The Neshobe River crosses through the heart of downtown Brandon, and the historic stone masonry bridge carrying Central Street/US 7 and numerous utilities had a history of substantially inadequate hydraulic capacity. As a demonstration of this issue, the town opened the front and rear doors of the adjacent town offices during a large storm event…
Two dams in a park owned by a community association were damaged by storm flows. The lower dam was breached and required design alternatives for its removal; the upper dam had to be evaluated for repairs. D&K reviewed the structural elements of both dams, the retaining wall, and the stream character upstream and downstream. Our…
Serving as a training facility for government and other natural resource organizations, the NCTC comprises offices and 25 classrooms on a 500-acre campus. The NCTC hosts groups of up to 300 people and offers courses provided by in-house and visiting natural resource professionals. To support the FWS mission, D&K has provided evaluation and design for…
To improve access to transit and housing, the One Taylor Street project included the design of a new four-story transit center. Sited on a highly constrained, urban brownfield site, the building supports public bus operations, a visitor’s center, traveler services, bike lockers, and apartments. D&K’s design included three bus parking bays, a 23-car parking area,…
Sweet Pond Dam is a 20-ft-high by 77-ft-long circa-1928 dam that impounds an 18-acre pond with a contributing drainage area of approximately 1 square mile. The dam sustained uncontrolled and excessive seepage through highly fractured and weathered bedrock and posed a barrier to AOP. D&K provided planning, evaluation, alternatives analysis, preliminary and final design, permitting…
The Great Streets BTV planning document, coauthored by D&K, represented a holistic effort to make Burlington’s downtown core more appealing for users of all modes of transportation and to enhance the area’s ability to engage its natural and cultural assets. D&K’s approach to the project incorporated the first segments of roadway designed and constructed to the Great Streets standards….
Near Mt. Mansfield, Vermont’s highest peak, a 1.5-mile section of VT 108 traverses a mountain pass at 2,165 ft and provides trailhead access for the Long Trail, local crags, and other day-use areas. Increased use of the area led to on-street and off-street informal parking that, in turn, led to environmental, drainage, and safety issues….
The City of Burlington wished to enhance bicycle connectivity along Colchester Avenue, which crosses the University of Vermont education and medical center campuses. The project area was heavily used by vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians, and the city wanted to alleviate congestion by constructing an off-street, 2,150-ft-long by 10-ft-wide concrete multiuse path to provide an active…
For the construction of the new US Department of Labor (DOL) New Hampshire Job Corps Center, DuBois & King’s survey crew tied into existing boundary corners and collected 1-ft contour intervals on an undeveloped 20-acre wooded parcel. Our surveyors developed the topographic survey into a 3D-model base plan to assist our design team in performing…