in JEN ee um: Latin. Natural disposition of talents. Root word for “engineer” FALL 2018 A PUBLICATION OF EMH&T ENGINEERS, SURVEYORS, PLANNERS, SCIENTISTS Dayton’s Webster Street Bridge InfraWorks 360® Rail Crossing Grants Public Private Partnerships MESSAGE FROM SANDY A glowing example. The cover of this issue of Ingenium is the Webster Street Bridge over the Mad River near downtown Dayton, Ohio. EMH&T had the immense pleasure of working for the City of Dayton and collaborating on a design that met the many goals of the City, including shining a light (so to speak) on their bridge replacement program. And shine a light, it did! The Webster Street Bridge is a great example of the many disciplines that come together to successfully deliver a solution for a community. In addition to bridge engineers, the project involved roadway and traffic engineers, water resources engineers, environmental scientists, landscape architects, archaeologists and more…all working in concert to deliver an iconic bridge that sets the tone for an entire district of the City. In addition, include the creative minds that developed the innovative lighting system for the bridge, and you have an award-worthy asset. Bringing people together is also the focus of the article featuring Dorrian Green in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The new park that disguises the two-story parking deck beneath was funded by a cooperative agreement between public sector and private sector entities. EMH&T has earned a reputation of knowledgeable facilitation of this kind of funding, known as a Public-Private-Partnership, or 3P. The future is bright with the opportunities that 3P offers communities across the country. While there is so much to read in the following pages that demonstrate various aspects of municipal infrastructure design, I’m particularly pleased to present the article on page 8. Using International Women in Engineering Day (June 23rd) as our jumping off point, EMH&T is taking a moment to feature some of the many amazing women in our industry. Each one is a glowing example for girls contemplating a future in engineering. Read about their perspective on being female in a male-dominated field, and advice they have for the next generation. I hope you find the information on these pages illuminating. I know that providing it has been a bright spot in our day. Sandy Doyle-Ahern President Ingenium Contents EMH&T Engineers, Surveyors, Planners, Scientists 5500 New Albany Road Features Columbus, Ohio 43054 Columbus Charlotte (888) 775-EMHT emht.com Dayton’s New Webster Street Bridge 2 Shines As New Gateway To Downtown Sandra C. Doyle-Ahern, MEn President Douglas E. Romer, PE Executive Vice President Charles A. Rodenfels, AIA, LEED AP Making At-Grade Crossings Vice President a Priority 6 Editor and Graphic Design Lee Ruh Director of Communications Assistant Editors and Writers Quinn Sammons Celebrating Women Engineers Gretchen Klamar Paul Davis 8 Ingenium is a semi-annual publication of EMH&T. It is designed to provide information on issues that are relevant to public officials InfraWorks 360®: and public servants of all levels, spanning More Than Just a Design Tool the full array of public works industries. 10 To add your name to the mailing list for Images contribute to public Ingenium, please send an e-mail to lruh@ involvement process emht.com with your name, address, e-mail and phone number. Past issues of Ingenium are available at emht.com. 12 Waterline Design: It’s In The Details. Urban Park Designed To Spur Development: EMH&T helps facilitate a successful 14 addition to the Scioto Peninsula Transportation and Traffic Engineering Water Resources Engineering Water Distribution Systems Regular Columns Wastewater Collection Systems Geospatial Solutions 18 Shorts Planning and Landscape Architecture Construction Services 21 People in the News Infrastructure Evaluation and Management Land Surveying 21 Contact Us Environmental Sciences Infrastructure Renewal Back Cover Come See Us Railroad Services Bridges and Structures DAYTON’S NEW WEBSTER STREET BRIDGE SHINES AS NEW GATEWAY TO DOWNTOWN Contemporary design and lighting help highlight City’s bridge history he adverse condition of the 11 bridges spanning both the Great Department, the city wasn’t necessarily nation’s bridge infrastructure is Miami and the Mad rivers in and around set on a traditional bridge design for this increasingly obvious in cities, downtown Dayton. project. towns, and rural areas across Tthe country. According to the American “The city’s desire was for the bridge to Road & Transportation Builders Design unites technology and history serve as a gateway into the Tech Town Association, almost 59,000 bridges One of the recently completed bridge area, which is experiencing a lot of across the United States are structurally replacements is the new EMH&T- positive change and growth, and also to deficient, including almost 1,900 in Ohio. designed Webster Street Bridge over incorporate innovative, yet cost-effective the Mad River. The historic bridge was aesthetics into