PROJECT EXPERIENCE:
Fort Belvoir Surveying & Photogrammetry
Location: FORT BELVOIR, VA

Project Background: In accordance with the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission's recommendations, Fort Belvoir is going through a major transformation to accommodate a significant increase in the population of military personnel stationed there and civilian workers employed there.


Work Performed: Jacobs Engineering enlisted Rice Associates to support them in their planning and design related efforts by providing a wide variety of surveying services under task order contractual arrangements.

Jacobs has assigned the firm numerous tasks of all sizes and types in recent years.

Representative assignments include:

• Fort Belvoir Main Post. Rice Associates performed a route survey of approximately five miles of roadway for the redesign of the transportation corridor. Elements of the survey included GPS, aerial mapping, subsurface mapping coordination, and conventional topographic mapping. In addition, Rice Associates created a tree conservation / evaluation plan as part of the design submittal. Plan considerations included identification and evaluation of individual trees with root zone disturbance calculations as to design impacts along with associated mitigation procedures.
• Engineer Proving Ground (EPG). Rice Associates performed a topographic survey within the Fort Belvoir Engineer Proving Grounds facility. Approximately 2.3 miles was conventionally mapped along a 500 foot wide corridor and one foot contour plans were developed for road design purposes.
  
  This included mapping an area for the proposed road crossing at Accotink Creek, numerous tributaries, rock outcroppings, and steep slopes in excess of 100 feet of vertical change.
• Ft. Belvoir Waterline Relocation and Tree Evaluations. This assignment involved a corridor survey of approximately 3,000 linear feet for the relocation required by the placement of the proposed hospital. Elements of the survey included GPS, subsurface mapping coordination, conventional topographic mapping, and coordination with other civil design firms.
  
  In addition a tree conservation/evaluation plan was generated for the client as part of the design submittal. Plan considerations included identification and evaluation of individual trees with root zone disturbance calculations as to design impacts along with associated mitigation procedures.