Transportation and Infrastructure
Atlantic Base Refurbishment, Seattle, WA—King County Metro
BCI provided VM facilitation services for the $39 million Portland cement concrete pavement (PCCP) and overhead catenary system (OCS) replacement, and utility and lighting improvements for Metro’s six-acre electric trolley bus fleet parking, maintenance, and wash facility—Metro’s first use of State of Washington Heavy Civil GC/CM MACC project delivery.
Project considerations included challenging site constraints and the need to minimize impacts to operations and maintenance personnel in a continuously operational facility.
Aviation and National Infrastructure Protection VM Study, Southeastern U.S.—Confidential Client
BCI provided VM facilitation services for a VM study involving participants representing the diverse interests of federal and local agencies. Using the VM, the agency representatives identified needs; defined, refined, and prioritized success criteria; identified the functions that must be performed to meet the criteria; and generated ideas on ways to achieve them.
I-5 Interchange at Port of Tacoma Road Phase II VM Study—City of Fife, WA and WSDOT
BCI provided VM facilitation services for the $86 million, design-bid-build diamond-couplet interchange connecting Interstate 5 ramps to a one-way couplet arterial system and extending 34th Avenue East with a new bridge overcrossing Interstate 5.
The VM team generated 60 creative ideas. Of those, 11 concepts contributed to interchange providing efficient movement of traffic into and out of the POT and surrounding areas, with enhanced reliability of access to local and area businesses, while balancing effects to the natural and community environments.
I-5, Portland Avenue to Port of Tacoma Road, SB HOV VM Study, Tacoma, WA—WSDOT
BCI provided VM facilitation services for the $167 million, design-build replacement of the existing southbound bridge over the Puyallup River, reconnecting the I-5/SR 167 southbound ramp, and building a southbound HOV lane from Portland Avenue to Port of Tacoma Road interchange. Value workshop objectives included finding least-cost alternatives to address need and function.
SR 520 148th Ave NE Interchange, Tunnel, Overlake Access Ramp VM Study, Bellevue/Redmond, WA—WSDOT
BCI provided VM facilitation services for the $51 million design-bid-build reconstruction of the SR 520 east-bound off-ramp to 148th Ave. NE and construction of a tunnel that will cross under 148th Ave. NE.
CSO Tunnels and Pump Station, VM Study, Hartford, CT—Metropolitan District Commission
BCI provided VM facilitation services for the $1 billion design-bid-build Hartford Water Pollution Control Facility Wet Weather Expansion Project, including a deep tunnel conveyance and storage system with associated consolidation conduits and pump station to provide treatment of wet weather flows. A key objective was to reduce combined sewer overflows (CSOs) from 60 to zero annually, avoiding approximately 50 CSO activations per year.
Military
New Special Operations Forces Operations Support Facility, Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, NC—USACE Wilmington District
BCI’s Anna Bremmer provided VM facilitation services for the $24 million, 35,760 GSF operations support facility built to sensitive compartmented information (SCI), Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) Intelligence Community Standard (ICS) 705, and UFC 4-010-05 standards.
Building 546 Missile Command Headquarters Renovation VM Study, Minot Air Force Base, Minot, ND—USACE Omaha District
BCI’s Anna Bremmer provided VM facilitation services for the $21 million demolition and reconstruction of the interior 91 MXG section industrial shop that serves as the only source for classified maintenance of the Minuteman III ICBMs for Minot AFB. The project includes relocation of the shops based upon area need, upgrade of assemblies per UFC, NFPA, and IBC requirements, and optimization of workflow.