Projects

NV5 has provided geotechnical engineering and special inspection services for various expansion projects at the Sugar Bowl Ski Resort in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Work has included geotechnical investigations, foundation design, grading recommendations, and special inspection during construction. Judah Lodge Expansion. One project was the 16,000 SF, multi-story Judah Lodge[...]

NV5 provided materials testing and special inspection services to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) for the Tahoe Forest Hospital Western Addition project in Truckee, California. This $19 million project consisted of a 50,000 square-foot, steel-frame structure supported on conventional spread foundations and large-diameter drilled caissons. Our[...]

This project included two segments. The south project consisted of widening Wildcat Canyon Road for left turn lanes for northbound and southbound traffic. The north project consisted of widening the roadway on the east side and the addition of acceleration/deceleration lanes and a two-way left turn lane. Oak Oasis Road[...]

NV5 provides site engineering services for commercial warehouse (“Big Box”) sites throughout the United States. These have included Home Depot, Costco, K-Mart, Super-K, Circuit City, and other sites. Engineering services have typically included due diligence services; entitlements; and detailed site design; feasibility studies; conceptual site, grading, utility and drainage plans;[...]

The Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower, an iconic campus landmark at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was renewed through a safety upgrade project that brought the interior into current code compliance and allowed continued access to the interior of this historic structure as well ensuring the safety of those[...]

This project was the design of a multilane urban highway of approximately 2.7 miles in length, which involved the conversion of an existing two-lane rural roadway to a four-lane urban principal arterial with raised medians. The project traverses the area between Seminola Boulevard and Tuskawilla Road in Seminole County, Florida.[...]

The Fertizona San Tan facility was a former agricultural chemical distribution facility located in the San Tan Industrial Park south of Chandler, Arizona, on the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC). The site was used for the distribution of bulk and packaged agricultural chemical products starting in 1977. Site assessment and[...]

NV5 provided the Class 1 Project Inspector for the East Los Angeles College Parking Structure Lot #4 for the Los Angeles Community College District. This project consisted of 1,574 spaces on five levels of parking area which encompasses 453,185 square feet. The structure is designed with cast-in-place post-tensioned concrete decks,[...]

An NV5 certified health physicist served as the chief radiological expert for a commercial client planning a 1,600-acre residential housing complex in California. The complex would be located adjacent to a radiologically-contaminated U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) field laboratory. Specifically, we evaluated the possible presence of radionuclides in surface soil[...]

NV5 performed a geotechnical investigation to evaluate site-specific soil characteristics and infiltration rates used in the design of proposed infiltration basins in Tahoe Vista, California. The project also included design of conventional asphalt concrete and pervious concrete pavement sections. In addition, NV5 evaluated an existing rock slope and provided alternatives[...]