2019/0167/PL
EC/EFTA
PL Poland
  • B00 - CONSTRUCTION
2019-07-11
2019-04-16

Road construction, civil engineering, bridge construction, tunnel construction

Regulation of the Minister for Infrastructure amending the Regulation on the technical conditions to be met by road engineering structures and their location

The draft concerns the following areas: design and construction of bridge structures, culverts, tunnels, retaining structures, including: fire-resistance requirements for structure construction and equipment, requirements for cements/concretes used in engineering structures, adjustment coefficients used to design bridge structures withstanding moving load, rules and parameters for designs withstanding the load of special vehicles (NATO-STANAG 2021), ventilation in road tunnels.

The draft Regulation: contains a number of provisions which aim to replace ambiguous wording, envisages numerous solutions to facilitate the implementation of road investments, eliminates logical errors and provisions contrary to the principles of proper legislative drafting, defines new fire safety requirements for road engineering structures, verifies and updates the requirements concerning the use of adequate types of cements and concretes, replaces the outdated design system for structures withstanding moving load with the up-to-date system based on Eurocodes.