Information Mgmt. System

As part of the effort to maintain, report, inventory, and confirm the state of repair for New York City owned assets, SJH provided comprehensive asset management, surveying, and cost services as subconsultant to Gannett Fleming. Our team participated in reaching the primary goal of preventing the deterioration of city-owned assets. Assets inspected under the AIMS program include structural, mechanical, electrical systems, bridges, building interiors and envelopes, parks, parking areas, and marine structures. Under various agreements, SJH supported Gannett Fleming on many Task Orders to provide fixed bridge inspections. SJH’s inspectors assisted Gannett Fleming’s Team Leader in the inspection and the preparation of the Inspection Reports. Fixed bridge inspections included the insertion of all the structural elements including the deck, the superstructure, the bearings, substructure elements and other appurtenances, such as the guide-rails and sidewalks. The inspections are visual and the deterioration of the various elements are estimated as a percentage of the total quantity of the elements. The fixed bridges were of slabs. The assets included roadway and pedestrian bridges. Some of the bridges were over railroads and some others were over water. The Retaining Walls were concrete, stone masonry and stone gravity walls.  The concrete walls were inspected for cracks, spalls, any leakage through the joints and for any out of plumbness.  The stone masonry walls were inspected to loose and dislocated stones, leakage and material displacement through the joints.  Any unusual tilt in the walls was also noted. SJH also participated in the costing workshop to develop unit costs for the various elements of the bridge structures. NYCOMB assembled a team of experienced bridge engineers to review their unit costs. S. Jayakumaran, Principal of SJH, also participated in this three-day workshop to re-evaluate and arrive at new unit costs for the various bridge elements. Conceptual repair designs needed to be developed in order to arrive at repair costs.