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McCordsville Police Station Headquarters

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McCordsville Police Station Headquarters McCordsville, Indiana The new McCordsville Police Headquarters serves as a cornerstone for the development of its rapidly growing community. Equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, including an indoor gun range, fitness room, and community training room, this building inspires its users to enhance their readiness and training for active duty. The design team has meticulously planned for a 20-year growth trajectory with this new headquarters, aligning it with McCordsville’s ongoing evolution as a town.  Strategically situated on the south side of the emerging town square, the location of the headquarters reflects the town’s commitment to emphasizing public safety within the community. This positioning underscores the vital role that law enforcement plays in safeguarding and enhancing the well-being of McCordsville’s residents. 

Overley-Worman Park Pedestrian Bridge

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Overley-Worman Park Pedestrian Bridge Zionsville, Indiana The Overley-Worman Park Pedestrian Bridge is located in a new re-purposed 53-acre park bounded by Eagle Creek, the Big-4 Rail Trail, the Vonterra Development, and I-865. The park features multi-use trails, a playground, picnic shelters, restrooms, woodland and creek overlooks, a fishing pond, mountain bike trails, and a disc golf course. Visitors can enter the park from the north Big-4 Rail Trail by crossing the new pedestrian bridge and onto one of Overley-Worman Park’s multi-use paths. The structure is a 200-ft. long single-span truss bridge with a 10-ft. width, supported by helical pile abutments. The bridge’s design blends into the park’s aesthetic by using a natural color scheme and a decorative faux stone veneer installed on the abutments. Completed 2022 Award ACEC State Finalist

Nowland Avenue Bridge

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Nowland Avenue Bridge Indianapolis, Indiana RQAW | DCCM provided bridge design, environmental, and historic architectural services for the Nowland Avenue Bridge over Pogue’s Run rehabilitation. Built in 1903, Nowland Avenue Bridge is one of Daniel B. Luten’s oldest structures in Indianapolis; however, the bridge was closed to all traffic due to decades of use and safety concerns. To restore the bridge, RQAW | DCCM provided design for superstructure and arch repair, roadway surface replacement, spandrel wall replacement, stabilization of the structure’s bank, drainage systems improvements, and updating railing and trail to meet ADA and AASHTO standards. Our team worked alongside the Indiana SHPO throughout the design process and coordinated heavily with the Pathways over Pogue’s group to provide a safe pedestrian crossing while conserving the structure’s significant historical elements. Completed 2023 Award ACEC Merit Award

North Ellipse

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North Ellipse Fishers, Indiana Modern build-to-suit office spaces for a booming community Challenge: Demand for commercial and residential spaces continued to grow. City officials needed building space that combined commercial office and residential living space to keep pace with local demand. Solution: The City of Fishers provided a 10-year tax abatement in conjunction with RQAW | DCCM to develop the 4-story North Ellipse commercial building. Located in the acclaimed Nickel Plate District of the City of Fishers, the 45,000-sf steel-framed structure includes build-to-suit office spaces, now occupied by tenants who provide everything from yoga to tech services. RQAW | DCCM has assisted each tenant in designing their customized spaces. The facility also includes public parking and soothing greenspaces for local pedestrians and building occupants. The shell space was tenant-ready in the spring of 2020 and is now completely occupied. This project was successfully delivered through a Build, Operate, Transfer (BOT) agreement, an arrangement between private development companies and municipalities offering significant benefits and flexibility to both parties.  Completed 2020 Size  45,000-sf

Main Street & 4th Avenue Roundabout

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Main Street & 4th Avenue Roundabout Carmel, Indiana This roundabout is located near a public library, school, and archway leading into the Carmel Arts & Design District; therefore, the geometry needed to be as small as possible to eliminate impacts to these areas while still allowing for school buses and emergency vehicles to make all necessary movements. Through our design, we were able to ensure that all turning movements and sight distance needs were met while minimizing the required right-of-way for construction. 

Redbird State Recreation Access Roadway

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Redbird State Recreation Area Access Roadway INDOT Vincennes District This access roadway reconstruction project is within the Greene-Sullivan State Forest and the Redbird State Recreation Area. The project consisted of 7-ft to 11-ft wide travel lanes with 2-ft wide paved and 3-ft wide useable shoulders, resurfacing one county bridge deck, installing new guardrail, and replacing four existing small structures and several small drainage pipes. Four palustrine emergent and three palustrine forested wetlands were identified and delineated as well as 10 jurisdictional streams. RQAW | DCCM completed the State EA document and worked closely with the designers to remove several planned roadside ditches to avoid/minimize impacts to wetlands throughout the project.

US 36 Added Travel Lanes Phase 1

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US 36 Added Travel Lanes Phase 1 Avon, Indiana | InDOT Crawsfordville District Paving the way for a growing community Challenge: The recent growth of Avon significantly influenced the initiation of the project, as it led to heightened safety concerns and increased traffic in this very commercialized area. Solution: US 36 from Shiloh Park Drive to Raceway Road was the first phase of a large-scale corridor improvement plan. RQAW | DCCM obtained traffic counts, developed a corridor model, and created an analysis to guide and refine the limits of this added travel lanes project. Through our findings, our team addressed the excessive traffic volumes by recommending an additional third travel lane in eastbound and westbound directions by proposing converting existing shoulders into travel lanes, turning the existing two-way left turn lane (TWLTL) into a curbed center median, and improving impacted intersections. Our approach resulted in no public controversy while minimizing construction costs, high crash rates, and the need for land acquisition. Cost $8.6M Completed 2023 Award  2023 ACEC Indiana Engineering Excellence Award Competition

SR 39 ADA Curb Ramps & Sidewalks

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SR 39 ADA Curb Ramps & Sidewalks INDOT Crawfordsville District RQAW | DCCM was chosen to upgrade 32 curb ramps along SR 39 from Reagan Street to the north limit in the Town of Clayton. This project’s goal was to make all ramps ADA compliant; however, our team was able to utilize several innovative solutions throughout the design process. These solutions included inspecting existing ramps to determine if any grades and slopes were up to INDOT standards. Ramps that were found to be acceptable were maintained and any sites that were near satisfactory were retrofit with a detectable warning surface, rather than fully replaced. This process ultimately reduced the project cost by over 50%.

SR 234 HMA Overlay

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SR 234 HMA Overlay INDOT Crawfordsville District This partial 3R, minor structural overlay project located in Montgomery County was 11 miles in length and extended through the Town of Ladoga. The cross-section of the roadway remained unchanged, except at locations where two-ft shoulders were added within the existing right-of-way. The existing cross slope was corrected to two percent outside the town. Within Ladoga, the existing cross slope was perpetuated, and a Level 1 design exception was obtained. In addition, 19 curb ramps within Ladoga were replaced due to ADA deficiencies. New truncated domes were installed on four additional curb ramps. RQAW | DCCM coordinated extensively with the INDOT ADA Committee to minimize the impacts to the downtown area.

Arlington Avenue & Shelbyville Road Roundabout

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Arlington Avenue & Shelbyville Road Roundabout Indianapolis Department of Public Works This functionally obsolete intersection of Arlington Avenue and Shelbyville Road was originally a four-way, stop-controlled intersection with an approach that consisted of two 10-ft travel lanes in each direction. To accommodate the increasing amount of traffic in the area, RQAW | DCCM realigned Arlington Avenue to integrate a turning movement so that traffic, including semis, could navigate the roundabout properly. The final design was a small geometrical, single-lane roundabout with an inscribed circle diameter of 100 ft in a way that minimally impacted surrounding right-of-way and utilities. 

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