experience

Relevant Project Experience

Project:	*Cal Monofill Project*
Project Location:	*Imperial Valley, CA*
Client:	*Veizades & Associates/Cal-Energy*
UCM Role:	*Construction Management and Inspection Services*
	*UCM provided construction management and inspection services for constructing a Class 2 landfill for geothermal waste. The site is located in Imperial Valley in California.*

Project:	*Upper Northwest Interceptor*
Project Location:	*Sacramento, CA*
Client:	*Montgomery Watson Harza*
UCM Role:	*Design Consultant*
	UCM provided design services for a 10,732 linear feet of 66-inch diameter tunnel, 2,938 linear feet of 84-inch diameter tunnel and 10,400 linear feet of 120-inch diameter tunnel. UCM prepared drawings, excavation volumes, schedule, estimate for two tunneling methods such as jack and bore versus EPB tunneling.

Project:	*Mission Valley East Light Rail Extension*
Project Location:	*San Diego, CA*
Client:	*MTDB*
UCM Role:	*Consultant*
	UCM provided constructability review services for the Mission Valley East LRT project in San Diego. This $440M project involves construction of a 5.8 mile extension of San Diego's light rail transit system. The extension includes one mile of underground LRT. Key features of the underground work are: 4000 feet of deep cut-and-cover construction adjacent to critical infrastructure; an underground station at San Diego State University; and a 1000-foot long, 40-foot wide by 40-foot tall tunnel section constructed using New Austrian Tunneling Method (NATM). UCM also provided office engineering and inspection on this project. It also includes the Assistant Resident Engineer for the NATM Tunnel.

Project:	*Burlingame Park Subdivision Sewer Rehabilitation Project*
Project Location:	*Burlingame, California*
Client:	*City of Burlingame*
UCM Role:	*Designer/Construction Management/Public Relations*
	UCM provided design, construction management and public relations services for replacement of 22,000 linear feet of existing sewer lines in a mature part of the City of Burlingame. Work includes taking field measurements and incorporating design and technical information into the plans and specifications. The project utilized trenchless methods such as pipebursting, cured in place pipe and horizontal boring. Conventional method such as open trenching was also used. After the design phase, UCM provided construction management and community relations including developing and maintaining a project website for document control and public information.

Project:	*Edenvale Sanitary Sewer Supplement Phase 5*
Project Location:	*San Jose, California*
Client:	*HMH Engineers*
UCM Role:	*Tunnel Design Support*
	UCM provided design services for a 56-inch diameter RCP sanitary sewer utilizing microtunneling and jack and bore operations. Some portion of the alignment exhibit high groundwater levels which prompted UCM to use microtunneling in installing the RCP.

Project:	*Marsten Pump Station Upgrade and Outfall Pipeline Project - Phase 1*
Project Location:	*Burlingame, California*
Client:	*City of Burlingame*
UCM Role:	*Construction Management*
	UCM provided construction management and inspection services for constructing an 80-inch diameter tunnel and installing a 66-inch inside diameter reinforced concrete pipe utilizing microtunneling. The Contractor an AKkerman 660 TBM which was used to excavate hard clay alluvium and construction debris underneath Highway 101 in Burlingame, California.

Project:	*Balboa/Carmelita/Drake/Capuchino Easement Sewer Rehabilitation Project*
Project Location:	*Burlingame, California*
Client:	*City of Burlingame*
UCM Role:	*Designer/Construction Management/Public Relations*
	UCM provided design, construction management and public relations services for the City of Burlingame for replacement of the existing sewer along the easements of these four locations. Access is limited and sometimes difficult since most of the sewer is behind properties. The project utilized trenchless methods such as pipebursting, cured in place pipe and horizontal boring. Conventional method such as open trenching was also used. After the design phase, UCM provided construction management and community relations including developing and maintaining a project website for document control and public information.

Project:	*Mission and Islais Creek Underborings,3rd Street LRT*
Project Location:	*San Francisco, California*
Client:	*San Francisco MUNI*
UCM Role:	*Consultant*
	UCM designed five crossings of Mission and Islais Creeks in San Francisco in support of the 3rd Street Light Rail Project, which will serve the area now under development as Mission Bay. The two borings at Mission Creek are 580' long, 70 feet deep multiple conduit pulls into a 36" borehole. The path for the two bores is within a 30' right-of-way with several existing and planned interferences (e.g., piles, fill debris). The three borings at Islais are 850' long, 70' deep multiple conduits, each within a 36" carrier casing (54" borehole).

