be used on projects with a federal funding obligation date for the construction phase on or after October 23, 2023, and that contains the Revision of Sections 101 and 106 - Buy American and Build America, Buy America Requirements for Projects Containing $500,000 or More in Federal-Aid Highway Funding (January 8, 2024); or the Revision of Sections 101 and 106 Buy America and Build America, Buy America Requirements for Projects Containing Federal-Aid Highway Funding in the Amount Less Than $500,000 (January 8, 2024).
Manuals
Contains the Field Materials Manuals, Laboratory Manual of Test Procedures, CDOT 2016 Pavement Design Manual, Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Manual, AASHTO Accreditation Program Procedures Manual for the Accreditation of Construction Materials Testing Laboratories, Metric Conversion Manual, Job Safety Analysis, and the WAQTC Manual.
July 2023 (revised on 8/31/23). The purpose of this manual is to provide an official guide to CDOT Field forces for the sampling and testing of materials on construction projects and the subsequent documentation.
(Revised November 11, 2022, with the new Build America Buy America Requirements [BABA] requirements) The purpose of this manual is to provide an official guide to CDOT Field forces for the sampling and testing of materials on construction projects and the subsequent documentation.
(Revised September 19, 2022 with editorial revisions) The purpose of this manual is to provide an official guide to CDOT Field forces for the sampling and testing of materials on construction projects and the subsequent documentation.
The purpose of the addendum is to offer uniform and detailed guidelines for pavement design on CDOT highway projects. This addendum shall be used as a supplement to the 2021 CDOT M-E Pavement Design Manual. Please contact the Pavement Design and Documentation Program Manager with any questions.
The purpose of this Pavement Design Manual is to provide CDOT and consulting designers with uniform and detailed procedures for designing pavements on CDOT highway projects. This 2021 manual is to be used after July 1, 2020 until June 30, 2023. This site also includes the "M-E Design Files and Templates".
As of August 11, 2019, CDOT will no longer be giving consultant access to M-E Design licenses. Instead, these files are now zipped and the user must download and unzip them. If you need further instructions, please contact Melody Perkins, the Pavement Design Documentation Program Manager.
