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Continuing Professional Consulting Services (CCNA) Request for Qualifications No. 20-07-01 Section D – Page | 6 local governments, property owners and the public. The plan included photos of bicycle rack designs, schematic drawings, list of bicycle rack elements, and placement locations. As the stewards of society’s physical infrastructure, it is incumbent on civil engineers to lead the next shift in sustainable planning, design, and construction. For this reason, RJ Behar has incorporated sustainable designs and planning into our list of services. When undertaking a civil project, we try to incorporate a number of sustainable and innovative designs including the following: 1. Helping the Owner select a site or road orientation that minimizes environmental impacts, 2. Implementing a stormwater management plan that protects receiving stream channels from excessive erosion, reduces the amount of post-development TSS, and prevents the post-development peak discharge rate and quantity from exceeding the predevelopment peak discharge rate and quantity for the 1 and 2-year 24-hour design storms, 3. Incorporating pervious pavement, porous concrete, and efficient hardscapes into the design for improved groundwater recharge and infiltration, 4. Including mass transit options, bicycle facilities, and preferred parking for fuel-efficient vehicles into the site layout to reduce pollution and land development impacts from automobile use, 5. Maximizing open space while still meeting zoning requirements to provide a high ratio of open space to development footprint, 6. Providing options, such as landscaping, protective covers, or the use of paving materials with SRI Indexes great than 29, that help to reduce heat island effects and minimize impacts on microclimates and human and wildlife habitats, 7. Incorporating lighting options that minimize light trespass from the building and site and reduce development impact from lighting on nocturnal environments, 8. Designing the landscape with native or adapted plants to reduce or eliminate irrigation requirements. Where irrigation is required, our designs incorporate high-efficiency equipment and/or climate-based controllers to reduce water consumption, 9. Promoting the use of natural and renewable products into the design to minimize and reduce the use and depletion of finite raw materials and long-cycle renewable materials by replacing them with rapidly renewable materials. There are many possibilities when incorporating sustainable designs into a project, and at RJ Behar we take each project and determine the most efficient and sustainable design possible, while keeping in mind our City’s budget. We are sure to provide our clients with the most up-to-date and relevant information on how to bring their projects to accreditation COST ESTIMATING RJ Behar is experienced in developing and tracking project cost estimates. One of the first tasks is to meet with the City’s Staff to go over the City’s budget for the project. RJ Behar’s Project Manager will be able to assist the City in developing a budget based on the City’s goals for the project and current construction cost trends. The project budget becomes the basis for the project scope and limits. The project construction cost is further refined after the plans have been developed to a “preliminary” stage by developing an estimate of probable cost. Additionally, probable cost estimates are also developed at subsequent phases to ensure compliance with the project budget. Cost estimates are produced in spreadsheet format including unit prices and quantities. The unit prices are based on a data base developed from recent project bids as well as FDOT’s historic prices. RJ Behar is certified by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to do cost estimates for design and construction projects. We will provide the City with probable cost estimates at three different phases:  Schematic Phase – a very preliminary cost based on early input of the project. The construction budget will be verified based on this estimate.  Design Development Phase – this estimate will be much closer to the final cost estimate and it will be based on 50% plans completion. It is at this phase that we can eliminate or add items to the construction scope of work, and it will be based on the available budget versus projected costs.