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Summit Consulting Rises to the Challenge

VLCNC-Cares first worked with Summit Consulting in January of this year as they helped determine the suitably of the buildings and identified the necessary renovations.

Summit Consulting answered our call again in late July and visited the Veterans Life Center in Butner, NC for a second time. They re-toured the facility, identified renovation needs and estimated the cost. Summit Consulting confirmed our estimates that all 8 buildings can be renovated for only $6 Million.

A sincere thank you to the leadership and staff at Summit Consulting for your hard work and dedication to this worthy cause.

Summit as “Salt Bodyne” participating in the Triangle Battle of The Bands, September 24, 2011 at 7 pm

American Tobacco quad. Annual fund raiser to support the NC Arts in Action. Go to website www.trianglebattle.com.

Summit selected for planning and design of “Riverwalk Phase II”. Summit was top choice out of 18 proposals for providing this service for the Town of Hillsborough.

Riverwalk Phase II – Summit is providing professional services for the conceptual design of two miles of Riverwalk greenway way along the Eno River in Hillsborough. The project includes the conceptual design of two miles of greenway, hydraulic modeling, flood studies, bridge location selection, and bridge design. The project is funded by PARTF and requires compliance with the State Environmental Protection Act. Extensive natural and cultural resources due diligence activities are included in the project scope. The project also includes the construction documents of a 325 foot connection from Riverwalk to Calvin Street and construction documents for three pedestrian bridges across the Eno. Project challenges include the design of ADA compliant trails with topography constraints; wide floodways and floodplains, and historic properties.

Summit welcomes the following new employees:

Michelle Kempinski, RLA
Stephen Dodson,EI
Michael Scarlett, PE
Dale Goodman
Paul Weaver,LG

Inspector training and upgrade classes

Summit’s Special Inspections department is working to strengthen our position and become a local and regional leader in the field. Perhaps the best evidence of this is the Inspector training and upgrades classes. These are a series of ongoing voluntary classes for seasoned inspectors to upgrade and refresh their existing certifications and prepare new technicians for their initial exams to become an ICC Certified Special Inspector. Since the beginning of this year, two inspectors have added 3 new ICC SI certs to the department’s bank of resources, while another technician is studying to take the highly valued Reinforced Concrete SI exam.

Another evidence of Summit’s commitment to excel is in the recent accomplishment by the department manager to receive the ICC Master of Special Inspection certification, one of only 13 in North Carolina.

New Projects:

NCDOT Division 6 – CEI contract for Fayetteville Outer Loop 3 year project
City of Washington – CEI contract for Bridge Replacement
TDOT Region 1 – CEI contract for Bridge Rehabilitation over the French Broad River
NCDOT Design Build for US 158 – Geotechnical Contract
NCDOT Design Build Low Impact Bridges – Geotechnical
UNC Hospital – CMT and Special Inspections
Town of Emerald Isle – CEI for Multi-Use Path

New Hires:

Stephen Dodson – EI, SI Civil Branch
Paul Weaver, LG -Drilling Manager Soils and Materials Branch
Brian Shepard-Architect Architecture Branch
Dale Goodman – Area Engineer Virginia, Infrastructure Branch
Michelle Kempinski, MLA, MSPH, RLA – Project Landscape Architect in our Civil Branch
Michael Scarlett, PE- Construction Materials and Test Manager Soils and Materials Branch

Summit was selected as prime CEI for the Monroe Bypass Project in Mecklenburg and Union Counties - - 20 miles of new location / toll road – 3 year project.

Please join us in congratulating Ariana Jeske on successfully completing the PE exam and becoming our newest licensed Professional Engineer.

Effective April 8, 2010, Summit Consulting is prequalified by NCDOT Bicycle & Pedestrian Unit to perform Municipal and Regional Bike & Pedestrian studies and Multi-Use Trail, Design, Survey & Layout.

The US 74 West project located in Robeson County is the winner of a “2009 Quality in Construction Award” from the National Asphalt Pavement Association.

Summit provided construction engineering technicians on this 4 year project.

In February 2009 Summit added Special Inspections, a new discipline to offer our clients. Our Special Inspections Department has been implemented to assist the Structural Engineers, Architects, and Owners in insuring that the building is being built not only to the Project Documents but also to help ensure that the construction of the project is being built to meet the requirements of The North Carolina State Building Codes.

The CertainTeed plant in Roxboro will utilize a gypsum by-product from the Hyco Progress Energy coal-fired power plant to manufacture gypsum wallboard. When completed, the gypsum wallboard facility will be approximately 750,000 square feet. Summit Consulting is currently providing construction management, surveying and materials testing for the project which includes the testing of 1.2 million cubic yards of earthwork, 7,000 linear feet of storm drainage installation, and 35,000 cubic yards of concrete.

If you have any questions about Summit Consulting - Engineering, Architecture, and Surveying, PLLC, please call us at 919.732.3883, fax us at 919.732.6676, email us, or use our online request form.