the design,” said Weinel. Recognizing this fact, and realizing the originally constructed in 1916 and “They wanted it to be unique,” he added. aging condition of its many bridges rehabilitated in 1960. The structure The new $10.1 million bridge’s thanks to an independent evaluation serves as a key connector for downtown conducted in 1999-2000, the City of superstructure incorporates three, nearly Dayton, Tech Town, the Water Street 120-foot spans, each with nine 72” deep Dayton developed a bridge replacement District, north Dayton, and State Route 4. program to address this situation locally. prestressed I-beams; galvanized steel To date, the $65 million program has According to Joe Weinel, PE, a civil cross frames, a composite reinforced resulted in the replacement of 10 of engineer in Dayton’s Public Works concrete deck, and semi-integral 2 EMH&T Engineers, Surveyors, Planners, Scientists abutments, which eliminate the open “The tower beacons, railing, and piers An exciting but challenging project expansion joint, greatly reducing the feature the latest in color changing The Webster Street Bridge represents potential for deterioration caused by LED lighting to help create the gateway a complex local project agency (LPA) road salts. There are overlook plazas at effect the City wanted and also blend bridge replacement project. Due to the each corner with a 30-foot tower on each aesthetically with the fast-growing original structure’s historic significance, a plaza containing a beacon light at each surrounding Tech Town area,” said cultural resources review was required by apex. Schrader. the Ohio Department of Transportation According to EMH&T Project Manager In addition to the aesthetic (ODOT). This included special Section Craig Schrader, PE, the City wanted enhancements, an additional lane 106 coordination to obtain regulatory the new bridge to serve as a gateway and wider sidewalks on both sides of approval for the removal of the bridge, into the emerging Tech Town area, the bridge and surrounding roadway which is a National Register of Historic and downtown Dayton with Fifth Third upgrades make it very “alternative Preservation (NRHP) eligible structure. Field, home of the minor league Dayton transportation” friendly and help give EMH&T professionals conducted Dragons baseball team. The bridge also new life to what was once a historically this research and in order to meet needed to signify the importance of significant, yet functionally obsolete river requirements, the new structure’s design bridges throughout the City’s history. crossing. includes exhibits, historic markers, and plaques that present Dayton’s entire emht.com 3 “bridge history” and its importance to City’s remediation consultant regarding “and includes nearly 200 LED lights the growth and success of the greater work being conducted in areas already integrated into the bridge’s structure Dayton area. These elements are an undergoing environmental monitoring. that help create the gateway effect the integral part of the bridge’s design city wanted from the finished project.” aesthetic. Further, the proposed design presented potential flood impacts and due to Because the lighting is actually The project is located in a highly the project’s location within the Miami incorporated into the bridge structure, urbanized area with a significant history Conservancy District (MCD), which it represents a unique application of of industrial activity. EMH&T provided imposes strict regulatory requirements lighting design. “The lighting doesn’t the full suite of environmental services to protect the local flood protection wash up onto the structure as is often the for this project, including the preparation infrastructure. EMH&T conducted a case when these kinds of structures are of a Categorical Exclusion (NEPA) Level flood hazard impact study, which was lit,” said Schrader, “rather the integrated 3 document, Level 1 Ecological Survey accepted by both the City of Dayton and lighting gives the bridge a very different, Report, Section 4(f) documentation for the MCD. very unique look, almost as if it glows recreational resources (the Mad River with each tower serving to enhance its Bikeway and Deeds Park), Environmental role as a gateway into the City.” Site Assessment (ESA) and hazardous Lighting front and center in design materials handling consultation. One of the most distinctive elements of The lighting system includes a master EMH&T’s Cultural Resources Division the new Webster Street Bridge is its LED control board that provides for an almost provided reporting including a HABS lighting. infinite number of lighting program document. options. This allows the city to set the “The LED lighting and color changing lighting to celebrate and recognize ESA investigations identified numerous capabilities were something that the various events or remembrances such recognized environmental concerns City wanted for the project. Schrader as cancer awareness, Alzheimer’s throughout the project corridor. As a and his team were able to successfully awareness, etc.