Bennett Engineering Services + Y&C Transportation Consultants (DBE/SBE)

BEN|EN is excited to announce the City of Elk Grove has won a Project Award from the ASCE - Sacramento Section for the Arterial Roads Rehabilitation and Bicycle Lane Improvements project under the Bikeways & Trails category! This project is owned by the City of Elk Grove with Leo Rubio as the Project Manager and Carlton Allen, P.E. as Lead Project Engineer for civil engineering services. Thank you to our hardworking staff for bringing this project to our community! The project team included GEOCON, HDR | WRECO, Environmental Science Associates, UNICO Engineering, Inc., and Bess Utility Solutions. The team provided civil engineering services including preliminary engineering, environmental documentation, and final plans, specifications, and estimates for this federally funded project. The project included minor roadway widening to accommodate bicycle lanes, pavement rehabilitation, striping, signage, and minor ditch grading associated with the widening. It also replaces three existing culverts and adds a mid-block crossing with solar-powered rectangular rapid flashing beacons, a pedestrian refuge island, appropriate curb ramps, and a new sidewalk on the west side of Waterman Road. #ProjectAward #ProjectoftheYear #ASCE #transportation #civilengineering

BEN|EN is excited to announce the City of Elk Grove won a Project Award from the ASCE - Sacramento Section for the Kammerer Road Reconstruction project under the Roadway & Highway category! This project is owned by the City of Elk Grove with Leo Rubio as the Project Manager and Carlton Allen, P.E. as Lead Project Engineer for civil engineering services. Thank you to our hardworking staff for bringing this project to our community! The Kammerer Road Reconstruction is a 2.3-mile project part of the Capital Southeast Connector project?- a 34-mile expressway spanning from Interstate 5, south of Elk Grove, to Highway 50 in El Dorado Hills. The project team included GEOCON, VE Solutions, Fehr & Peers, UNICO Engineering, Inc., Callander Associates - CALA, and West Yost. The team provided professional services?including preliminary engineering, environmental permit coordination, right-of-way coordination, traffic studies, drainage studies, utility relocations and final plans, specifications, and estimates. The first phase reconstructed the existing road to its ultimate horizontal and vertical alignments to accommodate future widening. It included roadway realignment and profile grade adjustments, one travel lane in each direction, shoulders, a median with turn lanes, paving, striping, signage, storm drainpipes, drainage inlets, drainage basin, ditch grading, abandonment of three agricultural water wells, and demolition of an existing AT&T building and cell tower. #ProjectAward #ASCE #ProjectoftheYear #transportation #civilengineering

The City of West Sacramento hosted its groundbreaking ceremony for the State Streets Pavement Rehabilitation project in September. Carlton Allen, P.E., our Director of Transportation and Project Manager for the civil engineering, attended the event. The project comes after completing water and sewer projects in the State Street neighborhood. The City desired to improve the conditions for active transportation in the area, which consists of pavement rehabilitation and striping, adding ADA-compliant ramps, and fixing curbs and gutters.? BEN|EN provided project management, pavement evaluation, preliminary engineering, utility coordination, plans, specifications, estimates, constructability review, bidding support, and is providing design support during construction. #Groundbreaking #GroundbreakingCeremony #PavementRehabilitation #WestSacramento #Transportation

BEN|EN had a blast this weekend at our annual picnic. We hosted food, fun, and games for our employees and their loved ones! This year the theme was Carnival. Thank you everybody who came out with family and friends. It was a lovely late summer weekend to kick back and have some fun! #picnic #carnival #teambuilding #funandgames #employeeappreciation

Last Saturday, BEN|EN joined hundreds of others for the American Heart Association’s Sacramento Heart & Stroke Walk! Thank you to our staff and everyone else who donated towards this cause and participated in the walk!?Thanks to your contributions and the company match, we raised $2,595 and crushed our fundraising goal!?Together we are helping save lives! Here are some amazing pictures from the event: #heartwalk #hearthealth #heartandstrokewalk #givingback #community #strongertogether

BEN|EN is excited to announce we have won a Project of the Year Award by the APWA Sacramento Chapter for the West Gibson Road Safe Routes to School – Bicycle and Pedestrian Mobility Improvements project under the Transportation category! This project is owned by CITY OF WOODLAND, CALIFORNIA. Our Project Manager Lizette Martinez, PE (Lizette Zavala) managed the civil engineering services for this project. Here is a brief description of the project: The corridor along W. Gibson Road experienced significant bicycle and pedestrian safety issues. This project aimed to reduce accidents and decrease vehicle miles of travel as many people ride bicycles in this community. Due to the high traffic volume, land use designation, and width of the road, reducing the number of travel lanes via a road diet and adding buffered bicycle lanes was determined the best alternative for the project area. This provided separation from traffic for bicyclists and slowed vehicle speeds while still providing a sufficient level of service for the corridor. The City worked with the school community, residents, and stakeholders to gather information to increase safety around schools in the project area. BEN|EN provided engineering support services, including survey and topographic mapping, utility coordination, road diet design, sidewalk improvements in spot locations, ADA-compliant curb ramp design, signal modifications, pavement evaluation, and pavement resurfacing recommendations using Full-Depth Recycling/Reclamation. Thank you to our hardworking staff for bringing this project to our community, along with UNICO Engineering, Inc. and GPA Consulting.

