Title/Name/Summary
LaGrange Road Corridor Enhancements - Construction Management and Coordination
History
Over the past several years the Village has been working closely with IDOT to enhance the proposed LaGrange Road improvements. The LaGrange Road project is scheduled to start preliminary work in May 2013. This work includes areas of temporary pavement widening, storm sewer work in the median and median removal, tree removal and temporary pavement. Main contract work will begin sometime in July or August of 2013. During this time the Village will be advertising an enhancement project to be coordinated and built within the same timeframe as IDOT’s work. The enhancements include decorative street light poles, landscaped medians with ornamental walls, brick paver sidewalks, stamped colored concrete crosswalks, additional plantings and irrigation among other items.
As part of administering the Village’s enhancement contract and coordinating the construction with IDOT’s LaGrange Road project, the Village Board approved in the FY 2013 budget Construction Management and Coordination in the amount of $800,000. Village staff solicited V3 Companies, Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd. and HR Green to attend a project scoping meeting to discuss the project, the Village’s expectations and requirements. All three firms have previously performed construction management services in the Village and have met or exceeded the Village’s expectations. As part of each proposal, Norris Design provided the same scope of services to each firm in order to maintain consistency during the construction phase of the enhancement project. Following the scoping meeting each firm provided qualifications, project understanding, project team and project hours.
After a full review of each firm’s qualifications, project understanding, project team and project hours, V3 Companies of Woodridge, Illinois, has been deemed to be the best qualified engineering firm for the scope of ser...
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