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12th Annual Excellence in Partnering Award Ceremony May 9, 2012 CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION EXCELLENCE IN PARTNERING AWARD CEREMONY May 9, 2012 3:00-4:30pm KEN SOLAK Welcome Partnering Coordinator, Headquarters CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION MARK LEJA Master of Ceremonies Chief, Division of Construction CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CURT WELTZ Guest Speaker President of Western Operations FLATIRON CORP. MALCOLM DOUGHERTY Keynote Speaker Acting Director CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ELIZABETH A. DOOHER Excellence in Partnering Award Announcements Partnering Program Manager CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SUCCESS IN MOTION AWARDS See Program Listing Parttnere d Parrtnerred I-505 CONCRETE SLAB REPLACEMENT AND REHAB PROJECT Pa ne ed Pro e ct Prrojjjectt P o ec of th e Year off tthe Yearr This resurfacing project spanned 64 lane miles on a two-lane freeway o he Yea from Winters to the I-5/I-505 Grade Separation in Yolo County. The team installed dowel bars; performed Portland Cement Concrete grinding and shoulder paving for the full project length; managed high speed and truck traffic; adopted VECPs totaling $100,000; and finished early, under budget, with excellent on-going relationships between the GOLD AWARD project participants and stakeholders. PARTNERING LEADERSHIP STATS Arun Guduguntla RE, CALTRANS D-3 EA 03-1A9504 Eric Streich PM, DESILVA GATES CONSTRUCTION CALTRANS District 3 Sam Hassoun FACILITATOR CONTRACTOR DeSilva Gates Construction SCHEDULE 100 days – finished in 98 days BEST PRACTICES BUDGET $11.9 million – actual cost $10.9 million Professional Facilitator SAFETY No lost time accidents Partnering Charter Monthly Scorecard SUCCESS STORIES Partnering Agenda Item for Despite the geographic expanse, the project team kept in close Weekly Progress Meetings Subcontractors Attended communication. With the dowel bar installation process on the critical Partnering Sessions path, they jointly monitored potential rain events and coordinated lane Team Attended Partnering closures within hours if they determined work could proceed. Skills Development Together Together, they conducted project inspections before storm events to Dispute Resolution Ladder ensure environmental compliance. Lessons Learned Session A VECP changed lane closures from 20 hours/day to 24 hours, five PARTNERING TIPS days per week, increasing project safety for both workers and drivers, The first level on the Disputes streamlining construction operations, and minimizing overall impact Resolution Ladder required to public. resolution in the field by end-of- shift, causing all issues to be Stakeholders actively supported the project: quickly resolved or quickly Yolo County allowed use of their county road as part of detour, even elevated. All issues were resolved though it was not permitted at the design stage; by the project team with no claims. Concrete supplier, CEMEX provided off-site staging for equipment that minimized staging within the project limits and reduced public "The overall public perception impact; about this project was positive…and in spite of the Teichert Woodland provided a free Connex box to store Caltrans 24 hour lane closures, we did samples, minimizing time and labor costs for Caltrans testers. not receive any complaints by commuters on Interstate 505." —D.A. Cannon, Captain, California Highway Patrol FUN FACTS The project team installed 70,000 dowel bars…if 49er fans were asked to carry one dowel bar each, they would fill Candlestick Park to capacity! GOLD AWARD EAST NICOLAUS BYPASS PROJECT The project widened eight miles of SR-70 from two to four lanes and included a new alignment, bypassing the town of East Nicolaus and removing the lone PARTNERING LEADERSHIP Rizwan Tanvir SR. RE, CALTRANS D-3 stop sign left on a heavily traveled route that connects Marysville to Paul Hand PM, DESILVA GATES CONSTRUCTION Sacramento. The project also included a new full freeway interchange at East Sue Dyer FACILITATOR Nicolaus and a new highway overcrossing at Cornelius Avenue. STATS BEST PRACTICES Professional Facilitator EA 03-3864U4 Executive Team CALTRANS District 3 Partnering Charter CONTRACTOR DeSilva Gates Construction Kick-off and Follow-up SCHEDULE 773 days – finished in 520 days Sessions BUDGET $87.6 million – actual cost $82.2 million Monthly Scorecard Field Team and SAFETY No lost time accidents Subcontractors Attended Partnering Sessions SUCCESS STORIES Team Attended Partnering The team developed a Partnering culture that helped anticipate and Skills Development Together resolve problems. They jointly discussed RFIs in the field before Dispute Resolution Ladder Lessons Learned Session formal submittal and typically provided recommended solutions with Team Milestone Celebrations the question. Examples of team successes include: Shortening construction by one season by constructing abutments PARTNERING TIPS no. 1 and 25 before building embankments, also reducing the The project Partnering skills environmental impacts to Bear River; training – conducted with both Resolving a constructability issue between an embankment on Caltrans and contractor Nicolaus Avenue and the designed detour by building the attendees – helped open communication and started the embankment in five days while traffic used an alternate route; process of team-building. The Waiving the settlement period for the east embankment of Cornelius monthly scorecards helped them Avenue (after monitoring the settlement data) to expedite stay together by identifying potential problems for quick construction; resolution. Conducting utility and right-of-way coordination meetings with Caltrans, DeSilva Gates and stakeholders (such as AT&T, PG&E) to "DeSilva Gates and Caltrans anticipate and plan for potential problems collaboratively; and did a very good job of Using native material found between Kempton Road and Cornelius communicating with the Avenue for the Cornelius Avenue embankment, saving $200,000. community and trying to resolve issues that came up during construction. Thank you." —James Gallagher, Sutter County Supervisor FUN FACTS The team finished the project 253 days early – if the Sacramento Kings played each one of those days, they would play enough games for three NBA seasons! TRUCKEE RIVER CANYON (TRC) REHABILITATION GOLD AWARD This five-mile pavement rehabilitation project runs on Interstate 80 within the Truckee River Canyon, starting in Nevada County and ending in Sierra County at the Nevada State Line. The project includes removal and PARTNERING LEADERSHIP Bruce Hartman SR. RE , CALTRANS D-3 (RETIRED) replacement of the existing roadway structural section with Portland Cement Salah Bouzid SR. RE, CALTRANS D-3 Concrete (PCC); replacement of metal beam guardrails, replacement of the Brian Roll SR. PM, GRANITE CONSTRUCTION, INC. existing median barrier, and rehabilitation of critical drainage systems. The Larry Bonine FACILITATOR narrow, winding, four-lane interstate serves a high volume of truck and recreational vehicle traffic, parallels the Truckee River on one side and has a BEST PRACTICES Professional Facilitator steep canyon wall on the other, providing very limited access and staging for Partnering Charter construction. Monthly Scorecard Field Team and STATS Subcontractors Attended EA 03-3A2204 Partnering Sessions CALTRANS District 3 Team Attended Partnering CONTRACTOR Granite Construction, Inc. Skills Development Together Dispute Resolution Ladder SCHEDULE 261 days – finished in 258 days Lessons Learned Session BUDGET $48 million – actual cost $47.4 million SAFETY 3 recordable incidents; no lost time accidents PARTNERING TIPS SUCCESS STORIES The team minimized the impact The team, winners of the AGC California 2011 "Constructor" award of staffing changes from the first for Meeting the Challenge of the Difficult Job – Heavy Engineering, finished to second season with a season 2 one year early despite challenges with weather, short work sessions, kick-off Partnering session weekend traffic, special events and severely limited workspace. Three attended by both season 1 and season 2 personnel. The RE cost reduction incentive proposals (CRIPs) helped improve traffic showed a slide show highlighting handling and construct the project in two seasons vs. three. Other season 1 challenges and Partnering successes include: accomplishments, giving the season 2 team a solid Obtaining CHP commitment for COZEEP services (even during introduction and an opportunity budget impasse) and NDOT assistance with Stateline traffic to discuss lessons learned with management; the season 1 staff. Resolving initial PCC quality and placement issues and defining a procedure for the remaining 22 lane miles of paving, increasing both "As a subcontractor, we felt production and quality; just as much a part of the Collaborating about the PCC mix deign to achieve expedited cure team as the relationship built times; between Granite Construction and Caltrans." Continuously refining the traffic charts to maximize work hours and —Richard C. Dethmers, contractor access, minimize delays to the traveling public and Nevada Barricade & Sign Co. provide a positive separation between traffic and construction; and Preserving the contract contingency shifted $1.8 million for a concrete shoulder barrier that will minimize future maintenance FUN FACTS worker exposure. Crews poured more than 37,000 yards of concrete 16 inches thick to form the new roadways. End to end, the trucks needed to haul this concrete would stretch nearly 25 miles! SILVER AWARD HIGHWAY 29 ROADWAY REPAIR This emergency repair project, located just north of the town of Lakeport on SR 29, replaced 40 lane miles of deteriorated open grade pavement with 0.1 PARTNERING LEADERSHIP Scott V. Baker RE, CALTRANS D-1 foot of rubberized HMA paving. The project required construction in a high Jason Woelbing PM, GRANITE CONST., INC. traffic / high visibility corridor with no allocation for work beyond the edge of Plus field leadership by: pavement. Joe Pomelia FOREMAN, GRANITE CONST. INC. John Swartz INSPECTOR, CALTRANS D-1 STATS EA 01-0A0704 BEST PRACTICES CALTRANS District 1 Partnering Charter CONTRACTOR Granite Construction, Inc. Dispute Resolution Ladder SCHEDULE 47 days – finished in 45 days Key Subcontractors Attending BUDGET $4.1 million – actual cost $3.75 million Partnering Sessions CHP, Caltrans Maintenance SAFETY No lost time accidents and Other Stakeholders Attending Partnering SUCCESS STORIES Sessions and Weekly The Partnering process created a system of priorities and cooperation Meetings that helped the team achieve their quality and safety objectives. The Weekly Team Off-site Lunches team implemented two field safety enhancements – the backup camera Recognition