New England Motor Freight
400 Division Street,
City of Pawtucket, Rhode Island

ADLER was retained by New England Motor Freight (NEMF) to provide surveying, civil and structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, environmental consulting, and construction management and inspection services associated with the construction of a 60-door trucking terminal expansion.   The expansion consisted of a pre-engineered metal building with a 34 foot eave height set upon an elevated concrete loading dock. 

For the planning, site development, and construction management activities on this project, ADLER provided the following services:

·          Existing conditions survey with boundary, topography, utilities, and roadway sections.

·          Subdivision plan and legal descriptions.

·          Geotechnical investigation.

·          Civil site engineering design and plans.

·          Structural engineering design for foundation, loading dock, stem wall, and modifications to the existing roof system.

·          Design of trailer parking layout, dock apron, and circulation routes.

·          Design of site grading, drainage, utility extensions, pavement, parking lighting, and soil erosion improvements.

·          Coordination with pre-engineered building manufacturer.

·          Acquisition of City permits and approvals.

·          Construction stakeout

·          Construction management during duration of loading dock construction, shop drawing review, field inspections, and concrete inspection and testing.

  The project was constructed and opened for operation in 1999.

ADLER was retained by New England Motor Freight (NEMF) to provide surveying and civil engineering services associated with the construction of a new 90-door trucking terminal and office on a unimproved, wooded portion of an existing trucking terminal property located outside of Williamsport, Pennsylvania.   The civil engineering design for the site development was challenged due to the hilly terrain (~30 feet topographical relief), encroaching structures on adjacent properties, and existing terminal operations on the site.   ADLER focused on these challenges and developed a nearly balanced cut/fill grading scheme that minimized the need for retaining walls and maintained truck-safe surface slopes. 

For the planning and site development activities on this project, ADLER provided the following services:

·          Existing conditions survey with boundary, topography, utilities, and roadway sections.

·          Develop conceptual site layouts, grading schemes, and ingress/egress routes.

·          Evaluation of grading alternatives and cut/fill requirements.   Through evaluation, grading schemes were modified to nearly balance the cut/fill requirements.

·          Civil site engineering design and plans.

·          Design of site layout, parking areas, roadway alignment and profile, building footprint, grading, stormwater collection and detention system, drainage calculations, utility services, asphalt pavement, parking lighting, and soil erosion improvements.

·          Coordination with client for project/program requirements.

The project iwas completed in the spring of 2003.