November Update

The city has received the 90% design plans from the consultant, Felsburg Holt & Ullevig (FHU). The City of Englewood Public Works Department and Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) staff will review the plans in December and provide comments to FHU around the end of the year.

90% plans include nearly final aspects of the roadway, sidewalk and multiuse path, bus stops, drainage system, utilities, traffic and streetscape designs. For example, as part of the streetscape and utility designs, the lighting plan will be submitted to the city for review. The lighting plan covers the location of lights, their heights, selection of a product, tabulation of the quantity of lights needed as well as relevant equipment, electrical drawings showing how power is to serve each light, and a cost estimate.

Cost estimates are generated based on bid items which have a unit of measurement and a quantity. For example, a light is typically measured on an individual basis using the measurement EACH and the quantity is the number of lights installed throughout the corridor. Other forms of measurement can include linear feet (LF), square feet (SF), square yards (SY), cubic yards (CY), gallons (GAL), ton (TON), acre (ACRE), lump sum (LS) and others.

After the city provides comments on the 90% plans, FHU will address or respond to each comment to produce the 100% plans. Typically, major design issues are resolved between 30% and 90% and we’ve been working closely with FHU throughout the entire project, so our comments on the 90% plans are anticipated to be minor.