INSIDE/OUT ISSUE 62
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NEWSLETTER
JULY 2016
Transitions Announced in the Waterfront and International Ports and Terminals Departments special projects, in addition to supporting projects with ports in the Pacific Northwest. Joe received his bachelor’s in civil engineering from Washington State University. When asked about his new role, Joe said, “I am very fortunate to have in the Waterfront Department a highly skilled team of veteran managers and an excellent group of sharp, young engineers to assure our success as we move forward.”
Joe Stockwell (left) and Carlos Ospina (right)
BergerABAM is pleased to announce the transition of Joe Stockwell to department head of the firm’s Waterfront Department and Carlos Ospina to department head of the firm’s International Ports and Terminals (IPT) Department. Joe succeeds Elmer Ozolin, who has led the Waterfront Department for the past 11 years. Carlos succeeds V.K. Kumar, who has led the IPT Department for the past 16 years. Both Elmer and V.K. will continue with the firm in supporting roles providing focused client and project management. Joe began his career with BergerABAM (then ABAM Engineers) in 1983 and has focused on marine work for the majority of his career. For the past 15 years, he has played a significant role in building a solid relationship with the U.S. Navy, managing multiple on-call contracts and large
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Carlos is a native of Colombia and has spent a good portion of his career developing marine infrastructure business in South and Central America. He has 25 years of experience in the analysis, design, and construction support of port and marine structures, transportation facilities, and industrial buildings. Carlos has been managing and developing business for the firm’s Houston, Texas, office since 2009. He is a Fellow of American Concrete Institute and received his master’s and doctorate degrees in structural engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada. “I am deeply honored. Globalization today presents us with plenty of project opportunities overseas but amidst fiercer competition than ever before. While filling in the shoes of my mentor will be a nearly impossible task, I am certain that working as a team and drawing on our technical strength, cultural diversity, and company-instilled principles of hard work, integrity, and dedicated service to our clients, we will succeed in the endeavor ahead of us,” Carlos said.
Ports ‘16: Continuing Advancement of Port and Harbor Engineering The 14th in a series of international port and harbor development specialty conferences. New Orleans, Louisiana, was the destination of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) triannual ports conference that took place 12 through 15 June at the New Orleans Marriott. As a contributing sponsor, BergerABAM participated as an exhibitor with a booth display, and many of the firm’s attendees served as presenters, technical program committee cochairs, and technical session facilitators. “Ports: Gateways to a World of Opportunities” was the theme for this premier event for the marine/waterfront industry. The conference presentations provided the latest development and technical research in port- and harbor-related concerns and focused on a broad spectrum of items of interest to an international audience of waterway, port, harbor, and marine professionals. The ASCE also invited authors who submitted abstracts to publish their papers and present them at the conference. Attendees from BergerABAM either authored and/or coauthored 14 papers and
presented 12. Topics included planning, financing, permitting, designing, constructing, operating, maintaining, and securing port and maritime facilities. Short educational courses were offered that covered topics, such as marina design, sustainability, and vessel mooring and berthing. Two BergerABAM attendees presented a workshop on sustainability. The title and authors of each paper and the workshop are listed below. A special reception tailored to students and young industry professionals provided them networking and learning opportunities and a chance to familiarize themselves with the conference. BergerABAM’s presence at this important conference displays the firm’s commitment to finding solutions to the complex problems that confront port owners, operators, and developers as they face changes in the world’s economic and global conditions.
