Infrastructure / Utilities

Our public infrastructure improvement work has generally been a response to facilitate proposed development, whether a specific site or regional development. The purposes often vary from providing street connectivity, improving pedestrian and vehicle safety, accommodating increased traffic impacts, improving the condition of roadways, providing regional storm water treatment, rerouting existing systems, developing sewer systems in areas previously not served, to extending and connecting water utility grids. However, the end result is the provision of new or upgraded public street and utility infrastructure to ensure safe access and adequate utility services for the developing community, be it one new building or regional development. Balzhiser & Hubbard Engineers has facilitated and designed public street and utility infrastructure improvements in 10 Oregon municipalities in the past 13 years. We have provided our services to municipalities directly in response to competitive proposal requests or through on-call services agreements. And, we have provided services for the development of public infrastructure in association with private, site development projects. Our expertise includes planning, design surveys, design, bid period assistance, construction administration and inspection, and as-built records. Project experience includes new public streets and alleys; new public storm drain systems, including regional stormwater treatment facilities; new sanitary sewer systems, including trunk-line systems; rehabilitation of existing wastewater systems; and new public water lines.

Somerset Road and Brandis Street, Public Street and Utility Improvements

This project created the access to Albany's new Timber Ridge School. The project was a joint public infra­structure project with the Greater Albany Public School District, the City of Albany, and an adjacent property owner, via the formation of a[..]
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Cottage Grove, R Street, Public Street and Utility Improvement

R Street was developed in association with the construction of the new high school in Cottage Grove. The new roadway extended the existing R Street 2,065 linear feet along the back side of the school to provide connectivity between two local st[..]
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Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway, Trunk Sanitary Sewer & Street Lighting

Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway is a new, four-lane arterial developed by the City of Springfield and Lane County in support of the relocation of a major hospital/medical center campus. A median strip in the Parkway will accommodate a future Bus[..]
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