ASHE Potomac Section Newsletter Fall/Winter 2012/2013

TTHEHE DDELINEATORELINEATOR

Board Officers & Members

President, Steve Evans

VDOT

1st Vice President, Dennis Morrison, Volkert

2nd Vice President,

Pam Destino, Whitman, Requardt & Assoc.

Secretary,

Tim Belcher, Dewberry

Treasurer, Dave Palfrey

McDonough Bolyard Peck

Director 2012-13, Deepa Thandaveswara, AMEC

Director 2012-13, Drew

Chartrand, Rinker Design Associates

Director 2012-14, Peter Vigliotti

VDOT

Director 2011-14, David Hieber Dewberry

Director 2012-15, Leonard Coleman,

Prince William County

Director 2012-15, Mark Warden

So-Deep

Past President, Anand Patel

RK&K

Young Member Coordinator, Carolyn Witzig,

Rinker Design Associates

PPRESIDENTRESIDENT’’SS MMESSAGEESSAGE Message from the President’s desk It is with heavy hearts that we announce that Steve Evans, President of the ASHE Potomac Section has passed away. On March 4th, Steve passed away after a two and a half month battle to recover from a heart attack that he suffered just before Christmas. Our thoughts and prayers are with Steve’s wife and family. Through the leadership of the ASHE board the 2012-2013 year has been a very successful year. The ASHE Potomac Board has been greatly encour-aged by the turnout (averaging 96 people per meeting) and interest at each of our monthly dinner meetings. One of our goals for 2012-2013 was to in-crease our membership by 25-30, we currently have 46 new members. (See list of new Members on Page 10). Increased membership means more op-portunities to better serve our industry, our members, and the community we live and work. Our Holiday Party was well attended and lively. The Board went out on a limb and approved a Casino Night Holiday Party. Everyone enjoyed themselves playing Blackjack, Poker, Craps and Roulette while being serenated by brave karaoke participants, most of them enticed with poker chips. We are very proud of our scholarship program and have increased our financial support to $3,000. The Board will review and evaluate the eight applications that have been received. Thank you very much for making 2012-13 a great year. We appreciate your support of our section and look forward to seeing you at our dinner meetings and our spring scholarship golf outing at Bull Run Golf course on April. 3rd. Dennis C Morrison, First Vice President

UUPCOMINGPCOMING MMEETINGSEETINGS ANDAND EEVENTSVENTS Be on the look out for further information regarding these upcoming events.

UUPCOMINGPCOMING MMEETINGSEETINGS Members know that a ending the monthly ASHE Potomac mee ngs is a great way to learn more about what is going on in our industry, network with colleagues, and enjoy a meal...but did you also know that you can earn 1 Professional Development Hour (PDH) simply by a ending a mee ng and comple ng a learning objec ves ques onnaire! Mark your calendars for the upcoming ASHE Potomac mee ngs:

March 20, 2013– Interstate 495 Express Lanes Project April 17, 2013—Phase 2 Rail Extension to Dulles Project May 15, 2013– To be announces at a later date

Mee ngs are held are at P.J. Skidoos in Fairfax and begin at 5:30 pm with networking and a cash bar. Dinner begins at 6:30 and the program follows at approximately 7:00 pm. P J Skidoos is located at 9908 Fairfax Boulevard, Fairfax, VA 22030. (www.pjskidoos.com) We are always interested in your comments and sugges ons for mee ng topics, focus and speakers. Please contact Dennis Morrison at dennis.morrison@volkert.com with your ideas.

ASHE Potomac Golf Tournament Bull Run Golf Course Benefits Annual Scholarship

Fund Contact Peter Vigliotti

Peter.Vigliotti@VDOT.virginia.gov

SAVE THE DATE April 3, 2013

WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR SPONSORS FOR EACH HOLE, CONTESTS AND PRIZES!!!