Program and the defibrillator. The quality of the RHMA-G received public Lessons Learned Session compliments. Other successes include: Arranging the closures to allow the paving operation to go directly PARTNERING TIPS from off ramp to on ramp, allowing use of the MTV (shuttle buggy) Archer Trucking, a subcontractor, and increasing the quality of the ramp paving; participated in partnering, Coordinating with CHP daily on extended lane closure lengths, attended weekly meetings and lower live lane speeds, speed tracking radar and pre-scheduled CHP elected to be on site every day to facilitate coordination. Archer escorts for hot plant deliveries; Trucking indicated that it is the Using state-of-the-art automatics on the paving machines resulting first time they had been asked to in fewer stops/starts and improving quality; and be a contributor to the Partnering process. A key subcontractor for Marketing to the public the benefits of recycled rubber (Caltrans a paving project, the active Public Affairs), including a newspaper feature about Granite's use of participation from Archer helped recycled grindings in a local park. the team succeed. "We presented 'high achievement' awards to Granite employees Joe Pomelia and Don Parmelly, and Caltrans employee John Swartz at our 'Closing the Loop' barbeque." —Scott Baker, RE FUN FACTS This project was completed in 45 days. If you worked on a project one hour a day for a year, you would have invested 365 hours – the equivalent of 45 eight-hour working days! ROUTE 101 – ALTON The project constructed interchange and frontage roads at the intersection of SILVER AWARD Highway 36 and Highway 101 near Alton. The site is nearly level with the Van Duzen and Eel Rivers within 0.5 miles of the project. STATS PARTNERING LEADERSHIP Geoffrey Wright RE, CALTRANS D-1 EA 01-290304 Bo Hughes PM, GRANITE CONSTRUCTION, INC. CALTRANS District 1 Sue Dyer FACILITATOR CONTRACTOR Granite Construction, Inc. SCHEDULE 356 days – finished in 356 days BUDGET $16 million – actual cost $16.1 million BEST PRACTICES SAFETY No lost time accidents Partnering Charter Professional Facilitator Dispute Resolution Ladder SUCCESS STORIES Bi-Monthly Scorecard The team started the project with a groundbreaking ceremony and Team Milestone Celebrations ended it with a ribbon-cutting! They worked together to resolve errors in the plans to allow for construction of permanent features the first time instead of a three stage incremental approach. Additional PARTNERING TIPS successes include: Throughout the construction of Resequencing the project and reducing the planned traffic control the mitigation site, the same events from three to one (3 days/24 hours/day) ; operators, grade setter and foreman worked with the same Eliminating an underground drainage system to avoid high-risk gas Caltrans representatives to plan line and fiber optic utilities and reducing costs $120,000; and execute the work, achieving consistency and a quality Redesigning the Wetlands Mitigation Feature to resolve problems in product. Subcontractor Selby a cost-efficient way; Soils served an integral role. Installing alternative conduit layouts recommended by the electrical subcontractor to avoid future maintenance issues; and Installing Memorial Highway signs in time for the dedication. "The partnership between Granite Construction and Caltrans has been outstanding in constructing the project ahead of schedule." — Richard Mullen, Caltrans Project Manager. FUN FACTS Alton is a very popular first name for men (#361 out of 1220) and also a very popular surname or last name for all people (#5105 out of 88799). (1990 U.S. Census) GOLD AWARD HIGHWAY 101 – SAN JOSE This 12.6-mile project, located on U.S. 101 in San Jose from Bernal Road to Guadalupe River Bridge, involves cold planing existing asphalt pavement and PARTNERING LEADERSHIP Moaid Laymoun RE, CALTRANS D-4 installing rubberized and open graded asphalt, a new electrical loop and James Brown PM, GRANITE CONSTR., INC. upgraded metal beam guardrail (MBGR). This A+B project included Bob Dorn FACILITATOR 1,360,000 sy of grinding and 190,000 tons of paving on both the mainline and the on/off ramps, and won a Success in Motion award in 2011. BEST PRACTICES STATS Professional Facilitator Partnering Charter EA 04-0C9014 Kick-off and Follow-up CALTRANS District 4 Sessions CONTRACTOR Granite Construction, Inc. Weekly Partnering Agenda SCHEDULE 90 days – finished in 73 days Item Field Team and BUDGET $23.9 million – actual cost $23.9 million Subcontractors Attended SAFETY 1 minor injury incident Partnering Sessions Dispute Resolution Ladder SUCCESS STORIES Lessons Learned Session The team worked together to anticipate and resolve issues on this Team Milestone Celebration expedited A+B project. The team successfully accomplished the following: Co-creating a solution (during the overnight shift) for the PARTNERING TIPS Caltrans and the contractor have unexpected steel wire mesh found during the cold planning to lead by example. During one operation; particular meeting between Expediting Caltrans mix design verification testing after both the Caltrans and the contractor Pleasanton and Santa Clara hot plants failed several times; regarding design issues, partnering was used and the Coordinating traffic control, closures and public notification for 79 issue was satisfactorily resolved separate lane closure charts and 67 individual ramps; and for all parties without a claim. Re-sequencing the work to better accommodate traffic by paving the number 3 lane from the inside, instead of as originally planned with lane number 4, resulted in keeping the ramps open. "Caltrans paving of Highway 101 praised for quick work, smooth results with little traffic disruption." —San Jose Mercury News FUN FACTS The team used 191,900 tons of Hot Mix Asphalt in 116 crew shifts! The new Pleasanton Hot Plant featured a double barrel mixer that saved thousands of dollars on gas usage by improving heat transfer from the burner. EASTBOUND I-580 HOV LANE, SEGMENT 2 GOLD AWARD The project widens nine miles of eastbound I-580 from Hacienda Drive overcrossing in Pleasanton to Portola Avenue overcrossing in Livermore. The fifth lane, an HOV lane, was constructed with minimal interference to heavy PARTNERING LEADERSHIP commuter traffic. The corridor, a major truck route to the Port of Oakland, Alfonso Gonzalez RE, CALTRANS D-4 Reza Yazdi AREA MGR, GHILOTTI CONSTRUCTION COMPANY required a box culvert extension in the Arroyo Los Positas creek with Larry Bonine FACILITATOR significant environmental restrictions. Three other projects located in the area, including one within the limits of the project, created coordination challenges. This Success in Motion winner completed 177 days early. BEST PRACTICES Professional Facilitator STATS Partnering Charter EA 04-290834 Monthly Scorecard CALTRANS District 4 Field Team and CONTRACTOR Ghilotti Construction Company Subcontractors Attended Partnering Sessions SCHEDULE 490 days – finished in 313 days Team Attended Partnering BUDGET $35.2 million – actual cost $35.16 million Skills Development Together SAFETY No lost time accidents Dispute Resolution Ladder Teambuilding events SUCCESS STORIES Lessons Learned Session The project team put a priority on schedule and opened to traffic one- half year ahead of schedule. The team successfully accomplished the following: PARTNERING TIPS Combining stages of work to accelerate schedule; Both parties agreed to complete Completing work within the active BART right-of-way with minimal the project without claims and disruption to train service; proved it when difficulties arose in the field. They increased the Controlling traffic and avoiding all incidents/accidents with the meeting frequency to enhance traveling public; communication. They instituted "50/50" split for resolving field Requesting and processing final bills and quantities for the prime issues with shared responsibility and seven subcontractors before the final PFE, minimizing the – if both parties were partially potential exceptions; and responsible, the team agreed to Establishing such effective split everything 50/50. This approach helped the team take coordination between the RE ownership of issues and resolve and Caltrans departments that them without project delays. the contractor learned to see Caltrans as a contributor "We conducted a joint Bocce instead of an obstacle to project Ball tournament at a local success. facility. Playing a sport that no one was good at was a great ice breaker." — Lakshmanan Kumar-Senthil and Reza Yazdi (awards application) FUN FACTS The job finished 177 days early – nearly one full elementary school year in California (180 days)! SILVER AWARD OAKLAND TOUCHDOWN PROJECT Located just west of the Bay Bridge toll plaza, the Oakland Touchdown project connects I-80 to the side-by-side decks of the new east span of the San PARTNERING LEADERSHIP Francisco Bay Bridge. The project involves building two roadway sections Ben Ghafghazi RE, CALTRANS D-4 and a new electrical substation, in addition to extensive relocation of Greg Allen PM, MCM CONSTRUCTION, INC. Sam Hassoun/Barbara Belk FACILITATOR underground utilities. The new bridge foundations are located in the bay mud under the waters of the San Francisco Bay, which is home to the most diverse communities of flora and fauna in the world. STATS BEST PRACTICES EA 04-0120L4 Partnering Charter CALTRANS Toll Bridge Professional Facilitator Executive Committee with CONTRACTOR MCM Construction, Inc. Monthly Meetings SCHEDULE 1022 days – finished in 1019 days Key Subcontractors Attending BUDGET $209 million – actual cost $196 million Partnering Sessions SAFETY Accident rate of less than 2% (11 recordable incidents, 8 Dispute Resolution Ladder lost time incidents and overall lost time rate of 3.72) Team Functions SUCCESS STORIES For all construction issues, regardless of liability or size, the team developed solutions that improved the quality of the project, without PARTNERING TIPS stakeholder conflict. The team incorporated the following agreements Excellence in Partnering is and innovations into the project: achieved through positive In the absence of a contract goal, Caltrans and MCM achieved an participation by all stakeholders. Small Business Enterprise (SBE) participation rate of 25%; Be prepared to contribute and develop solutions to mitigate Excavating from inside coffer dams instead of using open dredge for issues. Keeping all interested the water-based footings to improve production and eliminate parties equipped with environmental concerns to the sensitive bay environment; and information is critical to overall team success. Co-creating a procedure for installing and aligning the hinge pipe beams in a very confined space. "MCM Construction used small businesses in a big way." —Will Kempton, former Caltrans Director FUN FACTS Crews on this project