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Construction
| January 2008 Polymer laminated (coated) Stay-In-Place metal forms have been approved for construction of bridge decks in moderately and extremely aggressive environments. |
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Polymer laminated (coated) Stay-In-Place metal forms have been approved for construction of bridge decks in moderately and extremely aggressive environments. The Department has recently approved polymer laminated (coated) metal stay-in-place (SIP) bridge deck forms for use in moderately and extremely aggressive environments and their use will reduce the overall cost of constructing bridges. Contractors will now have the option of using SIP forms for constructing bridge decks that span salt water environments as well as other previously prohibited environments. Revision of Standard Specification 400-5.7, SIP Metal Forms, to allow the use of coated forms is in the final stages and is expected to be implemented on projects with July 2008 letting dates. Between now and
July 2008, Contractors who wish to use coated SIP forms on new or
ongoing projects may request to do so. This will require a no cost
supplemental agreement to change the specification which must be
approved by the FDOT State Construction Office. The final version
of the specification is not complete but a draft version that can be
obtained from the FDOT State Construction Office is acceptable for
use in the SA document.
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