HDR has signed a contract with the port covering engineering, design, project coordination and other consultation services for two of six segments in the port\u2019s channel improvement initiative.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis project is important to the people of Houston and to the local economy,\u201d said HDR\u2019s ports & maritime director, Jeff Massengill. \u201cWe are thrilled to be able to help fulfill Port Houston\u2019s vision.\u201d<\/p>\n
Project manager Neil McLellan and project director Dave Weston are leading a team of over 35 HDR professionals.<\/p>\n
Need for speed<\/strong><\/p>\n HDR will provide construction documents, environmental coordination, cultural resources, public outreach and industry coordination on an expedited schedule. There is strong demand from local industry to finish the project quickly, said HDR. As a result, it is working with Port Houston to try to finish work by 2024, years earlier than a typical federal schedule for such projects.<\/p>\n This is the fifth port that HDR have assisted in channel widening projects since the Panama Canal expansion. The others are Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Freeport and Sabine-Neches.<\/p>\n Port Houston has also awarded a professional services contract to HDR for the programming (sizing), design, and construction support for a new maintenance facility at the Barbours Cut Terminal.<\/p>\n The new facility is expected to improve maintenance efficiency and productivity by centralising maintenance activities, adding additional spare parts storage, and expanding outside work areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Port Houston in Texas, US has selected a lead engineer and designer for part of its project to widen and deepen the Houston ship channel for the next generation in safety, efficiency and larger ships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}