placed 8,700 tons of reinforcing steel. Adult male elephants can reach weights of six to eight tons … the reinforcing steel would weigh the equivalent of nearly 1,200 elephants! HIGHWAY 101 HOV WIDENING – WINDSOR TO SANTA ROSA SILVER AWARD The project, a seven-mile segment in Sonoma County on Highway 101, widened the highway from four to six lanes from Santa Rosa to Windsor, PARTNERING LEADERSHIP including reconstruction of 27 ramps. Using a total of 280,000 tons of Ray Nozarri SR. CE, CALTRANS D-4 Randall Husch PM, O.C. JONES & SONS, INC. asphalt, this A+B project crossed three creeks and complied with numerous Sam Hassoun FACILITATOR environmental permits and restrictions. STATS BEST PRACTICES EA 04-0A10U4 Project Charter CALTRANS District 4 Professional Facilitator Kick-off and Quarterly CONTRACTOR O.C. Jones & Sons, Inc. Sessions SCHEDULE 264 days – finished in 264 days Team Partnering Skills BUDGET $86 million – actual cost $85.5 million Development SAFETY 6 recordable incidents, 2 lost time incidents Key Subcontractors and Stakeholders Attended SUCCESS STORIES Partnering Sessions Monthly Scorecard The team worked together to build partnerships within the team to Dispute Resolution Ladder keep the public informed and safe, and to keep the project moving on Special-purpose Partnering its expedited A+B schedule that delivered the project one year early. Session for Environmental Success stories include: Milestone Celebrations Involving Caltrans Design Engineers in the weekly meetings to expedite resolution of design issues and value engineering efforts; PARTNERING TIPS Using Caltrans Public Information Officer and the full bag of tools Work occurred at multiple locations, both day and night (meetings, press releases, online resources, newsletters) to shifts. To facilitate fast decision- proactively inform drivers about the project, especially prior to making, field–level staff was major traffic shifts and opening of the HOV lanes; authorized to make decisions. They were instrumental in Placing the pavement with no remedial work required for either resolution of on-going unsuitable smoothness or compaction for the total 31 lane miles of new road soil conditions problems at the surface; field level and minimizing delays and costs. Re-sequencing work to avoid areas with nesting birds and employing additional monitoring to fully assess construction "It was a collaborative effort impacts; and … to develop alternative Upgrading closed circuit TV equipment by using newer technology staging plans that would both and saving $187,000. enhance the traffic detours and reduce impacts to the traveling public." —John Maitland, Deputy Director Sonoma County Transportation Authority FUN FACTS Caltrans traffic counts show between 5,000 and 8,300 motorists travel parts of the route each hour. Approximately the same number of guests enter Disneyland each hour on a day the park is filled to its capacity of 100,000! SILVER AWARD HIGHWAY 12 – SOLANO COUNTY – ROADWAY REHABILITATION, WIDENING AND PROFILE CORRECTION The safety improvements and roadway rehabilitation project involves PARTNERING LEADERSHIP widening and profile correction on Highway 12 from Walters Road in Suisun Carl Butters RE, CALTRANS D-4 City to Currie Road, west of Rio Vista. The two-lane road across rural rolling Mike Hepner PM, RGW CONSTRUCTION, INC. Sam Hassoun FACILITATOR terrain significantly improved safety and stopping distances of this segment by providing standard 12 foot lanes and 8 foot shoulders, adding left-turn lanes and placing channelizers and rumble strips, and correcting vertical and BEST PRACTICES horizontal profile characteristics within the Montezuma Hills. The project Project Charter faced environmental challenges due to its proximity to the Delta, Sacramento Professional Facilitator Team Partnering Skills River and Carquinez Straits and its endangered species such as the red-legged Development salamander. Monthly Scorecard Dispute Resolution Ladder STATS Milestone Celebration EA 04-0T10U4 CALTRANS District 4 PARTNERING TIPS CONTRACTOR RGW Construction, Inc. The team listened to SCHEDULE 424 days – finished in 423 days recommendations from both the BUDGET $25.6 million – actual cost $23.4 million public outreach meetings and the SAFETY No lost time accidents Highway 12 Association, and integrated comments into the SUCCESS STORIES construction project, building communication and trust The team faced constraints caused by environmental work windows between the project team and (May to October), traffic handling and a three-phase construction key stakeholders. staging. The team also successfully implemented the following: Initiating daytime rubberized AC paving using one-way traffic control closures on the weekend and detours during the week to "The most valuable part of the Partnering Session: avoid temperature-related concerns with the planned nighttime 'Opening communications to paving; another level,' 'Discussing Amending the work to include surface grinding prior to the overlay challenges and solutions,' and between Walters and Lamie Rd., eliminating overlay of a failing 'Group interaction, surface and a ponding issue that would have been created by particularly discussing blocking the scuppers on the krail; challenges and solutions.'" —Participant feedback, Working closely with Caltrans Public Information Officer (PIO) to HWY 12 Partnering session provide timely and accurate information to drivers and stakeholders; and FUN FACTS Implementing a Value Engineering Change Proposal (VECP) for the The red-legged salamander contractor to perform additional testing at his cost, thus reducing the has a grey body and feet, and need for varied structural sections throughout the project, resulting bright red legs. They release in less material requirements and shared cost savings. noxious, sticky skin secretions to deter predators. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx! ROUTE 80, 680 AND 12 BRIDGE WIDENING, OVERLAY AND SILVER AWARD HOV EXPANSION The project, located east of Vallejo on Route 80, starts at the American Canyon Road overcrossing, ends at the Green Valley Creek Bridge in Fairfield PARTNERING and encompasses the Route 680 interchange to westbound 80 and the LEADERSHIP highway 12 connector ramps to and from Jameson Canyon. Work included Darin Kishiyama SR. TE, CALTRANS D-4 Lance Bushnell PM, GHILOTTI BROS., INC. geosynthetic embankment reinforcement, bridge and shoulder widening, Robert Dorn FACILITATOR median barrier installation, storm drain improvements, pavement overlay and construction of a new HOV lane. Meeting season project milestones was BEST PRACTICES critical because lower temperatures could impact asphalt paving. Project Charter STATS Professional Facilitator Kick-off and Follow-up EA 04-2409U4 Session CALTRANS District 4 Team Partnering Skills CONTRACTOR Ghilotti Bros., Inc. Development SCHEDULE 370 days – finished in 310 days Field Staff and Key BUDGET $23.6 million – actual cost $23.2 million Subcontractors Attended Partnering Sessions SAFETY 1 lost time incident Dispute Resolution Ladder Teambuilding Celebration SUCCESS STORIES PARTNERING TIPS (BBQ) The project, schedule sensitive with season project milestones and The team quickly closed out the prescribed four-stage construction, required good communication and issues outstanding, in response swift resolution of obstacles. The team achieved early completion of to the PFE, with one face-to-face the project by combining project stages, eliminating pavement meeting. Each team brought their hard-copy documentation in conforms and creating a safer completed roadway. Successes include: support of their position and Completing all asphalt paving during the 2009 dry season rather reached mutually satisfactory than splitting the paving in multiple stages; resolution. Expediting completion of the storm drain systems, asphalt paving overlays, thermoplastic striping and pavement marker installation, "Partnering on this project MBGR and asphalt dike installations for completion in one season has been a priority for both instead of two; Caltrans and all stakeholders Using a dual pavement skip grade control application on the paving to assure that challenges and machine to assist in the correction of non-uniform existing pavement obstacles are communicated undulations, producing improved finished quality over the planned and resolved quickly." — Darin Kishiyamaand uniform pavement overlay by correcting existing pavement Lance Bushnell (award settlement and cross-slope issues; and application) Opening the HOV lanes in advance of the adjacent east contract HOV lane, facilitating FUN FACTS a smooth transition for traffic Ghilotti Bros. held a flow for the completed I-80 teambuilding BBQ for the HOV project. paving crew at the end of shift –6am! Food served? BBQ chicken, tri-tip and ribs. Not your typical breakfast food! SILVER AWARD ROAD RESURFACING AND APPROACH SLAB REPLACEMENT The project rehabilitates the pavement on Interstate 80 from west of Pedrick Road Overcrossing outside Dixon to the Yolo County line along with the PARTNERING LEADERSHIP connector ramps on Highway 113. The project scope included grinding the Darin Kishiyama SR. TE, CALTRANS D-4 Joe Buckley PM, GRANITE CONSTR., INC. existing asphalt concrete, paving rubberized hot mix asphalt and overlaying Neal Flesner FACILITATOR with an open graded friction course. I-80 varies from three to six lanes in this rural part of Solano County and includes the on and off ramps to the BEST PRACTICES University of California, Davis campus and its Mondovi Center for Project Charter performing arts, requiring close coordination of ramp closures. Professional Facilitator Monthly Scorecards STATS Field Staff Attended EA 04-3A3004 Partnering Sessions CALTRANS District 4 Dispute Resolution Ladder CONTRACTOR Granite Construction, Inc. SCHEDULE 58 days – finished in 58 days BUDGET $15.2 million – actual cost $11.9 million PARTNERING TIPS SAFETY No lost time accidents To improve the process and to facilitate communication, the weekly meetings were moved to SUCCESS STORIES 5 PM and located near the This A+B project started with a 210 working day schedule until jobsite. This time allowed project Granite bid 58 days. The team worked together closely to complete the staff, quality control personnel project significantly earlier than planned. Key successes include: and contractor personnel to attend. Dedicating two hot mix facilities and two paving crews to produce and place approximately 125,000 tons of hot mix asphalt (HMA); Coordinating work hours and closures and keeping the public "Once we connected with you informed using the Highway Advisory Radio, fixed changeable and your Granite Construction message signs, a twitter account (@Pave80) and webpage colleagues working 'Granite's (Pave80.com); Extreme Makeover Road Establishing a process for collecting