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MAJOR and CURRENT PROJECTS |
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South Pecan Island Freshwater Introduction - Vermilion Parish, LA |
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Louisiana Department of Natural Resources – Surveying & Mapping – The Louisiana’s Coastal Restoration Program constitutes the nation’s most ambitious ecosystem restoration plan to provide storm and flood protection; enhance fisheries production; create, restore and enhance wetlands; protect wildlife resources; and support the activities of oil and gas development, navigation, and ecotourism. The proposed project area is approx 700 acres, entailing open water and marshland. The project features include deepening and widening a 7,400 linear foot conveyance channel from White Lake to an existing drainage culvert under Hwy 82. GOTECH will provide topographic and bathymetric surveying, geotechnical engineering services and surveying reports. |
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New Orleans Streets Repair Project Management Consultant |
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LA DOTD – Surveying & Mapping – GOTECH provided repair to New Orleans submerged streets as a result of damage due to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This project included topographic surveying, preliminary and final roadway plans and construction support for the project streets located in Jefferson and Orleans Parishes. |
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New Orleans Recovery School District Program - Construction Management Services |
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LA Department of Education – Program Management - GOTECH will provide construction management services and program management services for the rebuilding of New Orleans public school systems in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. GOTECH will provide field inspection services, civil and site design reviews, and surveying services. |
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City of New Orleans Office of Recovery Management Public Infrastructure |
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City of New Orleans – Program Management - This project includes repair of city assets, police and fire stations, streets, recreation center, court buildings, museums, libraries and parks that were damaged by flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Also included is, resurfacing, repair and upgrade of existing streets. GOTECH’s role in this project includes environmental engineering services, planning, designing, and overseeing infrastructure utility designs and analysis. |
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Louisiana Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Program |
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Louisiana Office of Community Development – Program Management – GOTECH provides professional services in the disaster recovery following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita for the Louisiana Office of Community Development. Duties include, program implementation, monitoring all disaster recovery unit infrastructure programs and reviewing progress reporting system on time and cost. |
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Muddy Creek - East Ascension Drainage Commission |
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Surveying & Mapping - GOTECH is the lead surveyor for the engineering study for flood plain improvements for Muddy Creek in Ascension Parish for the East Ascension Consolidated Gravity Drainage District 1. GOTECH provided field surveys that will be used in the, engineering studies and preliminary design, cost estimates and environmental studies. The project will model the flood plain impacts of design year floods, and determine alternative methods and costs associated with improvements and control structures to protect the safety, welfare and property of residents and businesses within the Muddy Creek Drainage Basin of East Ascension Parish. GOTECH’s duties include surveying and mapping of approximately seven (7) miles of Muddy Creek and tributaries. GOTECH provides cross section surveys at 500’ spacing and topographic surveys of creek crossings. |
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Louisiana Community & Technical College System (LCTCS) - Multiple Projects Program |
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Program Management Services – This project will facilitate the acquisition, purchase, construction, renovation, improvement, or expansion of public facilities for designated institutions under the supervision and management of the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System. The project enumerates specific facilities within that system which have been determined to be extraordinarily vital to the state’s response to the need for a competent and skilled workforce and which are in need of capital improvement or enhancement. GOTECH will provide engineering, construction inspection and project management expertise to the project.
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Surveys for the FFEB Joint Venture, New Orleans Corps of Engineers Project |
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The FFEB Joint Venture Team (Fugro Consultants, Inc., FMSM Engineers, Eustis Engineering and Burns-Cooley Engineering) were selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' New Orleans District to supply geotechnical engineering services for flood protection sites across South Louisiana. The weaknesses in the levee system were exposured during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, particularly in the flood protection system surrounding New Orleans. The Corps' first steps in planning for the long term restoration of the system's integrity is conducting geotechnical analyses of the levee foundations and flood walls. One critical part of this analysis is obtaining elevation and location information for each soil boring or cone penetrometer test. GOTECH, Inc. was selected by the FFEB Joint Venture to be the survey specialist for the $100 million project. GOTECH survey crews accessed levee sites across the New Orleans metropolitan area and at Atchafalaya River flood protection sites to obtain the needed field data. Survey crews used GPS Real Time Kinematic (RTK) equipment to obtain the horizontal locations of each boring or CPT site. Base bench marks that were a part of the Corps' modernization system of elevation marks were selected for use in the program. Elevation and horizontal position data for each site was collected and compiled according to work task orders that the Corps identified. For the thousands of field data points that were surveyed, GOTECH office support personnel conducted quality assurance checks on the tabulated results and transmitted the information to the FFEB in a timely manner.
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I-10 Twin Span Bridge Project |
 GOTECH, Inc. is serving as a subconsultant on the Twin Span Bridge project for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. The Twin Span Bridge is a portion of Interstate Highway 10 that crosses the edge of Lake Pontchartrain between the cities of New Orleans and Slidell. Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Twin Span Bridge in August of 2005. The $803 million replacement project is estimated to be completed in 2011 and will include 5.5 miles of new bridge carrying three lanes eastbound and three lanes westbound. Working on the Volkert Construction Services team, GOTECH is providing construction administration services and construction inspectors to monitor the work progress. GOTECH survey personnel are providing geometric control data and conducting horizontal and vertical positioning checks on pilings, pile caps and bridge decks.