Project:	*Dougherty Valley Tunnel and Trunk Sewer*
Project Location:	*San Ramon, California*
Client:	*Central Contra Costa Sanitary District*
UCM Role:	*Construction Management/Consultant*
	UCM is providing construction management services for the construction of a 10-foot diameter, 4,600 long sewer tunnel that is being excavated with a wheel type tunnel boring machine that is planned for operation in open mode but can be switched to EPB if required.

Project:	*Burlingame Shoreland Easement Sewer Rehabilitation*
Project Location:	*Burlingame, California*
Construction Cost:	*$400,000*
Client:	*City of Burlingame*
UCM Role:	*Consultant*
	*UCM designed and supervised the sewer replacement for a developed portion of Burlingame utilizing pipe bursting, lateral replacement and new manhole construction.*

Project:	*Wohler Collector No.6 Horizontal Drilling and Pilot Study*
Project Location:	*Sonoma County, CA*
Client:	*Sonoma County Water Agency*
UCM Role:	*Consultant/Contractor*
	UCM provided horizontal drilling and lateral installation pilot study for the Sonoma County Water Agency. This project involves installation of 18" diameter perforated casings using horizontal drilling. The purpose of the Pilot Study is to evaluate whether such construction methods could enhance the water production of Collector No.6 to more closely achieve the desired pumping rate of approximately 20 million gallons of water per day.

Project:	*Thomas Shaft Chlorination Facility*
Project Location:	*Livermoore, California*
Client:	*San Francisco Public Utilities Commission*
UCM Role:	*Consultant/Resident Engineer/Office Engineering*
	UCM provided on-site management during construction of this chlorination facility. The facility structure is C.I.P. concrete walls with composite steel concrete roofing system and will house sodium hypo-chloride, utility water and waste liquid storage tanks. The facility also includes two sampling and feed stations, transfer and chemical feed pump rooms, instrumentation control and electrical room, and an emergency backup generator system. Process instrumentation and control work included installation of programmable logic controllers, communications and workstations for local, remote and automated operation at the facilities. The facility will be used to sample and treat the water of Hetch Hetchy's Coast Range Tunnel-San Francisco's main water supply treatment.

Project:	*Buenos Aires Project*
Project Location:	*Buenos Aires, Argentina*
Client:	*Aguas Argentinas*
UCM Role:	*Consultant*
	*UCM provided design support for 15 kilometers of soft ground sewer tunnels, including a river outfall tunnel. UCM also provided expert claims support on a 14 kilometer water tunnel.*

Project:	*Bradshaw Interceptor*
Project Location:	*Sacramento, California*
Project Cost:	*$12 million*
Client:	*Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District*
UCM Role:	*Construction Manager*
	UCM provided construction management services for the Bradshaw Sections 1 and 2 project which involved installation of 120-inch reinforced concrete pipe beneath wetlands, Union Pacific Rail Road tracks, and a major thoroughfare. Installation of the pipe was completed by two pipejacking operations. One of 650 foot length was completed with a 143-inch diameter Earth Pressure Balance TBM which allowed tunneling through alluvial deposits which had a potential of encountering a high ground water table. No-bell pipe with steel straps was jacked as the TBM advanced. The second pipe jack was completed through dense silty sands with an open faced digger shield.

Project:	*Folsom East Interceptor*
Project Location:	*Sacramento, California*
Construction Cost:	*$6.8 million*
Client:	*Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District*
UCM Role:	*Construction Manager*

Project:	*Inland Feeder Project*
Project Location:	*San Bernardino, California*
Construction Cost:	*$1.2 billion*
Client:	*Metropolitan Water District of Southern California*
UCM Role:	*Construction Manager*

Project:	*Hollywood Water Quality Improvement Project*
Project Location:	*Hollywood, California*
Construction Cost:	*$100 million*
Client:	*Los Angeles Department of Water and Power*
UCM Role:	*Design Peer Review and Construction Management*

Project:	*Illinois Street Sewer Improvement Project*
Project Location:	*San Francisco, California*
Construction Cost:	*$2.8 million*
Client:	*City of San Francisco*
UCM Role:	*Construction Manager*
	Located in San Francisco, this project consists of constructing 200-feet of 60 and 66 inch reinforced concrete pipe, various connection structures and manholes. The reinforced concrete will be installed using both cut and cover and pipe jacking methods. 350 feet will be installed below active rail lines used by Union Pacific.

