2021 to 2022
115820009, Douglas Road Crossing Grade Separation and Holdom Overpass
Greater Vancouver Gateway Program, Vancouver Fraser Port Authority
Transportation and Infrastructure
https://jesseneri.ca/about/projects/240-115820009
Joined this project when I started at Stantec. Its formal name is quite long: "Burnaby-North-Shore Road and Rail Improvements (Douglas Road Grade Separation / Holdom Overpass." We developed the Reference Concept Design for the planned Design-Build project.
Key Lesson: important engineering reports deserve a technical editor
Alongside the fully remote teamwork between WSP and Stantec, the key lesson I found involved our final report. I started at 90% and the report included passages that were extremely hard to decipher.
Engineering teams need someone to edit and clean up important reports so that the people using the report understand what you mean.
Alongside this key lesson, technologists who slavishly follow TAC principles had a hard time understanding the urban context. A lot of coaching from transportation engineering helped.
Project Highlights
Burnaby, BC, Canada -WSP and Stantec worked under Vancouver Fraser Port Authority with Mott MacDonald on as owner's technical advisor.
Road Engineering Lead responsible for street configuration and design at the functional engineering level. As sub-consultant, Stantec supported the prime consultant as Owner's Engineer to prepare functional design and specifications to eliminate an existing at-grade rail crossing and replace it with an overpass. Jessé provides the street and municipal engineering knowledge needed for the multi-disciplined design team to take the selected preliminary design and advance it to a functional design for a design-build contractor to implement.
Favourite Parts
- cycling infrastructure and interactions with transit facilities from Lougheed Highway to Regent Street
- coordinating with colleagues designing the utilities (including the pump station)
- the overpass flies over cycling, railway, and waterway to connect the key intersections
- access into properties, such as 2983 Holdom and 5662 Goring (both under the causeway)
- understanding the impacts of potential temporary traffic reroutes