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The ASHE - Bay Breeze — Newsletter — Winter 2015-2016

Chesapeake Section 1

This Issue:

Message from the President P.2 Upcoming Events P.4

2016 ASHE Na onal Conference P.6 Annual Scholarship Golf Ou ng P.7

September Mee ng Recap P. 8 October Mee ng Recap P. 9

November Mee ng Recap P. 10 Project Spotlight P. 11



Message from the President

Greetings Chesapeake Section! I hope everyone is enjoying the end of another winter season. As it is with the weather in Maryland, we had a quick burst of snow to welcome in the first day of Spring. I am optimistic that warmer weather will bring us a great finish to the college basketball tournament and an exciting year of Orioles and Nationals baseball. Our first meeting for the 2015-2016 season was on September 15th which focused on Construction. Tony To-

basco presented on the MDTA Key Bridge Deck Overlay Project and conducted a tour of the site. Our October 20th meeting focused on Planning. Valorie LaCour provided a presentation discussing the Hanover Street Corridor Study. Bradly Smith discussed planning initiatives for the Northeast Corridor (NEC). Eric Almquist provided an overview of the study underway for the Baltimore and Potomac (B&P) Tunnel Project. Tom Noonan, CEO of Visit Baltimore, was the guest dinner speaker. He shared several topics about Baltimore tourism trends. Our November 20th meeting we held our annual joint meeting with TIE. The meeting was focused on Traffic. Morteza Tadayon and Subrat Mahapatra provided a presentation discussing the SHA Data Services Engineering Division - A Look Back and Forward. Mike Jelen presented on the National Complete Streets Coalition's Multimodal Development and Delivery Project. Keith Riniker presented on Transit Initiatives in Baltimore City, including Signal Priority and Connected Vehicles Research. Our guest dinner speaker for the evening was Calvin Young a Baltimore City Mayoral Candidate. Thank you for stopping by the ASHE booth at the Maryland Quality Initiative Conference (MdQI) on February 3rd and 4th. Our upcoming Section events are the April 21st Membership Appreciation Event where we will be awarding our annual scholarships to students from UMD, Morgan State and JHU. Our last event of the year will be the June 2nd ASHE Chesapeake Scholarship Golf Event at Oakmont Green Golf Course in Hampstead, MD. After the very successful 2015 ASHE National Conference in Baltimore, we invite you to head north to the Steel City for this year’s National Conference. The conference is May 19th – 22nd at the Wyndham Grand in Downtown Pittsburgh. Please visit the conference website, http://2016conference.ashe.pro/, for more information. As our 2015-2016 year begins to come to a close, I encourage you to get involved in planning for the upcoming year. The Board of Directors is looking for volunteers to serve on the Board and participate in our Committees to make 2016-2017 another successful year. Remember to visit our new web site http://chesapeake.ashe.pro/ regularly to keep informed of Section activities. I look forward to seeing all of you at upcoming ASHE Chesapeake events. Brian Post, P.E. ASHE Chesapeake – President

Brian Post, P.E.

‐ President ASHE



OFFICERS

Adam Gardner Advocate Director Golf Tournament

Committee

Heather Henck Vice President

DIRECTORS

Gregg Iskra Advocate Director

Chris Fronheiser Advocate Director

Reid Perry Treasurer

Dion Ho Secretary

Brian Post President

Roger Carriker National Director

Nimish Desai Regional 2nd Vice

President

Stacy Morin Membership

Mark Bodmann Hospitality

Membership

Kathy Walsh Advocate Director

Sponsorship Committee

Not Pictured

Matt Wiherle Newsletter

Golf Tournament

Erin Collins University Outreach

Dave Greenwood National Director Section By-Laws

Ray Moravec Sponsorship

Carrie Nicholson Website

Kristin Fusco Rowe Past President

Matt Waters Regional Director

Marco V. Ávila, PDH

Social Media

Drew McTygue Newsletter

COMMITTEES

Andy Lynch Hospitality

Vichika Iragavarapu Hospitality



Professional Development

ASHE 2016 Events

Membership

ASHE CHESAPEAKE EVENT SCHEDULE

WINTER/SPRING 2016

April 21st, 2016—Member Apprecia on Night (No PDH’s)

