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... 81   The objective of this synthesis was to document the current state of practice in construction and financial closeout by state DOTs for highway construction projects. This chapter presents the key findings from the literature review, a state DOT survey, and case examples.
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... 82 Practices for Closing Out Highway Projects from Substantial Completion to Final Payment 3. As-Built Documents: As-builts provide a record of the installed facility for future preservation and improvement.
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... Conclusions and Future Research 83   4. Measuring Project Closeout: Project closeout performance measures used by state DOTs collected from literature, the survey responses, and case examples include the total number of days between project closeout milestones, the number of projects needing to be audited, the number of projects that are on the FHWA inactive list, and the number of projects that have errors in the final packet.
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... 84 Practices for Closing Out Highway Projects from Substantial Completion to Final Payment and pinch points in the closeout process so that process improvements can be put into place that make the project closeout process more efficient and timelier. Several state DOTs from the survey responses and the case examples highlighted improvements realized from the use of Lean Construction in the project closeout process.

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