Tuscarora High School

Location: Frederick County, Maryland

Project Description:

• Tuscarora High School is a new 1,200 seat facility located on Ballenger Creek Pike in Frederick, Maryland. This project included athletic fields for all High School sports, parking and access design as well as a stormwater management bio-retention facility. The storm water facility was designed by Fox to include pedestrian access so that this facility could be incorporated into the Science and Biology curriculums at the High School. This project included relocation of a major State Highway (Route 351). Fox worked closely with the highway engineering consultant in order to coordinate access and utility designs as well as required highway construction easements. Fox worked as a Sub-Contractor of Grimm and Parker, who led the complete Architectural and Engineer design team.

• Our project manager worked closely with the design team from the initial sketch plan phase through final site construction and punch-list inspection. FCPS retained the services of a construction management consultant for the project. Fox provided support to the construction manager throughout the design and construction of Tuscarora High School. Our construction services included contract document preparation cost estimating, bidding assistance, answering R.F.I.’s, attendance at progress meetings and the final punch-list inspection.

• The school underwent a 400 seat expansion to 1,600 total seats in 2005. Fox provided complete civil design and construction administration for the expansion as well.

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Berkeley County, West Virginia

Location: Berkeley County, West Virginia

Project Description:

• Fox & Associates Inc. was subcontracted by ARRO Consulting, Inc. (FKA Hyder) to perform surveying services on a major new water transmission line project owned by the Opequon Public Service District to serve a new industrial park.

• The project consisted of 21,000 linear feet of 12-inch water line from the water treatment plant along U.S. Route 11 to a new industrial park along U.S. Route 81 and a new major industry in West Virginia.

• The route involved a total of twenty different properties.

• Fox & Associates, Inc. was engaged to perform control baseline surveys, topographic surveys and property surveys.

Special Site / Design Considerations:

• Deed research of all affected properties was performed and composite deed plottings were prepared. The plottings then were used during the field topographic surveys to help recover property corners and lines.

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Indefinite Quantities Contract Frederick County Public Schools

Location: Frederick, Maryland

Project Description:

• Miscellaneous Planning, Surveying, Site Civil Engineering, Construction Document Preparation, Bidding Construction, Administration and Stakeout Services

• In July, 2009 Fox and Associates, Inc. entered into our third consecutive multi-year contract with Frederick County Public Schools to perform miscellaneous planning, surveying, engineering, bidding and construction administration services. Each of the previous contracts were two-years with three additional one year extensions for a total of ten years. The most current contract referenced above is two years with up to two additional two-year extensions. Please find below descriptions of several representative projects, of the more than (30) thirty projects performed during the past ten years under these contracts.

• Walkersville “B” School Parking Lot – Preparation of site surveys, site plan and stormwater plans for the addition of 117 parking spaces for the home of the Frederick County Public Schools GED program.

• Paving Inventory – Fox performed site inspections to assist Frederick County Maintenance personnel with prioritizing long term maintenance of paving for long term budgeting of required maintenance. This project including mapping of cracks and pavement failure areas and developing priority maintenance ratings for (45) forty-five School Sites.

• Middletown High School – Prepared site surveys and stormwater management construction plans and performed related bidding and construction services. This project was necessary to address flooding concerns for a downstream property owner resulting from the fact that Middletown High School was constructed prior to stormwater management regulations.

• Running Track and Tennis Court Rehabilitations – Prepared site topographic surveys and construction plans: provided bidding and construction administration services for the total reconstruction of numerous tracks and tennis courts. These facilities included the tracks at Catoctin High School and Thomas Johnson High School. Tennis Court projects included Brunswick High School, Catoctin High School, Thomas Johnson High School and Frederick High School.

• New Market Middle and Elementary Schools – Performed site surveys and prepared construction plans; performed bidding and construction administration services to extend public water service lines to serve both schools that were previously served by private wells.

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