duplicate samples (HMA cores Edition on HWY 80 in Davis' our interactions were great … and on-site material) for independent testing in the event that it is clear that the entire Granite questioned Caltrans determination for quality incentive Granite construction team … payments; and 'walks the talk' of a deep Agreeing to a full connector ramp closure of Highway 113 that commitment to customer service and partnerships." would enable Meyers & Sons to efficiently and safely complete —Marjorie M. Dickinson, structures work without noticeable impact to the traveling public. Assistant Vice Chancellor, UC Davis FUN FACTS The Mondavi Center successfully hosted the first Gubernatorial Debate during the construction of this project with no noticeable traffic impacts from the project. MOONEY BOULEVARD 6-LANE PROJECT SILVER AWARD This project upgrades State Route 63 – Mooney Boulevard in Visalia from a four-lane to a six-lane divided highway, from Packwood Creek to Noble Avenue. Constructed in six stages, the work included new dual left-turn lanes PARTNERING LEADERSHIP and exclusive right-turn lanes at four major intersections, 20 bus bays at Shelley Maggard RE, CALTRANS D-6 major intersections and at mid-block locations, median islands and cold Chase McElree PM, TEICHERT CONSTRUCTION planning and asphalt replacement. This congested, urban thoroughfare has Paul Crotty FACILITATOR nearly 200 driveways, 580 businesses, 3 malls, one junior college and a historical burger establishment. Constructing additional lanes proved BEST PRACTICES challenging due to small working areas and limited working windows. Partnering Charter Professional Facilitator STATS Team Fundamentals of EA 06-307004 Partnering Training CALTRANS District 6 Monthly Surveys Dispute Resolution Ladder CONTRACTOR Teichert Construction SCHEDULE 268 days – finished in 268 days BUDGET $11.5 million – actual cost $10.1 million SAFETY 1 lost time incident PARTNERING TIPS SUCCESS STORIES Committed to great The team understood the importance of maintaining access to local communication, the project team businesses and satisfying the hundreds of property owners along the met with local merchant groups alignment. They were so successful, the project received the 2011 Local each month and carried business cards with the project hot line and Motion Award for Outstanding Road Project and the American Society informational website. The city, of Civil Engineers Fresno Chapter Large Project of the Year awards. utility companies and transit Successes include: agency had a standing invitation for the weekly progress meetings. Anticipating design vs. field condition problems and resolving them The team met with property before concrete placement, avoided costly rework owners and the public and quickly Improving the methods for achieving compaction to achieve a incorporated requests for minor quality product within severe time constraints; changes into the landscaping, parking and driveways. Acting like Upgrading the material of Class 2 AB for the roadway widening in good partners with the community lieu of higher labor costs, helping the team keep schedule helped this project complete commitments; successfully. Adding retaining curbs to facilitate matching new to existing concrete while making sidewalks accessible to those with disabilities (achieving ADA slope requirements); "This project was a prime example of what partnering Coordinating with Visalia Transit to reroute buses and relocate bus should be and what can be stops to maintain uninterrupted service; accomplished." Reconstructing landscaping, retaining walls, driveways and — Shelley Maggard and storefronts throughout the project to the satisfaction of each property Chase McElree (awards owner; and application) Empowering the knowledgeable field teams to make "best fit" field adjustments to minimize the time and cost impact of decision- making. FUN FACTS The project team joined in the festivities of Hot Rod Night, driving their classic cars with the Local Cruisers! SILVER AWARD SR 145 – COTTONWOOD This 6-mile ARRA rehabilitation project replaced existing asphalt concrete roadway, widened shoulders, improved intersection geometry and drainage PARTNERING and replaced Cottonwood Creek Bridge. This construction bid date for this LEADERSHIP rural, two-lane undivided highway was expedited and obstructions, such as Hugo Mejia SR. CE, CALTRANS D-6 irrigation lines and overhead utility poles initially planned to be relocated in Bob Towne AREA SUPERINTENDENT, W. JAXON BAKER advance, were added to the work. Most challenging, farmers had not yet Larry Miller FACILITATOR cleared the trees and vines from the right-of-way and a new harvest season coincided with the construction work. BEST PRACTICES STATS Partnering Charter EA 06-416104 Professional Facilitator CALTRANS District 6 Kick-off Session and Weekly Check-in CONTRACTOR W. Jaxon Baker Dispute Resolution Ladder SCHEDULE 111 days – finished in 101 days BUDGET $8.9 million – actual cost $8.0 million SAFETY No lost time accidents PARTNERING TIPS Most of the issues were resolved SUCCESS STORIES in steps one and two on the Farmers complained that earthwork operations would prevent them resolution ladder. At step three, from picking their grapes and fruit, resulting in thousands of dollars in when NOPC discussions were at a losses. The team met with the farmers and the State Senator's office standstill, both sides agreed to and created a strategy for co-existence by determining construction use a Dispute Resolution Advisor. Through this process, all issues work areas that would not affect the harvest. Other successes include: were resolved. Working around the irrigation lines, trees, vines and utility poles that were supposed to have been removed/relocated while the clearing, grubbing and earthwork operations were underway; "For a Farmer, Harvest is a Improving the finished ride quality by field-adjusting construction very crucial and nerve- slope stakes to provide a common cross-slope; and wracking time of year. We had Coordinating weekly with AT&T, who was behind on the pole and a problem and [due to] the information line relocations, to ensure that they stayed ahead of the cooperation of everyone involved, we arrived at a earthwork operation. solution that was agreeable to all. Thank you." —Carlo J. Rossi and Eldora B. Rossi, Farmers and Property Owners FUN FACTS Madera County's overall crop production is $1.5 billion. Top three commodities: 1 – Milk $294 million 2 – Grapes $233 million (table, wine and raisin) 3 –Almonds $212 million (including nuts and hulls) ROUTE 710 RECONSTRUCTION FROM 105 SEPARATION TO GOLD AWARD FIRESTONE BOULEVARD The corridor improvements along Route 710 from the 105 Separation to Firestone Boulevard include removal of concrete pavements, and the PARTNERING LEADERSHIP Hussein Saad RE CALTRANS D-7 installation of new center medians, guardrails, retaining walls, Travis Clausen PM, SULLY MILLER CONTRACTING COMPANY communication conduit, street lighting, overhead signs and asphalt William McCleish FACILITATOR pavement. One of the busiest trucking corridors in California, the schedule required all pavement rehabilitation work to be performed within 10 BEST PRACTICES designated "55-hour" extended weekend closures. The project, sandwiched Professional Facilitator between two other 710 pavement rehabilitation projects and bisected by the Partnering Charter Monthly Scorecard Los Angeles River, goes through the cities of Los Angeles, South Gate and Kick-off and Quarterly Lynwood. Sessions Field Team and STATS Subcontractors Attended EA 07-259904 Partnering Sessions CALTRANS District 7 Team Attended Partnering CONTRACTOR Sully Miller Contracting Company Skills Development Together Dispute Resolution Ladder SCHEDULE 608 days – finished in 597 days Adjacent Project Partnering BUDGET $35.3 million – actual cost $32.2 million Teambuilding events SAFETY 1 lost time incident Lessons Learned Session PARTNERING TIPS SUCCESS STORIES Coordination between the two The team completed the project with only seven extended weekend adjoining projects, and a fourth closures instead of the ten allowed by the contract, one less than the that shared some right-of-way, eight required to earn the incentive payment. Expediting this work required on-going communication and decreased the quantity of temporary striping, reduced inspection and commitment. The team COZEEP costs, increased productivity for the contractor and conducted a facilitated subcontractors and minimized the impact to the public. Other Partnering session with the successes include: project located to the North to discuss and resolve issues. Improving the method of cure on the retaining walls to ensure the high quality of strength and finish; "It is imperative that the Establishing joint expectations about paving in advance allowed leaders of both Caltrans and timely submission of test reports, reduced the amount of profile the contractors exemplify the grinding and giving ideas of partnering so that all a uniform and high- subordinates see that this is quality finish; and the way their entity is going to do business." Achieving the final —Hussein Saad and Travis pavement quality Clausen (award application) required for the contractor bonus. FUN FACTS Britney Spears married hubby Jason Alexander in Los Vegas for one 55-hour weekend (before it Britney's attorneys had it annulled). These L.A. closures lasted as long as one Hollywood/Vegas marriage! SILVER AWARD ROUTE 60 HOV WIDENING The 12.6 mile HOV widening project on Route 60 from the 57/60 interchange to the 605/60 interchange includes construction of HOV lanes, retaining walls and sound walls. Located in Los Angeles County, the project spans PARTNERING LEADERSHIP Patricia Galvan RE, CALTRANS D-7 several cities including Hacienda Heights, Puente Hills, Rowland Heights, Tim Wilson VICE PRESIDENT/PM Diamond Bar, City of Industry and Los Angeles, and affects the Ports of Los SKANSKA USA, CIVIL WEST Jim Eisenhart FACILITATOR Angeles and Long Beach. Limited work area and time constraints for lane closures required significant planning to allow on-time completion. STATS BEST PRACTICES EA 07-1294V4 Project Charter CALTRANS District 7 Professional Facilitator CONTRACTOR Skanska USA, Civil West Executive Committee SCHEDULE 815 days – finished in 815 days Kick-off and Follow-up Sessions BUDGET $122.6 million – actual cost $119.0 million Team Partnering Skills SAFETY 4 recordable incidents, 1 lost time accident Development Monthly Scorecard SUCCESS STORIES Dispute Resolution Ladder The team successfully navigated through a difficult challenge after Team Gatherings (pot-lucks, BBQs) realizing that the planned removal of only one-half of the bridges at a time could lead to stability issues for the other half. The team worked together with all stakeholders – CHP, design, local agencies and public information – to remove the bridges during a single shift with full freeway closures, minimizing impact to the traveling public PARTNERING TIPS significantly. Other successes included: Partnering starts with leadership. If the project leadership does not Modifying the shoulder widening structural section, resulting in a take an active role in the process, cost savings of $675,000, later used to repair and overlay the ramps partnering does not exist. and remaining shoulders; Implementing five Cost Reduction Incentive Proposals (CRIPs) for replacing rapid set concrete with Portland Cement Concrete pavement resulted in a combined cost savings of $1.8 million; and Re-sequencing the work to eliminate long weekend closures, "The mutual respect and reducing the impact to the public. understanding allowed sound judgment and decisions to be made." — Patricia Galvan and Tim Wilson (award application) FUN FACTS The CRIPs on this project saved $1.8 million – that is about 12% of the reported $15 million salary that Brad Pitt earned for Moneyball! ROUTE 710 IMPROVEMENTS (ROUTE 405 TO SILVER AWARD FIRESTONE BOULEVARD) The corridor improvements along Route710 stretch nine miles from I-405 to Firestone Boulevard include placement of "long-life" AC pavement, crack and PARTNERING LEADERSHIP seal of existing PCC pavement and replacement of rapid strength concrete Nazem Moussa SR. RE, CALTRANS D-7 Curt Waggoner PM, ATKINSON CONTRACTORS LP panels. Due to the high volume of traffic along this segment of I-710, much of Paul Crotty FACILITATOR the construction occurred overnight. The schedule required all pavement rehabilitation work to be performed within 34 designated "55-hour" extended BEST PRACTICES weekend closures with one-half of the freeway closed and both directions of Professional Facilitator traffic re-routed to the other half. Partnering Charter Kick-off and Follow-up STATS Sessions EA 07-183114 Subcontractors Attending CALTRANS District 7 Partnering CONTRACTOR Atkinson Contractors LP Dispute Resolution Ladder Monthly scorecard SCHEDULE 1340 days – finished in 842 days Lessons Learned Session BUDGET $162.9 million – actual cost $149.9 million SAFETY No lost time accidents PARTNERING TIPS SUCCESS STORIES Team building activities included With a contractual completion date of January 2013, the team agreed to team challenges. Groups brainstormed solutions to stretch to meet an approved baseline schedule with a completion in problems and the winning groups December 2010 – more than two years early! Other successes include: - the ones with the best ideas - Completing the pavement rehabilitation within 25 weekends – 9 less were recognized by the full team. than allowed by contract – minimizing impact to the travelling public; Identifying similar native material with compaction results to help reach required compaction during the extended weekend work "Partnering reminds us to periods; and mutually resolve any conflicts that may arise on the job Using Geogrid (plastic grid) material instead of Geotextile due to its using the partnering process superior performance in interlocking the base layer with the native guidelines instead of pointing material. fingers." — Nazem Moussa and Curt Waggoner (award application) FUN FACTS The project finished 498 days early! If the Dodgers played each of those days, they would be only 12 games short of three regular seasons of baseball! SILVER AWARD ROUTE 110 MEDIAN BARRIER The project, from the Golden State Freeway (I-5) in Los Angeles to Glenarm Street in Pasadena, replaced the existing barriers with new decorative PARTNERING concrete median barriers and side barriers and installed historic reproduction LEADERSHIP lighting. One of the busiest freeways in Southern California, the "Pasadena Hassan Azima RE, CALTRANS D-7 David Espinoza PM, COOPER/MYERS, A JV Freeway" crosses the cities of Pasadena, South Pasadena and Los Angeles and Bob Dorn FACILITATOR provides commuter access to downtown Los Angeles. Schedule constraints required much of the work to be completed in "55-hour weekends." BEST PRACTICES Partnering Charter STATS Professional Facilitator EA 07-2395U4 Dispute Resolution Ladder CALTRANS District 7 Kick-off and Follow-up CONTRACTOR Coopers/Myers A JV Sessions Partnering Surveys SCHEDULE 395 days – finished in 349 days Lessons Learned BUDGET $17.5 million – actual cost $16.5 million Team Shirts SAFETY No lost time accidents SUCCESS STORIES PARTNERING TIPS The team used "outside the box" thinking to deliver the project in nine Using the resolution ladder, issues were resolved at the "55-hour weekend" closures instead of the 20 allowed by the contract. lowest level possible. However, They successfully resolved other challenges including: in some cases, issues had to be Minimizing project risks by removing the existing tri-beam barrier, elevated. For example, the replacing the existing structural section and drainage behind K-rail contractor requested use of state right-of way storage. The RE and during the week, leaving only construction of the new concrete the construction engineer could barrier for the weekend work; not resolve the issue at their Conducting joint daytime inspections of upcoming work segments levels due to environmental constraints. It was elevated to to identify and resolve issues with field conditions in advance of the the Deputy Director for closures; and Construction level and resolved. Increasing the effectiveness of the traffic management plan with additional public awareness meetings, additional signal modifications and signing, working with Gold Line light rail "Partnering fostered operators to make them aware of the detours, and providing relationships that allowed physical barriers at ramps to protect from errant vehicles. success of the project." —Hassan Azima and David Espinoza (award application) FUN FACTS The Historic Arroyo Seco Parkway (aka Pasadena Freeway) is a federal scenic byway, the only one in Southern California. Opened in 1940, it was considered an engineering marvel, reducing travel time between Los Angeles and Pasadena from 27 to 12 minutes. STATE ROUTE 58 SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT SILVER AWARD SR-58 is a major east-west transportation corridor with a high percentage of truck traffic transporting goods in and out of the state. The project scope included widening and realigning a 13-mile segment of SR-58 centered on PARTNERING LEADERSHIP Taghreed Al-Khateeb RE, CALTRANS D-8 Kramer Junction, where SR-58 intersects with US-395, in San Bernardino Shane Moore PM, GRANITE CONSTRUCTION, INC. County. This section of SR-58 was a non-standard 2-lane highway between a Dennis Green FACILITATOR 4-lane freeway to the west and a 4-lane expressway to the east, and the project would close this gap. This 2-lane segment included an at-grade signalized BEST PRACTICES intersection at SR-58/US-395 (Kramer Junction), an at-grade crossing of the Partnering Charter Professional Facilitator Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) railroad west of that intersection, and Monthly Scorecard numerous uncontrolled at-grade access points. Field Staff and Subcontractors Participated in STATS Partnering Sessions EA 08-0E8504 Kick-off and Follow-up CALTRANS District 8 Sessions CONTRACTOR Granite Construction, Inc. Dispute Resolution Ladder Lessons Learned SCHEDULE 75 days – finished in 75 days BUDGET $12.9 million – actual cost $11.8 million SAFETY Minor injuries, No lost time accidents PARTNERING TIPS Open dialog and the spirit of SUCCESS STORIES partnering helped the team Midway through the project, an incident occurred while relocating k- achieve "win-win-win" solutions. The team developed and rail resulting in a 1+ hour traffic queue. After resolving the issue, the implemented solutions that fixed team worked with neighboring Caltrans districts to use permanent the problem, benefited both and portable message signs to alert motorists of the project before they Caltrans and the Contractor, and entered the project limits. The message said, "Expect delays on SR-58, allowed the team to build the project safely. use alternate routes." This approach successfully decreased traffic and minimized future delays. Other Partnering successes include: Coordinating the Granite work, Caltrans inspection and CHP "It is always better for enforcement on the very demanding 75 days schedule, (sometimes everyone concerned when we 24/7); are all rowing the boat in the same direction. Using an outside testing lab during the relocation of the District 8 —Anonymous (Comment on Central lab to meet project testing requirements; team's monthly scorecard)" Identifying and resolving potential coordination concerns with BNSF in advance; FUN FACTS Communicating requirements in advance to allow Caltrans staking With a project schedule of to keep up with regular 6-day work schedule despite State budget only 75 days, this team spent cuts; and almost $165,000 per day. Negotiating a CCO allowing Granite to deposit excess roadway What else has gone for excavation into a designated area within Caltrans right-of-way. $165,000? a) 1956 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, b) "Ruby Slippers" worn by the wicked witch of the east in the Wizard of Oz film, c) Three MVP Trophies earned by NBA great Dr. J Erving, d) all of the above? Answer: d. All of the above BRONZE AWARD INTERSTATE 215 WIDENING THROUGH SAN BERNARDINO (SEGMENT 3) The project, completely within San Bernardino city limits, adds two lanes in PARTNERING each direction between Orange Show Road and Rialto Avenue, including the LEADERSHIP I-10/I-210 interchange. Work included constructing braided ramps, three Manny Yogarajah RE, CALTRANS D-8 Dan Shaw PM, MCM CONSTRUCTION, INC. local road interchanges, and collector and distributor roads. Adjacent Robert Dorn FACILITATOR property included the Inland Center Mall, an auto dealership and other businesses. BEST PRACTICES STATS Partnering Charter EA 08-007174 Professional Facilitator CALTRANS District 8 Surveys CONTRACTOR MCM Construction, Inc. Dispute Resolution Ladder SCHEDULE 876 days – finished in 866 days Team Functions BUDGET $89.2 million – actual cost $85.5 million SAFETY No lost time accidents PARTNERING TIPS SUCCESS STORIES The weekly progress meetings, Contract award preceded the permit required from the Flood Control in which stakeholders routinely District to perform work on five bridges across Warm Creek and Lytle attended, were the key to Creek Channels. Despite expedited reviews, the permit took six project success. Monthly months and consumed all the schedule float. Creative staging allowed business meetings with SANBAG, the city and business the project to proceed and complete on schedule. Other successes owners helped keep them include: informed and involved in the Coordinating to work around 28 of the required 32 utility progress and success of the project. relocations