The International Development Collaborative team has global experience with vertical structures, environmental, transportation, water/sanitation, energy, and telecommunications projects. We provide project services from inception through close-out. Our project experience demonstrates how we have used “cutting edge” planning, design, and construction management tools and expertise to overcome barriers that limit the progress of development.
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA) EAST CAMPUS BUILDING 2
PROJECT LOCATION
Fort Meade, MD, USA
CLIENT
USACE Baltimore
COST
$762M
CONTRACTING TYPE
IDIQ
DURATION
2018 - 2020
FIRMS INVOLVED
M&J Engineering, PC
The Urban Collaborative, LLC
Rhino Fire Protection Engineering, LLC
The purpose of the project was to provide construction management and construction inspection services 122 multi-story operations centers along with supporting infrastructure. The projects consist of core and shell structures and foundations, elevator conveyance systems, electrical/mechanical service and distribution components/systems, fire protection alarm/suppression, information technology infrastructure, communications, and security systems support infrastructure. Site infrastructure will include a new vehicle access control point, primary electrical service to the sites, stormwater management, water, sewer, chilled water distribution, security, and telecommunications pathways. M&J is also providing technical and management analyses of construction contract claims involving disputes on contract interpretations, contract modification costs, government-caused delays, differing site conditions, construction suspension and acceleration, and other impact and labor inefficiency claims, as well as supporting government personnel on matters related to contract modifications, changes, and contractor claims. All facilities will be constructed to a minimum LEED Silver certifiable level. This project is part of an IDIQ on which follow-on tasks were executed for Building 3, 4, and 5.
INSTALLATION PLANNING SUPPORT
PROJECT LOCATION
Marine Corps Sites in Japan, Guam, and Hawaii
CLIENT
USACE Southwest Division Regional Planning and Environmental Center
COST
$4.1M
CONTRACTING TYPE
IDIQ
DURATION
2016-2019
FIRMS INVOLVED
The Urban Collaborative, LLC
GEO Consulting Corporation
The project purpose was to support the overall Real Property Master Plan (RPMP) and provide multi-disciplinary planning, architecture, energy, environmental, and transportation services at Marine Corps installations in support of the USACE Pacific Ocean Division (POD) and the Southwest Division Regional Planning and Environmental Center. This project is relevant by demonstrating that the UC and GEO have the ability to produce vision plans, installation development plans, area development plan, renewable energy plans, sustainable/resilient plans, architectural studies/drawings, programming documents, energy audits/plans, Net Zero plans and tools, real property inventories, utilities plans, transportation plans, natural resources management, cultural resources management, historic resources management, water resources management, and federal policy compliance. This project was the second task order in an IDIQ led by GEO (prime) and the UC as a major subcontractor. Follow on tasks included UC-led area development plans, area development execution plans, sustainability plans, programming documents, cost estimating, scheduling, and architectural drawings for nine facilities (1.Historic Building Renovation- 27k SF, $16.5M, 2. Headquarters Renovation - 77k SF, $25M, 3. Single Family Home - 5.8k SF, $3.8M, 4. Law Enforcement Center Renovation & Addition - 34k SF, $13.8M, 5. Kintai Inn Addition - 130k SF, $91M, 6. Fire Station - 9.4k SF, $10.2M, 7. Club Iwakuni Renovation - 77k SF, $77M, 8. Misumi Waterfront Housing (3 plans) 156k SF, $86M; 9. Torii Community Center - 65k SF, $22.7M).