FFEATUREEATURE -- SSTRINGFELLOWTRINGFELLOW RROADOAD WWIDENINGIDENING PPROJECTROJECT Drew Chartrand and Tony Dean, Rinker Design Associates

Rinker Design Associates (RDA) has recently completed professional engi-neering services for the design of Route 645 (Stringfellow Road) from Route 50 to Route 7735 (Fair Lakes Boulevard) (including the intersection of Route 50 and the approaches). The overall project was funded by Fairfax County and administered by VDOT. The project consisted of widening 2 miles of existing two-lane roadway to an urban four-lane divided roadway with a raised median with variable width sidewalks, shared use paths, roadway lighting and seven signalized intersections. The majority of the project is adjacent to a densely populated residential corridor with several public facilities including a regional library, a church, two schools, several parks, ball fields, multiple bus stops, and a VDOT park and ride facility. RDA has coordinated, designed, and included in the VDOT plan set two separate site plans for Poplar Tree Park and Green-briar Park. These site plan designs provide parking lot enhancements and bet-terments for each Park Authority property. Additionally, a pre-cast arch was used at the major stream crossing over the west side of Little Rocky Run to eliminate impacts to a major petroleum line and water main. This alternative structure, designed by Conspan, eliminates utility impacts, reduces the construction schedule, provides environmental savings and serves as a critter crossing for Greenbriar Park.

RDA also incorporated critical utility coordination/design with the roadway design for several major above and below ground utilities including: Colonial Pipeline, Plantation Pipeline, Fairfax County Water Authority, Verizon, Dominion Power, Washington Gas, and Shentel. Coordination and design included a “Utility Relocation Plan” set, which was provided to the contractor during construction to show existing utilities and previously relocated utilities. This set also incorporated detailed cross sections showing all known elevations of above and below ground utilities including storm drainage. Additionally, VDOT utilized a new technology during utility relocations. “Electronic marker ball” or RFID marker ball technology allows VDOT inspectors to review depth and locations of relocated utilities in real time to reduce the need for test pits during con-struction and future projects.

By coordinating plan design with utility design RDA was able to avoid any major utility relocations of the petroleum pipelines or the recently constructed water main along the length of the project. RDA also performed a preliminary layout of the overhead utility locations to ensure coordina-tion of the Dominion “H” class power poles with all other overhead utility relocations. RDA, with its partner T3 De-sign, incorporated a “Monotube” signal at Poplar Road which eliminated the need for two mast arms, while avoid-ing impacts to several utilities at the intersection. The Monotube design is a new technology to Virginia with only a few being constructed within the state. This design utiliz-es a single tube to span the entire intersection in lieu of the 4 mast arms traditionally provided at most intersections.

RDA’s coordination and design services have provided Fairfax County and VDOT savings of more than $5 million dollars in construction and utility relocation costs. Additional savings to the budget and schedule were realized because of RDA’s agil-ity in providing their design expertise for unforeseen projects issues such as an 1800 LF relocation of Plantation pipeline, waterline design, lighting design, and additional survey needs. This project is on schedule and within budget, and is currently being advertised for construction. Construction is anticipated to begin Spring 2013.

ASHE ASHE -- FFALLALL/W/WINTERINTER 20122012--1313

SEPTEMBER MEETING            Ronaldo “Nick” Nicholson, P.E. , DDOT Chief Engineer Nick reviewed the projects that DDOT will be ad-vertising this next year including: Design-Build Construction Management NEPA Studies Asset Preservation and Maintenance of Tunnels Bridge/Culvert Replacement and Rehabilitation OCTOBER MEETING         Garrett Moore,  Northern Virginia District Administrator Virginia Department of Transportation  ASHE’s 1ST EVER MEETING AT THE VDOT NORTHERN VIRGINIA DISTIRCT OFFICE VDOT NoVA District staff and over one hundred Consultants filled the Districts conference room to discuss the health of the Northern Virginia transportation program, the district’s professional engineering needs, and the opening of the 495 Beltway Hot lanes. Mr. Moore has subsequently been tagged as VDOT’s Chief Engineer to replace Mal Kerley at the end of 2012.

