Denver Public Works and Parks and Recreation set out to protect several neighborhoods from potential flooding via a complex program known as Platte to Park Hill: Stormwater Systems. The program consists of four separate projects and uses two alternative delivery methods. Upon completion in 2020, the four projects will create new detention areas at two local golf courses, a linear greenway and open channel, and an enlarged outfall that feeds into the Platte River – the final stop for water flows in the drainage basin. The program aims to meet city goals of providing flood protection, increasing neighborhood connectivity, enhancing public spaces, and implementing green infrastructure to improve water quality. Despite these unified goals, the projects are in different locations, with their own complexities, elements, stakeholders, costs, and staff. In this presentation, the public works team will share how they tackled the complex initiative using two delivery methods – design-build and integrated contractor (IC), a city term. They will provide insight into alternative delivery and highlight challenges faced and lessons learned from working within urbanized and trafficked areas and how communication among and between project teams and with nearby communities was critical to the program’s success.

Proficiency Level

Applied

Learning Objectives
  1. Create and deploy integrated design-build/IC teams across multiple projects, especially looking at environmental, stakeholder, and utility needs
  2. Collaborate with and engage multiple project partners to achieve one goal via alternative delivery methods
  3. Prepare organizations to handle design-build and IC projects utilizing key components and advantages for each

Contributor/Source

Ryan Crum;Amy Foreman;Jason Rutt;Sam Stevens

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