Detroit Metropolitan Airport uses central deicing pads for conducting aircraft deicing operations prior to takeoff. Typically, aircraft taxi from the gate to a deicing pad, where specialized deicing trucks spray the aircraft with deicing fluid, removing snow and ice, and then proceed to the end of the runway for take-off. The 22L Deicing Pad design allows for five simultaneous…
GIS Utility Conversion
HRC was contracted to convert the storm, sanitary and water main utility data for Bloomfield Township’s 27 sections as part of a three-year project. After the initial data conversion process was completed, additional attribute information had been added to the database as other utility sources were converted. The additional information includes the invert…
Streambank Stabilization
The Sylvan Glen Golf Course, constructed in 1922, was experiencing negative impacts from storm water runoff generated by increased development in upstream tributary areas. These impacts included increased bank erosion, loss of vegetation within the drain channel, exposed irrigation and drainage infrastructure, loss of tee surfaces and increased downstream sedimentation…
Facilities Tunnel Surveying
HRC provided tunnel surveying, design and construction observation for the Birmingham Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) control facilities, constructed as part of an $82 million national demonstration project. The demonstration project is a three-phase project aimed at eliminating CSOs in the Rouge River watershed. The Birmingham Retention Treatment Basin…