that were concurrent with the work instead of complete at the time of notice-to-proceed (only 4 complete prior to the start of work); "There were many issues Completing construction of a large retaining wall within the "Order resolved directly in the of Work" requirements, despite a delay in contract award, avoiding field because of the successful relationship additional legal fees; MCM and Caltrans had Incorporating a new work access requirement that the interchange at developed." the Inland Center Mall be opened before Thanksgiving to minimize —Emilio Gutierrez, any impact on the Christmas shopping season, a requirement that Project/Field Engineer had been inadvertently left out of the contract; Changing the staging to significantly reduce delay with no adverse impact to traffic; and FUN FACTS In 2003, an average of Discussing submittals in person, and expediting corrections and 83,000 vehicles per day turn-around times to keep the project on-schedule. traveled through this section of I-215. This number is expected to grow to 135,000 vehicles per day by 2030. STATE ROUTE 52 / 67 INTERCHANGE GOLD AWARD This project, located in San Diego County, encompasses construction of a four-lane freeway and interchange in Santee on SR-52 from west of the PARTNERING LEADERSHIP Magnolia Avenue undercrossing to SR-52/67 separation and on SR-67 from Mike Moen SR. RE, CALTRANS D-11 the Bradley Avenue overcrossing to Woodside Avenue undercrossing. The David Sharpnack PM, SKANSKA USA, CIVIL WEST Dennis Green FACILITATOR project required construction of a major interchange at SR-52 and SR-67 that includes four connector bridges, roadway and drainage improvements and BEST PRACTICES eight Type 1 retaining walls, one sound wall, three MSE walls and one soil Partnering Charter nail wall. This project was one of three major projects within this corridor to Professional Facilitator extend the SR-52 to connect to the SR-67 and required 25,000 cy of Executive Team Kick-off and Follow-up structural concrete, 75,000 cy of roadway excavation, 281,000 cy of imported Sessions borrow, 37,640 cy of aggregate base and 26,200 tons of asphalt concrete. Field Team and Subcontractors Attended STATS Partnering Sessions EA 11-2T0004 Team Attended Partnering CALTRANS District 11 Skills Development Together CONTRACTOR Skanska USA, Civil West Dispute Resolution Ladder Monthly Scorecard SCHEDULE 690 days – finished in 689 days Lessons Learned BUDGET $72 million – actual cost $74 million Quarterly Team-building SAFETY No lost time accidents Internal Partnering Awards SUCCESS STORIES PARTNERING TIPS The team faced the challenge of constructing this project with a small The team gave internal Partnering footprint, a large amount of work to complete, limited access and an awards to individuals who best- demonstrated the values of accelerated schedule. The project team constructed four bridge Partnering. Skanska award connectors reaching heights 75 feet over City streets with the Gillespie recipients were voted by Caltrans Airport in El Cajon on the south and an overlapping contract to the staff and Caltrans award west. Other success stories include: recipients were voted by Skansa staff. Protecting a City of San Diego easement of a high-risk 66" diameter waterline constructed in 1940's that dissects the project; "Open communication and Completing the project with less than one CCO per $1 million in the willingness to work capital and with one cost reduction incentive proposal (CRIP) for together proved to be the $60,000; foundation for this endeavor Implementing a highway off-ramp detour onto a residential street and the public of Santee and surrounding communities constrained within a stipulated time frame; must be very pleased with the Promptly resolving the inevitable differing site conditions outcome … Well done!" encountered during pile-driving activities, allowing the —Jon Mehtlan, DRB subcontractor to keep working during negotiations; and Chairman Responding to complaints from the public regarding the three- weekend closures required to do the first phase of HMA Overlay by FUN FACTS performing the next phase of HMA Overlay in one day. The project team hosted a "Mock Close-Quarters Fire Rescue" for local first responders. Emergency crews responded to a mock report of persons trapped at the construction site. They simulated a deep-extraction rescue! SILVER AWARD I-15 MANAGED LANES – UNIT 1 SOUTH The project, one of three segments along the 20-mile section of new High Occupancy Toll lanes in San Diego, required close coordination with its PARTNERING LEADERSHIP neighboring projects with concurrent construction. Work included road Victor Mercado RE, CALTRANS D-11 widening, one bridge reconstruction, and eight retaining walls including Donnie Riese AREA MANAGER, FLATIRON WEST, INC. three tieback and soil nail walls, along a 4-mile section of I-15 in San Diego. Renee Hoekstra FACILITATOR All three projects had aggressive schedules and required both internal (to the project) coordination as well as coordination with the other projects. This BEST PRACTICES Design Sequence project involved a great number of stakeholders. Project Charter Professional Facilitator STATS Team Attended Partnering EA 11-2T0914 Skills Training Together CALTRANS District 11 Dispute Resolution Ladder CONTRACTOR Flatiron West, Inc. Quarterly Teambuilding (BBQ) SCHEDULE 654 days – finished in 654 days BUDGET $57.6 million – actual cost $56.6 million SAFETY No lost time accidents PARTNERING TIPS Even though the project was SUCCESS STORIES successful, the team felt that At the end of the project, the team looked back to realize how additional follow-up partnering important their commitment of "putting the project first" was to the sessions would have been success of the project. Other successes include: beneficial. At the time, the team opted out of additional sessions Coordinating work within a flight path of a runway operated by the due to workload, but looking United States Marine Corps at the Miramar Base and a SANDAG back, the team realized that the equipment installation contract; time investment would have been Committing to weekly meetings between counterparts at each level invaluable. of the resolution ladder to brief each other on the upcoming work and any issues that needed attention; "This work has required the close coordination, Working through the Design Sequencing challenges that caused cooperation, flexibility and the delays to the construction; and technical expertise of its Adapting current internal Caltrans practices to support this new project partners. The fact that delivery method. the project is a year ahead of schedule is a testimony to the dedication of the team and their spirit of cooperation." — Tedi Jackson, San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) FUN FACTS Interstate 15 (I-15) is the fourth-longest north–south Interstate Highway in the United States, traveling through the states of California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, and Montana from San Diego to the Canadian border! EASTBOUND 91 LANE ADDITION GOLD AWARD The 6-mile project adds an eastbound lane to the freeway, around Green River, near the county line between the 241 toll road and SR-71, improving a traffic chokepoint near Coal Canyon Road. Construction includes a new 12- PARTNERING LEADERSHIP foot lane with 12-foot shoulder of concrete pavement, seven soil nail walls and Karl Lindquist SR. RE, CALTRANS D-12 Tim Ross PM, BRUTOCO ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION four Type 1 retaining walls; widening five bridges; reconstructing ramps and Sam Hassoun FACILITATOR connectors; and upgrading the electrical, communication and traffic monitoring systems. This congested corridor hosts traffic volumes of 300,000 BEST PRACTICES vehicles per day, with heavy traffic until 11pm. Despite the urbanized setting, Partnering Charter the corridor has four wildlife crossings, and one bridge over a railway Professional Facilitator Team Attended Partnering crossing houses a significant bat population. This project received a "Success Skills Training Together in Motion" and the Orange County Engineering Council "Project Monthly Scorecard Achievement" awards in 2011. Dispute Resolution Ladder Kick-off and Follow-up STATS Sessions EA 12-0G0404 Lessons Learned CALTRANS District 12 PARTNERING TIPS CONTRACTOR Brutoco Engineering & Construction The team held Partnering SCHEDULE 437 days – finished in 437 days workshops near the jobsite to BUDGET $40 million – actual cost $39.3 million allow field personnel to attend. SAFETY 2 recordable incidents, No lost time accidents The team also recommends scheduling follow-up sessions SUCCESS STORIES early before individual calendars The team's high level of communication and trust were instrumental to get booked. the team achieving an accelerated schedule, overcoming challenges and "The results of this successful meeting the goals of the Partnering Charter. The project opened to partnering program are traffic in one year rather than two after the team redrew the staging evident because this project plans. They also re-sequenced the work to open the western one-mile was delivered sooner than the six months early, alleviating Orange County Transportation Authority original designers had (OCTA) and Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA) concerns of planned and within the set congestion and potential impact to SR 241 toll road revenue. Additional budget." successes include: —Charles Guess, OCTA Construction Program Relocating two unknown 16" gas lines without delaying the critical Manager path; Retesting lead contaminated soil and finding it suitable for reuse on FUN FACTS the project, eliminating trucking material to a Class 1 disposal The OCTA purchased the 10- facility and saving $275,000; and mile toll lane stretch of SR-91 Mitigating potential litigation with ranch property owner by from California Private providing continuous access for his customers. Transportation Co. for $207.5 million in 2003. This purchase voided the agreement with the state that no improvements could be made to 91 without the private company, eager to funnel traffic into the toll lanes – getting compensated! Without the purchase, this project and slashing 15 minutes off the commute would have never happened! SILVER AWARD I-5 GATEWAY PROJECT The project removed a classic bottleneck where five lanes transitioned down to three by improving a two-mile segment of the Santa Ana Freeway (I-5) from PARTNERING LEADERSHIP the Artesia Freeway (SR-91) to the Orange/Los Angeles County line through William Gilchrist RE, CALTRANS D-12 Buena Park. Construction included widening existing 6-lane free way to 12 Rick Finken PM, FCI/BALFOUR BEATTY, A JV lanes (main, carpool and auxiliary lanes); reconstructing six bridges; Larry Bonine FACILITATOR realigning railroads; and