Specialty Facilities Projects

 

 




Hyperion waste water treatment facility

Solids Handling, Digester Expansion, Phase I

Location:                  Los Angeles Basin, California
Owner:                     City of Los Angeles
Prime Consultant:    Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall/ B&V
Construction Cost:   $400 million

KKCS is providing engineer's estimates for the entire group of digester facilities, including digester batteries, D1, D2, E, and surge tanks alternates 1 and 2.  Alternate 1 consists of  prestressed concrete digester vessels and Alternate 2 consists of steel digester vessels.  The digester expansion also includes the sludge pumping station, substation, tunnels, and site work.  The project consists of phases I and II, each approximately $200 million.  The estimate, based on 95% design documents, is broken down by phase, by facility; by unit cost, and by CSI codes. A Commodity Sort Report and a detailed analysis of the indirect costs was also included.

 

Secondary Facility

Owner:                     City of Los Angeles
Prime Consultant:    Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall/ B&V
Construction Cost:   $400 million

KKCS is providing preliminary and engineer's estimates for phases I and II, each approximately $200 million.  The secondary treatment facilities of the project include administrative offices, cryogenic facility, computer operations center, chlorination plant, service water facility, oxygen reactors, final clarifiers, laboratories, utility compressor facility, warehouses, and scattered site improvement work.  The estimate, based on 95% design documents, is broken down by phase, by facility; by labor, material, and construction equipment, and by CSI codes.  The scope of work also included a Commodity Sort Report and a detailed analysis of the indirect costs.

 

Technical Support Facility

Owner:                     City of Los Angeles
Prime Consultant:    Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall/ B&V
Construction Cost:   $70 million

KKCS provided the conceptual and detailed cost estimates, including cost estimating services for the TSF.  The TSF includes the administrative building and the parking structures. The estimate was broken down by CSI specification sections, and the cost input was based on unit costs.  KKCS also included a Commodity Sort Report.

Waste Activated Sludge (WAS) Thickening & Chemical Facility

Owner:                     City of Los Angeles
Prime Consultant:    Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall/ B&V
Construction Cost:   $83 million

KKCS prepared the conceptual and detailed cost estimates for phases I and II of the Waste Activated Sludge (WAS) facility for the Hyperion Full Secondary Project including chemical feed and storage and pumping stations.  The WAS component consists of a waste water collection system, process piping, pumping stations, and associated control building facilities.  Our scope of work included cost estimating services for the entire project in civil, structural, architectural, electrical, and mechanical disciplines.  The estimate was based on unit costs and was broken down by CSI specification sections and by various facilities, systems, and subsystems.

 

Tunnel/North Outfall Replacement Sewer

Owner:                     City of Los Angeles
Prime Consultant:    Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall/ B&V
Construction Cost:   $135 million

KKCS provided preliminary and engineers' estimates for  45,300 feet of tunnel and ancillary facilities such as access structures, construction shafts, syphons, shooflies, transition structures, and diversions.  This tunnel, part of an overall reconstruction project to improve the Los Angeles sewage collection services, runs from San Fernando Valley to the Hyperion Sewage Treatment Plant/Outfall.  The low bid for this project was $117 million. 

  

West Point Sewage Treatment Facility

Owner:                     Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle
Prime Consultant:    Lewis & Zimmerman Associates, Inc.
Construction Cost:   $535 million
Location:                  Seattle, Washington

KKCS provided cost estimating services (Independent Opinion of Probable Cost) for a new, 133-mgd sewage treatment plant, including an administration building and facilities for raw sewage pumping, screening, grit removal, and clarification.  The scope of work included civil, structural, architectural, electrical, instrumentation and control systems, HVAC, and plumbing systems.  The process included instrumentation, oxygen production, chlorine generation, and other related facilities work.  The cost estimate was based on 30% design documents.  The cost estimate was broken down by 30 odd facilities and by CSI specification sections.  Also included was a Commodity Sort Report and a complete analysis of indirect costs such as contractor overhead, contingency, and escalation.  The estimate was further broken down by labor, material, construction equipment, etc. 

