Monthly Archives: February 2025

Pershing Bikeway

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Pershing Bikeway

Location: San Diego, CA
Client: SANDAG
Completion Date: 2024

Awards
2025 "Outstanding Chapter Project of the Year" - APWA
2024 “Project of the Year Award” - ITE
2024 “Transportation Achievement” - ITE

Project Summary

The Pershing Drive Bikeway project is a complete streets revision of Pershing Drive, a critical corridor in mid-city San Diego that connects North Park and Balboa Park to Downtown San Diego. The project utilizes a portion of the existing roadway for landscaped medians that also manage stormwater with green infrastructure, and a two-way bike trail, improved sidewalk, and an earthen running path along the 2.3-mile stretch. Previously, the existing road had previously lacked a safe route for bikes, so the new bikeways not only offer protected paths for cyclists as well as being an attractive addition to the picturesque neighborhoods surrounding them.

The Redwood Street and Pershing Drive Roundabout promotes overall community accessibility as it provides safe crossings for pedestrians and cyclists through highly visible, designated crossings and by reducing the speed of vehicular traffic. Traffic calming is further encouraged by the installation of a second, smaller roundabout at the Redwood and 28th Street intersection immediately east of the Pershing roundabout. The roundabout creates a steady, continuous flow of traffic from each direction while providing safe crossing for non-vehicle traffic.

Kuna Boys and Girls Club

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Kuna Boys and Girls Club

Location: Kuna, Idaho
Client: Boys and Girls Club of Ada County
Completion Date: 2024

Project Summary

The new Boys and Girls Club in the City of Kuna provides a fun and engaging space for kids to participate in activities before and after school. The need for a fully comprehensive Boys and Girls Club center arose when the previous facility, housed in a 70-year-old gym, reached a waitlist of over 125 kids due to increasing demand in the city. The new facility has a capacity of 1,200 and includes a daycare, a game room, tech labs, an art studio, and a teen center. The project also included sitework, including the design of a 300-foot-long extension to the adjacent roadway on W Mendi Place. Plans were prepared to ACHD standards and processed for approval.

UCSD Franklin Antonio Hall

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UCSD Franklin Antonio Hall

Location: La Jolla, CA
Client: University of California, San Diego
Completion Date: 2024

Awards
2024 “Project of the Year Award” - APWA
2023 “Design Award” - AIA
2023 LEED Platinum

Project Summary

The Franklin Antonio Hall is an innovative interdisciplinary engineering research hub at UC San Diego that promotes the goal of collaboration between students and faculty in solving the most pressing issues in engineering. Located within the Jacobs School of Engineering, the building dedicates 129,075 square feet to innovative cross-disciplinary research space.


The facility also houses new teaching spaces, research spaces, core facilities, a café and support space. Shared laboratories and work areas support the fostering of collaborative relationships between the various fields of research. The project site also connects to the university’s existing pedestrian paths and bike lanes in order to promote biking and other non-vehicular forms of transportation.


Bayer Seed Research Facility

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Bayer Seed Research Facility

Location: Payette County, Idaho
Client: Bayer
Completion Date: 2024

Project Summary

The Bayer Seed Research Facility in Payette, ID, is a state-of-the-art research center promoting agricultural advancement and sustainable crop development. The project included the construction of an 11,000 SF seed research and laboratory building. Site improvements consisted of utility relocation, a water tank, a septic system, and stormwater management facilities. Nasland Engineering provided civil engineering design services and construction administration. The project was delivered through a Design-Build partnership.

UCSD Epstein Family Amphitheater

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UCSD Epstein Family Amphitheater

Location: La Jolla, California
Client: University of California, San Diego
Completion Date: 2023

Awards

2024 “Honor Award” - APWA

Project Summary

The UCSD Pepper Canyon Public Realm project encompasses the public space around a new Design Innovation Building and the Light Rail Transit Station as well as a new Amphitheater and support buildings. This multi-phase project includes public spaces for performances, transportation, dining, studying, classrooms, and fire access to mention a few.

The project covers approximately 5.1-acres of disturbed area and will increase the impervious area with the new fire lanes, buildings, amphitheater seating, and walkways. A regional bioretention basin was coordinated with the West Pepper Canyon Housing and Triton Pavilion projects since all projects had water quality and flow mitigation prior discharging to the same storm drain system.