building 29 retaining walls and 1 pump plant. The gateway to Orange County from Los Angeles serves 330,000/day commuters, BEST PRACTICES hosts diverse large and small businesses and features higher than normal Partnering Charter Professional Facilitator ground water levels, and is in close proximity to a major interchange and a Dispute Resolution Ladder heavily traveled railroad. Lessons Learned Quarterly Scorecard STATS Team Attended Partnering EA 12-101674 Skills Training Together CALTRANS District 12 Kick-off and Follow-up CONTRACTOR FCI/Balfour Beatty, A JV Sessions SCHEDULE 1617 days – finished in 1617 days Teambuilding BUDGET $207 million – actual cost $204 million SAFETY 16 recordable incidents, 3 lost time incidents PARTNERING TIPS SUCCESS STORIES The team held lunches, The team worked together to resolve unexpected issues in a way that alternately hosted by Caltrans kept the project on time and under budget. They established excellent and the Contractor. Held on-site working relationships with the community and stakeholders (see Fun (near the co-located field trailers), these lunches provided Fact). Team successes include: a great opportunity for talking Constructing the work concurrently with the UPRR relocation work about things other than work to move the tracks to the location shown on the project plans; and strengthened the personal relationships. Conducting extensive dewatering and continuous adjustments to shifting subsurface conditions; Performing continuous night-time full freeway closures and various "The I-5 North project connector and ramp closures requiring communication between D-7 through the city of Buena and D12, CHP and the Buena Park and La Mirada emergency Park has turned out to be a services; dream project from the City's standpoint." Working with UPRR, BNSF and Metrolink to redirect train routes —Art Brown, Mayor, City of and close the UPRR tracks within the project limit for three weeks, Buena Park allowing the construction of a bridge; and Building a new bridge on Beach Boulevard while supporting AT&T fiber optic lines within a few feet of the new bridge deck. FUN FACTS On Manchester Blvd. in Buena Park, 10 car dealerships operate, most of them adjacent to the State right-of-way. The project team worked with the City to change the name to Auto Center Drive! CONGRATULATIONS SUCCESS IN MOTION AWARD WINNERS – 41 IN TOTAL! NORTH REGION Gold Silver Bronze EA # PROJECT CONTRACTOR 01-296104 Mad River Bridges Replacement Golden State Bridge, Inc. 01-380504 Russian River Bridge C.C. Myers, Inc. 01-3994U4 Hwy 29/175 CAPM Granite Construction, Inc. 01-464404 MBGR Upgrade -Lake County Dirt and Aggregate Interchange 01-499904 Hwy 101 Median Cable Barrier Ghilotti Bros., Inc. 01-475804 Matterhorn Granite Construction, Inc. 02-373104 Spanish Creek Bridge C.C. Myers, Inc. 02-4C4014 South Redding Six Lane Tullis, Inc. 03-0A6334 I-80 Donner 3 Concrete Rehab R&L Brosamer, Inc. 03-0F5904 Sac-05 Rehab Granite Construction, Inc. DISTRICT 4 Gold Silver Bronze EA # PROJECT CONTRACTOR 04-016014 92/880 Alameda 880 FCI /Granite JV 04-226144 Marin 101, Gap Closure Ghilotti Bros., Inc. 04-129654 Sonoma 101 HOV Lane Ghilotti Bros., Inc. 04-228594 Route 4 Widening O. C. Jones and Sons Inc. 04-263724 I-80 Widening Ghilotti Bros., Inc. 04-2649U4 Highway 17, Wet Pavement Pavex Construction Division CENTRAL REGION Gold Silver Bronze EA # PROJECT CONTRACTOR 05-349504 Airport Road Project Pavex Construction Company 05-0161E4 Prunedale Improvement Project Granite/MCM A JV 10-3A6604 Bradley Bridge Replacement RGW Construction Inc. DISTRICT 7 Gold Silver Bronze EA # PROJECT CONTRACTOR 07-117074 Construct HOV Lanes, Retaining Walls and Soundwalls Flatiron West, inc. 07-1219U4 Construct HOV Lanes on I-5 Freeway Flatiron West, inc. 07-166814 Replace Concrete and AC Pavement on Mainlines, Shoulders and Ramps Atkinson Contractors LP 07-2411U4 Construct Auxiliary Lanes and Modify Ramps Flatiron West, Inc. 07-253304 Cold Plane, AC Pavement, Rubberized HMA, Replace PCC Pavement Chumo Construction, Inc. 07-168004 Construct HOV Lanes and Connectors MCM/Security Paving A JV 07-1786A4 Modify and Realign On and Off Ramps With HMA C.A. Rasmussen, Inc. 07-188504 Construction of New On-Ramps For CA-134 Griffith Company 07-253804 Rehabilitate Concrete and Asphalt Concrete Pavement. J McLoughlin Engineering Co., Inc. DISTRICT 8 Gold Silver Bronze EA # PROJECT CONTRACTOR 08-227004 Big Bear Dam Arch Bridge Flatiron West, Inc. 08-4440U4 I-215 Segment 5& 11 MCM Construction, Inc. 08-378704 Colorado Bridge Replacement MCM Construction, Inc. 08-489304 I-40 Correct Roadway Heaving Sully Miler Contracting 08-497504 I-10 Etiwanda Ave Project / I-10 Aux Lane Project C.C. Myers, Inc. nominee 08-394704 Cushenbury Bridge Replacement SEMA Construction, Inc. DISTRICT 11 Gold Silver Bronze EA # PROJECT CONTRACTOR 11-2T0824 I-15/ Managed Lanes Atkinson Construction, LP 11-167894 Brawley Bypass Granite Construction, Inc. 11-2T0814 I-15/Managed Lanes Flatiron West, Inc. 11-2T0404 I-805/Carroll Canyon DAR/HOV Diablo Contractors, Inc. DISTRICT 12 Gold Silver Bronze EA # PROJECT CONTRACTOR 12-071624 405/22 West Country Connector Atkinson Construction 12-0F0324 SR-57 Widening CC Myers Inc. 12-0G3304 SR-91 Widening SEMA Construction, Inc. For more information on Caltrans Partnering Program, go to www.CaltransPartnering.com Or contact HQ Partnering Coordinator Ken Solak at firstname.lastname@example.com (916) 654-6020
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This is a small animation i did as an exercise to experiment and explore all the graphical possibilities of representing the idea of the SPHERE, always thinking in searching Gestalt and form. Its all done in 3d, but i was more interested in the graphical interest, flatten the surfaces, and only two colors, why more.The most difficult was to achieve the transitions between the different type of representation of the sphere, the morphing and metamorphosing. For the description of the project, all these frames plus the frames from the scenes that weren't included, visit - http://www.behance.net/gallery/Spherikal/3565597 It was all done in Cinema 4d R13, all with the Mograph module. Comositing and post in After Effects Sound : Brand X Music+ More details
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Just messing around one day, with my Canon Rebel XT DSLR. Oil being poured into a cup of water. Music by Bonobo // Recurring edit 4/24 6:30am: WOW! I'm glad everyone is liking this so much! I really didn't even put any thought into the timing or editing of this. i just went through the sequences i had, in order, and tossed some music over it. The frames are pretty much un-edited. I think I changed the white balance, and added some sharpness, and that was all. I wish I had an actual video camera, that could capture some of the things I see, when photographing my subjects. IMO the time-lapse looks neat, but does not do it justice. A lot of people are asking how I did this. It's pretty simple. I just put the camera on its' lowest jpeg setting, placed the camera into continuous mode, and locked the shutter down with my wired remote. The oil is being dumped into a tall cylindrical glass, with about a cup of water in it. The whole thing is lit from behind by a diffused clamp light.+ More details
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Metamaterials are artificial materials engineered to have properties that may not be found in nature. Метаматериа́л — материал, природные свойства которого обусловлены не столько природными физическими свойствами, сколько периодической микроструктурой создаваемой человеком. Song - Kings of Leon - Closer C4D and After Effects Dima Grubin footage.shutterstock.com/g/grubin You can buy some part of this video at stocks - tag: nano. nanotechnology. More parts soon and more videos here soon. Take a part in PauseFest - http://www.pausefest.com.au/ _______________________________________________ http://www.pausefest.com.au/dima-grubin-blr/+ More details
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The theme of this study is the mechanical transformation, a change of the form. The 5 items that have arisen here, fall back in form and process of change on analogies from nature. A sphere, the simplest geometric shape that we know, serves as a starting form.+ More details
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This is an audio-reactive algorithmic visual art piece that uses the concept of charged particles and flocking to simulate a organism that is alive and composed of micro-organisms. The movement is rather pleasing thus I decided to exhibit the algorithm in a rather catchy video art fashion. Enjoy. Audio: Jon Hopkins - "A Drifting Up" More at syedrezaali.com+ More details
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Personal experimental project i made. Just wanted to do some stuff growing out of sphere and i ended up with this. Turn the speakers on please. Software used: Cinema 4D, After Effects and GarageBand http://twistedpoly.com/ http://twitter.com/twistedpoly+ More details
Entropy is the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system, and a measure of the loss of information in a transmitted signal or message. It is heat death, it is inevitable social decline and degeneration- in a closed system, it is accountable chaos. 2000 pictures compose this piece- that is, 2000 perfect different water drops into which we mapped an animation. Droplets that behave and look strangely similar at the stage of less entropy, and become more disordely as they splash. You can check out the making of here: vimeo.com/65155966 We have also started a new blog with this piece, with an in-depth post about it. You can read the long version here: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-long-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-larga/ or else have a peek to the shorter one: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-short-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-corta/ Credits: Direction & Production: Physalia Comissioned: IdN Magazine Audio: Cypheraudio Programming: Jordi Planas & Physalia Making Of Pictures: Albert Treblah ------------------------------------------------------- www.physaliastudio.com Join Physalia: facebook.com/pages/Physalia-Studio/312137322501?ref=ts+ More details
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ORB was an experimental project by the multimedia team. The brief was simple...take a sphere, and through the use of animation, lighting and textures, make the sphere interesting. We used a variety of software with extremely interesting and inspirational results.+ More details
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An American Heart Association initiative aimed at getting people to the hospital faster after a heart attack in Dallas County is showing positive results.
