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Continuing Professional Architectural and Engineering Consulting Services (CCNA), RFQ 26-07-01 Cummins Cederberg | Trusted by the Coast. Proven in Practice. 17 UNDERWATER INSPECTIONS With the increased focus on tidal flooding and resiliency, assessing and understanding service life of marine structures becomes paramount in meeting those requirements in a cost effective and pragmatic way. Each engineer on our team who performs these inspections understands coastal and marine processes (waves, currents, erosion, etc) which means we are not only assessing the structural condition but also the underlying reason for the deterioration. Cummins Cederberg has unparalleled in-house expertise relative to the inspection of piers, bulkheads, marinas, wharfs, docks, water taxi berths, port infrastructure, boat ramps, and seawalls. Similar to upland structures, waterfront structures such as seawalls require inspections during construction to ensure the project is being built in compliance with the contract documents and after construction to evaluate condition and recommend maintenance activities. Each engineer on our team who performs underwater inspections understands coastal processes (e.g., waves, currents, erosion) and marine structure design, allowing them to not only assess the structural condition but also the underlying reason for the deterioration. We are capable of fielding three OSHA-compliant dive teams to conduct underwater investigations of coastal structures. Our staff includes eight engineer-divers, seven of which are registered Professional Engineers in Florida. With the increased focus on tidal flooding and resiliency, assessing and understanding the remaining service life of Engineer diver performing underwater structural assessments to evaluate the condition of seawalls and waterfront infrastructure for the City of Hollywood. marine structures becomes paramount in meeting those requirements in a cost effective and pragmatic way. We understand the City has already issued a seawall prioritization list based on numerous factors to help reconstruct seawalls on to maximize benefits to the overall community. However, as the City moves forward the seawall projects, implementation of underwater inspections during construction and as part of a periodic maintenance program consisting of routine above- and underwater structural investigations would provide the City with valuable information to adjust the prioritization list as needed based on the conditions encountered. Cummins Cederberg can assist the City to develop and implement these inspections to update the prioritization list as necessary, which could also include a plan for post- storm assessments of seawalls impacted after major storms. MARINE RESOURCES Our environmental permitting staff are complemented by a robust team of marine biologists and environmental specialists. Our highly experienced biologists and environmental scientists routinely develop biological assessments and monitoring plans, conduct a range of environmental investigations including marine resource surveys, environmental assessments, benthic habitat monitoring, hardbottom mapping, habitat mitigation monitoring, wetland delineation, seagrass surveys, coral relocation programs, vegetation surveys, and biological monitoring programs for a variety of coastal projects throughout Florida. Our regulatory team and marine biologists work in concert with our engineers to achieve overall design intent and project goals, while protecting marine resources and aiding an efficient regulatory approval process. This internal team of marine biologists and environmental scientists, include 13 scientific divers trained per 29 CFR 1910.410 and the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS), all of which have professional experience conducting hardbottom and benthic monitoring surveys.