From the American Public Works Association:
Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center Project Named APWA 2015 Public Works Project of the Year
KANSAS CITY, MO. – The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center Project was recently named a 2015 Public Works Project of the Year by the American Public Works Association (APWA). This year, the team of winners includes the City of Anaheim, California as the managing agency; Clark Construction as the primary contractor; and Parsons Brinckerhoff with HOK as the primary consultant. These organizations will be presented with the award during APWA’s 2015 International Public Works Congress & Exposition Awards Ceremony in Phoenix, Arizona during August 30-September 2, 2015.
The APWA Public Works Projects of the Year awards are presented annually to promote excellence in the management and administration of public works projects, recognizing the alliance between the managing agency, contractor, consultant and their cooperative achievements. APWA selected projects in five categories: Disaster/Emergency, Environment, Historical Restoration, Structures and Transportation. The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center Project is being awarded the Project of the Year Award in the Structures category, at a cost greater than $75 million.
The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) is the first LEED Platinum-designed transit station in the world, and is a significant vision of public transportation infrastructure. Located in the heart of Orange County, next to the world-class Honda Center and Angel Stadium of Anaheim, ARTIC is a 120-foot tall, 67,000-square-foot transportation hub and mixed-use activity center. Immediately upon opening in December 2014, the facility increased mobility options for 3 million Orange County residents and more than 40 million visitors annually, and is a model for energy efficiency that also promotes sustainable living. An array of transportation services includes Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) bus service, a regional commuter rail system — Metrolink, Amtrak, Anaheim Resort Transportation (ART), shuttles, taxis, bikes, tour and charter buses and other public/private transportation providers. ARTIC also includes bike lockers, electric vehicle charging stations, a self-service book vending station, Wi-Fi, forthcoming restaurants and approximately 1,100 parking spaces.
Though ARTIC’s 67,000 square-foot terminal resembles a grand 19th century rail station, the catenary curving structure’s design and construction was anything but antiquated. The project team collaborated using multiple BIM models during the submittal process, including models for the structural steel, curtain wall, and diamond-shaped ETFE roof that reduced these systems to the simplest geographic elements: 10,500 geopoints provided to 7 decimal places and arcs. These “geogrid” models conveyed the shell’s exact design dimensions and, when overlaid, revealed miniscule alignment gaps along the structure’s curves that would have resulted in delays, rework, and additional costs during construction. Through this cutting-edge virtual collaboration process, ARTIC’s project team was able to precisely design and coordinate the structural steel, two complex hanging curtain wall systems and the ETFE components prior to fabrication and field installation that would normally require field verification dimensions.
Due to the project’s location close to the Santa Ana River trail, a geotechnical investigation was performed to determine foundation construction that would support the iconic steel structure and prohibit liquefaction. The design solution required the use of the Deep Dynamic Compaction (DDC) method beneath a mat slab foundation. . The DDC process required the excavation of a moat around the area of the compaction to absorb the vibration and minimize impacts to surrounding structures from the compaction activity.
For more information on the APWA 2015 Projects of the Year, please contact APWA Media Relations and Communications Manager, Laura Bynum, lbynum@apwa.net, or call 202.218.6736.
No mention of the fact that it isn’t sustainable financially. What a waste of public money.
Now THAT is funny.
Pretty sweet hook for a story that we had had on hold, though. Thanks!
Sad that Tait’s CATER crew uses this project as some sort of punching bag. In the years to come when this transit center takes center stage it will be fun to watch them back peddle and claim they supported it all along.
No, it’s sad that $200,000,000 was wasted on this White Elephant with the $5,000,000 annual operating budget black hole.
Center stage? IT’S EMPTY!
It would make a serviceable homeless shelter, though. Unnecessarily expensive, but still serviceable.
Adding: it’s sadder that the City had to lie about the estimated number of travellers to get it to happen — you know, regarding whether and when the bullet train would get to Anaheim — although it was worse when the City compounded those lies in applying for federal funds to build the streetcar.
A few facts. ARTIC is not a train station. Trains don’t go through it, into it, or even along side it. It is just a big, empty monument to the absence of responsible government in OC. Who cares if it’s LEED certified? It doesn’t do anything but get in the way of the few hundred commuters who used to get to their train far more easily when it was on the right side of the freeway.
Apparently this “association” doesn’t care that a “public works” project doesn’t serve any observable public purpose – unless you count “iconic architecture” – where this monstrosity fails, too. I doubt that any of the voters ever came to see this $200,000,000 mausoleum in non-action. They probably just read the City’s feel-good press releases.
It may have been hard to build. So what? IT’S EMPTY!
It was hard to build right. That may be why they didn’t do it that way.
“Trains don’t go through it, into it, or even along side it.”
Really? Then what do you call all those big Amtrak and Metrolink trains that are stopping there throughout the day?
It’s true — they do go through it. They then park on an unsheltered spur track, not under cover from the elements. (Must be lots of fun in the rain.) Then they go back out the way they came. The part that matters most — where people embark on and disembark from the trains — is all outside of the brightly decorated shelter.
By the way: could it even accommodate a bullet train? Do you know — or care?
Those trains stop at the platforms which are twenty feet below and outside the glow-in-the-dark building! To get to them you have to go through the useless ARTIC – up a bunch of stairs AND THEN BACK DOWN! This monstrosity is an impediment to get to the real station – two platforms and some shelters just – like before, and $200,000,000 later.
I agree with Hreg. The bullet train idea is a HUGE waste of money. Jerry Brown’s waste of public money on this boodoggle is gigantic compared to ARTIC.
Greg is to be commended for calling out the Governor as a moron, out of touch, theif of public funds. Especially since Greg previously supported Jerry Brown.
I’m still agnostic on whether the bullet train is a waste of money, “Jamie.” I’m NOT agnostic on whether it’s going to be delivering passengers here in the next few years (it’s not) and whether Natalie Meeks misrepresented the ridership figures in order, among other things, to try to get a federal grant (she did.)
What is the type of foundation construction used in this building as it is located very close to Santa Ana River trail?
I’m glad to hear this, it was a deserved award. Thanks for the article, keep up the awesome blog!