Chapter 10 National specification and design documents

Many professions are guided by and/or have to adhere to particular sets of guidelines. This is especially true of highway design and construction in the UK. These guidelines may be British or European Standards or two very important suites of documents that overarch these Standards: the Design manual for roads and bridges (Highways Agency, 2010) and the Manual of contract documents for highway works (Highways Agency, 2009). This chapter considers the contents of these manuals and explains the function of Interim Advice Notes.