Transportation
The 11th Street Bridges project was the largest construction job in Washington, D.C.’s Department of Transportation (DDOT) history, and its first design-build procurement. The primary goals of the 11th Street project were to complete all freeway connections for regional traffic, to replace structurally-deficient bridges along the 11th Street corridor, and to provide a dedicated bridge for local traffic. The entire project promoted job growth and economic stimulus to the area as part of the greater Anacostia Waterfront Initiative.
The second winner was the Route 27/244 Interchange Modification project. The $32.5 million project replaced the existing Washington Boulevard concrete arch bridge over Columbia Pike in Arlington. The new, longer and wider bridge includes significant aesthetic features including decorative parapets and abutment walls, memorial pylons at the bridge corners, and hunched girders with a two-tone paint scheme to mimic the arch structure of the old bridge. In addition, a light well separates the westbound and eastbound lanes. The new bridge also accommodates the widening of Columbia Pike.
SR-520 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge and Landings Design-Build Project (Transportation category)
The project designed and built the world’s longest floating bridge, creating a safer, more reliable link between Seattle and the growing high-tech cities east of Lake Washington. With high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, full shoulders for disabled vehicles, a cross-lake bicycle and pedestrian path, and the largest, heaviest, and strongest bridge pontoons ever built, the new, 1.5-mi (2.5-km) floating highway improves the movement of people and freight in the Central Puget Sound region.
The third winner was the Veterans Memorial Bridge project. The bridge in Martin County, Florida, is a premier example of the design-build approach meeting challenging schedules and fostering innovation to produce a cost-effective project. Three organized legal challenges threatened to halt the project: a federal injunction, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) challenges, and permitting challenges. The team never gave up pursuit of project acceptance, permit approvals, design, and construction. As a result, a once controversial project is now considered a resounding success by all stakeholders.
Water/Wastewater category
The $922-million Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant is the largest desalination facility in the Western Hemisphere, with average production of 189.3 million L (50 million gal) of fresh, high-quality drinking water a day. Owned by Poseidon Water and completed by the design-build team of Kiewit Shea Desalination with Arcadis, IDE Technologies and Tetra Tech, it is a harbinger of a new era in which desalination is viewed as a viable solution to water challenges and a way to drought-proof public water supplies.
The second winner was the Clifton Water District Microfiltration/Ultrafiltration Water Treatment Plant project. The Clifton Water District selected the Carollo Design-Build Group to help add a new microfiltration/ultrafiltration system to the existing water treatment plant. Carollo used an ‘open platform’ design approach that gave the district more operational flexibility and reduced costs. A strong partnership helped the project go from 40 percent design to an operational plant in just 14 months, and the district’s operators have found operation exceeds the team’s performance guarantees.
The third winner was the Davis-Woodland Water Supply project. A regional project helping solve the long-term water needs of two California cities, the project highlights how design-build delivery achieved significant capital savings and cost certainty for the Woodland-Davis Clean Water Agency. CH2M worked with the agency to develop a true design-build partnership and balanced risk approach to achieve significant capital savings and cost certainty. The project, completed in 2016, provides a needed water resource to mitigate severe drought conditions.
The last winner in the category was the Wichita Equus Beds Aquifer Storage and Recovery Program, Design-Build Surface Water Treatment Plant (WTP) and River Intake project. The joint venture team of Burns & McDonnell, Alberici Constructors, and CAS Constructors (part of ABC Partners) designed and built the surface (WTP), river intake, and pretreatment facilities as part of the City of Wichita’s Aquifer Storage and Recovery Program. As the largest and most complex package of the program, ABC Partners managed design and construction interfaces with eight other programmatic projects to ultimately deliver a state-of-the-art treatment system that saved the city nearly $20 million.
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