Kal Krishnan, a Certified Value Specialist, served on the Value Engineering Team with Lewis &  Zimmerman Associates, Inc. of Seattle, WA, who were retained by Seattle Metro to conduct various value engineering studies, including constructibility, and criteria reviews on the West Point Sewage Treatment Plant.  The VE Team was engaged in a systematic review of each of the major components of the project to identify areas of potential savings.  The final VE Report recommendations envisaged a 15% savings from the original budget.

 

High Level Waste Tank Farm Replacement

Owner:                     Idaho National Engineering Laboratory/DOE/Westinghouse
                                 Idaho Nuclear Company, Inc.
Location:                  Idaho Falls, Idaho     
Prime:                       ICF Kaiser Engineers
Project Cost:            $270 Million 

Title I and Title II design services were provided for the High Level Waste Tank Farm Replacement project at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL).  The current storage facilities were evaluated for Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and INEL Design Basis Earthquake (DBE) requirements.  Five tanks were selected for replacement.  The new tank farm consisted of four 500,000 gallon waste storage tanks, a stainless steel-lined concrete vault for secondary containment, and an above grade enclosure over the top of the new vaults.  The vault design allowed for future expansion of four additional tanks.  Because of the radioactivity and corrosive nature of the waste, all operations and maintenance were remotely serviced.  Other systems and facilities design work included vessel off-gas system, vault ventilation system, waste transfer system, electrical and utility buildings, safety class systems and components as identified by the Preliminary Safety Analysis Report (PSAR).

 KKCS Responsibilities

Ø      Provided support and deliverables to meet criteria of DOE Order 2250.1C, Cost/Schedule Control System Criteria, and 1332.1A, Uniform Reporting System.

Ø      Provided planning and scheduling services for Title I and II design, including issuance of monthly project control schedules.

Ø      Provided scheduling, estimating assistance and construction planning on special studies.

Ø      Recommended and assisted in Cost Account Identification and Budget Allocation.  Provided staff assistance in Document Control meeting ASME NQA-1.

Ø      Assisted in piping and layout design with ICF KE mechanical design group.

 

Del Norte Prison

Owner:                       CA Department of Corrections
Location                     Del Norte County, CA
Prime:                        Don Todd Associates
Project Cost:             $37 Million

KKCS provided both conceptual and detailed engineering estimates for the entire facility.  The project consisted of construction of a 1,400,000 sq. ft facility.  The facility consisted of medical, administration building, administrative housing, industrial and power plant units.

La Verne Area Master Plan

Owner:                     MWD of Southern California
Location:                  La Verne, California
Prime:                      CHCG
Cost:                        $78 Million

The La Verne Area Master Plan incorporates the Frank E. Weymouth Filtration Plant and associated on-site facilities, Water Quality Laboratory, 50,000 sq. ft. of leased office space in the City of San Dimas, real property located near Arrow Highway in the City of La Verne, and the potential use of non-metropolitan owned properties located in the area of these sites.  The project consisted of, but was not limited to; programming and space planning services to establish future site requirements; establish architectural guidelines for future development sensitive to the existing architectural themes on Metropolitan sites; perform preliminary engineering services, some of which included, structural, mechanical, electrical, civil, traffic, etc.; evaluate and identify utility and infrastructure improvements; review operational water treatment process plans; and evaluate and identify access, parking, traffic and internal circulation patterns within the site.

KKCS provided cost estimating and scheduling services.  Cost estimates were provided for each Master Plan option which outlined costs of proposed improvements.  Estimates were structured per a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) designed to provide a uniform means to identify and manage components of the work.  KKCS also utilized a critical path methodology in developing a comprehensive implementation schedule for each master plan option.  Through thorough analysis and input from the entire CHCG Team, activity durations were determined along with critical interfaces necessary for timely completion.