T.O. 21- Project Management Services
T.O. 144 – Contract Management Services
United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) – Rock Island District
Jefferson and Orleans Parishes
ECM in association with its subconsultant Stanley Consultants, provided Project Management services (PMS) under a $90 million IDIQ, ECM-GEC Joint Venture contract with USACE to support USACE-Rock Island District for the RINOS program. The Rock Island District assumed responsibility for four major projects, involving 26 construction contracts worth $1.1 Billion. The RINOS mission included raising and stabilizing levees and floodwalls, constructing sector gate surge barriers across shipping channels and a major 18,640 cfs pump station. The major projects included:
Algiers Canal – Improving levee stability, constructing road closure gates and floodwalls, and constructing fronting protection
Eastern Tie In – Constructing new levees, vehicular and railroad flood gates, and a stoplog structure across the Hero Shipping Canal.
Western Tie In – A series of levees, floodwalls, floodgates to button up the west end of the West
Bank and Vicinity Hurricane Protection System.
West Closure Complex – This sector gate closure of the busy Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) eliminated the need for more than 20 miles of flood surge protection along both sides of the Algiers and Harvey Canals. The project included a 225-foot-wide sector gate, a 18,640 cfs pumping station (both the largest sector gate and the largest pump station within the U.S.), and 7 large sluice gates, floodwalls, levees and roads.
This project was the first major Civil Works project to utilize Early Contractor Involvement (ECI), where the construction contractor is engaged during the design phase. ECM in association with our subconsultant, provided technical and project management services for this project and was responsible for coordinating design, engineering; scheduling, cost estimating value engineering and coordination with designer, contractor and USACE-RI. This included reviewing Engineer’s designs for compliance with work scope, schedule, budget and sound engineering.
ECM also provided construction management Services (CMS)and QA inspection support staff to USACE for various segments of this project under a $65 million IDIQ, ECM-CDD JV contract along with several other consultants hired by the Corps. ECM staff worked under the Corps Resident Engineer and was responsible for monitoring construction activities to ascertain that all work was performed in strict compliance with contract plans and specifications; review of contactor’s quality control and safety plans; review of submittals and shop drawings; entering project data in RMS systems; maintaining all documents such as shop drawings, submittals, RFI’s contract modifications; monitoring compliance with contractor’s safety program; review contractors payment application; preparation of contract modification; and close-out documents.