ASCE Lecture Sponsored by RA

ABOUT THE WILLIAM BARCLAY PARSONS LECTURE:

The William Barclay Parsons Lecture series was installed in 2003 with the sponsorship of Parsons Brinckerhoff. It honors the ingenuity, resolve, and engineering achievements of General William Barclay Parsons and his contributions to the advancement of the field of underground engineering and infrastructure construction in New York City. William Barclay Parsons was the Chief Engineer of the New York Rapid Transit Commission that designed and constructed the first section of the New York City Subway in 1904. The lecture series is intended to focus on the state-of-the-art topics in geotechnical engineering with a particular emphasis on tunneling and underground construction.

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LECTURE SUMMARY:

Mass transit provides equitable economic growth opportunities and improves quality of life. Over the past century and more than four decades of Capital Plan delivery, MTA’s commitment for better transit has played an important role in development of New York as a global powerhouse. Dealing with an aging infrastructure with a vision for modernization addressing reliable, faster and sustainable transit goals, MTA C&D is pursuing alternate delivery methods striving to improve in how the capital projects are designed, developed and delivered. One of the initiatives taken is the use of Progressive Design-Build delivery method. Within the Capital Program, state of good repair program eliminates the most severe component deficiencies present systemwide. Aging assets demand increased maintenance attention, resulting in higher costs to keep them safe and operational and to avoid more disruptive shutdowns for repairs. One such project under the purview of Stations Business Unit within MTA C&D’s Delivery department is to repair Architectural and Structural deficiencies at forty-three stations, almost one-tenth of NYCT subway system, with the goal of improving overall safety of the selected stations. These components include, but are not limited to, platform edges, floors, walls, beams and columns, stairs. This new approach of Progressive Design-Build delivery method, whereby a Design-Builder is brought on earlier in the project planning process, allows the project team to strategically leverage data collected to target resources where they are needed the most in a shorter time all the while collaborating with the Design-Builder to contain cost compared to traditional delivery methods. The objective is to organize design units to address project requirements reducing risks later in construction while achieving higher efficiency with respect to budget and schedule. The lecture will discuss the procurement and pre-construction process, progress made and lessons learnt thus far in the project described above.

THE SPEAKER:

Vineet Jain, P.E. is an Assistant Vice President, Deputy Project Executive with Metropolitan Transportation Authority Construction & Development in their Stations Business Unit where he oversees performance of certain projects delivery with respect to accountability, project interfaces, ways-of-working and values and lead project change management process. He is responsible for conducting detailed evaluation of anticipated project outcomes, benefits and performance criteria, with Agency Stakeholders and Users group while safeguarding operational requirements in order to mitigate project delivery risk. He has over twenty years of professional experience working in both private and public sector, encompassing a vast range of experience in both Engineering and Project Management while working on local and international projects. He started his career in New York City Transit as a Construction Administrator acting as Design Team Leader of Structural discipline for all their projects in Signals and Train Control Program. Afterwards, as a Design Manager in Stations Business Unit, he was responsible for design management and administration of multiple design-bid-build and design-build projects addressing state of good repair, accessibility upgrades and circulation improvement requirements throughout the subway system. In his decade long prior experience as Project Engineer at Structural Consulting firms like Desimone Consulting Engineers and Thornton Tomasetti, he supervised design of high-rise buildings, hospitals, museums, convention centers and industrial structures. His design development experience includes multiple residential, healthcare projects and New York Cruise Terminal Redevelopment Brooklyn Pier 12 in the tri-state area to aviation museum in Florida, convention and cultural centers in Qatar, Singapore and Honk Kong as well as many ultra high-rise structures in Asia. He had studied as an undergraduate at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Bachelor of Technology Honors in Civil Engineering) and as graduate at University of California Davis (Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering). He co-authored “Unique Complexities of the Shanghai Center Curtain Wall Support System” in Structures Congress, 2010. He is the Program Director for MTA C&D’s fist progressive design-build delivery project.

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