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Green Light Plan |
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The East Baton Rouge City/Parish administration promoted the extension of the “pot-hole” tax until the year 2030. The voters approved the extension and an estimated $460 million will be generated for transportation improvements throughout the Parish. Approximately 37 road projects are proposed as new candidates as improvements to the ground transportation network for Baton Rouge. GOTECH, Inc. is participating in the Green Light Plan as a member of the Project Management Team. Under the leadership of CSRS, Inc. GOTECH is supplying engineering project managers, a Director of Engineering, CAD drafting services, scheduling, cost estimating and a Senior Program Advisor for the team. |
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John James Audubon Bridge, St. Francisville, LA |
 The Audubon Bridge project is being conducted as a design/build project for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. The bridge will be a cable-stayed structure that crosses the Mississippi River north of Baton Rouge. It replaces a centuries-old ferry route that links Pointe Coupee Parish and West Feliciana Parish. At a length of 1,583 feet, the main span will be the longest in North America. GOTECH is providing engineering design of the approach roadway network on the west (Pointe Coupee Parish) side of the river. Plan/profile sheets, cross section and detail sheets are being designed by GOTECH engineers and drafted by GOTECH AutoCAD technicians. GOTECH field personnel obtained survey data on the batture to supplement the project’s hydrographic survey data. Construction quality assurance inspection services, utility coordination and scheduling will also be provided by GOTECH.
(Please see accompanying articles on News page.)
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Louisiana Transportation Center Project for the Louisiana Transportation Authority |
 GOTECH, Inc. is serving as a sub consultant for the Louisiana Airport Authority’s Louisiana Transportation Center Project in Southeastern Louisiana. A complex intermodal facility is being planned for a 25,000 acre site on the West bank of the Mississippi River between Donaldsonville and White Castle. GOTECH personnel are conducting analysis of impacts that will result from construction of airport runways, river dock facilities, rail yards, industrial areas and recreational areas. GOTECH is also participating in various project phases including cost estimating, pipeline relocation studies and land acquisition studies. Parcel maps and landowner areas are being evaluated for each of the phases of this project. |
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Houma Navigation Canal Lock and Floodgate |
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is implementing the design and construction of a hurricane protection levee system across Southeastern Louisiana. One key element in the levee system is the provision for ship traffic along the Houma Navigation Canal in Terrebonne Parish. A lock and floodgate structure is planned for that area of the levee south of Houma near the community of Dulac. GOTECH, Inc. survey crews worked continuously to provide a full contour map for the seven hundred acre site. Hydrographic channel surveys, spoil bank surveys, marsh surveys, cross sections, level loops and baseline traverses were all conducted in accordance with the required Corps accuracy standards. An existing Corps baseline was recovered and verified against the published baseline tabulation. A new sub-baseline was established and monumented on the West Bank of the channel for use in the future construction efforts.
GOTECH Cadd technicians processed the field data and produced a plan view map for the entire site. The mapping sheets showed the bank lines, channels, spoil areas, marsh regional and contours across the area. |
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Lamar Dixon Expo Center, Ascension Parish, Louisiana |
 GOTECH, Inc. served as the Project Engineer and Lead Project Coordinator. The Lamar-Dixon Expo Center, Located on 236 acres of land in Ascension Parish, offers residents and visitors an exposition center that seats over 3,000 people. A state of the art multi-use facility, the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center hosts a multitude of events designed to bring entertainment and economic development to the community. In addition to equestrian events and rodeos, the Expo Center is used for concerts, science and school fairs, antique and craft shows, tractor pulls and auctions, along with other events. The Lamar-Dixon Expo Center currently houses eight barns, three arenas, a banquet room, a 4-H facility, a Trade Mart building, and a YMCA gymnasium. Also featured are picnic areas, recreation vehicle (RV) parking, bathhouses, paved parking areas, water distribution system, etc. Construction cost estimating was conducted by GOTECH in all phases of the work in order to facilitate alternative selection by the Owner. Planning and design by GOTECH personnel allowed for the successful construction of various roadway, sewer, drainage, structural, and electrical components on a concurrent schedule. |
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Sales Tax Street and Rehabilitation Program Construction Supervision and Inspection, City of Baton Rouge |
 GOTECH provided Construction Inspectors and a Chief Inspector to provide inspection of street rehabilitation construction services for the City of Baton Rouge for over 10 years. Duties included setting up and maintaining a project records system, production of partial and final estimates and plan changes, insuring adherence to plans and specifications, inspection of asphaltic concrete and portland cement concrete production at the plant, inspection of asphaltic concrete laydown operations, portland cement placement and finishing, soil cement processing and incidental construction in the field, the taking and preparation of samples for testing and the performance of field tests. The over all program has rehabilitated (asphalt overlay or reconstituded) over 1406 miles of streets/roads. |
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Shreveport Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) Control Program, Shreveport, Louisiana |
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For the City of Shreveport, GOTECH is serving as civil engineers and surveyors on the design team. The City is in the process of identifying and correcting their problem areas throughout the sewer system collection system. GOTECH will conduct a number of tasks as the project progresses. We are evaluating the results of a cleaning and video program that was performed on sewer trunk lines. We are analyzing the videos and listing repairs for lines that are appropriate to the site conditions found. Point repairs, pipe lining repairs or total replacement options are analyzed for each video segment. GOTECH will perform field investigations on candidate repair locations. The result of the video analysis will result in a design memorandum (DM) and cost estimate for the project. This D.M. will be submitted for review and comment and once approved, will serve as the basis for the project construction documents. GOTECH will provide the plans and specifications necessary for the construction of the repairs. |
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Sewer System Evaluation and Rehabilitation Program, Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans |
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GOTECH provided surveyed locations and elevations and physical inventory for sewer manholes in the main sewer lines (12-inch and greater) that was incorporated in the development of a computer hydraulic model and manhole inventory database. The work also included the determination of vertical elevations of all inverts in each manhole surveyed. In addition, GOTECH is providing construction inspection for sewer improvement projects. |
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