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• Pavement restoration details (temporary pavement restoration, permanent pavement restoration, FDOT pavement restoration) • Trench details (detailing the depth, spacing, utility owners, etc.) • Utility details (vaults, hatches, cabinets, enclosures, etc. based on the utility owners’ requirements) • Utility adjustment plans and details for adjusting existing manhole rims, valve boxes, or pipelines if needed • Drainage plans and details which may include new inlets, new pipes, replacement of existing facilities, or lining of existing facilities • Landscape plans (overall and detailed blow ups for site specific areas) and details (notes, specifications, planting details, fencing details, etc.) Civil Engineering Erdman Anthony has teamed with Mead & Hunt, civil engineers located in Myrtle Beach, SC, who has extensive experience in city wide undergrounding projects in tourist locations. Many undergrounding projects are considered an electrical engineering effort and are led by an electrical engineer. Since our firm has both electrical engineers and civil engineers, we are well versed in both disciplines and have a better understanding of how to approach these projects. The detailed electrical engineering design is performed by the utility companies and the work to be performed under this contract will be primarily the conduit design. The utility companies will provide the specifications for the number and size of conduits that they require, and a civil engineer is much better- suited to prepare detailed construction plans for the conduit installation within the right-of-way. The bank of proposed conduits will be clearly located on the plans and details. The plans and details will also include the locations and details for the transformers, switch cabinets, vaults, hand holes, pedestals, enclosures, and a trench detail that defines the depths and positions of all the conduits. For example, our plans will include the following: 1. Electrical schematic that is a color plan so that each utility owner’s conduits are shown in a different color and indicates the owner, size and number of conduits. The printing cost is a little higher; however, the plans are complex, and we strongly feel that the color plans add significantly to the understandability and constructability of the project. 2. Plan view with specific location for the proposed bank of conduits, surface restoration, other existing utilities and surface features. This is in addition to the electrical schematic described above and will address all conflicts and crossings. 3. Instructions to install the conduit bank that is parallel with the roadway centerline via an open trench. The conduits to the sides that are perpendicular to the center line are typically bored to avoid excessive pavement impact or destruction of surface features such as trees, hedges, driveways, etc. 4. Detailed locations for transformers, switch cabinets, etc. Our plans will include blow ups with the above ground features drawn to scale with the existing landscaping and other existing features included. These details will also include the property lines and easements. 5. Detailed service line location for the conduit to the meter base. The work on each individual lot can be complex with valuable existing features to avoid/preserve. Our plans will often require drilling rather than trenching for work perpendicular to the centerline such as these conduits. Each utility’s conduits are shown in a different color, making these complex plans simple and understandable.