Planning

Alaska North Slope Borough is planning to build a new Department of Wildlife Management facility in Barrow, at a site to be determined. There are two alternatives. The first is constructing a new 6,000-sq-ft facility to meet the administrative needs of the staff while converting the current 4,000 sq ft of administrative offices into newly remodeled sleeping rooms for visiting scientists and seasonal field workers. This alternative provides less overall square footage than the total department needs, but it would have a lower cost. It also leaves new lab space, vehicle and equipment storage, and shops to be designed, funded and constructed at a later time. The second alternative entails constructing a new, 16,000-sq-ft facility that fully captures the entire department program for administrative work, sleeping quarters, and laboratory and storage space. This option would cost more and require additional funding from other sources. North Slope Borough, Attn: Steve Decker, Project Administrator, 1689 Okpik St., Barrow, 99723. DR#13-00695823.

Delaware Beebe Medical Center is planning an expansion of its main campus in Lewes. The project entails constructing a five-story addition containing a new labor and delivery wing and the creation of a dedicated heart, stroke and vascular center. The addition is being designed by Wilmot Sanz Architects, and Whiting Turner has been selected as the construction manager. The project is valued between $50 million and $75 million. Beebe Medical Center, 424 Savannah Rd., Lewes, 19958. DR#17-00682818.

Kentucky Owensboro Municipal Utilities is planning to expand the William Calvin Water Treatment Plant in Owensboro to enable it to treat an additional 20 million gallons per day. The project involves construction of parallel aeration facilities for iron removal from groundwater; two primary/secondary parallel lime-softening clarification facilities (four basins); an integral sludge-pumping station for new lime-softening clarifiers; eight new conventional gravity filters, four of which will be in a new filter building; three new filtered-water transfer pumps and three new filtered-water high service pumps (all variable-frequency drive-operated); a 3-million-gallon pre-stressed above-ground concrete clearwell; parallel lime-feed building, troughs and equipment; associated mechanical, electrical and instrumentation improvements; and human-machine interface software improvements. It also involves improvements to up to 15,000 ft of 30- or 36-in-dia water main and up to 10,000 ft of residual solids main. The project is valued at $40 million. Owensboro Municipal Utilities, Attn: Terry Naulty, General Manager, 2070 Tamarack Rd., Owensboro, 42302. DR#15-00678884.

Minnesota Ramsey County is planning to reconstruct the Kellogg Boulevard-Third Street Bridge, a half-mile-long, four-lane viaduct connecting Dayton’s Bluff to downtown St. Paul. City engineers determined in 2014 that the bridge’s cantilever wings holding the outer lanes of the bridge were structurally deficient and functionally obsolete. The project is valued between $25 million and $50 million. Ramsey County, Purchasing Dept., 15 Kellogg Blvd., West St. Paul, 55102. DR#15-00627228.

Bids, Contracts, Proposals

Arkansas The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Dept. has awarded a $58.3-million contract to Apac-Tennessee, Inc., for a resurfacing project on Interstate 555 in Poinsett County. The project involves milling and inlaying 12.6 miles of I-555. The work includes removal and disposal of guardrail; earthwork; trenching; shoulder preparation; cold milling; placing an aggregate base course, asphalt concrete hot mix binder, surface courses, ultrathin bonded wearing course, polymer overlay and fog seal; and bridge deck repair on four bridge structures. Apac-Tennessee, Inc., P.O. Box 13427, Memphis, Tenn., 38113. DR#17-00814350.

Nevada Q & D Construction has started building Poulakidas Elementary School in Reno for the Washoe County School District. The two-story, 82,427-sq-ft building is expected to be completed by July 2019. The project is valued between $25 million and $50 million. Q & D Construction, 1050 South 21st St., Sparks, 89431. DR#18-00605213.

Bid, Proposal Dates

Iowa 7/11 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking bidders to carry out improvements to Mississippi River Basin Lock and Dam #14. The project includes repairs to a dock wall at the Mississippi River Project Office in Pleasant Valley, and includes demolition, excavation and backfill, sheet pile wall, tremie concrete placement with caps and armor, grading, and site restoration. The project is valued at $10 million. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Attn: Carissa McKinley, 1450 Rock Island Drive, Rock Island, 61204. DR#18-00616960.

New York 7/18 The City of Buffalo Dept. of Public Works is seeking statements of qualifications for professional services from firms interested in managing the city water system. The services include, but are not limited to, the management of the operation, maintenance, water supply, treatment, transmission, distribution and billing services. The estimated annual value of the indefinite quantity contract is approximately $6 million, for up to 10 years. City of Buffalo Dept. of Public Works, Attn: Peter Merlo, City Engineer, 65 Niagara Square, Room 502, City Hall, Buffalo, 14202. DR#18-00673686.

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