The AASHTOWare Project (AWP) Construction & Materials™ module is a comprehensive, web-based construction and materials management application. While the application is robust, it has been configured by role so as not to be overwhelming.
Materials Management
This software helps us track and evaluate the satisfaction of contract material acceptance actions by quantity, contract, date, source, or location per ODOT’s contract specifications. Acceptance actions are identified at a global level for all materials and are generated from that list at a contract item level, where they can then be modified as necessary.
AWP enables tracking materials, including their component materials, until they are ultimately used. It also provides source-based data entry functionality with Daily Source Reports. Source authority is used to identify users who may maintain source and facility information. Additional materials management features include:
- Approved materials for sources
- Alternate materials
- Qualifications for testers, samplers, and laboratories
- Test equipment and calibrations
- Insufficient material adjustments on payment estimates
- Mix design creation and approval
Laboratory Information Management
The laboratory information management features are tailored to ODOT’s lab management. These features allow us to manage and track progress through each critical step of the material sample lifecycle. Lab management functionality is highly configurable to fit the needs of our materials lab.
The lab management functions have user-based security settings to ensure that assigned lab personnel have access only to the data and information needed to complete their individual tasks. The lifecycle tracking of samples and tests through the application expedites the overall testing process. At any point, it is easy to see which samples are waiting to be tested, which have the highest priority, and who is responsible for each sample’s current stage of progress. Tests can be assigned (or reassigned) to specific labs and to specific testers within those labs based on qualifications and workload.
This functionality allows for a materials test environment that is interactively managed and responsive to a material lab’s changing needs.