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13CES Consultants ● City of Sunny Isles Beach RFQ No. 18-11-01 owners, accurate determination of utility locations, and identifying potential conflicts is essential. With our combined engineering and construction experience in design/build of neighborhood infrastructure projects, and particularly those that require significant undergrounding in urban residential areas, we anticipate that our utility locate investigations, and conflict avoidance efforts will include close coordination with key utilities such as FPL, ATT and Atlantic Broad Band, along with other utilities located in the ROW. The Team has already conducted a preliminary utility research of the project area. The Design ticket process will be used to obtain immediate available information from utilities located within the project corridor(s). This information will be provided on our submittal drawings. We know this initial effort was critical to our project understanding, not just for avoiding potential conflicts, but to establish construction phasing, address logistics, maintain timelines of production, and offer infrastructure solutions to mitigate impacts and risk. In addition, the Team will conduct subsurface utility exploration early in the design phase and meet with utility companies to review the developing design plans and discuss utility coordination details. Vacuum excavations of potential locations of utility conflict will be performed to verify depth, size, and vertical and horizontal location of the utility conflict. Potential conflict locations, once configured, will be assessed with the design engineers and construction team to determine the most appropriate design solutions. For utility conflict locations, where design or construction adjustments may not be feasible for the new infrastructure, we will coordinate with utility companies for temporary or permanent utility relocations. Environmental/Permitting and Design The CES Team brings demonstrated knowledge of the unique local coastal conditions and understanding of the construction and environmental permitting processes, particularly in coastal and tidal areas where changing tide and storm event scenarios poses daily challenges in building structures and systems in a “pumped” environment. A key differentiator of our engineering team is proven design build experience on deep underground structures. Our projects interfaced with federal, state, and local permitting agencies, state and local officials, and stakeholder groups to secure permits and approvals in a timely and expedited fashion. This approach is a critical component during the various phases of the projects and is a proven approach we will bring to the Golden Shores Pump Station project. A complementary key differentiator is our capacity to procure permits in extremely fast-tracked projects, such as the Brickell Sewer Interceptors Project, where the first months of the schedule were critical to achieving new wastewater facilities permit for substantial modifications to the existing wastewater system serving downtown Miami in response to new developments coming in on line. Other design long-lead permits include FDOT Utility Permits specially when there could be a direct impact to bustling arterials such as AIA (Collins Ave) or SR 856 (Lehman Causeway) I n order to be successful in our design we have identified three key success factors for project: »Interfacing with Federal, State, and Local Permitting Agencies »Streamlining the Permit Process for Aggressively Scheduled Design/Build Projects »Demonstrated Extensive Coastal Permitting Performance With these Success Factors in mind, we have organized a team of design and construction professionals with extensive experience specializing in moving environmental permitting of coastal, waterfront, and infrastructure projects through the myriad of jurisdictional agencies within Miami-Dade County. In addition, our team members possess collective years of experience designing and permitting complex projects through the stringent constraints of the Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserve. These unique projects include storm water outfall retrofits, storm water management, public parks, streetscapes, seawalls and outfalls, and shoreline stabilization projects. Working relationships with the agency staff, and institutional knowhow will be a critical enabler when pursing expedited permits, particularly with long-lead time agencies having jurisdiction of infrastructures projects, such as FDEP or SFWMD. Our Team brings a regulatory permitting strategy that captures anticipated approval processes and timelines that are critical in the project planning process to avoid common regulatory delays and hurdles. The Ric-Man Design/Build Team specializes in designing projects to minimize the regulatory process, and our professionals have successfully procured complex permits in the City of Miami Beach. We believe