From Stantec: This is a longer version of a previous posting, a Stantec Press Release. It appears courtesy of Stantec, which sent it earlier to this blog this week.

News Release

For Immediate Release

 

Stantec Awarded LA Metro Construction Management Contract

LOS ANGELES, CA (May 20, 2009) TSX, NYSE: STN

 

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has selected Stantec Consulting Inc. (Stantec) to provide construction management support services for its major capital projects.  This seven-year, Indefinite Quantity/Indefinite Delivery (IDIQ) contract—inclusive of two, one-year options—will support key projects including the $215.6 million extension of the Canoga Transportation Corridor (CTC) Bus Rapid Transit system; the landmark, $1 billion I-405 Freeway Design-Build Sepulveda Pass Widening; and a new Metro Union Division Bus Maintenance and Operations Facility in Los Angeles.

 

“Stantec’s team will help Metro achieve its vision—leading the nation in safety, mobility, and customer satisfaction—and by accomplishing their specific strategic goals and projects to improve the quality of life here in Southern California,” said Art Hadnett, Stantec’s California Transportation Practice Leader and Project Manager for the assignment. “We will use the talent from across the Stantec organization and our team—which includes 10 specialty subconsultant firms, more than half disadvantaged businesses—to provide Metro with excellent professionals to form integrated construction management teams for these exciting projects.”

 

The contract involves full construction management services including project controls, resident engineering, safety, QA/QC, configuration management, contracts, environmental, claims avoidance, inspection, survey, and rail activation. In addition, an innovative Performance Assessment Review Team will act as an independent advisor to the I-405 Integrated Project Office and management team. As-needed services include partnering, contract compliance, value engineering, cultural resources, materials testing, and risk management.

 

The Canoga Transportation Corridor project will extend 4 miles north from the existing terminus at the Canoga Station and provide transit service into the northern San Fernando Valley, as well as extend the existing bicycle pedestrian facility. Completing the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) network in central Los Angeles, the I-405 project will provide 10 miles of additional HOV lane on the northbound I-405 through the heavily-traveled Sepulveda Pass between I-10 and SR 101. The proposed Metro Union Division Bus Maintenance and Operations Facility will consist of a three-story parking structure and a two-story bus maintenance/office building. Other major capital projects requiring construction management, as identified by Metro, may be included in this contract.

 

Stantec has worked with Metro previously, providing services on the Metro Eastside Light Rail Transit Project and the Advanced Transportation Management System.

 

Stantec provides professional consulting services in planning, engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, program, construction/project management, and project economics for infrastructure and facilities projects. We support public and private sector clients in a diverse range of markets in the infrastructure and facilities sector at every stage, from initial concept and financial feasibility to project completion and beyond. Our services are offered through over 10,000 employees operating out of more than 130 locations in North America—including southern California offices in Los Angeles, Irvine, Moreno Valley, Thousand Oaks, Redlands, Palm Desert, and San Diego. Stantec trades on the TSX and on the NYSE under the symbol STN.