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What’s Coming in AASHTOWare Project 5.05

February 28, 2026

The March 20th release of AASHTOWare Project™ version 5.05 is just around the corner, delivering high-impact enhancements to streamline your workflows and improve data accuracy across Estimation, Preconstruction, Civil Rights & Labor, and Construction & Materials.

Key Release Highlights:

Preconstruction & Estimation

  • Seamless Transitions: Map proposal fields directly to contract fields for consistent data integrity during the ‘Transition to Construction’ process.
  • Task Management: Update cost estimate item tasks directly from the reference item, reducing manual updates.
  • Pricing Efficiency: Update item prices across multiple projects within a proposal from one central location.

Civil Rights & Labor

  • Form WH-347 Compliance: Enhanced manual payroll entry for full compliance with updated federal standards.
  • Vendor Record Improvements: A new “Payrolls Not Required” flag on vendor records helps prevent unnecessary payment estimate exceptions.

Construction & Contract Administration

  • Approval Flexibility: Administrators can now reverse the approval of a change order, providing a critical safety net for data correction.
  • Contract Management: Copy or export/import contracts between environments to simplify testing and data migration.
  • Voucher Control: A new contract indicator allows users to prevent automated voucher creation for specific contracts (such as shadow contracts), offering more precision in payment processing.

Materials Management

  • Streamlined Qualifications: Add multiple persons to a single qualification status and date, making it easy to process entire training classes at once.
  • Global Acceptance: Save time by applying global acceptance action changes to all or selected affected contracts simultaneously.

Platform Improvements

  • Improved Reliability: Version 5.05 modernizes the platform to Microsoft .NET 8 ensuring greater performance, security, stability, and future-readiness.
  • Data Accessibility: A new CSV export option for filtered lists allows you to take your data into spreadsheet tools for custom reporting and analysis with a single click.

If you are interested in seeing a list of all Ticketed Modification Requests (TMRs) included in this release, click Resolves TMRs.

A Special Thank You to Our Members

Many of these advancements are made possible through the collaboration of our member agencies. We would like to extend a sincere thank you to the following nine agencies for their financial investment and commitment to improving AASHTOWare Project for everyone: Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Virginia.

Why Upgrade Now?

Version 5.05 represents our most stable environment yet. Upgrading ensures your team has access to the latest security patches, full WH-347 compliance, and the newest system integrations, allowing our support teams to provide you with the fastest possible assistance.

We look forward to seeing how these new tools improve your daily operations this spring!