Ports ‘16 Papers and Workshop Fuel Transfer Facility – Fender System Replacement | Louis Klusmeyer
ASCE/COPRI 61–14 Detailing Provisions – Next Steps | Bob Harn, Lee Marsh, and Justin Rygel
Development of Innovative, Partially Prestressed Concrete Pier Concept to Enhance the Durability of U.S. Navy Piers | Bob Harn, Michael Oesterle, and Markus Wernli
Port of Neah Bay Commercial Dock Replacement | Erik Neal, TJ Schilling, and Bob Harn
Design and Construction of Two Concrete Pontoons to Serve as Berths at the Port of Juneau Cruise Ship Terminal | Yeliz Firat, Robert Easley, and Manfred Zinserling
Development of Mexico’s Newest Container Terminal | David Street, Ricardo Cheng, and John Bardi
Berth Expansion at Manzanillo International Terminal, Colon, Panama | Ajaya Malla and Chris Cornell
Portwide Seismic Risk Assessment; (1) Engineering Analyses | Scott McMahon, Stephen Dickenson, Scott Schlechter, and Jack Gordon
Reclamation for a Bulkhead Container Terminal Complex in High Seismicity Region | Carlos Ospina, Jyotirmoy Sircar, and William Camp
Container Wharf with Innovative Precast Retrofit of an Existing Container Yard Deck in High Seismicity Area | Jyotirmoy Sircar, to Accommodate Automated Stacking Carlos Ospina, and V.K. Kumar Cranes—Manzanillo International Terminal, Panama | Brett Ozolin and Chris Cornell Fort Tilden Historic Bulkhead Assessment | Bethany Bearmore, Brett Ozolin, and Patricia Sacks
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Statewide Strategic Planning for Oregon’s Port System | Scott Keillor, Dave Harlan, John Burns, Brooke Walton, David Koch, Todd Chase, and Nicole McDermott
The Reconstruction of Kodiak Pier 1 Dock Envision Sustainability Professional Facility to Modern Seismic Design Standards | Accreditation Workshop | Evan Sheesley and John Daley, Bob Harn, and Kimberly Nielsen Amanda Schweickert
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State Route 520 Floating Bridge and Landings Project BergerABAM served as colead designer for this design-build replacement project that included the longest floating bridge in the world. In 1963, Washington State Engineers—known as Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) today—pushed the limits of engineering with the development of the original State Route 520 (SR 520) Floating Bridge. At 7,580 feet long, the original bridge was a marvel of technological capability and served Washington State commuters for more than five decades. However, in the late 1990s, WSDOT embarked on what would be a two-decade quest to upgrade and improve the SR 520 corridor, which is now one of two direct east-west connections and a critical link for the entire region. Replacement of the SR 520 Floating Bridge was one of several projects required to upgrade the SR 520 corridor from Interstate 405 in Bellevue to Interstate 5 in Seattle. The floating bridge construction was awarded under two best-value design-build contracts. BergerABAM served as colead designer for the design-build replacement project, responsible for design quality assurance and for retaining wall and eastside site civil, pontoon interfaces, transition spans, Pier 36 (the westernmost pier), the east approach bridge, maintenance of traffic and roadway civil, and maintenance facility and maintenance pier designs. Following are brief descriptions of some of BergerABAM’s work. Floating Bridge Floating bridges are made possible by using Archimedes’ principle. The floating structure needs to be deep enough, with enough air inside its hollow cells, to be lighter than the weight of water it displaces. The new 7,710-foot-long floating bridge is constructed from 77 individual pontoons. The bridge is anchored to the bottom of the lake using fifty-eight 3-1/8–inch-diameter steel cables, which measure up to 800 feet in length, each tensioned to 60 tons and connecting to one of three types of anchors: fluke, shaft, and gravity. The anchor cables were designed to be the weakest link in the chain, failing first, leaving the anchor unharmed and able to be reused should this type of failure occur. The new bridge roadway
A bird’s-eye view of the new SR 520 Floating Bridge across Lake Washington.
height is elevated above the pontoon surface for the full length of the bridge. This is important, as it allows the bridge maintenance crews 24-hour, 7-day-a-week access below the roadway without having to close shoulders or lanes of traffic. It also ensures that the drivers no longer have to deal with water crashing over the barrier and onto the bridge during strong storm events.
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Transition Spans As its name implies, the transition span provides a transition from the land-based, fixed structures to the floating bridge. On the east end, it connects the east approach bridge with the floating bridge, and on the west end, it connects Pier 36—the first landbased fixed pier—with the floating bridge. Pier 36 supports the west transition span that (continued on page 4)
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connects the floating bridge to the west approach bridge structures. Separate transition spans carry westbound and eastbound traffic. Each transition span extends approximately 190 feet and consists of a series of 8-foot-deep steel plate girders. East Approach Bridge The east approach bridge comprises twin three-span, cast-in-place concrete structures that connect the at-grade roadway to the transition spans that, in-turn, bear on the floating bridge. The parabolic, arched-shape superstructure provides an elegant transition between land-based, fixed structures and the low-profile floating bridge structure. The overall length of the east approach bridge is 630 feet with spans consisting of 110, 200, and 320 feet. Maintenance Facility The bridge has a maintenance facility, which is a 12,000-square-foot, four-story building designed to support the maintenance needs of the bridge. The building’s primary role is to provide maintenance of the floating pontoons that act as the foundation for the
structure supporting the bridge roadway. The requirements for the project created a unique design because emergency response and pontoon maintenance are water-based operations, and the building needed to be immediately adjacent to the bridge with fast and unencumbered access to Lake Washington. This necessitated that the building be sited under the east approach bridge spans. The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Floating Bridge and Landings design-build project, led by Governor Jay Inslee, was held on 2 and 3 April 2016. Over 50,000 people attended the two-day ceremony and were allowed to walk the entire length of the 7,710-foot-long bridge—the longest floating bridge in the world. Recently, the project won a National Award of Merit in the Transportation (other than Aviation) Category from the Design-Build Institute of America. If you are a member of ASCE and wish to view the full article version published in the June 2016 issue of ASCE’s Civil Engineering Magazine, visit www.asce.org/cemagazine.
