Pennsylvania
Harrisburg—KCI is providing consulting services for the Lancaster County Transportation Authority (LCTA) under a five-year, $1 million open-end contract. In this role, KCI will be working with the Authority to implement transportation projects approved under the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s (PENNDOT) 12-year plan. LCTA—the first authority of its kind in the Commonwealth—is charged with advancing PENNDOT projects. KCI Project Manager Douglas H. Warfel, PE, is leading a team that will provide highway and signal design services for three intersections and two widening projects along eight miles of SR 501, from Lancaster to Lititz.
North Carolina
Charlotte—Bobby R. Dozier is managing KCI’s construction engineering and inspection services along four miles of Independence Boulevard in busy, downtown Charlotte under a three-year, $2.5 million contract with the North Carolina Department of Transportation.
Florida
Tampa—For the second time in two years, KCI has expanded its office facilities in Florida. Tampa Office Manager Darryl Kroeze, PE, expects to increase his staff of 34 to meet clients’ demands in the telecommunication and transportation markets.
Maryland
Hunt Valley—KCI is developing an interactive CD-Rom providing informal training on Section 4(f) criteria for the Project Planning Division of the Maryland State Highway Administration. Passed in 1966, Section 4(f) protects public parks, recreational areas, and historic sites from potential impacts associated with proposed transportation projects. KCI Project Manager Brian A. Bernstein, AICP, expects that the CD, which features custom graphics and easy-to-use pop-up menus, hyperlinks, and rollovers, will be ready for review in early January 2002.
Hunt Valley—In November, the Maryland State Highway Administration awarded KCI its fourth consecutive open-end bridge design services contract. Project Manager Stephen M. Carl, PE, and KCI’s structural engineers are already beginning work under the five-year, $1 million contract, providing designs for the MD 70 bridges over College and Weems creeks, considered the gateway to Annapolis.
Hunt Valley—The Highway Hydraulics Division of the Maryland State Highway Administration has renewed two large contracts with KCI’s Water Resources Division. In March, KCI expects to begin tasks under a four-year, $1.5 million open-end statewide hydrologic/hydraulic engineering design services contract and a five-year, $1 million open-end NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) engineering services contract.
Hunt Valley—Since August, KCI’s surveyors have been working on two major projects as part of the Baltimore-Washington International Airport expansion program. As many as four surveying teams are providing construction layout services under contracts with Facchina Construction Company, for the Consolidated Car Rental Garage Expansion; and Kiewit Construction, for the Southwest Terminal. The teams, led by Project Manager Donald J. Tyler, are also providing construction services on the Airport Paving Rehabilitation Project for Reliable Contracting Company. Project Principal Charles A. Phillips, Jr., RPLS, estimates that KCI’s fees for the multi-year expansion program will approach $1 million.
Hunt Valley—The Hampton Roads Sanitation District has selected KCI for a $150,000 contract to design an outfall diffuser to meet discharge permit requirements at the Army Base Plant in Norfolk, VA. David W. Jones, PE, a professional engineer/diver in KCI’s Marine Structures and Diving Division, will manage the project. KCI will conduct a condition assessment and hydrographic survey for a multiport diffuser extension to handle the plant’s 12-million-gallons-per-day effluent discharge. Jones expects the 18-month project to get under way in January 2002.
Hunt Valley—KCI has begun work under a one-year, $500,000 on-call geotechnical services contract with the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Senior Geotechnical Engineer Eric M. Klein, PE, is managing the project.
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