Region: United States
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Reconnecting a City: Reimagining Rochester’s Inner Loop North
Reconnecting a City: Reimagining Rochester’s Inner Loop North For decades, the Inner Loop expressway carved a physical divide through Rochester’s urban core, a remnant of Eisenhower-era highway policy that disproportionately disrupted neighborhoods of color and severed the connections between them. Now, the City of Rochester is writing a new chapter, one rooted in equity, accessibility,…
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Castleton Bridge: Inspection, Rating & Rehabilitation
CSX Castleton Bridge: A Century-Old Hudson River Crossing Gets Its Next Chapter Stretching 5,255 feet across the Hudson River near Castleton, New York, CSX’s Bridge at Milepost QG 8.48 is the kind of structure that doesn’t have an easy replacement. Originally constructed in 1921, the bridge features 602-foot and 409-foot truss main spans, 52 approach…
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NYCDOT Queens Boulevard Vision Zero Survey
Building the Data Behind Safer Streets Queens Boulevard is one of New York City’s most complex and heavily traveled corridors, carrying vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians across multiple roadways and service lanes. As part of the City’s Vision Zero initiative, improving safety along this corridor starts with a clear understanding of how it functions today. Our…
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Union Tempe
Reshaping Downtown Tempe, Block by Block Not every project has to fight for community support. This one earned it. Rising on a 3.22-acre site bounded by University Drive, Forest Avenue, 7th Street, and Myrtle Avenue, this mixed-use development has become a defining addition to Downtown Tempe. Two luxury apartment towers at 20 and 12 stories…
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R2742.0101 Queen Creek Wash Trail Relocation – Contract 2022-064/TO 1 & TO 2
Queen Creek Wash: Keeping the Trail Open Residents of Queen Creek love their trail system. The challenge is that part of one popular segment shares its path with a regional flood outfall draining hundreds of square miles of watershed. Along Queen Creek Wash at its intersection with Ellsworth Road, FEMA has mapped the area as…
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University Village
Shaping a Connected Mixed-Use Community in San Antonio Located near the University of Texas at San Antonio, University Village is envisioned as a vibrant, master-planned development that brings together residential, commercial, and hospitality uses into a cohesive urban environment. Spanning 114 acres, the project is designed to create a walkable destination that supports how people…
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The Grove at New Windsor
Infrastructure for a New Community at Stewart International Airport Within the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Stewart International Airport, a 75-acre site is being transformed to support The Grove at New Windsor, a new residential community in a uniquely complex setting. Located along NY State Route 207 and near active airport operations,…
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Sunrise Franklin Lakes
Designing a New Standard of Care in Franklin Lakes Senior living demands more from a site than most developments. The design has to balance accessibility, comfort, and community with the regulatory complexity that comes with building in New Jersey’s most environmentally sensitive areas. Our firm was retained to provide survey, site design, and geotechnical and…
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Stevens Institute North Tennis Court
Game, Set, Rebuild: Elevating Tennis at Stevens Institute A competitive athletics program needs facilities that match its ambition. Stevens Institute of Technology undertook a project to expand and upgrade its existing tennis facility in Hoboken, enhancing both the courts and surrounding site infrastructure. The improvements enlarged the courts to regulation size by expanding south and…
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Rutgers University Busch Campus Student Housing
Rutgers Busch Campus: 500 New Beds, Five Acres, One Unified Vision Housing 500 students well takes more than building walls. It takes rethinking how an entire five-acre site functions. The Busch New Housing Project on Rutgers University’s Busch Campus involved the redevelopment of five acres to deliver three separate three-story dormitory buildings providing 500 beds,…
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Rowan College Student Success Center
Provided structural, civil/site, landscaping, and geotechnical engineering services for the complete design of the Student Success Center on the Rowan College at Burlington County campus. The building is a two-story, 75,000 SF structure that houses a student library, bookstore, cafeteria, and offices. The building has glass curtain walls around most of the facades and a 15′-0″ long cantilevered second…