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SIL~ ~CHirECTS t"f: If City of Sunny Isles Beach RFQ No. 10-04-02 Professional Architectural Services Park Design Silva Architects has extensive Parks Design experience. Most recently, we completed the fourth baseball field and additional dugouts at Kendall Indian Hammocks Park (a Miami-Dade County Parks and Recreation Department Park). The scope of this work, completed in 2009, was approximately $1 million. Our landscape architecture consultants, Curtis + Rogers Design Studio, the AlA's 2009 Landscape Architecture Firm of the Year, have completed a multitude of parks design and planning projects for Miami-Dade County, Broward County, Palm Beach County, City of Miami, and numerous other counties. Fraga Engineers, our MEP consultants, are also the Engineer of Record for the City of Miami's new Museum Park project, slated to be one of the City's finest parks once completed. Together, this team can provide the City of Sunny Isles Beach an award-winning sustainable parks design team. Park Master Planning Along with parks design experience, Silva Architects has recently worked closely with Miami-Dade County Department of Parks & Recreation in developing a master plan for Kendall Indian Hammocks Park. The TERRA Environmental Research Institute (State School YYY-1) project, a new $35 million M-DCPS high school, is located on a property bounded on three sides by Miami-Dade County Parks & Recreation's Kendall Indian Hammocks Park, and various portions of the M-DCPS property are leased to the Parks Department. During the design period, there were three existing softball fields and two existing soccer fields that were leased to M-DPRD. Silva Architects, M-DCPS, and M-DPRD worked together to not only continue the lease agreement, but to add a baseball field, student parking, and Gymnasium that would be constructed by M-DCPS to a new Joint Use Agreement, thus ensuring maximum use of the Park & school site by the community. M-DPRD's long range plan for Kendall Indian Hammock Park also included a future Aquatics Facility on the southeastern edge of the property. This Aquatics Facility would require both access and parking once it was built. Since M-DCPS required an access road and Student Parking for the TERRA project, Silva Architects worked closely with both agencies to create a plan that provided for appropriate access road and parking lot for both facilities while minimizing construction in the Park. M-DCPS & M-DPRD both agreed to provide a single parking lot and access road to be built with the school. While both the access road and the parking lot would be constructed on Parks property, they will both serve the future Aquatics facility once it is completed. M-DPRD's concerns also extended to an existing warehouse facility on SW 84th Street. This facility was critical to Parks operations, and was planned to share the vehicular entrance from SW 84th Street with the proposed Bus Drop-Off for TERRA. It was agreed to improve the entrance and vehicular circulation for this area to conserve an existing natural hammock on either side of the facility. This cooperation resulted in better operations for both TERRA and the Parks Department warehouse staff, and resulted in an 2009 APA (American Planning Association) award for Silva Architects & M-DCPS. Design/Build Bid Process Silva Architects has experience in Design/Build projects from both sides of the equation. Our firm has recently served as the DCP (Design Criteria Professional) for the $5 million Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Logistics Facility. Silva Architects was responsible for creating a Schematic Design, a Design Criteria Package, and functioning as an Owner's Representative during the bidding, award, design, and construction process for this 65,000 gsf Fire Rescue and Logistics facility with an Emergency Management Operations Center, completed in 2008. A Continuing Services Contract with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department also led to Silva Architects serving as DCP for five new approximately 4,300 gsf Fire Rescue Stations. Each station was approximately $800,000, with our firm 4