Press Releases
Luce Bayou Interbasin Transfer Project
Houston, Texas
The Coastal Water Authority (CWA) recently selected TCB for Phase I of the Luce Bayou Interbasin Transfer Project. The project will pump water from the Trinity River in eastern Texas and convey it to the northern reaches of Lake Houston to supply additional water for the City of Houston. Once complete, the Luce Bayou Interbasin Transfer Project will be an integral link to optimizing the use of all of Houston’s water resources facilities by allowing greater opportunities for system operations. In light of the requirements for reductions in groundwater usage, the project is critical to meeting the near- and long-term water demands for Harris and the surrounding counties. Moreover, the project may set several precedents on how to address the current regulatory issues relating to water permitting and inter-basin transfers.
205 Bypass IH 30 to SH 205(N)
City of Rockwall, Texas
The City of Rockwall selected TCB to provide design and construction management services for the 205 Bypass Roadway Project. The project will provide a major new four lane, 5.5 mile north-south corridor by December 2008.
The proposed interchange will accommodate the ultimate 8-lane section for IH 30. The proposed IH 30 overpass structure will span the 6-lane divided section for the SH 205 Bypass, left turn lanes and U-turn lanes. New exit and entrance ramps will also be constructed. The SH 205 Bypass interchange must be completed prior to the FM 549 interchange reconstruction project so that the SH 205 Bypass can serve as a detour for FM 549.
Bunker Hill Road Reconstruction
Houston, Texas
The Memorial City Redevelopment Authority selected TCB to provide design services for the Bunker Hill Road Reconstruction project. The project will reconstruct Bunker Hill Road from a two-lane asphalt to a four-lane concrete roadway including storm sewers up to 90-inches in diameter and a bridge crossing drainage channel.
Groundwater Management Area 8 Consulting Engineering Services
Northern Texas
TCB was selected as the technical consultant by the governing board for the Groundwater Management Area 8 (GMA 8). GMA 8 is a large triangular area in northern Texas stretching roughly between Austin at its southern boundary, to Texarkana at its northeastern boundary, and to Abilene at its northwestern boundary.
The project is a result of House Bill 1763, effective September 2005, which aims to define the availability of groundwater in Texas. To accomplish this objective, the State was divided into 16 GMAs with boundaries approximating major aquifer boundaries. The Groundwater Conservation Districts within each GMA are responsible for defining available groundwater for the GMA and for establishing policies to achieve a desired future condition of groundwater in the GMA. Working with the Texas Water Development Board and the consulting engineer, the relevant technical information will be merged with policy decisions by the board of the GMA to define the Maximum Available Groundwater for the area.
University Corridor Light Rail Transit (LTR) Design
Houston, Texas
The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) selected TCB Transit, a special purpose entity which includes TCB and DMJM Harris, for conceptual engineering and design development for METRO’s University Line corridor. Included is the coordination of the conceptual and preliminary engineering of the other 4 line corridors and systems preliminary engineering of all corridors – all part of a $1.3 billion extension of METRO’s light rail transit system.
The University Corridor is approximately 10 miles in length and divided into two segments: the west, which extends from the Main Street rail Wheeler Station to South Rice, and the east, which extends from the Main Street rail Wheeler Station to the University of Houston Central Campus.
West Frisco Wastewater Improvements
City of Frisco, Texas
The City of Frisco selected TCB’s Dallas Public Works Department to provide design services for the West Frisco Wastewater Improvements project. The project will provide one new lift station, rehabilitation of two existing lift stations and a new 30-inch force main.
TCB is currently designing improvements to the Trails, Fairways, and Grayhawk Lift Stations to redirect wastewater flows to the proposed Panther Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. Construction is expected to begin in January 2007 and be complete by January 2008.
SH 121 Southwest Parkway Section 1 Design
Fort Worth, Texas
The North Texas Tollway Authority selected TCB to provide design and construction management services for a new tollway facility in Fort Worth. SH 121 Southwest Parkway is an 8.1 mile new location tollroad facility through Southwest Fort Worth with an estimated $825 million construction cost. Separated into five sections, TCB’s section includes over ½-mile of new SH 121 tollroad, 1-1/4 miles of IH 30 mainlane and frontage road reconstruction, two SH 121 main lane bridges and three ramp bridges over the Trinity River, 10 bridge crossings over railroads, and numerous retaining walls and connecting ramps. The project will involve a complex construction sequencing and traffic control plan to accommodate more than 136,000 vehicles per day that travel this section of IH 30. Design is scheduled to be complete in 2007, with construction completed in 2010.
