Bridge Inspection References
For bridge inspectors, team leaders, and QC reviewers
The SNBI tables you need in the field, on one page.
Stop flipping through 360 pages of the FHWA Specifications for the National Bridge Inventory. Start with the free one-page SNBI Component Condition Rating Card: Table 20 with Good / Fair / Poor bands, the severity and extent definitions, and the 5-vs-4 structural-review rule that separates Fair from Poor.
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A printable routine-inspection field checklist is next. Leave your email and it comes to you the day it's published, along with a note whenever SNBI errata or TxDOT manual changes affect how you code.
The full guides
SNBI Condition Rating Cheat Sheet — $14
4 pages. Table 20; joints, channel, channel protection and scour tables; every Appendix C crack-width, spall and section-loss threshold; NBE/BME element numbers.
Get it on Etsy →TxDOT Bridge Railing & Transition Coding Guide — $19
6 pages. All 59 Texas standard rail types with their B.RH.01 codes, heights and how to tell look-alikes apart; transitions; B.C.05/06 ratings; upgrade triggers. Conflicts between TxDOT documents resolved and footnoted.
Get it on Etsy →Written by a practicing bridge inspection Team Leader with 8,000+ inspections in the field (about 3,000 as Team Leader). Every table traces to a public FHWA or TxDOT document; no agency work product is used. Independent reference aids, not affiliated with FHWA, AASHTO, or any DOT. The governing manual and the inspector's judgment always control.
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