UNIVERSITÉ OMAR BONGO
PROJECT LOCATION
Libréville, Gabon
CLIENT
Gabon-Oregon Center
COST
$150K
CONTRACTING TYPE
IDIQ
DURATION
2013-2014
FIRMS INVOLVED
The Urban Collaborative, LLC
The project purpose was to provide architecture, urban/master planning, energy, environmental, and transportation services to the Université Omar Bongo, Gabon's 106-acre national university centrally located in the heart of rapidly urbanizing Libréville. This project is relevant by demonstrating that the UC has the technical capabilities to produce comprehensive master plans, regulating plans, sustainability/resilience plans, transportation studies, energy/renewable energy studies, execution plans, a socio-political analysis, 9 architectural designs (including 4 academic facilities, 2 residential facilities, 2 mixed use civic buildings, and one light industrial facility), building energy models, building water studies, and US-building code compliance reviews. This was part of a larger IDIQ that engaged many of our senior staff in the subsequent 6 tasks. The tasks included highly specialized and technical projects such as a nematode research project for biological resilience, a project comparing carbon sequestration versus methane release in mangroves in relation to national climate change goals, a partnership with the National School of Forestry to study the economic repercussions of forest insects on livelihood and health, a microbial biodiversity in tropical rainforests project, a mobile phone application health network for rural women, and a self-sufficient English language program that is still operating today. All projects were completed in collaboration with Gabonese institutions of higher education.
ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE/INTERNET UPGRADE
PROJECT LOCATION
Multiple Sites, Afghanistan
CLIENT
Classified
COST
$4.1M
CONTRACTING TYPE
Firm Fixed Price
DURATION
2019-Ongoing (exp. 2021)
FIRMS INVOLVED
Relyant Global, LLC
The project purpose was to provide telecommunications, environmental, quality assurance/quality control, and construction management services to a classified client for the establishment and upgrade of electrical and internet utility infrastructure to rural sites in Afghanistan. This critical project brings connectivity to remote regions that otherwise would not have the capability to communicate due to the remote areas. RELYANT has worked on two separate projects on contract - ISP/OSP Remediation and BAF Switch including Non-classified Internet Protocol (IP) Router Network (NIPERNet) l Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) and Combined Regional Information Exchange South West Asia (CX-SWA), OSP/ISP/TR Remediation, Manhole (MH) ,Hand-hole (HH), cable vaults, and pathway remediation, power and HVAC remediation, and refreshment of ~500 switches across all three communications enclaves and 40 routers.
REPLACEMENT OF 3 RURAL BRIDGES ON ROUTE 209
PROJECT LOCATION
Ulster County, NY, USA
CLIENT
NYSDOT Region 8
COST
$11.8M
CONTRACTING TYPE
Cost-Plus Fixed Fee
DURATION
2018
FIRMS INVOLVED
M&J Engineering, PC
The project purpose was to provide construction inspection services for a construction contract which includes the partial substructure replacement of piers, pedestals, and abutments and complete superstructure replacement of three bridges on Route 209 over Esopus Creek in Ulster County. This contract required senior level engineer technicians and inspectors certified by the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET). With formal training in Work Zone Traffic Control (WZTC), MJ engineers produced plans to allow safe and effective movement of public traffic - including vehicles and pedestrians - through and around the work zone, while providing and equally safe and efficient work space for highway workers.
The existing county road and bridge system in the US was basically designed and developed during the 1930/40s to accommodate the small motor vehicles of that era. Today, the traffic moving on this system is substantially larger, wider, and heavier than the traffic or which the system was designed. The condition of the county road and bridge system is deteriorating rapidly in all section of the US with the most serious problems in the Northeast. MJ's technical experience with a range of transportation infrastructure upgrades is transferable to projects worldwide, especially in rural areas.
Inadequately maintained roads and bridges cause needless delays and detours, greatly impacting public safety and commerce. Poverty rates are historically higher in rural, more isolated areas, with an estimated 78 percent of the world’s poor living in the countryside (World Bank, 2014). Many of these places lack roads and footbridges, the latter of which is especially critical in servicing marginalized communities. A single pedestrian footbridge empowers a whole community; previously impassable rivers are transformed, providing villagers access to more opportunities.
