What we called a concept validation phase where we would contrast the hok scheme with the work being developed by the architect pelly clark pelly to identify any discreptcies in scope and cost and to reconcile those before we moved into the scheme matic design. And so as we moved into the budget and to revise it there were a number of miles stones that we went through. May of 2008, we awarded the contract pelly clark pelly to be the architect and set forth the design schedule at that point which included the concept validation phase that i discussed which was going to be our first four months of work with the architects. Moving into the schemeatic design and completing the construction documents in 2011. In september of 2008, we completed the concept validation phase. Reconciling the pelly proposal, and the design proposal with the base line budget and. Hok scheme and we were able to incorporate a number of new ideas into the design of the Transit Center. Of course, the signature park
Forthright. So, some of you received my articles and if you read my articles, the many point is that we serve the community. And what is hooping in the various departments including the s f g o c is that in certain areas, we lack standards. New commissioners know because of your experience that ethics, morals, standards, count. When we do not Pay Attention to that, and matter go before the ethics commission, then a can of worms is opened and we dont want that. Now, many of us have come from the community and explained to you that the southest sector is not only a bay view but district 910 and 11 has been adversely impacted. And, we know just because of the nature of the water system Improvement Project, that type of project and that type of outreach was different from what is what should be done with the sewer system Improvement Project and i have been saying this for a long time and i really miss the gentlemen who was on the commission richard straw, i really miss him because, when yo
New york, where dvs has addressed general security issues. They have focused on blast and force protection on those facilities. Also as part of the peer review and Consulting Team to tjpa is code consultants ink. Cci, and they focus particularly on Fire Protection and Fire Life Safety issues and were extensively involved in the peer review of the bus fire and train fire scenarios, designed basis fire, designations. In addition to cci, we do have a twoperson fire Design Peer Review Panel that was selected by the San Francisco Fire Department to provide them with expert advice on the smoke analysis being performed at the station, particularly the comp utation, fluid analysis of how the smoke would be propagated and behave over time in the event of a bus or a train fire. Also it is significant to note that we have the structural and seismic review committee that has been working with the tjpa and the department of building inspection since the beginning of the project, looking at the stru
State, and law Law Enforcement we have a workforce of over 50,000 individuals and have the much sought after safety act certification. The individuals that we used on the subject matter team and portion of this, they have got a wealth of background, and very indepth, we have phds in there. You have got, structural engineers. Pes, hvac, meps, there is a whole range of Law Enforcement. So we brought a wealth of experience and a lot of people to this particular project. Who have good experience with transportation, i should say that all of these individuals have transportation backgrounds as well. One of the reasons that urs is in a very good position to look at the Transit Center is because of our out reach, we have got extraordinary advantage to access and look at threatening information on a daily basis that is due in part to the contracts that we hold. Some classified and some open. This access is conducted on a constant basis and we use it to validate the threats so that we know what
The next thing is the Resource Planning and what we did is again the governing principles that its a city led to and we are going to maximize the puc and other resource, of course, we will require help from the consultant do the specialized work and unplanned work. Going to the next one, attracting attention to the schedules what we did is took a first pass on this schedule and how we can do the resource loading. What the expenses are every year and how the first ones are going to be and lets see what the pools look like again, this is a concept based on our visible experience and based on some other project experience we took a stab at it to putting it percentagous rate and as an example this is one typical project and in this example if you look at it in a planning phase we have 80 of the role being played by the consultant and 20 by the city staff and that is the conceptual and all the 98 for to and is what not and then it goes to 50 50 and believe me, each and every project. Actual