June 2nd, 2016—Annual Chesapeake Sec on Scholarship

Golf Ou ng (No PDH’s)

The state of Maryland will require 24

Professional Development Hours

(PDH’s) every 2 years to keep your P.E.

license. ASHE Chesapeake Sec on is

providing opportuni es to earn 12 to

15 PDH’s every year. You can take ad‐

vantage of this by a ending our Tech‐

nical Sessions offered at each of our

monthly mee ngs. Sessions are availa‐

ble to members and non‐members,

with a discounted rate being offered to

members.

If you would like to become a member please visit our web‐

site:

Or join us at a meeting and fill out a membership form and talk to any one of the Board of Directors or Committee mem‐bers.

http://chesapeake.ashe.pro/membership/



The Board of Directors of ASHE‐Chesapeake Section cordially invites you to

participate in our sponsorship program this year. This is an annual

sponsorship and your company will be recognized during all of the meetings.

ASHE is committed to expanding involvement from designers, contractors,

and suppliers in an effort to share the local industry’s most recent technical

advancements. If you wish to sponsor ASHE this year please contact our

Sponsor Chairpersons:

Gold Sponsor ($700)

Gold Sponsor for All Meetings

10‐Minute Presentation at Dinner for One Meeting

Display Table for unlimited Meetings

Sponsorship Sign at All Sessions/Dinners

Large Logo in Newsletter, Social Event Sponsorship and Website Recognition

Silver Sponsor ($500)

Silver Sponsor for All Meetings

Display Table for Two Meeting


Medium Logo in Newsletter, Social Event Sponsorship and Website Recognition

Bronze Sponsor ($300)

Bronze Sponsor for All Meetings

Display Table for One Meeting


Small Logo in Newsletter, Social Event Sponsorship and Website Recognition

SPONSORSHIP

Kathy Walsh at 301‐982‐2831 [email protected]

Ray Moravec at (410)‐828‐3804 [email protected]



Register by visiting by

visiting our website!

h p://chesapeake.ashe.pro/events/



SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

CONSTRUCTION

The ASHE Cheasapeake Section started the Fall season meetings with a construction

site tour of the MDTA Key Bridge Deck Overlay Project. MDTA Engineer Tony Tobasco

conducted a tour of the site work which consists of installing bioswales and retention

pods in the median, hydromilling of the existing bridge deck, repair of concrete rein‐

forcement and the installation of a latex overlay. A latex modified concrete mixture was

selected because it is conducive to rapid curing, developing a substantial majority of its

maximum compressive strength within 7 days of placement. Tony explained that

Construction Management (CM) is facilitated by eConstruction where all inspectors are

issued tablets to electronically complete their Inspector’s Daily Reports (IDR’s) using an

application called Mobil Field Services (MFS). Tony explained that the construction

documentation is the first eConstruction project for the MDTA. MFS is a unique fea‐

ture to this Project and has never before been employed by MDTA CM that was devel‐

oped to improve overall project documentation QA/QC by providing paperless IDR's

that are stored in the MS Cloud.

Project Site Visit and Tour:

Key Bridge Overlay

Anthony Tobasco, Area

Engineer MDTA

Adam Gardner, KCI CM



OCTOBER 20, 2015

PLANNING

The October Planning Meeting was an excellent continuation of the

Fall meeting season. Valorie LaCour with the Baltimore City DOT

provided a fascinating presentation discussing the Hanover Street

Corridor Study, the objective of which is to document traffic opera‐

tions and safety issues and identify improvements for; truck access,

pedestrian access, bicycle access and vehicular safety.

