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SAAD Consultants Capabilities
SAAD Consultants key staff includes registered professional
engineers with graduate degrees and experience in water resources
planning and engineering. These key staff are supported by environmental
and coastal engineers and GIS staff, most with a world of experience
and advanced engineering education. Key staff also have 20+
years experience in hazard mitigation evaluation and complaince.
To expand our services within Saad, an experienced home and
post-distaster inspector joined the team in 2006.
SAAD Consultants' past performance includes the completion
of water resources projects: flood control, channelization,
diversions, levees, earth dams, floodwalls, highway drainage,
bridges, culverts, stream bank stabilization and protection,
floodplain studies, and revision of National Flood Insurance
Program (NFIP) flood maps. Refer to Past
Performance for specifics.
We perform hydrologic analysis and modeling for the above
mentioned projects, using HEC-1 and HEC-HMS, GISHydro, TR-20,
streamflow statistical analysis for gaged watersheds, and regional
regression equations for ungaged watersheds. We also perform
hydraulic analysis using HEC-2, HEC-RAS, integrated with HEC-GeoRAS
for delivery of digital products, unsteady state models for
dam break analysis, and 2-D models.
We have experience in the analysis and design of highway stream
crossing structures for various State Departments of Transportation.
The hydrology uses GISHydro, USGS regression equations, and
rainfall-runoff models, such as TR-20. The hydraulics of drainage
structures are analyzed using the Federal Highway Administration
(FHWA) HY-8 software and HEC-RAS model. Our staff is also experienced
in bridge scour analyses based on FHWA HEC-18, “Evaluating Scour
at Bridges"
We use the latest GIS technologies and tools available for
water resources projects, such as floodplain studies, culvert
analyses, and bridge scour studies. We have hydraulic engineers
with experience in using ESRI GIS systems such as ArcView, Arc/Info,
and ArcIMS. We also have experience in developing GIS programs
using AVENUE and AML to facilitate preparation of input data
for H&H models and presenting results of these models in a GIS
format.
The scope of our capabilities extends to coastal and environmental
planning and engineering. We also team up with other small firms
with expertise in coastal, planning, and environmental sciences.
These services include:
Beach Restoration and Erosion Control
Coastal Structures Design and Evaluation
Coastal and Inlet Processes Analyses
Navigation, including dredging and dredged material management
Coastal Hydraulics including 2-D modeling of navigation projects
Facilities/Site Engineering, including waterfront recreational
facilities
Building Inspections
Construction Inspections
The diverse nature of the completed projects range from design,
permitting, construction of beach restoration and erosion control
projects and dredged material management facilities to advanced
mathematical modeling of complex water bodies for the design
and evaluation of bridges, jetties, breakwaters, and channel
deepening.
Selected Coastal Projects:
· Preparation of plans and specs for a beach restoration
project in Puerto Nuevo, Puerto Rico
· Beach and dune restoration following Hurricane Opal
in six Florida Panhandle counties
· Wave modeling for jetty design and ship operations
at the Port of Dos Bocas, Mexico
· Marina design, restoration, and dredging projects for
public and private sector
· Beach placement/nourishment projects in seven Florida
coastal counties
· District engineering services for port and navigation
districts
· Feasibility studies, design, permitting, and/or monitoring
aspects of beach nourishment projects
· Design and assessment of several navigation projects
including Ponce DeLeon Inlet
· Preparation and implementation of a 50-year dredged
material management plan
· Permitting, design, and construction observation for
six dredged material management facilities
Planning and Environmental Studies
SAAD's environmental team consists of specialized professionals
focused exclusively on the conduct of Environmental Impact Assessment
Studies, such as EAs and EISs under the National Environmental
Policy Act. In conducting over 300 Environmental Impact Assessment
studies, our consultants have worked with a wide variety of
environmental issues associated with diverse types of projects
in many different environmental settings:
· Water quality issues associated with water and wastewater
treatment in rural inland and coastal environments
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Water
quality issues associated with industrial facilities and development,
biological diversity and endangered species issues associated
with water diversions, impoundments, and other hydrological
changes
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Potential impacts on the biological, physical, cultural and
socioeconomic environments
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Management plans for National Wildlife Refuges, including potential
additions
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Environmental protection of parks, wildlife refuges, and other
natural resource protected areas for recreation, tourism, and
attendant economic development.
SAAD’s performance is rated by the US Army Corps of Engineers
(USACE) ACASS rating system as “Above Average” with sub-ratings
of “Outstanding” and “Satisfactory.”
A project, which we completed for the Los Angeles District,
USACE was nominated for the Project of the Year Award in 2003
by the California Floodplain Management Association (FMA). For
this particular project, we used the hydraulic models HEC-RAS,
HEC-GeoRAS, and GIS Application using Arcview software. |