MODERNIZATION OF DISTRIBUTARY CANALS
PROJECT LOCATION
Sindh, Pakistan
CLIENT
World Bank
COST
$138M
CONTRACTING TYPE
IDIQ
DURATION
2018-Ongoing
FIRMS INVOLVED
Cal Poly Irrigation Training & Research Center
This project purpose was to provide water/sanitation technical assistance, irrigation technical assistance, design services, quality assurance/quality control, and training for the modernization of the distributary and minor canal systems in three AWB command areas, following the concept of irrigation scheduling and upstream control. The objective was to set up the baseline of the current efficiency & effectiveness of the Nara Irrigation scheme, tentatively selected as a representative of the irrigation schemes in Sindh Province, identify the key technical constraints of the current scheme, & develop options for future investments to increase reliability, control, & efficiency of the water management.
The project illustrates the ability of ITRC to develop evaluation and assessment reports for physical, organizational and technical system inventories, modernization plans, hydraulic structure design, remote monitoring system design, hydraulic flow measurement calibration methods, technical capacity through on-farm training, and new water resources policy. Modernization plans and recommendations include conducting field visits with all levels of stakeholders (rural share croppers to state and federal water resource agency staff), collecting qualitative and quantitative data on existing conditions and constraints of cropping patterns and irrigation infrastructure, developing conceptual infrastructure designs, recommendations for technical engineering methods, and hardware specifications for remote monitoring and/or automation projects. This practicum-style project included on-site training with 15 local professionals.
Many irrigation schemes continue to operate with failing control and measurement structures under policies and design philosophies that are well over 100 years old. Improvement projects mistakenly invest capital in superficial construction typically resulting in a restoration of irrigation systems but not an improvement in water efficiency and crop coverage. With a deep understanding of modern irrigation needs balanced with a sustainable perspective, the project team engaged stakeholders through field missions and round-tables for data collection and condition assessments. Then the ITRC developed technical reports/plans, conducted targeted training, and technical seminars to several layers of stakeholders (small holder farmers, water user associations, state and federal agencies). The final reports/plans will provide feasible recommendations to increase water use efficiency, irrigation delivery equity, reliability, and flexibility.
MULTIPLE 345KV WIND FARMS
PROJECT LOCATION
Rio Grande Valley, TX, USA
CLIENT
RWE Renewables Americas, LLC
COST
$1.3M
CONTRACTING TYPE
Electrical Engineering Services Agreement
DURATION
2017-Ongoing (thru 2020)
FIRMS INVOLVED
Gannet Fleming, Inc.
The project purpose was to provide energy services through engineering design for 6 windfarms including electrical design of the substation, collector system, and transmission line as well as studies, arc flash labels and on-site startup support. At each site, the wind turbine generators were connected to a single project substation through eight below grade collector circuits operating at a nominal 34.5kV via collection feeder breakers. The collection circuits were stepped up to 345kV through multiple main power transformers at the project substation. Each of the wind farm substations was connected to the POI through a 345kV transmission line.
ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT REDUCTION
PROJECT LOCATION
Baghram Airfield, Kandahar, and FOB Fenty, Afghanistan
CLIENT
USACE Huntsville
COST
$39.9M
CONTRACTING TYPE
Firm Fixed Price with Cost-Reimbursable CLINs
DURATION
2017-2020
FIRMS INVOLVED
Relyant Global, LLC
The purpose of this project was to provide mine action environmental services, remove explosive remnants of war, and deliver environmental protection services. The project team managed over 4,000 tons of materials that were identified, characterized, reduced, and recycled or disposed of at the project sites. The team has safely located, identified, recovered, evaluated, managed and made final disposition of Munitions and Explosives of Concern (MEC), Munitions Constituents (MC), Chemical Warfare Materiel, Biological Waste, Depleted Uranium and Biological Warfare Materiel and Hazardous, Toxic and Radiological Waste (HTRW); implement and conduct Environmental Compliance measures; provide other munitions-related support services; and reduce munitions stockpiles. Although the field team accumulated 280,944 exposure hours, they had zero safety-related incidents. The safety technicians conduct over 40 safety inspections each week to ensure that the work is being conducted in accordance with the APP, SOPs, and other safety protocol. These inspections evaluated work hazards and associated hazard controls for appropriateness of achieving an overall safe work environment. This task order was part of the International Remediation Environmental Services MATOC, which is on-going.