Bradly Smith of MDOT discussed planning initiatives for the North‐

east Corridor (NEC) which included an overview of the NEC and

High Speed Intercity Passenger Rail planning efforts which include

the Susquehanna River Rail Bridge, which has the primary purpose of

providing continued rail connectivity along the NEC. A total of 25

alternatives were identified and evaluated for the Susquehanna Rail

Bridge.

Eric Almquist of RK&K provided an overview of the study underway

for the Baltimore and Potomac (B&P) Tunnel Project with the goal of

evaluating alternatives to improve the capacity and travel time for

current and future passenger rail service along the NEC.

Presentation 1:

Hanover Street Corridor

Study

Valorie LaCour, RLS, LEED AP Chief of Transportation Planning, Baltimore City Presentation 2:

Susquehanna Rail River

Bridge

Bradley Smith, AICP Director of Office of Freight and Multimodalism Maryland Department of Transportation

Presentation 3:

B&P Tunnel Study

Eric Almquist, AICP PWS‐

Senior Manager, RK&K

Dinner Speaker:

Tom Noonan, CEO of Visit

Baltimore

Meeting presentations can be found on our website

www.ashe‐chesapeake.org



NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TRAFFIC

The concluding meeting of 2015 for the ASHE Chesapeake Section fea‐

tured fascinating topics from highly esteemed industry professionals.

The traffic technical sessions commenced with a look at SHA’s Data Ser‐

vices Engineering Division (DSED) presented by Morteza Tadayon and

Subrat Mahapatra. They gave a high level overview DSED’s innovative

travel forecasting efforts which support project planning, design and op‐

erations.

Michael Jelen provided the second technical presentation familiarizing

attendees with The National Complete Streets Coalition; a non‐profit al‐

liance of public interest organizations and transportation professionals

committed to the development and implementation of policies which

emphasize safe and efficient multimodal transportation as well as

encouraging smart growth in our nation’s cities and towns.

The final presentation provided by Keith Riniker explored future transit

technologies on the horizon and their implications to the transportation

industry and society at large. Keith offered an in depth explanation of

the technical aspects of transit signal priority (TSP), its applications with

respect various Baltimore City transit modes and the benefits and trade‐

offs associated with TSP. Another interesting feature of this presentation

demonstrated how on‐board eco‐approach and departure in transit vehi‐

cles improve safety, mobility and reduce energy consumption by reduc‐

ing running times as well as the

number starts and stops.

Attendees were treated to an

after dinner speech by Baltimore

City Mayoral Candidate Calvin

Young.

Presentation 1:

SHA Data Services Engi‐

neering Division ‐ A Look

Back and Forward

Morteza Tadayon, Executive Senior Associate, Sabra Wang & Associates Subrat Mahapatra, Travel Forecaster, Maryland State Highway Administration

Presentation 2:

National Complete Streets

Coalition's Multimodal

Development Project

Mike Jelen, P.E.

Vice President, AECOM

Presentation 3:

Transit Technologies Com‐

ing to Baltimore: Transit

Signal Priority and Con‐

nected Vehicles

Keith Riniker, P.E., PTOE Director, Traffic Engi-neering & ITS, Sabra Wang & Associates

Dinner Speaker:

Calvin Young

Baltimore City Mayoral

Candidate

Meeting presentations can be found on

our website



Prince George’s County, Maryland

In the late spring of 2014, heavy rains fell on

already saturated soils, triggering a landslide in

the Piscataway Hills neighborhood, located in

Prince George’s County, southeast of Washington,

D.C. The slide opened cracks along the roadway,

caused trees to tumble down the 65‐foot high

ridge, and left several homes sitting precariously

at the edge of the newly formed cliff. Piscataway

Drive, which provides the only access into the

neighborhood, dropped four feet in one location.

That damage, along with fractured water and

sewer lines and the unsafe nature of the hillside,

led to an immediate road closure and subsequent evacuation of 28 homes.

