Category: Transportation

Kelly Creek Commerce Park

MOODY, AL CLIENT: Capstone Development CLIENT: Graham & Company CLIENT: St. Clair County EDC CLIENT: City of Moody Sain Associates partnered with Capstone Development, Graham & Company, the St. Clair County Economic Development Council, and the City of Moody to provide approximately 170 acres of high quality marketable light industrial parcels for development in Kelly…
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US-411 Corridor Feasibility Study

St. Clair County, AL GEOTECHNICAL SERVICES:  Building & Earth CULTURAL RESOURCES ASSESSMENT: MRS Consultants ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES: Environmental, Inc. Sain Associates prepared a corridor study to review the feasibility to improve US-411 from Park Avenue to Sanie Road, approximately five miles. The purpose of the project was to increase the capacity of the US-411 corridor and…
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Protective Stadium

Birmingham, AL CLIENT: BJCC Protective Stadium is a multi-use 45,000 seat capacity facility that serves as the home stadium for the UAB Blazers, Birmingham Legion FC, and the United States Football League. The stadium also hosts other athletic events and concerts. To assist with the stadium development, the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex (BJCC) hired Sain Associates…
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Tennessee Highway Safety Improvement Program Implementation Plan

Tennessee (Statewide) PARTNER: TDOT Safety Office PARTNER: Other key program managers within TDOT For the last two years, Sain Associates was retained by the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) to prepare a Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Implementation Plan to comply with the requirements of Title 23 USC, Section 148(i) and associated Federal Highway Administration…
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Prattville South Industrial Park Road and Bridge

Prattville, AL CONTRACTOR: W.S. Newell and Sons, Inc. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: Renta Landscape Architecture, LLC STRUCTURAL BRIDGE DESIGN: AECOM GEOTECHNICAL EXPLORATION: TTL, Inc. In 2016, James Hardie Building Products, the global leader in fiber cement technology, selected Prattville South Industrial Park as its next manufacturing site. The company chose Prattville’s mega-site due to the area’s skilled…
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Tiger 7 – High Ore Line Connector

Birmingham, AL LIGHTING PLANS: Hyde Engineering LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: Nimrod Long and Associates GEOTECHNICAL SERVICES: Birmingham Engineering and Construction Consultants (BECC) CULTURAL RESOURCES SURVEY: Panamerican Consultant Sain Associates performed a survey and design for the Tiger 7 – High Ore Line Connector Project for the City of Birmingham. The project objective included constructing a 12′ wide…
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Mountain Brook Sidewalk Master Plan

Mountain Brook, AL CLIENT: City of Mountain Brook GRANT FUNDING: Transportation Alternative Program (TAP) In 2017, Sain prepared the Mountain Brook Sidewalk Master Plan under the Regional Planning Commission’s APPLE program. The City desired to have a master plan to use for planning additions to their already robust sidewalk system. The plan identified routes for…
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Carvana Distribution Center

Bessemer, AL CONTRACTOR:  Catamount Constructors LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: Robert P. Kirk & Associates, PC STRUCTURAL SLAB DESIGN: Barnett Jones Wilson In April 2020, Carvana, a cutting-edge leader in online automotive sales, contracted Sain Associates to perform surveying, civil, and traffic engineering services for a distribution facility in Bessemer, Alabama. Although non-disclosure agreements required the project to be…
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I-59/20 Central Business District Bridge Replacement

Birmingham, AL CLIENT: ALDOT TRAFFIC VOLUME COUNTS: Quality Counts What the locals refer to as Malfunction Junction is the area in Birmingham, Alabama at the I-59/20 interchange between I-65 and the Red Mountain Expressway. True to its nickname, Malfunction Junction has become a monster of a problem not just because of its bumpy roads, wrecks,…
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Dunnavant Square Pedestrian Tunnel

Mt. Laurel, AL GEOTECHNICAL EXPLORATION: Building and Earth Sciences STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF RETAINING WALLS AND FOOTERS: Structural Design Group LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: Nimrod Long and Associates SANITARY FORCE MAIN DESIGN: Engineers of the South The Dunnavant Square Cooperative District contacted Sain Associates to review the feasibility of installing an underground tunnel across Shelby County Road 41…
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