A New Outlook for National Wildlife Refuge Lush hilltops and plentiful waterfalls will be part of the brand new viewpoint. When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) decided to showcase the Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), they turned to BergerABAM for a feasibility study and concept design alternatives for new outlook facilities and a trail system. On the island of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands, the beautiful Hanalei NWR is a place of historical importance to the state and the home of five endangered species of water birds: the Hawaiian goose, duck, coot, moorhen, and stilt, as well as the Hawaiian hoary bat, which is the only terrestrial mammal native to Hawaii. Water from the Hanalei River irrigates patches of taro, an ancient root crop; the cultivation of which has persisted in the Hanalei Valley for generations. Established in 1972 under the Endangered Species Act, Hanalei is the oldest of Kauai’s three national wildlife refuges.
Although the Hanalei NWR is closed to the public to protect the five species of endangered water birds, the future facilities will incorporate new amenities and perimeter trails that will give visitors a bird’s-eye view of the splendor of the Hanalei A view of the Hanalei Valley. River Valley and its critical areas. The site of the proposed Hanalei Valley viewpoint sits on elevated land or “pali” overlooking the Hanalei River and the NWR. The project will construct viewpoint structures with vistas of the river and the surrounding mountain and ocean landscapes, an opensided interpretive “hale” (Hawaiian for building), restrooms, an information kiosk and educational signs, pedestrian pathways, and other amenities. The trail system will link to a proposed residential area and nearby shopping center. Plans also include parking for viewpoint visitors, in addition to a park-and-ride facility on approximately 5 acres south of the Kuhio Highway to
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support a planned north shore transit system. This transit system seeks to reduce traffic congestion on the popular north shore roads by providing transportation alternatives to personal vehicles and will link popular tourism destinations and parking facilities. To allow visitors a full, unobstructed view of the refuge, BergerABAM’s designers will use the natural shape of the land, carefully select appropriate landscape materials, and use landscape screening that matches the surroundings and native Hawaiian themes. BergerABAM, in collaboration with project stakeholders, will help select and refine a preferred concept before preparing rough order-of-magnitude cost estimates and phasing plans, and a feasibility report will be created that includes a summary of the design process, concepts, and cost estimates. This study will help secure development funding, solidify project support, and establish project development schedules. More information about the Hanalei NWR and the Hanalei Valley viewpoint project can be found on the USFWS website at https://www.fws.gov/refuge/hanalei.
The New César E. Chávez Campus Modern, innovative, functional, and award-winning. BergerABAM was selected to provide structural and civil engineering and site infrastructure design services for the new César E. Chávez campus of the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD). The three-story, steel-framed educational center is approximately 82,000 square feet, includes 22 classrooms, and is a welcome addition to Barrio Logan, one of the oldest communities in San Diego, California. Although its architecture conveys a modern look that offers a sense of revitalization to the community, aesthetic components were incorporated into the building’s design that stay true to all that Barrio Logan represents. Safety was also a high priority during design. The project included extensive site demolition, relocation of existing utility infrastructure, and off-site public improvements along the frontages of César E. Chávez The many accommodations at the campus help students attend Parkway and Main Street. Coordination of multiple agency reviews with classes with ease. the City of San Diego, the Division of the State Architect, and SDCCD was also part of the project. In sync with its urban setting, the area is highly congested and constantly bustling with activity, so pedestrian safety, paired with minimal disruptions to regular routines, was of utmost importance during construction of the campus and ultimately achieved. To coincide with its busy location, a well-lit, 78,000-square-foot, below-grade parking garage accommodates students who drive to and from classes and helps ensure their safety so they can attend classes with peace of mind. With sustainability as a major goal of the project, the building’s design exceeded state building efficiency standards by nearly 15 percent, and plumbing fixtures were designed to use 40 percent less water compared to a typical building. To keep the campus’ landscape in top form, highly efficient, sensible irrigation was installed that reduces the need for watering by nearly 50 percent compared to a typical building. Recently, the building was awarded a LEED Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Additionally, the César Chávez campus was awarded the 2016 Project of the Year Award from the American Public Works Association, San Diego and Imperial Counties Chapter. The project was recognized for its commitment to incorporating cultural aesthetics to the building’s design, sustainability, safety, and functionality, while staying within the project’s budget and meeting schedule requirements.
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