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Collection of Technical Information

Standards, Advice Notes, Documents Issued and Withdrawn

Latest information on Standards, Advice Notes, Documents Issued and Withdrawn is available here. To order copies (and updates) of this publication please contact The Stationery Office on 0870 600 5522 or e-mail customer.services@tso.co.uk

Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB)

The Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (main works) is available to download here as a series of Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Manual of Contract Documents for Highways Works (MCHW)

Volumes 0-6 of the Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works are available to view here. To order copies (and updates) of this publication please contact The Stationery Office on 0870 600 5522 or e-mail customer.services@tso.co.uk

Design Manual and Manual of Contract Documents - Forward Look

This page lists the current status of Design Manual and Manual of Contract Documents which have been submitted for publication.

Interim Advice Notes (IANs)

An index of Interim Advice Notes (IANs) is available to view here.

HA Accepted EN 1317 Compliant Road Restraint Systems

The HA Accepted EN 1317 Compliant Road Restraint Systems list has been produced to provide our customers with details of products that have been accepted for use on the Highways Agency Trunk Road Network.

Road Restraints Risk Assessment Process

The Road Restraints Risk Assessment Process is part of the New Road restraints Standard TD19/06 and enables the Designers to determine at each specific site, the need for a Vehicle Restraint and its performance requirements.

Safety Barriers

Details of a study to examine the performance and cost effectiveness of median safety barriers installed on major roads on our network.

Travel of Errant Vehicle Report

This is a report about how and where errant vehicles travel after leaving the carriageway. The research has focussed on the factors that influence the travel of the errant vehicles, the relative significance of these factors, and potential ways to address them.

Passively Safe Gantry Risk Model (PSGRM)

The Passively Safe Gantry Risk Model has been developed for designers to use to help determine whether or not a passively safe gantry is suitable for a particular site.

Public Private Partnership

This section gives an overview of Public Private Partnerships

Eurocodes  

Eurocodes are pan-European structural design codes and will begin to be introduced for bridge design in the UK from around 2008.

Revised Guidance for Air Quality Assessments DMRB 11.3.1

The latest DMRB Air Quality Spreadsheet (2.2MB Zip File) Version 1.03c (July 2007) containing carbon emission rates based on new webTAG guidance is available to download as a zip file here.

The previous DMRB Air Quality Spreadsheet (2.3Mb Zip File) Version 1.02 (November 2003) containing the carbon dioxide emission rates can still be downloaded here.

This guidance will be used for air quality assessments of road schemes, multi-modal studies and by local authorities carrying out their second phase review and assessments. Queries relating to this guidance should be addressed to the Project Sponsor for highway schemes or to Defra's helpdesk (lasupport@aeat.co.uk) for local authority review and assessment.

Telecom Mast Registration Procedure

The Telecom Mast Registration Procedure (PDF 3.78 MB) is available to download here. The guidance outlines the procedure for gaining technical approval to erect a telecom mast on Highways Agency land, within the highway boundary or where they may fall onto Highways Agency land.

If you experience any problems downloading the attachments please contact the webmaster at webteam@highways.gsi.gov.uk

If you would like to be notified of any future changes to the spreadsheet, please send your name, organisation and email address to dmrbaqusers@highways.gsi.gov.uk