In a complete, agency-wide effort to enhance and revitalize itself by way of the Texas Division of Transportation (TxDOT) Modernization Mission, TxDOT is inspecting methods to create constant, correct, and well-documented undertaking price estimates and danger administration practices on the numerous undertaking growth phases (i.e., planning and programming, preliminary design, and design) for roadway and bridge building initiatives. TxDOT contracted with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) to help with these efforts. These enchancment efforts observe a phased strategy:

• Section I: Establish TxDOT’s present processes and practices concerning price estimating and danger administration, examine these processes and practices to acknowledged greatest practices, and make suggestions for enhancements.

• Section II: Develop reference supplies and instruments to help TxDOT in adopting the beneficial greatest practices for building price estimating and undertaking danger administration; develop workshops to validate the reference supplies and instruments with trial districts.

• Future Phases: Distribute the reference supplies and instruments agency-wide with applicable steerage; expose all districts to the reference supplies and instruments by way of a sequence of workshops and/or coaching alternatives. Section I of the advance course of occurred late 2011 by way of early 2013 culminating is a report noting three main areas the place TxDOT ought to focus their preliminary efforts to enhance building price estimating and dangers administration: (1) scope and estimate documentation; (2) danger willpower and contingency setting; and (3) estimate evaluate and approval. It must be acknowledged that throughout the interviews with a number of districts, researchers famous that TxDOT is performing most of the greatest practices recognized within the nationwide analysis; nevertheless, these practices have been typically used informally and carried out inconsistently from one district to the following. Section II of the advance effort is at present underway. This “Risk-Based Construction Cost Estimating Reference Information” (Reference Information) captures and communicates the practices and processes TxDOT will advance to enhance their undertaking supply. A sequence of workshops with choose districts aided within the growth and validation of the Reference Information. BEST PRACTICES GUIDANCE To assist the endeavor of figuring out areas the place efficiency gaps might exist between present TxDOT practices and acknowledged greatest practices, nationwide analysis and experiences from different state departments of transportation (DOTs) to function steerage for TxDOT.