Central Contra Costa Transit Authority Project
Project Starting Date
August 2016
Project End
Completed
Category
Research
Project Description
Under a 3-year On-Call Contract, WAVE Induction Charge Station Project at Walnut Creek BART
The Central Contra Costa Transit Authority (CCCTA) was able to obtain funding to replace 4 diesel buses with electric buses. These 4 buses operate a Free Downtown Shuttle, subsidized by the City of Walnut Creek, serving the shopping district. These buses carry over 288,000 passengers per year. The use of this WAVE induction charge technology will reduce emissions by over 154 tons of CO2 per year. This is the first non-wired fully electric bus route in the Bay Area.
Through an on-call contract with the CCCTA, the Diablo Engineering Group Team has managed the planning and prepared the plans, specifications and estimates for the two electric charging stations: one at CCCTA’s bus yard in North Concord and one in the City of Walnut Creek. The first task was to select the Walnut Creek site. After some effort, the team convinced Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) that the charging station should be constructed at the Walnut Creek BART station.
Jennifer Harmon has provided project management and inter-agency coordination for this high profile transit project. Ms. Harmon provides technical project coordination between the subconsultants, BART, PG&E, the City of Walnut Creek, WAVE, and CCCTA. These services include facilitating meetings and performing design reviews. The coordination with BART has included discussions of their planned re-development and how the WAVE charging station has been designed such that it could be easily relocated as a part of the re-development.
The Challenge in the design
For five years, Garrett Gritz, with Diablo Engineering Group and previously with RBF Consulting, provided program management and project coordination services for this high profile East Bay transit project. Mr. Gritz’s team provided technical project coordination services across almost all departments within the City of Oakland. These services include facilitating and performing plan, specification and estimate reviews; reviewing and assuring the City that the Conditions of Approval are being attained; attending all coordination meetings with AC Transit and then conveying technical information back to the City team members; assisting the City with the preparation of written technical communications and staff reports; and facilitating the reconciliation of design issues across multiple disciplines and agencies. Mr. Gritz represented the City of Oakland Planning Department and collaboratively back-checked and resolved design issues associated with the design plans.
In August 2016, Mr. Gritz transitioned from the design phase into the construction phase, specifically supporting AC Transit construction management team.
The Final Output
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