Project Description

The City of Burnaby begun an initiative throughout their engineering department to incorporate design-build into their upcoming projects and programs. This opportunity consisted of providing Owner’s Representative services for both the Sidewalk Improvement Project and the Pressure Reducing Valves: Owner’s Requirement program.

1.) 2020 Sidewalk Improvement Program

Value: $6.8 Million

Previously, the City had approximately 725 km of concrete sidewalk, 36 km of asphalt sidewalk, and 38 km of asphalt urban trail. However, approximately 40% of all Burnaby roads (275 km) were missing a sidewalk or urban trail on one or both sides of the street.

In June 2019, Burnaby City Council proposed to expedite new sidewalk construction. Funding was allocated to focus on building new sidewalks on streets that were in close proximity to schools, parks, community centres, and transit facilities. In the first few years of this project, the City selected sidewalk-construction locations by prioritizing streets that already had curbs and gutters.

Our Role

RAM’s work as Owner’s Representatives (OR) consisted of comprehensive project management, detailed design, preparing tender documents, construction management services, as well as developing a comprehensive communication plan, risk management approach, and cost control platform.

2.) Pressure-Reducing Valves: Owner’s Requirements

Value: Varied

As the City of Burnaby launched a design-build initiative to implement this method into multiple programs and projects, pressure-reducing valves were on high priority, so the City set out to create a detailed Owner’s Requirement template.

This project consisted of creating and fine-tuning the Owner’s Requirements necessary for a design-build project for pressure-reducing valves through both individual meetings and group workshops with City staff.

Our Role

RAM’s role was to create a set of documents and program to begin using the design-Build format for Pressure Reducing Valves. Our team’s scope of work included: The Owner’s Requirement program included Design Criteria, Manufacturing requirements, Scheduling, PRV requirements and specifications, Communications, Health and Safety, Traffic Management, Utilities, Meeting Requirements, Environmental Protection, Quality Management, Project Closeout and Warranties.