Seattle, WA
Entech Consulting Group has provided staff support to Sound Transit for the Central Link Light Rail Civil Facilities contract over the last eight years. This project is federally funded and impacts federal highways and roadway corridors in the Pacific Northwest. Entech has lent its expertise in coordinating with the local Department of Transportation (WSDOT), King County, the Federal Transit Administration and other local agencies to develop environmental documentation to demonstrate compliance with applicable environmental regulations, secured permits for construction, conduct on-going environmental mitigation work and project administration to support pre-construction documentation for approval for the project to proceed to construction. Over the course of the project, we have support multiple task orders by providing project administration support staff to assist PSTC in the areas of document control, administrative and project support, project control, technical writing and word processing, contract and accounting management, RFP development, construction management and environmental compliance.
Solution:
Document Control Support
Entech Consulting Group is providing document control support to Puget Sound Transit Consultants (PSTC) for the Sound Transit Light Rail System Facilities Design contract for Sound Transit. Our staff assists with the set-up, operation and management of the Processing Document Control Center to service the PSTC design engineers on-site.
Project Administration Support
Entech Northwest, Inc is providing on-site administrative support to the Architectural and Engineering Managers at Sound Transit. Our administrative support personnel schedule meetings, take meeting minutes, compose, proof-read, edit and type a variety of correspondence, including writing letters for others signature, maintain and coordinate daily calendars, manage email and other support duties.
Construction Management Support
Entech Consulting Group is providing Construction Management Support services to Sound Transit’s Project Control section. The Construction Management Specialist is performing the following duties:
Coauthor, Link Resident Engineer’s Manual: writing, editing forms design, coordination, research, resolving review comments, book design, and quality control.
Editor and coauthor, Link Construction Safety Manual, Rev.0: editing, rewriting, research, forms design, and word processing.
Reviewer and editor, General Provisions for Construction Contracts: reviewed multiple versions of the GPs, assisting Construction Management, Contracts, and Legal. Currently researching how force account is treated at another agency and whether the FTA has been satisfied with their methods.
Reviewer and editor, RFP for CM Services: editing, coordination, and assuring correct interfaces with baseline documents.
Editor, assorted specifications: editing, coordination with other baseline documents, and word processing. Coauthor and editor, Link Project Control Procedures: research, organization, writing, formatting, and editing of Project Control Procedures to support the Link Project Management Plan.
Noise construction monitoring
Responsible for directing the noise construction monitoring to obtain noise variance permits to permit night-time construction along the 20-mile Light Rail line. Ms. Jones developed a workplan and negotiated permit conditions. A baseline noise level was developed from monitoring data prior to construction. On-going noise monitoring was conducted during construction to verify compliance.
Benefits:
- Extension of staff to Augment Sound Transit Staff
- Staff placement to meet owner requirements
- Project Administration and technical expertise for mega program management project
- Ability to follow federal procedures and specific project owner criteria