Maryland
Laurel—Under the direction of Samuel J. Trinca, Vice President of KCI Wireless Services, Inc., engineers, planners, and scientists from offices in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Tampa, and North Carolina are working under a fast-track contract with Lucent Technologies to help Cingular develop 99 wireless communication sites in the Baltimore-Washington market by year’s end. Marianne Kiernan, PE, is managing the Maryland project team, providing surveying, site engineering, environmental assessment, permitting, price negotiation, and site acquisition services.
Hunt Valley—Working under a $200,000 contract with CUH2A, Inc., KCI is providing planning, surveying, permitting, engineering design, and construction administration services for a new 560,000-square-foot National Institutes of Health Biomedical Research Center under construction at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Campus in Baltimore. The new facility will house the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. As part of the project, KCI also has developed plans for building the new Bioscience Drive, widening a portion of Lombard Street, and adding storm drains and water and sanitary sewer systems. KCI Vice President Paul D. Crampton is managing the contract and expects construction to be completed in January 2005.
West Virginia
Morgantown—KCI archaeologists excavating a 1.5-acre site near WV 705 and Stewartstown Road have identified a village once inhabited by a Monongahela Indian tribe more than 400 years ago. The Phase III investigations, conducted under a contract with the developers of Gateway Towne Center, have revealed pottery sherds bone tools, arrowheads, and stone tools, as well as human remains. KCI archaeologist J. T. Sutton is managing the project.
North Carolina
Raleigh—In September, the North Carolina Department of Transportation selected KCI for a three-year, $2.5 million construction engineering and inspection contract to oversee highway improvements for US 17 in Jacksonville, NC. The work involves widening 6.5 miles of twolane, undivided roadway to a fourlane divided highway. Eddie Bishop will manage the project, assisted by Carolinas CEI Division Chief Bobby Dozier. Construction is scheduled to start in November.
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