Project:	*Priest Lake Tunnel*
Project Location:	*Hetch Hetchy Water Supply*
Construction Cost:	*$20 million*
Client:	*Public Utilities Commission, City of San Francisco*
UCM Role:	*Design Support and Construction Management*

Project:	*West Presidio Sewer Project*
Project Location:	*The Presidio, San Francisco*
Construction Cost:	*$500,000*
Client:	*City of San Francisco, The National Park Service*
UCM Role:	*Construction Manager*
	This connects a section of sanitary sewer on the Presidio to the City of San Francisco sewer system and eliminates a pumping station. The job includes cut and cover installation of 36 inch and 90 inch diameter RCP's and a connection structure with a flap gate to the existing Richmond Transport system.

Project:	*Pleasant Hill Relief Interceptor Project*
Project Location:	*Contra Costa County, California*
Construction Cost:	*$1 million*
Client:	*Central Contra Costa County Sanitary District*
UCM Role:	*Peer Review of Construction Management*
	This micro tunnel project was driven under Interstate 680 to connect sewers for the clean water program in Contra Costa County. Microtunneling was selected as a construction method to avoid disruption of traffic on this heavily traveled highway.

Project:	*Richmond Transport Facilities*
Project Location:	*San Francisco, California*
Construction Cost:	*$33 million*
Client:	*City of San Francisco, Department of Public Works*
UCM Role:	*Construction Manager*

Project:	*Hollywood Hills Tunnel*
Project Location:	*Hollywood, California*
Construction Cost:	*$150 million*
Client:	*Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority*
UCM Role:	*Evaluation of Groundwater Resource Drawdown*
	UCM is evaluating the groundwater drawdown as a result of construction of the Hollywood Hills subway tunnel, and is estimating the rate of recharge of the ground water system. This evaluation will be used to determine any mitigatin necessary to restore the groundwater system.

Project:	*Seacliff Pump Station No. 2 Renovation*
Project Location:	*Seacliff District San Francisco, California*
Construction Cost:	*$2 million*
Client:	*City of San Francisco, Department of Public Works*
UCM Role:	*Construction Manager*
	The pump station rehabilitation project replaced the main centrifugal pumps and associated electrical and mechanical equipment and included a new connection structure and horizontal augured sewers in dune sand.

Project:	*Jordan Winery Wine Cave*
Project Location:	*Santa Rosa, California*
Construction Cost:	*$150,000*
Client:	*Glomb Environmental & Geotechnical Consultants*
UCM Role:	*Tunnel Design*

Project:	*Islais Creek Facilities, Contract D*
Project Location:	*San Francisco, California*
Construction Cost:	*$15 million*
Client:	*City of San Francisco, Department of Public Works*
UCM Role:	*Construction Manager*

Project:	*Ranney Well Alternatives Feasibility Study*
Project Location:	*Sonoma County, California*
Client:	*Sonoma County Water Agency*
UCM Role:	*UCM is developing preliminary designs for several alternatives to conventional Ranney wells. The configurations under evaluation utilize tunneling, microtunneling and horizontal drilling.*
	*Consultant*

Project:	*Specialty Drilling Services*
Project Location:	*Sonoma County, California*
Construction Cost:	*$1.5 million*
Client:	*Sonoma County Water Agency*
UCM Role:	*Consultant/Contractor*
	*UCM has developed a system for horizontal drilling to expand a water supply system. Drilling is anticipated for Fall of 2000.*

Project:	*Preliminary Engineering Study*
Project Location:	*Efate, Vanuatu*
Client:	*Veizades and Associates*
UCM Role:	*Consultant*
	UCM is contributing an evaluation of surface geologic conditions and associated civil construction cost to preliminary engineering study of a proposed 2.5 MWe development on the island of Efate, Vanuatu, located in the South Pacific.