Nasland Engineering provided demolition, grading, utility, drainage, and erosion control plans for this project. The plans were prepared to regional standards and processed with the University. Nasland also provided topographic surveying, bidding, construction administration, and record drawing services.

UCSD Ridge Walk

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UCSD Ridge Walk

Location: La Jolla, CA
Client: University of California, San Diego
Completion Date: 2023

Awards
2023 "Best Transportation Project" - Project of the Year Award - APWA

Project Summary

The Ridge Walk enhances the pedestrian and cyclist experience, focusing on identity and wayfinding for the main non-vehicular route through campus. The design balances the distinct historic character of both Muir College and Revelle College, while offering a fresh aesthetic to the surrounding campus neighborhood. Key improvements include an 8' wide AC cyclist pathway separate from a 10'-20' pedestrian pathway, along with gathering and seating areas on concrete surfaces and new wood decks.

Stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs) for the project include bioretention areas located throughout the site, seamlessly blending with the landscape design while mitigating the impacts of development. A below-grade trash capture device was implemented in a drainage area where bioretention facilities were not feasible due to space and slope constraints. Additionally, improvements to the existing storm drain system were necessary in some areas to accommodate the altered drainage conditions.

Riverstone International School

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Riverstone International School

Location: Boise, Idaho
Client: Riverstone International School
Completion Date: 2023

Project Summary

Riverstone International School is Boise’s premier private school, offering International Baccalaureate programs to international students. With increasing student enrollment and a growing demand for diverse classrooms and facilities, it became necessary to expand and remodel the school to better serve students’ educational goals. Nasland Engineering served as the civil engineer of record for the expansion of two wings of the existing school, along with the addition of three new modular classrooms. Nasland Engineering prepared grading plans, accessible path of travel improvements, a drainage report, and sewer line relocation plans.

Santee Lakes General Store and Improvements

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Santee Lakes General Store and Improvements

Location: Santee, California
Client: Padre Dam Municipal Water District
Completion Date: 2023

Project Summary

As part of the Santee Lakes Dynamic Vision Plan, the General Store and Administration Building were remodeled to better serve campground and park guests. The project includes expansion of the General Store building and replacement of the Parks Administration Building, as well as re-construction of the adjacent parking lot. Site improvements throughout the project include sustainable, drought-tolerant landscaping and new parking.

During the Vision Planning process, Nasland provided planning phase consulting services with the goal of keeping most parts of the Preserve open during construction.

SDSU KPBS Building Addition and Renovation

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SDSU KPBS Building Addition and Renovation

Location: San Diego, CA
Client: San Diego State University
Completion Date: 2022

Project Summary

The KPBS Building at SDSU is a world-class facility that supports the day-to-day operations of the public radio station. It is located near the campus entrance at Campanile Drive and Lindo Paseo. Because of its prominent location, a key goal of the project was to highlight its role in the campus environment as a hub for local and community news. Site improvements create a welcoming, accessible entrance to the building. The project removed the existing entry, storage area, and outdoor patio to make room for additional workstations and workspace. Nasland provided civil engineering and surveying services across all three phases: schematic design; design development and construction document preparation; and, in Phase 3, bidding, construction administration, and record drawing preparation. Nasland also secured City of San Diego right-of-way permits and prepared improvement plans for sidewalks, curb ramps, sidewalk underdrains, and street trees.

Old Otay Mesa Road Improvements

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Old Otay Mesa Road Improvements

Location: Otay, California
Client: City of San Diego
Completion Date: 2020

Awards

2020 “Outstanding Roadway & Highway Project” - ASCE
2020 “Honor Award” - APWA

Project Summary

Nasland Engineering provided civil engineering design services and construction support services for a nearly 1-mile section of Old Otay Mesa Road in the City of San Diego. The existing roadway was narrow, without adequate room for pedestrians and meanders along a steep hillside. Recent adjacent developments included residential subdivisions and a brand new high school, contributing to a high number of children and adults who traversed the roadway on a narrow dirt path along the side of the road. This created a very dangerous situation for pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists alike. This project improved safety, traffic flow and accessibility along this old section of roadway by realigning the street, providing sidewalks, bike lanes, utilities and water quality improvements. With these improvements, a safer, more efficient route was provided for pedestrians and bicyclists, as well as motorists.