This week I had the opportunity to attend a meeting of the Construction Specifications Committee that was held at the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) building. MAG is a coalition comprised of representatives from the municipal governments within Maricopa County. The function of the Construction Specifications Committee is to write new standards and to review and modify the existing construction standards that are related to street construction within the member cities. In addition to governmental representatives, the committee also includes several members of the construction industry.
Throughout the course of the last several decades this committee has written a set of construction standards that have been adopted by member communities in order to provide engineers and contractors with a consistent set of road building specifications from one city to the next. This uniform set of guidelines provides one set of specifications to be applicable for work performed anywhere in the county. This eliminates the possibility of confusion that would arise if each municipality had their own set of specifications. It also makes transition from one city to the next seamless. In general, this why a person driving north on Rural Road in Tempe does not realize when he has crossed into Scottsdale and is now traveling on Scottsdale Road. One set of building specifications used by all area cities produces roadways that all look alike.
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