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and shoulders in the existing 2 lane facility as option .1,” concluded the VDOT engineers.
According to the workbook completed in the value engineering study, the VDOT team considered the alternatives in light of three questions:
• Will it work?
• Will it save money?
• Will it meet performance needs?
“The best ideas from the suitability evaluation” were measured against weighted “objectives or criteria”. Listed according to VDOTs priority, with the weighting factor in parenthesis, the objectives considered in the value engineering study were construction cost (10), maintenance (8), public acceptance (6), improved safety (5), environmental impact (3), and improved capacity (2).
Six options - change the grade, change the alignment, steepen slopes, reduce width, widen the existing road, and build the duallane as designed - were given a nu
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