Earthworks construction
Published: 1997
| Category:
Construction
,
Pavement & surfacing
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Specifications
| Audiences:
Road traffic engineers & consultants,
Roading contractors
This specification and guidance notes cover the construction of earthworks including the clearing and removal of all obstacles within the limits of the earthworks; the excavation of all cuts, including excavation below the final subgrade surface; the excavation of borrow areas, benches and surface drainage facilities; the carting of the excavated material to fill or waste; and construction of the fills and subgrade; shaping, trimming, grassing and maintaining of the works.
