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Standard Specifications for Construction and Supplemental Specifications

MnDOT Standard Specifications for Construction and Supplemental Specifications

2025 edition

The 2025 edition is effective for most projects let on or after Oct. 22, 2025.

All project documents submitted for the Oct. 22, 2025 letting, or later lettings, must be in accordance with the Standard Specifications for Construction, 2025 edition. 

2020 edition

The 2020 edition is effective for most projects let before Oct. 22,2025.

Older editions

  • MnDOT Standard Specifications for Construction 2018 (PDF) - Change lines were added to the margins of the 2018 edition to indicate text that changed from the 2016 edition. The intent of these lines is to help the reader - although MnDOT does not guarantee that all text changes are indicated by change lines.

Due to problems with conversion, the PDF pages we are posting here are not an exact match to the printed Standard Specification for construction 2000 edition. The printed/published book governs.

Table of contents
Division I - General requirements and covenants
Division II - Construction details
Division III - Materials