Case Studies
The Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) moves more than 200,000 people a day on light rail, buses, and vans across a 700-square-mile service area that includes 13 member cities. To accommodate this demand, now and in the future, more than 50 miles of new light rail lines, rail stations, transit and transfer stations are now being constructed as part of an expansion program that DART says is the largest light rail expansion program in North America.
Just 10 miles west of downtown Miami, Florida International University (FIU) is in the middle of a building boom. A dozen or more building projects have been initiated on the 350-acre campus within the last two years.
When Pollyanne Johnson joined the FIU Facilities Management Department as senior project manager, she was surprised to find a lack of a computer-based program management system. And with so much construction underway, she realized the school needed a much better method of keeping track of the myriad projects in order to provide more accurate, timely reporting to the university administration.
URS Corporation, an engineering services company based in San Francisco, is currently overseeing the multi-project renovation of the Richmond International Airport in Virginia. Among the construction projects underway are road improvements, terminal expansion, improvements to runways and aprons, the construction of parking garages, an administration building, concourse expansion and even an environmental wetlands delineation project.
The East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBM UD) operates an extensive water works system that supplies water to approximately 1.3 million residents of Northern California’s Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. With pipelines, filter plants, pumping stations, and reservoirs spread across a 325-square-mile area, EBM UD faces the daily challenge of staying on top of the construction and maintenance responsibilities associated with keeping water flowing to its customers.
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has allocated an estimated $2.6 billion to seismically retrofit five Northern California toll bridges, including the Bay Bridge, plus the Vincent-Thomas Bridge that spans the Port of Los Angeles, and the Coronado Bay Bridge in San Diego. Nowhere in the world have bridges as structurally complex as these been seismically reengineered to withstand the structural harm posed by potential earthquakes that are a constant threat to this state.
For more than 60 years, the Odebrecht Group has been a leading global player in the construction of large-scale projects - including buildings, dams, thermoelectric plants, hydroelectric plants, nuclear and petrochemical complexes, refineries, resorts, subways, highways, railroads. bridges, airports and irrigation systems. The company has nearly 200 subsidiaries and affiliates in 14 countries, and has been named one of the world’s largest international contractors by Engineering News Record.
NNE is a leading supplier of engineering and construction services to the worldwide pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries. The company’s technical competencies span engineering, construction, validation, start-up optimization, reconstruction for product development and production plants, laboratories and more. A subsidiary of Novo Nordisk A/S, NNE has functioned independently since 1991, and is headquartered in Denmark with subsidiaries in China, France, Switzerland, Sweden and the United States.
