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Every site has unique characteristics and infrastructure needs. That’s why our clients rely on BLA’s creative solutions. Whether commercial, residential, institutional or recreational, BLA routinely assists clients with the full range of planning, engineering, and environmental services needed to take a site from survey and right-of-way acquisition to construction oversight. Services include:
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This large-scale residential project includes a golf course and adjoining residential development. A series of lakes, integrated within the course and residential areas, was designed to meet stringent drainage requirements, while also serving as an amenity to the golf course. The golf course/residential village afforded many interesting challenges brought about by interplay of residential and recreational factors.
The project involved the design of all site improvements for a milling plant that produces 150 metric tons of corn masa flour a year for use in tortillas, chips, tamales, and snack products. The project involved a floodway study, hydraulics, storm retention, roads, utilities, rail spur, and other site related items.
This project involved the development of a 227-acre undeveloped site into an industrial park. The Vanderburgh Industrial Park was a cooperative venture between the Evansville Industrial Foundation and Vanderburgh County and was undertaken to respond to the local real estate market’s need for relatively large, fully-developed and ready-to-go industrial sites. The park was designed with “upscale” amenities including street lights, underground utilities, storm sewers, landscaping, and rolled curbs. BLA provided the preliminary engineering site report, boundary and topographical surveys for the entire site, a floodplain study including extensive hydraulic modeling of streams with total lengths of more than a mile, a detailed drainage report, design of interior roadway and infrastructure, and assistance with permitting.
This 10-field soccer complex was built for tournament play on 60 acres just north of the City of Evansville off of Green River Road. Nine of the ten fields are collegiate size with one field equipped with lighting and synthetic turf. Four of the other fields also feature lighting and irrigated, all-natural grass fields. Potential flooding problems were addressed by elevating the buildings and the walkways that served them, which also provided elevated viewing for spectators. These buildings include a main concession building with restrooms; a shelter for the lighted soccer field with synthetic turf; and a maintenance building. Landscaping for the complex was also designed by the BLA team including over 200 mature trees selected by the city arborist, and curvilinear walks landscaped with a variety of shrubbery and perennial plantings.
Initiated as a municipal drainage project, it was decided that a series of detention ponds could be integrated into a nearby golf course limits as water features. Construction of these lakes created an overabundance of earthwork, which was then integrated into the course as a series of mounds and new tee-boxes.
BLA worked in conjunction with an architectural team to provide civil design for this major $10.2 million redevelopment of municipal riverfront park. The plaza restoration was designed to accommodate riverfront events held each summer. The majority of the river’s edge was lined with sheet piling to allow hydroplane boats to launch and featured a staging platform behind the wall to allow the boom cranes a level and safe place to stage their operations. At the west end of the sheet pile wall was a boat ramp for small craft launching. In addition, there were two levels of tiered seating formed into the reconstruction to create an amphitheater for fans of the boat race and other events. Above the plaza was the riverside walkway and bikeway. This area was enhanced with the creation of three overlook areas perched above the amphitheater seating area providing the walkway users and bikers an opportunity to pause and enjoy the riverfront.
This project was a component of the Pigeon Creek Greenway Passage system of pedestrian-bicycle trails. Largely located on the levee system, this portion of the trail offered safe travel from the downtown area to Garvin Park, Lamasco Park, Golfmoor Ball Fields, as well as the newly developed Skate Park. In addition, this also allowed for connection of the Evansville waterfront area to the other parks in the city.
A new downtown, known as Wabash Landing, was constructed in a unique public-private partnership between the City of West Lafayette and a private developer. Several years ago the city purchased a vacant building and land from Sears Roebuck and Company. The city controlled development of the property to ensure that it would be consistent with goals established by the community.
Eagle Plaza is a 66-acre commercial development on the west side of Evansville that attracts national chains, as well as local retail stores, financial institutions, restaurants, and a movie theater.
Meeting the needs of today's students is driving school districts to improve and expand their offerings. In the case of the Castle Middle and High Schools, BLA provided site design for a variety of new facilities including an outdoor track and recreational facilities for the middle school. A media center to house 80 wireless laptops and thousands of new books was added to the high school, along with a natatorium housing an Olympic-size pool and more parking. Both locations posed drainage challenges to manage stormwater run-off.
This project involved the development of a new psychiatric hospital on a large portion of unimproved land within the existing 132-acre Evansville State Hospital grounds. The design of the new facility which included building sites, an internal roadway system, parking facilities, and recreational area, was challenging because of the required coordination with the three additional members of the design team as well as the owner who had very specific needs. The project also proved challenging in that it required the new facilities to function well with the adjacent existing facilities. Another challenge for this project was the funding constraints which required several modifications to the plans in order to meet the needs of the hospital while being financially feasible.
Orthopaedic Associates (OA) decided it was time for a new facility when their office building and parking lot exceeded capacity. A roughly five-acre site was available directly across the street from the Deaconess Gateway Medical Complex, a prime location for MOB. Before purchasing the lot, however, OA requested BLA perform a feasibility study to see if the lot was suitable. The study discovered an abandoned coal mine on the site, but ultimately determined it would meet OA’s needs. As a result, BLA continued with site design of the project. In the course of the study, it was determined that the roadway dividing the site from the hospital was about to be widened. Since another department at BLA was providing design and construction oversight for the roadway reconstruction, it provided a unique opportunity for the site designers to take advantage of the road already being torn up to construct the sewer extension and coordinate the other utilities. This not only saved the client money, but saved commuters the hassle of delays from a second construction project.
This project involved complete civil design, grading utilities, and retaining wall design associated with the design of a new Old National Bank headquarters located prominently on Evansville’s Downtown Waterfront.
In late 2011, Evansville will open its new multi-purpose arena in downtown. The new 290,000-sf facility is designed to seat up to 11,000 spectators and accommodate a wide variety of events. BLA is providing civil design for this major project located in the highly developed heart of the downtown area. Services included design for site demolition and relocation of significant utilities to vacate the streets and utilities. Maintenance of traffic during construction was also designed and permitted by BLA. The firm also is performing construction observation of the site portion of the project.