US-89 Roadway Upgrade -Mapleton, Utah
FOCUS transportation engineers collaborated with UDOT to design safe access to US-89 for Mapleton Heights, incorporating signage, striping, and drainage enhancements.
Our projects in "Surveying" category
I-15 Concrete Panel Replacement – Midvale, Utah
FOCUS worked with UDOT to repair I-15 concrete panels between 7200 S and 9000 S, using drone imagery and quick-setting concrete for overnight repairs with minimal traffic impact.
Karcher & Middleton Backbone – Nampa, Idaho
FOCUS provided engineering and utility design for the Karcher and Middleton Backbone Road, which services several commercial lots located on 7 acres west of Middleton Road in Nampa, Idaho.
Gogo Squeez – Nampa, Idaho
Gogo Squeez involved a 186,000-square-foot expansion of a food processing facility, where FOCUS was responsible for staking out approximately 2,500 geo piers to ensure ground stability.
SR-87 and County Road Improvements – Duchesne County, Utah
A county road intersecting SR-87 at mile post 7.6 services a landfill and oil refinery. Large trucks regularly turning off SR-87 onto the county road were constrained by an existing power pole on the intersection corner, forcing the trucks to make a very wide turn and drive into the oncoming traffic lane.
Parkview Cottages – Lehi, Utah
Parkview Cottages is a high-density, single-family cottage-style community. This project comprises 66 single-family units on 9.31 acres in Lehi, Utah. FOCUS’s civil engineering, landscape planning, and surveying team worked hand in hand with Ivory Development to complete this job.
The Point at Saratoga Springs – Saratoga Springs, Utah
The Farmstead Apartments in Nampa, Idaho consists of 7 buildings, 120 units and covers 5.5 acres. FOCUS engineers worked closely with Ramsey Construction to address the complications associated with the sites high groundwater. This groundwater interfered with the construction of the buildings seepage beds. Working closely with the client a solution was developed that raised the site minimally and used low profile seepage beds. This strategy addressed the groundwater issue and avoided expensive earthworks costs.
Hidden Oaks- Herriman, Utah
Hidden Oaks is a master planned community adjacent to Butterfield Canyon comprised of 823 homes. FOCUS was involved with the master planning, which included the realignment of Butterfield Creek, and has done design work on all phases of the project.
The site includes a small valley with steep slopes on both ends of the valley where it connects with other parts of the development. This topography posed design challenges with storm drain and earthworks. FOCUS engineers teamed up with outside water resource engineers to model the creek realignment, which enabled them to provide a storm drain design that didn’t require extensive earthworks costs.
Frito Lay Distribution Center- West Valley, Utah
Frito-Lay has a large distribution center in West Valley City, Utah that required several improvements and expansions. FOCUS construction staking crews laid out the site’s expansions which included new building corners, bolt patterns, storage silos, and a parking lot.
When the field crew arrived to stake out the bolt patterns the site’s concrete had not yet cured. As uncured concrete can change the locations of the bolts, FOCUS was tasked with monitoring the concrete for possible changes. The FOCUS crew set up an exterior control using a Tribrach and prism that could be rotated to verify that tolerances were being maintained.
Union Pacific Depot- Salt Lake City, Utah
The Union Pacific Depot is more than a hundred years old. Its age and the methods by which it was constructed pose settlement challenges, and variation in the construction materials used resulted in different settlement and compression behaviors.
FOCUS was tasked with monitoring the building’s settlement and, to do so, placed 22 wall stations, each with three different vertical stations, and eight independent floor stations throughout the building. The stations are then relayed to a network of six reference stations mounted to stable structures and utilities. Measurements from wall and floor stations are taken in relation to the reference stations to detect minute movements in the structure. This process requires extreme attention to detail to ensure that the measurements are accurate and consistent. FOCUS’s skill at this process made it possible to detect unique behavior in the building that could not have been precisely quantified otherwise.