Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Breakout Sessions E 10:45 to 11:45AM
E1 Rockfall Mitigation ProgramSara Hansen, Yeh and Associates Janet Gerak, CDOT Rl Environmental Tony Marcello, David Evans and Associates
CDOT Geohazards Program has been developing a risk-based “Geohazard Management Plan,” which takes a corridor- approach to mitigate statewide geohazard risk. Corridors are developed and divided into tiers using a scoring system for likelihoods and consequences of geohazards in a section of highway. Two of these recent projects, US 6 and SH 287 have had considerable environmental challenges, including raptors and historic properties. Innovative mitigation has been required for some of these projects.
E2 Environmental Commitments: You Can Imagine Them and Design Them, But Can You Still Build Your Project?
Jeff Berna (Jacobs) - Facilitator Sean Brewer (CDOT-EPB) - Panelist Becky Rude (Jacobs) - Panelist CDOT Project Manager/Construction (TBD) Brian Dobling (FHWA Area Engineer)
Mitigation measures demonstrate how we avoid, minimize and/or compensate for project impacts and are captured as commitments in documentation ranging from NEPA decision documents, to permits, agreements, and plans. Whereas commitments are developed primarily by environmental staff, they must ultimately be translated into construction plans and contracts which will dictate how, where, when, who, and by what means the measures will be implemented during construction.
This session is structured to allow for an interactive and facilitated discussion amongst the panelists and audience and will explore the challenges of developing, documenting, and implementing environmental commitments on CDOT projects. Following short introductions of each theme, the panelists will provide their perspective, observations, lessons learned, and best practices regarding the following topics: how to guide and communicate with design; building appropriate flexibility into commitments; benefits of standard specs versus special provisions; assessing the true cost of commitments, and considerations for alternate delivery methods.
E3 CMGC Contracting: Innovative Delivery for a Major Arterial Intersection With a Small Budget
Dan Woodward Dean Klingner, P.E. - ASCE
CMGC contracting is an innovative project delivery approach used typically on large scale, high dollar transportation projects to accelerate project schedule and encourage innovative ideas from the contractor. This project used CMGC to significantly accelerate a major arterial intersection reconstruction in the heart of the City of Fort Collins with a total project budget of approximately $SM. With contractor involvement, the City focused on risk mitigation, accelerated schedules, budget constraints and complex traffic phasing to deliver a high quality project under budget and ahead of schedule. This presentation discusses the approach used by the City to ensure quality, price, and schedule with the CMGC contracting method, and discusses the benefits of using this delivery method on smaller scale transportation projects.
E3 Linking Lookout: US 6 and 19th Street Project
Nancy Lambertson, Muller Engineering Company John Hausman, Muller Engineering Company Anne Beierle, City of Golden
With the completion of the first "lid" in the state of Colorado, a look back on the efforts by the City of Golden and their design team to develop a project that not only moved traffic on US 6 efficiently, but connected the Lookout Mountain neighborhoods with the rest of Golden. This presentation will discuss how the data associated with all modes of travel influenced the innovative, non-traditional design, along with the true collaboration that occurred among the various stakeholders, the designers, and the contractor (CM/GC project delivery). We'll also review the before traffic analysis as a part of the 1601 process and compare with the after traffic study.
E4 CDOT's MS4 Program Training
Jane Hann, CDOT Rob Naese, RESPEC
CDOT is currently under an Administrative Order on Consent (AOC) with EPA regarding their Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) Permit and Program. One of the requirements of this AOC is to provide broad-reaching MS4 Program Training to anyone that
E5 Utility Track