The US VA chose to construct an addition and renovate space in B1 (main campus building) to house a new primary care suite at the Central Western Massachusetts VA Medical Center. To accommodate hospital protocols, D&K’s commissioning team, the design consultant, and the contractor advanced the project using phased construction. For the mechanical and DDC…
A recently completed Hazard Mitigation Plan identified flooding as a high risk for the County. Since 1996, approximately 50 flooding events occurred in the County, including flooding from an ice jam in January 2018 and heavy rainfall in August 2018. As a JV team partner, D&K conducted a Supplemental Watershed Plan and Environmental Document (Plan-ED) for…
DuBois & King leads a five-year on-call contract to provide civil, geotechnical, structural, and MEP engineering; environmental documentation and permitting assistance; land survey; landscape architecture; and construction phase services. The contract serves Coast Guard Units located throughout the Coast Guard First District, including Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Eastern New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, and…
At a range of Salt Marsh Integrity Areas (SMIAs) along the East Coast, the US Fish and Wildlife Service studies storm and climate change impacts to coastal wetlands using elevation data as one metric. Following Hurricane Sandy, FWS identified 10 locations that required additional survey control benchmarks. D&K inventoried and visited each site, performed geodetic…
Rainbow Dam is a high-hazard, 2,000-ft-long by 42-ft-high earthen embankment flood-control dam bounded immediately upstream by a public school campus and downstream by a public park and large neighborhood. The auxiliary spillway did not have adequate hydraulic capacity during the freeboard hydrograph event, and the dam’s internal drainage system did not meet dam safety requirements….
The US Forest Service sought to expand their supervisor’s office and relocate from downtown Rutland to be closer to forest resources in the Green Mountain National Forest. Under successive contracts, D&K worked with the Forest Service, regulators, and other stakeholders to develop site design concepts, survey the area, identify natural resources, secure permitting, and provide…
Storm flows from Jewell Brook in Ludlow are controlled by flood control dams (numbered 1, 2, 3, and 5) located in a rural, hilly, largely forested area. Previous evaluations of this system indicated that Site 1 had the potential for overtopping and the spillway design hydrograph would exceed allowable stresses at three of the system’s…
The Allen Site Dam is a 1,520-ft-long by 21-ft-high earthen NRCS flood-control dam in a suburban context. The Town of Walpole wanted the dam maintained to provide flood mitigation for an increased level of downstream property development. D&K provided survey, inspection, breach analysis, and a range of other services to evaluate the current state of…
The Harrison Lake National Fish Hatchery required rehabilitation of several aging kettles that controlled water level in ponds, movement of water between ponds, and pond draining. D&K completed a topographic survey of the site to identify the location and as-built elevations of each kettle and valve replacement. Our structural engineers reviewed the original kettle design…