500 South was approximately a two-mile roadway widening project. The existing two or three lane roadway was widened to accommodate five-lane section with shoulders, curb, gutter, landscape strips and sidewalks. PEC was teamed with URS on this project. PEC was responsible for all survey, topographic mapping, right of way, utility investigation, utility coordination, utility relocate and design. PEC also took the lead on structural design, environmental permitting and street-scape design. PEC assisted with the Construction Management General Contractor (CMGC) process, project specifications and cost estimating.
The aggressive nature of the schedule made the acquisition of right of way the critical path for the project. PEC was responsible to complete right of way documents on 10 to 15 parcels per week.
Project Engineering Consultants (PEC) were responsible for organizing relocation of conflicting utilities for the roadway widening project on 500 South in West Bountiful and Woods Cross Cities. This task involved coordinating and communicating with 25 utility companies, including communications, electrical, natural gas, gasoline, sanitary sewer, water, and railroad companies. Various meetings were held with these companies, including a meeting with all 25 of the companies at PEC’s office at the start of the design process, meetings with individual utility companies and PEC to discuss location of lines and requirements for each utility line, and meetings with individual companies, the designer company, and PEC for utility conflict resolution. Of the 42,000 feet of utilities that exist inside the project limits, only approximately 1,000 feet are in conflict with the widening project after PEC’s conflict resolution meetings.
PEC also contracted with Geneva Rock to pot hole over 150 strategic locations to establish vertical location of key utilities along the project. Once Blue Staked and pot holed, PEC’s licensed surveyor collected points for each utility line in three dimensions. PEC’s CADD Engineers brought those points into MicroStation’s InRoads program and created a three dimensional map and surface of the project area. Once the existing topography had been finalized, PEC brought in a three dimensional rendering of the new design Storm Drain and the roadway design surface to analyze the impacts on the existing utilities. This three dimensional rendering allowed easy identification of utilities in conflict, either by direct obstruction or through impinging on clearance zones, and simplified the conflict resolution process by allowing PEC’s Project Engineers to create maps for each utility that identified and detailed specific points of conflict with their utility and the Storm Drain and new pavement designs.
As part of the street-scape effort PEC met with West Bountiful and Wood Cross to help define this corridor and a sense of place. There were great efforts made to reduce the visual affect the Holly Refinery has to the traveling public.