Final Project Materials Certification
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Final Project Materials Certification
• The Materials Acceptance and Certification system is designed around the requirements for Final Project Materials Certification
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Final Project Materials Certification
• PA Role–PA role in MAC versus PA’s responsibilities
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• PA Role can be assigned to the PA’s delegate
• SCO defines the delegate more stringently than was permitted in LIMS
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Final Project Materials Certification
• VT Technician• DMRO personnel
• Others
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• Contract Specialist
• Head Inspector• Asphalt VT ONLY and/or RAS
• NO OTHERS
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•Sample Life Cycle–PA role is responsible for comparison packages and triggering Resolution
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Final Project Materials Certification
• Sample Life Cycle–Checklists•Asphalt•Soils•Structural Concrete
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Final Project Materials Certification
• Sample Finalization Checklists
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Final Project Materials Certification
• Basic Contract Concepts–Method of Measurement–Basis of Payment• Final Estimates
–Method of Acceptance• State Materials Office
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Final Project Materials Certification
• Method of acceptance is from the contract documents
• JGS is a guide of the contract requirements
• When there is a contradiction, contract rules
• JGS is just a report
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Final Project Materials Certification
•MAC has two types of JGS–Standard JGS–Non‐standard JGS
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Final Project Materials Certification
•Standard JGS–Let date logic–Project Specific requirements
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Final Project Materials Certification
• Back to Method of Acceptance – only project specific requirements that change the standard method of acceptance
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Final Project Materials Certification
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Final Project Materials Certification
•Non‐Standard JGS–Created by QC data entry for•LS/DB/LAP On‐system
–Reviewed by PA
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Final Project Materials Certification
•Non‐Standard JGS–Let Date Logic–Project Specific Requirements
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Final Project Materials Certification
• JGS–If it’s not on the JGS, you can’t log in a sample!!!
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Final Project Materials Certification
• Samples are being taken and processed• PA is tracking sample status• PA is finalizing samples and building comparison packages as the samples progress
• What does all this have to do with MC Review?
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Final Project Materials Certification
•MAC sends conditions to the MC Review process•These conditions are known as issues
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Final Project Materials Certification
• Automatic finding & Manual Findings (MAR Issues)–MC Reviewer needs to initiate review when project begins–Based on MC Exceptions•What is an MC Exception?
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Final Project Materials Certification
• Exception 1 = Material Acceptance–Failing Test Results–Missing Reports
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• Exception 2 = Minimum Frequency–Required tests not performed–Required Comparison not performed
–Required Resolution not performed–Not enough samples
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Final Project Materials Certification
• Exception Category 3 = Qualifications–Technicians–Laboratories–Production Facilities•Manual Findings
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Final Project Materials Certification
• Straightedge Deficiencies• Materials that allow Delineation
– These two automatic findings trigger specific functionality with the MAR process that you will not get when creating a manual finding
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Final Project Materials Certification
• Straightedge Deficiencies– Has a different flow with different roles based on CPAM Chapter 11
– Resident Engineer instead of PA– District Bituminous Engineer instead District Materials and Research Engineer
– Recommendation is Final Resolution
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Final Project Materials Certification
• Materials that allow Delineation– Has the same flow with the same roles as other MARs except for Straightedge
– The difference is the option for No EAR –Delineation will not show up for a manual finding
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Final Project Materials Certification
•MC Review in MAC–Responding to Findings–Initiating MAR
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Final Project Materials Certification
MOA
•Issues with MOA?
•Conditional flags
•Manual findings
Is it an issue?
•MC Reviewer determines if the finding warrants further attention.
• If yes = submit issue for PA response
•If no = exclude ‐DONE
Submitted issues
•PA responds to issue
•Make a comment about the issue
•Background information on what triggered the flag (condition)
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Final Project Materials Certification
MC Review and PA determine if issue needs more action
• If yes, promoted to MAR
• If no, excluded from MAR ‐ DONE
PA determines the severity of the issue
• Can it be solved by standard methods?
• If yes ‐ DONE
Is material so bad it needs to be removed and replaced?
• First – determine if EAR or No EAR*
• Second – enter final resolution
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Final Project Materials Certification
•What is MAR?•When is it used?
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•What is the difference between a recommendation and a resolution?
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Final Project Materials Certification
•There are 7 recommendations•5 are also final resolutions that can be made by the PA
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Final Project Materials Certification
• If EAR or No EAR is selected, 2nd process is needed to determine final resolution–Or No EAR Delineation if the Specification allows resolution by delineation
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Final Project Materials Certification
•Resolution options:
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•Resolution options:
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Final Project Materials Certification
•Location Information–PA fills it out–After the resolution
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Final Project Materials Certification
• PA needs to ensure the location information is correct and complete
• For Complete Removal and Replacement & Leave in Place – one set of entries
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Final Project Materials Certification
• PA needs to ensure the location information is correct and complete
• For Partial Removal and Replacement, enter sub‐locations for material that was removed and material that was replaced
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Project Administrators and MAC
• MC Reviewer will notify PA if additional information is needed for location information
• This gets used on the PMCL so it needs to be right
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Final Project Materials Certification
•What about DDM/EAR•We don’t do it that way…–P.S. Not all MAR issues will result in an exception, but most will
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Final Project Materials Certification
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Final Project Materials Certification
•MC Review•PMCL
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Final Project Materials Certification
•Questions?
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Certification Program PerformanceHistoric
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Reduced Pay per Decision
1%
Reduced Pay per Spec‐
3%
Reduced Pay per Spec+
16%
Full Pay per Spec (100%)
11%
Full Pay per Spec+ (Bonus)
68%
Material Acceptance for Asphaltfrom July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016
Based on an Estimated 4.7M Tons of Asphalt and
367 Projects
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