NICET LEVEL 1 HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION SET
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔traveled way - ✔✔. The portion of the roadway for the movement of vehicles
exclusive of shoulders and auxiliary lanes (see Figure 101-1).
✔✔Utility - ✔✔The company, agency, or other entity that provides services, including,
but not limited to: electric, water, gas, sewer, fiber optic, communications, and railroad,
and the Department with regard to ITS and electrical facilities.
✔✔utility - ✔✔The rails, lines, facilities, or systems owned by Utilities
✔✔Work - ✔✔Labor, services, materials, equipment, tools, transportation, supplies, and
incidentals necessary or convenient for Completion by the Contractor of the
construction described in the Contract and the carrying out of all duties and obligations
imposed by the Contract wholly, or any portion thereof, on the Contractor.
✔✔work - ✔✔Particular elements, Items, or portions of the Work.
✔✔working day - ✔✔Any day, exclusive of: 1. Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. 2.
Days on which the Contractor is specifically required by the Contract to suspend
construction operations. 3. Days on which the Contractor is prevented by any conditions
beyond the control of the Contractor and adverse to the current controlling operation or
operations, as determined by the RE, from proceeding with at least 75 percent of the
normal labor and equipment force engaged on such operation or operations for at least
60 percent of the total daily time being currently spent on the controlling operation or
operations for all shifts.
✔✔working drawings - ✔✔Stress sheets, shop drawings, catalogue cuts, calculations,
diagrams, illustrations, schedules, performance charts, brochures, and other
supplementary plans or similar data prepared by the Contractor or subcontractors,
manufacturers, suppliers, or distributors.
, ✔✔ Acceptance - ✔✔The written acceptance by the Department of the Work.
✔✔acceptance testing - ✔✔Testing conducted by the Department to measure the
degree of compliance to the Contract
✔✔actual cost - ✔✔The computed cost using calculations provided
✔✔addendum - ✔✔A Contract revision or response to a Contractor inquiry issued after
advertisement and before the opening of bids.
✔✔as-built quantity - ✔✔The quantity of a completed Item eligible for payment
✔✔authorized funding amount - ✔✔The amount of funds authorized by the Department
for the Contract
✔✔Bidder - ✔✔The individual, firm, partnership, corporation, joint venture, or any
acceptable combination thereof that submits a bid to the Department.
✔✔bridge - ✔✔. A structure, other than a culvert, including supports, erected over a
depression or an obstruction, such as water, highway, or railway, and having a track or
passageway for carrying traffic or other moving loads and having a length 3 measured
along the center of the structure of more than 20 feet between undercopings of
abutments or extreme ends of openings for multiple boxes. Structure dimensions are
defined as follows:
✔✔bridge length - ✔✔The overall length measured along the line of survey stationing
from back to back of backwalls of abutments, if present, otherwise end to end of the
bridge floor; but, in no case less than the total clear opening of the structure
✔✔bridge width - ✔✔The clear width measured at right angles to the longitudinal
centerline of the bridge between the bottom of curbs, or in the case of multiple height of
curbs, between the bottoms of the lower risers or, if curbs are not used, between inner
faces of parapet or railing
✔✔Change Order. - ✔✔A written order issued by the Department to the Contractor after
execution of the Contract authorizing one or more of the following: 1. Changes in the
Work. 2. Modifications in the basis of payment. 3. Modifications to Contract Time.
✔✔Commercially Useful Function - ✔✔Occurrences in which the subcontractor is
responsible for the execution of a distinct element of the work of a contract and carrying
out its responsibilities by actually performing, managing, and supervising the work
involved, and with respect to materials and supplies used on the contract, prepares the
estimate, negotiates price, determines quality and quantity, orders the material,
arranges delivery, installs (where applicable), and pays for the material and supplies
itself for the project.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔traveled way - ✔✔. The portion of the roadway for the movement of vehicles
exclusive of shoulders and auxiliary lanes (see Figure 101-1).
✔✔Utility - ✔✔The company, agency, or other entity that provides services, including,
but not limited to: electric, water, gas, sewer, fiber optic, communications, and railroad,
and the Department with regard to ITS and electrical facilities.
✔✔utility - ✔✔The rails, lines, facilities, or systems owned by Utilities
✔✔Work - ✔✔Labor, services, materials, equipment, tools, transportation, supplies, and
incidentals necessary or convenient for Completion by the Contractor of the
construction described in the Contract and the carrying out of all duties and obligations
imposed by the Contract wholly, or any portion thereof, on the Contractor.
✔✔work - ✔✔Particular elements, Items, or portions of the Work.
✔✔working day - ✔✔Any day, exclusive of: 1. Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. 2.
Days on which the Contractor is specifically required by the Contract to suspend
construction operations. 3. Days on which the Contractor is prevented by any conditions
beyond the control of the Contractor and adverse to the current controlling operation or
operations, as determined by the RE, from proceeding with at least 75 percent of the
normal labor and equipment force engaged on such operation or operations for at least
60 percent of the total daily time being currently spent on the controlling operation or
operations for all shifts.
✔✔working drawings - ✔✔Stress sheets, shop drawings, catalogue cuts, calculations,
diagrams, illustrations, schedules, performance charts, brochures, and other
supplementary plans or similar data prepared by the Contractor or subcontractors,
manufacturers, suppliers, or distributors.
, ✔✔ Acceptance - ✔✔The written acceptance by the Department of the Work.
✔✔acceptance testing - ✔✔Testing conducted by the Department to measure the
degree of compliance to the Contract
✔✔actual cost - ✔✔The computed cost using calculations provided
✔✔addendum - ✔✔A Contract revision or response to a Contractor inquiry issued after
advertisement and before the opening of bids.
✔✔as-built quantity - ✔✔The quantity of a completed Item eligible for payment
✔✔authorized funding amount - ✔✔The amount of funds authorized by the Department
for the Contract
✔✔Bidder - ✔✔The individual, firm, partnership, corporation, joint venture, or any
acceptable combination thereof that submits a bid to the Department.
✔✔bridge - ✔✔. A structure, other than a culvert, including supports, erected over a
depression or an obstruction, such as water, highway, or railway, and having a track or
passageway for carrying traffic or other moving loads and having a length 3 measured
along the center of the structure of more than 20 feet between undercopings of
abutments or extreme ends of openings for multiple boxes. Structure dimensions are
defined as follows:
✔✔bridge length - ✔✔The overall length measured along the line of survey stationing
from back to back of backwalls of abutments, if present, otherwise end to end of the
bridge floor; but, in no case less than the total clear opening of the structure
✔✔bridge width - ✔✔The clear width measured at right angles to the longitudinal
centerline of the bridge between the bottom of curbs, or in the case of multiple height of
curbs, between the bottoms of the lower risers or, if curbs are not used, between inner
faces of parapet or railing
✔✔Change Order. - ✔✔A written order issued by the Department to the Contractor after
execution of the Contract authorizing one or more of the following: 1. Changes in the
Work. 2. Modifications in the basis of payment. 3. Modifications to Contract Time.
✔✔Commercially Useful Function - ✔✔Occurrences in which the subcontractor is
responsible for the execution of a distinct element of the work of a contract and carrying
out its responsibilities by actually performing, managing, and supervising the work
involved, and with respect to materials and supplies used on the contract, prepares the
estimate, negotiates price, determines quality and quantity, orders the material,
arranges delivery, installs (where applicable), and pays for the material and supplies
itself for the project.
