Innovation Description and Benefit:

Our standard plans were developed in the 1980’s based on material reporting requirements then.  Our current reporting process is more detailed. This requires knowledge of rebar layout in addition to calculating the required pounds for each size.  The standard plans have 139 different rebar configurations within three pay items; pipe collars, signal bases and sign bolt down footings; that require hand calculations each time one of these items is included in a project to determine how many pounds of rebar is required.  This calculator has been created to maximize staff’s efficiency to reduce calculating the same items over and over each time one of these pay items is used. Once all the quantities are entered, the output is entered into AASHTOWare to populate the material acceptance criteria. The weight of each rebar size and concrete quantity is also displayed as a reference to verify the output verse the plans.   The calculator has been uploaded to Templates in eProjects to provide statewide access.