Regulation

As an alternate to being an employee of a pre -qualified firm, the Contractor’s Engineer of Record may be a Department -approved Specialty Engineer. For items of the permanent work declared by the State Construction Office to be ”major” or “structural”, the work performed by a Department-approved Specialty Engineer must be checked by another Department -approved Specialty Engineer. An individual Engineer may become a Department -approved Specialty Engineer if the individual meets the Professional Engineer experience requirements set forth within the individual work groups in Chapter 14 -75, Rules of the Department of Transportation, Florida Administrative Code. Department -approved Specialty Engineers are listed on the State Construction Website. Department -approved Specialty Engineers will not be authorized to perform redesigns or Cost Savings Initiative Proposal designs of items fully detailed in the Plans.