Primer on Federally Funded Local Projects: From Design-Build Procurement to Traffic Control

The Federal Highway Administration has a website providing federal aid essentials for local public entities, but the site serves as a primer for anyone wishing to get oriented in the arena of federally funded local projects.

The website includes a series of videos covering:

• an introduction to project construction and administration
• project management and supervising agency requirements
• quality assurance
• design-build procurement
• project close-out
• scheduling and time managment
• change orders
• buy America field compliance
• job site posters and compliance
• payroll submittals, documentation, and compliance
• worker safety
• transportation plan management, and
• work zone traffic control  

As an incidental lesson, you can learn how not to overuse animation, which is done to the point of distraction in these videos.  But, hey, it's your tax-dollars at work ... so enjoy!