Laramie Police Department Locker Room Renovation Request for Qualifications Request for October 25, 2019 www.aretedesign.group // [email protected] // 307.672.8270 Laramie Police Department -Locker Room Renovation PAGE Laramie Police Department -Locker Room Renovation PAGE October 25, 2019 Gwen Smith, Lieutenant Laramie Police Department 620 Plaze Court Laramie, WY 82070 RE: Laramie Police Department Locker Room Renovation To the Selection Committee: Thank you for the opportunity to submit our Architectural/Engineering qualifications for the Laramie Police Department Locker Room Renovation. Arete Design Group is the lead firm and has joined forces with IMEG Engineers (MEP) to provide comprehensive and creative design solutions for the renovation of the Police Departments Locker Rooms. ADG is a nimble firm that is able to react quickly to the needs of our clients, and major maintenance renovation projects have comprised a majority of the firm’s work over the last fourteen years. Our firm has a proven approach to major maintenance and remodel projects that is efficient and cost effective. We have also been very successful in producing construction documents that give Contractors good opportunity to complete the construction on time and in budget with very few change orders. Our approach to remodel work is to understand the building structure, scope and budget, prioritize the work required to fit the budget, provide documents to cover the essential work required and encourage the successful contractor to implement the work properly. The firm works exclusively in Wyoming and continues to grow and expand our client base. Arete will provide consistent “Boots on the Ground” to oversee this project from start to finish. The personnel presented in this proposal are positioned to handle the challenges of this specif- ic project. We have adequate man-power and room in our schedule to begin work right away. Finally, I encourage you to contact our references as you look through our team’s representa- tive projects. I believe they will confirm that we are a hands-on, meticulous group whose real aim is to provide our clients with the best possible solutions to their building needs. Again, we really appreciate the opportunity to propose on this project and hope to have the opportunity to work with the Laramie Police Department on this project. Sincerely, Dale Buckingham, AIA President Laramie Police Department -Locker Room Renovation PAGE Laramie Police Department -Locker Room Renovation PAGE TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Your Team 2 Arete Design Group 6 IMEG 9 Quality Assurance 10 Projects and References 12 Project Examples 14 Project Scope and Scope Alternatives Laramie Police Department -Locker Room Renovation PAGE Dale Buckingham, AIA President/Principal >>>25% Availability Project Manager and Architect of Record (WY Registration No. B-0168) [email protected] Ben Reeves, AIA Project Architect >>>50% Availability [email protected] 45 E. Loucks, Suite 301 Sheridan, WY 82801 307.672.8270 and Firm and Project Team and Project Firm Marshall Moore, PE Electrical Project Engineer >>>35% Availability Aaron Zimmerman, PE, LEED AP, HBDP, QCxP >>>40% Availability Senior Mechanical Engineer 500 W. 18th Street, Suite 200 Cheyenne, WY 82001 307.459.6085 Laramie Police Department -Locker Room Renovation PAGE 1 ARETE DESIGN GROUP Keeping this project on track to meet the brings a wealth of knowledge and needs of the Laramie Police Department, experience to the project including an the budget and the schedule require understanding of the Laramie Police diligence on the part of the lead firm, Department from our previous project to specifically the Project Manager. Dale remediate the Evidence Storage Building. Buckingham has been leading projects Arete has remodeled several institutional for over 25 years. Arete employs several locker rooms for K-12 schools and the means of maintaining a smooth project. Wyoming Military department. Our The first is regular, consistent and clear most recent locker room project is the communication. Most all of our projects remodeling of the Corbett Building locker have a weekly internal meeting with our rooms at the University of Wyoming. This A/E team to make sure that we are all project is awaiting funding. Another recent tracking down the right path. Depending project is the comprehensive remodel of on your desires, we can schedule weekly the Sheridan Police Department building meetings or at least a weekly email update which also included a total redo of the Men’s so that you clearly understand where we and Women’s locker rooms for the SPD. are at in the process and if there are any The Project Manager, Dale Buckingham, is obstacles to overcome to keep the project a seasoned architect who oversaw both of moving. Similarly during construction, the projects mentioned above. we are strong advocates for a weekly meeting between the Owner, Architect and Although not involved in the initial Contractor. There is no substitute for good remodel of the building at 620 Plaza