?? Ceremonial Groundbreaking for the State Streets Pavement Rehabilitation Project! ?? Today, the City of West Sacramento celebrated a major milestone with the ceremonial groundbreaking of the State Streets Pavement Rehabilitation Project at Willie DaPrato Park! This project will transform the area with 6 lane miles of Hot Mix Asphalt, 5 lane miles of slurry seal, and 2.5 miles of curb and gutter repair—a critical step toward improving our community’s infrastructure. In addition to these improvements, the project will replace 31 curb ramps and add conduit for future city infrastructure. This initiative will benefit not only the residents but everyone who enjoys the beautiful parks in the area. A huge thanks to the amazing team and partners who have brought us this far. I look forward to continuing our work together to complete this project and make a lasting impact on our community. ? Bennett Engineering Services + Y&C Transportation Consultants (DBE/SBE) ? George Reed, Inc. ? Gannett Fleming ? Special thanks to groundbreaking team: Paul Hosley, Nabeelah Tran, Breanna James, Bernard Corrales, EIT, and Emily Chavez. I absolutely could not have done it without you. ?? Steve Genereux ? Carlton Allen, P.E. ? Me ? Amber Wallace P.E. ? Joe Scali ?? Verna Sulpizio Hull ? Mayor Martha Guerrero, LCSW ? Me ? Quirina Orozco ? Oscar Villegas ? Ariana Adame ?? Project Engagement Photo Credit: Breanna James #StateStreetsProject #Groundbreaking #CityImprovements #CommunityImpact #Partnership #Teamwork #PavementRehabilitation #Infrastructure #ConstructionManagement #CivilEngineering

BEN|EN is excited to announce we have won a Project of the Year Award by the APWA Sacramento Chapter for the Shenandoah Road Rehabilitation project under the Transportation category! This project is owned by Amador County. Our Director of Transportation Services Carlton Allen, P.E. was the Project Manager for civil engineering services for this project. Here is a brief description of the project: This road provides access to several wineries in the area. Full-depth reclamation (FDR) was required to rehabilitate the road often frequented by farming equipment, delivery trucks, and tourists, with especially heavy traffic during the harvest season. As Project Manager, the firm provided plans, specifications, and estimate, utility coordination, bidding and construction assistance, and preliminary engineering with GEOCON to evaluate subsurface conditions of the road via geotechnical investigation. Approximately 3.75 miles of road were rehabilitated and driveway conforms were added before the fall season began. Thank you to our hardworking staff and team for bringing this project to our community!

BEN|EN is excited to announce we have won a Project of the Year Award by the APWA Sacramento Chapter for the Mather Field Road Rehabilitation project under the Transportation category! This project is owned by City of Rancho Cordova. Our Project Manager Lizette Martinez, PE (Lizette Zavala) managed the design and other civil engineering services of this project. Here is a brief description of the project: BEN|EN provided engineering support services to City staff for the rehabilitation. The project rehabilitated the pavement on Mather Field Road—a four-lane roadway—from Folsom Boulevard to International Drive. The total length of the project was approximately one mile and included aerial imagery with Lidar survey,?topographic mapping, utility coordination, re-design of the existing median, landscape and irrigation design, pavement evaluation, and resurfacing recommendations. By using the point cloud generated by Lidar for survey, areas of distress on the pavement were identified by manipulating the colors of slopes in AutoCAD. Traffic signal design improvements were performed by our traffic division at six intersections, including replacement of the existing damaged detector loops with a video/radar detection system, upgrading existing pedestrian pushbuttons to Accessible Pedestrian Signals, and upgrading existing 8-inch signal heads to 12-inch signal heads. Thank you to our hardworking staff for bringing this project to our community, along with GEOCON, UNICO Engineering, Inc., GPA Consulting, and HELIX Environmental Planning, Inc.!

BEN|EN is excited to announce we have won a Project of the Year Award by the APWA Sacramento Chapter for the Natoma Alley Sewer Rehabilitation project under the Environment – Waste category! This project is owned by City of Folsom. Our Vice President, Stacey Bennett-Lynch, PE was the Project Manager for the civil engineering services of this project. Here is a brief description of the project: The City of Folsom required rehabilitation and relocation of sewer system facilities in an older part of the city. Due to abandonment of City alleyways, many of the sewer mains became encumbered by nearby residences and businesses, severely impacting the City’s access to regularly operate and maintain sewer facilities. This project included the rehabilitation and upsizing of one of the existing sewer mains to an 8-inch pipe, upsizing and relocation of another sewer main into current City right-of-way, and reestablishment of each of the existing sewer laterals to reconnect all private residents and business owners to the system. The team worked closely with the City to evaluate and prepare an alternatives analysis for the alignment of the sewer mains to enable better access for ongoing maintenance. One of the key components of this project included the mitigation of impacts to property owners within the project area. Thank you to our hardworking staff for bringing this project to our community, along with GEOCON and UNICO Engineering, Inc.!