The program, started in late 2010, has shaved 33 minutes off the time from when a heart attack patient calls an ambulance to the time doctors are able to restore blood flow to the part of the heart muscle damaged during a heart attack. That number has dropped 17 percent, from 195 minutes to 162 minutes.
The initiative is being funded through a two-year, $3.5 million grant from W.W. Caruth Jr. Foundation of Communities Foundation of Texas.
At least 30 people suffer a heart attack each day in Dallas County, according to the heart association.
The initiative focused on coordinating and streamlining protocols to reduce the amount of time it takes for heart attack patients to get treatment. It included collaboration between all 15 hospitals and 24 EMS providers in Dallas County.
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THE SENSORY garden which is being built in Sanders Park by Bromsgrove Rotary Club to celebrate its 75th anniversary has moved a step closer after a £2,000 donation.
The cash has come from construction firm Wates Living Space and the West Mercia Housing Group (WMHG), which are working together, along with Bromsgrove District Housing Trust (BDHT), for the Perryfields development.
The coffers for the Diamond Sensory Garden, which will cost around £20,000 to build, are now up to £15,000 with that donation, along with £10,000 from the Len Giles Trust and other contributions.
Len Giles was a long-standing Bromsgrove shoe shop owner who was a Rotarian for many years.
Having no relatives or children, he left his residual estate to form a trust for the benefit of the people of Bromsgrove district.
The Diamond Sensory Garden is in the shape of the Rotary wheel and features pathways, a seating area, a box hedge, a shallow water channel and a central wishing well.
There is also a variety of plants in the sensory garden which will stimulate the five senses - sound, smell, hearing, touch and taste.
Although it can be enjoyed by everyone, it will be particularly beneficial to the visually impaired and those with dementia, among others.
Individuals and businesses which have contributed to the project will be featured on a special roll of honour.
Speaking about the £2,000 donation, Bromsgrove Rotary Club president Ken Pheysey said: "This support will help our Rotary Club make progress with the provision of the unique Rotary Diamond Sensory Garden, which has been designed for you all to enjoy - it will provide access for everyone.
"Thank you for being so generous."
Shane Robinson, the project manager at Perryfields, said: "We at Wates are very-much community minded and when we heard about the Rotary Diamond Sensory Garden project, we wanted to be part of it and help where we could.
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They consist of one and two bedroom flats, two, three and four bedroom houses and two bedroom houses.
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Washington DC Medical Marijuana Industry Taking Shape as City Chooses Cannabis Cultivation Finalists
Medical cannabis will take a big step forward in Washington DC on Friday, when the Department of Health plans to unveil the final list of applicants that can register to run cultivation centers.
The announcement will pave the way for medical cannabis in DC after a series of delays that cast doubt on the future of MMJ in the city. The launch of the District's MMJ program will create a sizable market for marijuana-related businesses and entrepreneurs looking to get involved in the medical cannabis industry.
Once the finalists for grow sites are named, they can submit additional documentation and, if everything goes as planned, get the go-ahead in coming weeks to open a cultivation center. They can then begin growing marijuana that will eventually be sold in dispensaries, which could open as early as this summer.
Officials overseeing the MMJ program will pass along their recommendations on dispensary applicants this Friday to the director of the health department, who will make a final decision by June 8 on which groups can open cannabis centers.
Still, some observers warn that more delays could be on the horizon, given that the Department of Health has repeatedly missed its own deadlines in the past.
"At this point, we are excited to finally put the long, drawn-out application process behind us and start focusing on getting patients the medicine they need," said Jason Klein, an attorney in Washington DC who focuses on medical marijuana cases. "But be warned: DC is not 'open for cannabusiness' yet. There is still more work that needs to be done. The goal is late summer 2012."
That said, the launch of DC's marijuana program is already creating tangible opportunities for some companies. WeGrow, a national hydroponics chain that is expanding rapidly in states with medical cannabis laws, will open its first Washington DC "super store" on Friday to meet the needs of this new market.
The company claims its 2,500-square-foot location will be the first large hydroponics store on the East Coast to "openly" focus on the medical marijuana industry.
The store will sell equipment and products needed to grow marijuana plants indoors and feature live grow room demonstrations as well as classes tied to cultivation, though it will not have any marijuana on the premises. (Dhar Mann, the founder of weGrow, recently wrote a column for MMJ Business Daily about how to make money in medical marijuana)
Washington DC will allow as many as 10 marijuana cultivation sites in the city, though officials recently voted to limit the number of grow operations in any one ward to six after residents expressed fears that MMJ businesses would overwhelm their neighborhoods.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Kick ass,
This review is from: The Fallout (Audio CD)
Simply a great album, from the opening track there are obvious links with Nickelback, however, this band have the ability to go almost ballad like at times. Sick and Tired, Deny, Wasting My Time are all superb but picking a bad song from this album is impossible. Buy this if you like Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, the heavier Matchbox Twenty stuff. This album really rocks and despite having had it for 6 months it is still one of the most played cds in my collection
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent album,
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I bought this a few weeks ago not really knowing much about they're music, all i knew was that they were excellent when they supported nicklebak at wembley early in december! So i bought this album a few weeks after that, and it blew me away, the songs are quite short but name me a band that write long songs in this genre! However what they do write is excellent with great riffs and a good mix in speed between the songs complement the lead singers obvious talent for singing. Ive heard some criticism that they sound alot like nicklebak but seeing as the album was co-written and produced by chad kroeger what do you expect! so all in all if you like any of what nicklebak have produced you'll love this!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Default is without a fault!,
This review is from: The Fallout (Audio CD)
I really didnt know what to expect from this album, however it came as a pleasant surprise that it is actually a superb album. If you like groups such as Nickelback, The Calling, or Creed, you are sure to like this album. It has some great songs, such as: "Sick and Tired", "Deny", "Wasting my Time", "Somewhere" and finally "Live a Lie". As you can see, this album has many great songs to offer..i just hope more of them are released in order to do this album justice. You really cant lose with this album!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A very promising debut,
Mr. N. J. Henderson (Bude, Cornwall) - See all my reviews
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Here's another quality, modern, Canadian rock quartet to file alongside the likes of Nickelback and Theory Of A Deadman.
In fact, Chad Kroeger deserves a litte credit here, he discovered them after listening to their demo CD, and promptly helped them with support and production on this record.
Suddenly Canadian rock had a new band to talk about, they burst onto the rock scene with hit singles such as "Deny" and "Wasting My Time."
It's fairly straightforward hard rock with a commerical edge, but at a time when Nickelback where dominating airwaves Default fitted in just perfectly.
It's a record that has earned Default a considerable fan base in Canada and the US, but hasn't really caught on across the shores, shame really, this album fits it very nicely on the hard rock shelf.
Best Track: "Deny"
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! Simply that!,
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This album has anything that anyone could want out of listening to music. The variety moves from hard, upbeat songs like 'Sick and Tired' that'll have you up and out of your seat down to 'One Late Night' that slows things down and is easy on the ears late at night. This is a fantastic debut album and can be listened to anytime anywhere for young infants or your granny!
5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Wonderful,
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This is the best album i've heard in ages! Completely wipes away memories of having to deal with bad bands like, Linkin Park and all that "Metal"
But anyway... Back to the real musicians! Defaults debut album "The Fallout" is superb! I really love "Deny" "Live A Lie" And "Wasting My Time" Superb tracks! But one sticks out in particular "Let you Down" I'm sure all default fans alike can see the personal significance in the lyrics! The song on a personal note really moves me (i went out and learned it on guitar) it perfectly but discreetly shows a lost love found and made happy!
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Default's Album- The Fallout,
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Having just finished a sell out tour with Nickelback, Default have started going solo, and with there new song "Wasting My Time" about to hit the charts, Default are beginning to take off. The album is the best yet, the tunes are infectious, and many songs will have u tapping your toes and whistling them for hours. The type of music is much similar to Nickelback, not too heavy rock, but a certain type of rock which is hard to find. The lead singers voice (Dallas Smith) is soothing,calming,and hits every note to perfection, an all round great album, a must have for any soft rock fan.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic CD!,
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This has to be one of they best albums ever made! The songs are fantastic and have great bass lines (Which is good as I play the Bass!) They have a sound like Nickelback. It is well worth getting if you are a fun Nickelback as you will love it! You may know track 2 called Deny if you have NHL 2003 on PS2/PC as it is on there!
5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite album,
Christopher Brown (Banbury, Oxfordshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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As soon as I finished listening to this album for the first time i only wanted to listen to it again. This is my favourite album of all time because every track is as good as the last. Ever since hearing it I have become a big default fan and bought 'Elocation' (Also 5 Stars) and have just ordered 'One Thing Remains'
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!,
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This is Default's first album, and it certainly doesn't disappoint! This album was co-written by Nickelback's Chad Kroeger and definitely has some of his influences in there! This album has some Grunge elements along with some Hard Rock and a few ballads. Awesome!
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