Innovate Mound Road

Project Overview

Innovate Mound is more than a reconstruction project. It is a re-envisioning of the corridor to include improvements to the roadway, pedestrian facilities, and smart technologies for emerging mobility features. This project will serve the long-term needs of local businesses and citizens alike.

The project is planned to be procured under design-build methodologies. NTH is serving on behalf of the Macomb County Department of Roads preliminary engineering team to collect and depict subsurface utility information along the corridor. NTH is performing subsurface utility engineering (SUE) services including Utility Quality Levels D through A at discrete locations along the corridor. The objective of the SUE services is to provide the design-build teams with enough data on the existing subsurface utilities to develop their proposals to design and build the project.

Project Scope

Specifically, NTH is field designating subsurface utilities including gas, water, communications, and electric services. The designated utilities are being surveyed by the team surveyor and included in the project documents. Additionally, NTH is performing vacuum excavations of these utilities at critical locations to provide confirmation of the 3D positions of the utilities. The exposed utilities are surveyed in the field and logs of their positions and other details are provided for design.

Client Benefit

NTH’s engineering team worked collaboratively to identify the utilities which have the most impact on the local businesses and residents for field investigation, as well as the locations along the project that are most likely to impact the existing utilities to ensure that no issues would arise.