Craven Thompson & Assoc. RFQ No. 16-06-02

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CRAVEN THOMPSON & ASSOCIATES, INC. | 3563 NW 53rd STREET, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 | P 954.739.6400 TAB 4 - BACKGROUND AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH - REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS NO. 16-06-02 CTA’s active park design, permitting, and construction experience involves preparing design documents that include sports fields, path systems, exercise trails, vehicular circulation, storm water detention, play areas, visitor facilities and interpretive signage. Our passive park projects incorporate elements, including a number of nature trails, picnic areas, and gathering spaces that take advantage of existing natural features. Passive parks can also act as social spaces for people to interact. The maintaining of natural green space is not only environmentally important, but moreover, is much less costly from a maintenance perspective. Our landscape architecture creates master plans, designs for public facilities such as libraries, community centers, city halls and other municipal facilities promote the building architecture and emphasize the character of the surrounding neighborhood. We consider that a building is not an invasion of the landscape but a vital extension of it. Where a building rests on the land, and how it rests on the land, sets the context for its evolving construction, development, and use. Planning CTA has been actively engaged in Land Planning since the creation of the firm. We believe time is an important ingredient for any project, and proper planning minimizes the time in executing a project. We are prepared to provide land planning services in a professional manner to move projects to the design, approval and construction stage in the shortest possible time. One of the challenges that we have faced is working with municipalities that are dealing with small or decreasing budgets. Our work in the City of Miami Gardens is an example of this. We have accommodated the City by preparing Design Reports and initial studies with budgets that are broken down into manageable phases. Construction can then proceed with portions that can be funded within the available budget. Civil/Transportation Engineering We offer a wide range of Civil Engineering capabilities that we coordinate with our Planners, Surveyors and Landscape Architects, to provide a total capability, from site evaluation to a completed project. We take pride in our ability as "Problem Solvers". A large portion of our engineering group’s activities and efforts are devoted to the planning, and design of various street projects. This includes preparing plans, calculations, and specifications, permitting, conducting the necessary public meetings and hearings, bidding projects, coordinating the acquisition of easements as necessary for the construction of the project, coordinating and accommodating adjacent with stakeholders, inspecting the construction, performing contract administration for the construction, final certification and grant administration when applicable. CTA has provided services as prime consultant for LAP Projects for the City of Aventura (Exercise 4 ǀ Page 3