Metro Division 14 is a 10 acre light rail vehicle Maintenance & Operations Facility located in Santa Monica, California, that was built by Design/Bid/Build delivery. The project includes a maintenance and repair shop and administration facility (Main Building, including breakroom, offices, conference rooms, restrooms, control room), blow-down facility, drive through wash building, double-track interior vehicle cleaning platform, overhead catenary systems, traction power substation, six light rail vehicle storage tracks for 15 three-car consists, a through track, a runaround track, and parking and site landscaping/civil improvements.

Firm Role

DE provided project management, change administration and negotiation, project controls, estimating, claims avoidance, systems resident engineer, systems oversight, MEP inspection, train signal inspection, and closeout as a subconsultant to the Prime CM firm. Work included change management, negotiation of cost changes, inspection and oversight of systems field integration tests, systems installation and startup, including communications, traction power, overhead catenary and train control & signaling systems, inspection and oversight of building mechanical, plumbing & electrical systems, and key member to Expo Authority closeout team.