Court, communication. Mr. Buckingham started his architectural career working for Banner Associates in the While this project is not a complete building, giving him an overall knowledge remodel of the Laramie Police Department, of the building. Mr. Buckingham will be our understanding is that remodel of other the Project Manager for this project and portions of the facility is tentatively planned will be responsible for the overall planning for the future. With this knowledge, we and design effort from start to finish. will need to have some good discussion Another Key individual from Arete is Ben about the nature of the future remodel and Reeves who will is a highly skilled architect how the remodel of the locker rooms will and technician who has a firm grasp of work with the future goals of the building. construction materials and methods. Mr. Essentially, we will work through a brief Reeves will be involved daily working with master planning effort to make sure the other Arete production staff to assemble locker room renovation will work now and the bidding and construction documents. in the future. Our consultants include IMEG (formerly In short, we have an experienced team MKK) Engineers. The Cheyenne based of design professionals who have a small firm was also involved in the renovation of learning curve to get up to speed on the the Evidence Storage building after the fire. project. We are ready to dive in and look Qualifications and experience of Key Personnel of Key experience and Qualifications Marshall Moor, PE will handle the Electrical forward to working with you. Engineering, Aaron Zimmerman, PE, will handle the Mechanical and Plumbing Engineering. As a firm IMEG has done multiple locker room remodel projects and will bring that experience to the table for Firm biographies this project. and resume’s of key personnel >>> Laramie Police Department -Locker Room Renovation PAGE 2 ARETE DESIGN GROUPwas founded in the year 2000 to provide top quality, practical architectural design that is tailored Recognized in 2019 as one of the to each client’s need. We have been serving the architectural design “Best Entrepreneurial needs of Wyoming clients ever since. We are a full-service firm with Companies in America” strong expertise in all sizes of institutional, industrial and commercial by Entrepreneur magazine’s projects. Our team of ten has over 100 years of combined experience, Entrepreneur360 ranking. provides professional service and is composed of a balance of Architects, Professional Designers, Technicians and support staff. Our customers’ satisfaction is our top priority, We have strong personal relationships with and critical to our measure of success of any contractors, subs and suppliers throughout project. In the past nineteen years, we have Wyoming and have worked with all types of emerged as an organization that provides construction delivery including design-build, well-coordinated and fiscally responsible CMAR, negotiated GC and traditional design/ designs. The straight forward approach and bid/build projects. We treat contractors fairly economically sound solutions provided are a and expect them to treat our clients fairly. We result of strong communication and partnering believe that this mind-set has helped us gain with each client. We have continued to grow the respect of those who do construction work and have emerged as one of the premier in Wyoming. architectural design firms in the State of Wyoming. EXPERIENCE >> “Good understanding produces favor” In the past nineteen years, ADG has gained and the firm works very hard to produce a significant amount of renovation and good understanding throughout the design construction experience with facilities, such as: process, using thorough documentation and communication. This leads to favorable • Municipal projects that are clearly understood before • Commercial construction, thus eliminating surprises when • Office Buildings the keys are handed over to the Client. • Aviation • Fire Stations We are very responsive to the needs of our • Warehouses clients. We focus on building relationships • Sport / Recreation and helping our clients on an on-going basis. • Religious Facilities We will also keep the same faces in front of you • Health Care throughout the entire project. This direct result • Educational Facilities of our open communication is a satisfied group • Childcare Development of clients that consistently come back to ADG • Transportation Facilities to handle their projects. • Financial • Residential We always endeavor to meet our client’s needs, budget and schedule. We believe that we are We make sure that we are involved in the entire easy to work with and are able to keep a proper process from planning to completion to help perspective on the projects that we are involved things run as efficiently as possible to reach with. We work hard to not let projects and the the end goals. We will work closely with the relationships intrinsic in those projects spiral entire team to fully understand the scope of the out of control.