PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIBRARY of CONSULTANTS Under Florida Statute 287.055
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
FOR USB QUALIFICATIONS | RFQ 19-001 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIBRARY OF CONSULTANTS Under Florida Statute 287.055 Creating great community places. We Bring Ideas! We Make Places for People! © 2018 GAI Consultants, Inc. TAB A | REQUIRED COMMON ELEMENTS Corporate Profile Our Company GAI is an employee-owned engineering, environmental, planning, and economic consulting firm with over 55 years of experience providing local expertise to worldwide clients in the energy, transportation, development, government, and industrial markets. Our Clients Our clients are highly respected global energy and manufacturing firms, transportation agencies, and 110 national developers—as well as local communities and state and federal government. They challenge ENR TOP 500 us with projects that demand skilled technical expertise and sustainable results. DESIGN FIRMS Our Communities Our numerous offices are organized to mobilize staff and services seamlessly. They foster a unique blend of professional consulting disciplines, dedicated engineering and environmental specialists, and + local experts. We work, live, and give charitably to the communities we serve. 55YRS SUPERIOR Our Services CLIENT SERVICE ■ Airport Planning + Design ■ Impoundment and Landfill Permitting + Design ■ Bridge and Structure Inspection + Design ■ Land Development Engineering ■ Coal Combustion Residuals Management ■ Landscape Architecture + Design ■ Construction Inspection and Management ■ Master Planning and Urban Design % ■ Cultural Resources Management ■ Mechanical, Electrical, and Structural Engineering 100 ■ Economic Analyses and Strategies ■ Natural Gas FERC Certification and Permitting EMPLOYEE ■ Electric Transmission Design and Siting ■ Nuclear Energy Engineering Support ORGANIZATIONALOWNED FIRM STRUCTURE■ Environmental Engineering ■ Right of Way and Appraisal Support ■ Environmental and Species Studies + Permitting ■ Land Surveying and Mapping ■ Gas Pipeline Surveying and Mapping ■ Transportation Planning + Design ■ Geographic Information Systems (GIS) ■ Utility Management Consulting ■ Geotechnical Engineering and Geology ■ Water, Stormwater, Wastewater Management GREEN BAY FLORIDA MAYVILLE MILWAUKEE VISION | To strategically grow our business, SCRANTON JACKSON INDIANADUBOIS nationally and internationally, in partnership and CRANBERRY CHICAGO KENTUCKY PITTSBURGH PHILADELPHIA trust with our clients and staff. FORT WAYNE SOUTHPOINTE MICHIGANMURRYSVILLE INDIANAPOLIS CANTON BRIDGEPORTNORTH CAROLINA MISSION | We meet our clients’ challenges by OHIO RICHMOND empowering our employee-owners to transform ERLANGER CHARLESTON PENNSYLVANIA ideas into reality® VIRGINIA WEST VIRGINIA 900+ CORE VALUES | Integrating integrity, trust, and WISCONSIN EMPLOYEES quality into all that we do • Delivering outstanding client service and communication • Enhancing business through high ethical standards • GAI offices are strategically Acknowledging our employees’ achievements • JACKSONVILLE located to meet the needs Strengthening our success through safety HOUSTON of our clients. GAI’s Orlando ORLANDO office will serve as the TAMPA PALM BEACH GARDENS primary location through which all professional services will be coordinated. RESPONDENT TEAM Firm’s Organizational Structure Established in 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Authorized As part of GAI, our specialized Community Solutions To Do Business In Florida (FLORIDA CORPORATION), Group (CSG) practice combines with the broad 201505.R1 we currently serve our clients from 27 office locations knowledge of our 900-person engineering and throughout Eastern, Midwestern and Southern United environmental consulting firm to offer services in Planning, States. GAI has been serving municipalTransforming clients ideas in Florida into reality for since 1958, GAI is an employee-owned, engineering, environmental, planning, Landscape Architecture, Surveying, Management ® the past 30 years. and economic consulting firm providing local expertise to worldwide clients in the energy, transportation, Consulting, as well as thegaiconsultants.com engineering disciplines of Civil, development, government, and industrial markets. Environmental, Structural, Transportation, and Electrical. Principal Place of Business and Contact: Our specialty is providing professional services as a prime GAI Consultants, Inc. consultant, drawing upon a unique blend of in-house Peter Sechler, PLA, AICP experts and technicians, to meet the City’s individual work Vice President assignment requirements. From feasibility studies—to site 618 E. South Street, Suite 700 plan review—to final design/permitting review—through Orlando, Florida 32801 construction site inspection should those services