KCI Technologies Inc. was called in to assist the Prince George’s County Department of Public Works

and Transportation in investigating the cause of the failure and immediately mobilized on site. In

just two weeks, the firm completed a comprehensive geotechnical study and prepared a report out‐

lining findings that pointed to a 30‐foot thick layer of Marlboro Clay. Found throughout Southern

Maryland, this soil stratum is highly susceptible to landslides.

With the cause defined, engineers quickly began developing alternatives to stabilize the area. The

KCI team consulted with national geotechnical experts Richard Ortt, MD Geological Survey, and

Francis Ashland, U.S. Geological Survey, in developing proposed solutions. As design proceeded on a

fast‐track schedule, the county began investigating funding alternatives as well as legal responsibili‐

ties for what would be the costliest natural

disaster in Prince George’s history. Slope

stabilization approaches that were consid‐

ered included drilled shafts, soil nailing, re‐

taining walls with deep foundations, and

driven steel piles. Public meetings were held

regularly to discuss alternatives and solicit

input. To accelerate construction and mini‐

mize costs, the county focused on repairing

the damage within their right‐of‐way and

chose to purchase six homes that were

deemed uninhabitable from damage caused

by the landslide.

Project Spotlight: Piscataway Hills Landslide Stabilization

The landslide lowered a 65‐foot high ridge as much as

12 feet in places, taking down trees and utility lines.

Large cracks split the asphalt along Piscataway Drive as sec‐

tions of the roadway and surrounding land sloughed down

the hillside toward the creek.



The final remediation design called for 411

steel H‐piles in 60 and 70‐foot lengths to

be driven along either side of the roadway,

with some areas requiring two rows of

piles. To ensure the materials were

available for construction notice‐to‐

proceed, the county approved an early pay‐

ment to purchase the piles before road‐

way and utility plans were completed.

While design was progressing, KCI also

worked with the county using their ‘Most

Practical Source’ procurement method to

identify and solicit proposals from several

qualified contractors, bypassing the tradi‐

tional design‐bid‐build and design‐build

approaches that could have delayed the schedule. Corman Construction was selected and became a

critical part of the design team, attending weekly meetings and working through constructability

issues that included equipment availability and material selection. Their contribution to the decision

‐making process and design development helped avoid delays that could have snowballed during

construction.



KCI installed inclination monitors to record ground movements

leading up to, during and following construction.

A new Juntann rig was selected for its ability to quickly drive the H‐piles, offering the potential to further reduce schedule,

reduce vibration but created concerns in terms of the roadway’s ability to support its weight as well as the complexity of

maneuvering the equipment along the windy neighborhood street.



As discussed above, schedule was a driving

force throughout the project. The goal was

to get residents back in their homes as

quickly as possible. Although homeowners

had been allowed access to their property

once basic services had been returned,

including water, sewer and temporary

roadway repairs, construction would cut

off their vehicular access. In the months

leading up to the pile driving that would

completely block the roadway, the

community joined together to build two

sets of stairs and a series of pathways that

would allow residents to reach the 22

houses located deep within the neighbor‐

hood. KCI worked with Corman and the

residents to ensure that emergency

vehicles could traverse the construction

site at the end of each day to service any

homeowners in case of a fire or medical

crisis.

Throughout the construction, KCI provided ongoing support and inspection, including regular ob‐

servations of inclinometers for slope movement as well as vibration monitors during piling. With no‐

tice‐to‐proceed in July of 2015, the goal was to

open the roadway before winter weather could

freeze pipes and turn the resident’s steep bypass

into a treacherous crossing. The community cele‐

brated when barriers were removed along Pisca‐

taway Drive before Christmas. KCI continues to

monitor regularly for movement, which has been

minimal since piles were set in the fall.

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The community built two sets of lighted stairs to bypass the

construction site, which completely cut off vehicular access to

the lower 22 homes. A zip line helped residents move heavy bags

and larger items, like Christmas trees, up and down the steep

slope.

Residents celebrated when construction barriers were

removed and Piscataway Drive reopened to vehicles just

before Christmas.



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