JANUARY MEETING       Virginia Snead  Virginia Department of Conservation  and Recreation (DCR)    Stormwater Update  Virginia Snead of the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recre-ation (DCR) discussed the new VSMP requirements and their effect on transportation projects. Ginny gave a detailed update on current rules and regulations con-cerning: 2014 VSMO Regulations Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay WIP MS4 Update Nutrient Trading Expansion (2012 Legislation) 2014 VSMP Regulation Changes Construction GP Reissuance Channel Protection Criteria VSMP Local Program Adoption VSMP Training Plan> Certification Program (Spring 2013) Revised Stormwater Management Handbook/BMP Clearinghouse FEBRUARY MEETING     Louis  Robbins, PE, DBIA  Corman Construction     Current Design-Build Practices  Design-Build is growing...get on board or left behind. Contractors should consider designers’ ability to get team shortlisted as well as

ability to perform. Pick firm, staff and project resumes based upon client selection criteria: such as D/

B experience, similar project experience, similar experience with client and past ex-perience on joint projects.

Things to remember: Innovation/Responsiveness/Timeliness/Cooperativeness/Willingness to go “Above and Beyond/Workload/Put the Project First/More emphasis on price/Potentially more profitable.

“Design to Cost NOT Cost to Design!!!” —“Nice to have VS. Required by Contract.

ASHE HOLIDAY PARTY….NOTHING SAYS “HAPPY HOLIDAYS” LIKE GAMBLING!

Attention ASHE Members Excitement is building for the 2013 National ASHE Conference to be held in Lake Placid June 5-9, 2013. This is a National Conference where individuals from around the country will be in attend-ance. Besides being held in one of New York State’s premier locations, the Conference will be an excellent opportunity to:

Network with other transportation industry professionals

Attend educational sessions

Enter a bobsled competition against your peers

Golf on a world-class course

Eat a world-class meal

Skate on the rink made famous during the 1980 Winter Olympics – “Miracle on Ice”

And so much more…………!

THANK YOU TO OUR GOLD SPONSOR MEMBERS

WELCOME TO OUR NEW 2012-2013 MEMBERS

NO FIRST NAME BUSINESS NAME NO FIRST NAME BUSINESS NAME

1 Osama Abdalla MBP 24 Ben Lineberry Volkert, Inc.

2 Irene Bartnik RK&K 25 Luan Taci Rinker Design Associates

3 Bharat Bhargava Endesco Inc. 26 Kaleab Maregn Volkert, Inc.

4 Ally Goff Volkert, Inc. 27 Kevin Mentz HNTB

5 Edward Kluckowski Freyssinet 28 Kia Nejad Volkert, Inc.

6 Weiyi Ma DMY Engineering Consultants 29 Trieu Nguyen Rinker Design Associates

7 John McDowell RK&K 30 Ronaldo Nicholson DDOT

8 Robert McDowell Jacobs 31 Perry Oates Volkert, Inc.

9 Adam Pa erson Quality Counts 32 Jason Pasani Volkert, Inc.

10 Michael Randolph STV 33 Steven Paulovich CH2M Hill

11 Vinton Rathburn Jacobs 34 Bhoopendra Prakash The Plan Source

12 J. Stoltzfus Volkert, Inc. 35 Michael Rayl ECS Mid‐Atlan c

13 Robert Victor AECOM 36 Caroline Rice Parsons Transorta on Group

14 Jeffrey Walton Quality Counts 37 Morteza Salehi Louis Berger Group

15 Paul Zhang DMY Engineering Consultants 38 Simon Simon Greenhorne & O'mara

16 Natlie Bacon Volkert, Inc. 39 Ryan Smith G.A. & F.C. Wagman

17 Elizabeth Bryan Walter P Moore 40 Gopi Sripathy TY Lin Interna onal

18 Robert Cade Parsons Brinckerhoff 41 Carlos Stevenson Quality Counts

19 Travis Conway Geo‐Technology Associates, Inc. 42 James Swanson TY Lin Interna onal

20 Nikhil Deshpande Rinker Design Associates 43 Timothy Vaughan Rinker Design Associates

21 Edmond Doku Volkert, Inc. 44 Keith Weakley Volkert, Inc.

22 Julie Hartman Volkert, Inc. 45 Jennifer Whitehead Rice Associates

23 Jared Kerr Rinker Design Associates 46 Tyler Work Volkert, Inc.