be T. 407.423.8398 | D. 321.319.3126 | F. 407.843.1070 required, CSG’s ability to meet your needs is second. [email protected] www.gaiconsultants.com/communitysolutions gaiconsultants.com/communitysolutions RFQ No. 19-001 | Professional Services Library of Consultants 3 Our mission is to create livable places of lasting value in an increasingly connected, complex, and competitive world. COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS GROUP: What We Do EXPERIENCED PEOPLE, OPEN MINDS, Our work centers on finding resolution to place-based problems by implementing context-sensitive, sustainable FRESH IDEAS solutions that are economically and fiscally beneficial and implementable. We engage diverse community groups What We Are to affect positive outcomes with shared benefits through CSG is an idea-driven, strategic consulting practice integrated solutions. Consequently, our clients include integrating design, planning, and economics. We are governments, agencies, institutions, and developers who committed to enhancing communities in ways that are share an equal need to address complex and inter-related practical, sustainable, and authentic to our clients’ needs, challenges. We work from planning to policy and concept to while being politically aware, financially feasible, and construction across the scales of region, city, and campus; aesthetically compelling. Our mission is to create livable neighborhood, street, and site. places of lasting value in an increasingly connected, As an art, our practice requires an understanding of the complex, and competitive world. nuances of feasibility, political sensitivity, urban form, Who We Are relationships, and character of place. But as a science, it involves street geometries and hydrologic flows, floor- CSG is a unique team of landscape architects, urban area ratios, densities, market economics, and financing designers, land use planners, public finance and economic mechanisms. We are effective because we are sensitive development specialists, and public administrators who and sophisticated about implementing complex ideas capture the full dimensions of strategy and solution. across the platform of inclusive participation, thoughtful Committed to positioning cities for a sustainable future, design, funding and finance, public policy, and community we are recognized for delivering insightful, thorough, partnerships for initiatives both large and small. and technically sophisticated solutions. We embrace a philosophy that values the complex interrelation of people, Master Planning + Urban Design place, and policy while considering a project’s ability to Landscape Architecture + Design positively impact its investors, community, and setting. Economics + Real Estate Consulting gaiconsultants.com/communitysolutions RFQ No. 19-001 | Professional Services Library of Consultants 4 Master Planning + Urban Design Landscape Architecture + Design CSG’s master planning and urban design practice focuses The Landscape Architecture Studio within CSG integrates on crafting plans that create livable places of lasting an experienced team of professionals that strives to raise value for communities that require context-sensitive, the standard of planning and design services to a new sustainable solutions. We prioritize close collaboration level with every project, producing sustainable, context- with clients through an approach that emphasizes plans sensitive solutions that meet our clients’ objectives. We that reflect strong neighborhoods, livable transportation listen to their concerns, their desires, and their needs; networks, interconnected park and open space systems, we gather a deep understanding of place and issues; environmental sensitivity, and economic opportunities. we then deliver thoughtful and innovative solutions. The Through work at the scale of city, neighborhood, and studio operates under a fundamental planning and design street, our plans create the framework for rich, interactive philosophy seeking to develop solutions that make a settings that bring people together in environments that positive contribution to the economic and social values facilitate meaningful experiences that enrich lives. of a community or place. Whether the task is community master planning and place-making, streetscape and Our team draws upon expertise in multiple disciplines to corridor design, sustainable stormwater strategies (LID), balance physical, social, and economic needs and create parks and open space design, or corporate and campus urban places that enhance quality of life. We understand planning and design, we are committed to creating rich, that each building, streetscape, transportation corridor, diverse and sustainable places for people—beautiful and park works toward creating an urban place that works that allow people to connect to the environment transcends the value of any individual