Monthly Archives: February 2025

Florida Drive Storm Drain Replacement

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Florida Drive Storm Drain Replacement

Location: San Diego, CA
Client: City of San Diego
Completion Date: 2020

Awards
2021 “Outstanding Project” - ASCE
2021 “Honor Award” - APWA

Project Summary

This project involved the replacement of approximately 550 linear feet of eroded 126” diameter CMP storm drain with a 120” diameter RCP storm drain near the intersection of Florida Drive and Pershing Drive in San Diego. The scope also included the replacement of the existing headwall outlet structure and the addition of a junction structure/cleanout at the joint location with the existing 126” CMP.

Nasland Engineering prepared plans for the storm drain replacement after the 120” pipe failed during the previous rainy season. The plans were completed within two weeks to expedite the replacement process. Nasland was directly contracted with the installing contractor, and the design was finalized in under one month. Construction was completed in approximately five months, with the timing critical to ensure the new pipe was installed before the next rainy season.

Encinitas Coastal Rail Trail

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Encinitas Coastal Rail Trail

Location: Encinitas, California
Client: City of Encinitas
Completion Date: 2019

Awards

2021 “Engineering Excellence Merit Award” - ACEC
2020 “Project of the Year Award” - APWA
2020 “Outstanding Bikeways & Trails Project” - ASCE

Project Summary

Encinitas Coastal Rail Trail provides a vital bike and pedestrian link through Encinitas and promotes biking as a safe and sustainable transportation method. The project was approved by Coastal Commission in April 2017 and includes a Class I bicycle facility in the North County Transit District’s (NCTD) right-of-way. Infrastructure supporting the bikeway includes drainage facilities, franchise utility coordination, retaining walls, a prefabricated bridge, fencing, re-vegetation, and water treatment improvements. Green Street Elements on San Elijo Avenue include porous material in the parking areas and bioretention facilities while the Class I pathway includes a porous material edge and infiltration trench to meet the requirements of the MS4 permit. Nasland Engineering provided all design topographic and boundary surveying within the NCTD and City of Encinitas right-of-ways.

Bayside Fire Station

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Bayside Fire Station

Location: San Diego, CA
Client: Civic San Diego
Completion Date: 2019

Awards
2019 "Project of the Year Award" - APWA

Project Summary

Located in Little Italy, across from the County Administration Building, the Bayside Fire Station addresses a longstanding challenge for the local Fire Department by meeting life safety response times for the waterfront and residential areas west of the busy railroad tracks.

Nasland Engineering provided surveying, planning, design, and construction administration services for this project. Key challenges included evolving stormwater treatment requirements, limited site area, numerous existing utilities along Pacific Highway, and difficult site grading. Nasland worked closely with Civic San Diego and the design team to ensure the successful completion of the project and navigated the approval process with the City of San Diego Development Services Department.

Del Mar Citywide Mobility Improvements

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Del Mar Citywide Sidewalk Improvements

Location: Del Mar, California
Client: City of Del Mar
Completion Date: 2018

Awards

2012 “Small Firm Merit Award” Engineering Excellence Award - ACEC
2011 “Outstanding Small Project Award” ASCE
2011 “Project of the Year” APWA
2010 “Outstanding Project” ASCE

Project Summary

Nasland Engineering provided civil engineering and surveying services for the City of Del Mar's Citywide Sidewalk Improvement project. Work included topographic and boundary surveys and the preparation of construction documents, specifications, and estimates necessary to construct the proposed improvements. The objective of this project was to improve pedestrian and bicycle mobility throughout the City.


Camino Del Mar/Jimmy Durante Boulevard
The first phase of the project included improvements on Camino Del Mar and Jimmy Durante Blvd from 15th Street to San Dieguito Drive including a new roundabout, sidewalks, curb ramps, Class II bicycle facilities, signage modifications, retaining walls, storm drain enhancements, and AC pavement rehabilitation. The project provided a pedestrian connection from Del Mar’s civic area to the San Diego County fairgrounds.


Via De La Valle and Camino Del Mar
The second phase was partially funded by a SANDAG and encompassed Via De La Valle and Jimmy Durante Boulevard around the fairgrounds. Challenges to this phase included design coordination with other disciplines and multiple jurisdictions, and a shortened project schedule to avoid impacts to the San Diego County Fair. The project included a road diet on Via De La Valle with new sidewalks, narrowed traffic lanes, Class II buffered bike lanes, retaining walls, storm drain, reverse angled parking, and raised mid-block crosswalks.


Del Mar Roundabout
The third phase included construction of a landscaped roundabout at Jimmy Durante Boulevard and San Dieguito Drive to promote traffic calming on this heavily traveled corridor. The project continued the sidewalks and bikeways within this corridor.


Camino Del Mar Trail
The Camino Del Mar Trail is a multi-use path for pedestrians and bicyclists that completes the corridor from the Del Mar Village to Torrey Pines State Beach. Camino Del Mar was improved to narrow the center median to include a buffered multi use path, a class 2 bikeway, and a single southbound lane traffic for vehicles.

Horton Plaza Park

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Horton Plaza Park

Location: San Diego, California
Client: Walker Macy
Completion Date: May 2016

Project Summary

The $17 million project resulted in a 53,000-square-foot urban plaza and public gathering space. The park includes three food and beverage pavilions with trellised patios, a booth where tickets can be purchased to local theaters and other San Diego attractions, an amphitheater, a fountain built in 1910, a pop-jet fountain, color- changing light sculptures and free public WiFi.

Highway 101 Westside Improvements

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Highway 101 Westside Improvements

Location: Solana Beach, California
Client: City of Solana Beach
Completion Date: 2013

Awards

2014 “Outstanding Community Improvement Project” - ASCE
2014 “Honor Award of the Year” - APWA
2011 “2013 “Award of Excellence: Urban Design & Beautification” - ASCE

Project Summary

Nasland Engineering was retained by the City of Solana Beach to prepare and process a plan for traffic calming and streetscape improvements on Highway 101 throughout the City limits. The project’s design principle was to incorporate traffic calming, but keep efficient traffic flow. Several project options were conceptually developed, including various concepts of roundabouts, lane reductions, and bicycle striping and were brought to the community and City Council for review and discussion. After approval of the design by the community, City Council, and the Coastal Commission, construction documents were prepared by Nasland Engineering. The final design consisted of an effective traffic calming project embraced by the community that includes widened sidewalk areas to promote walkability and streetfront business uses; angular parking to increase the overall amount of parking as desired by the business community, curb pop-outs including areas for pocket-parks, art elements, and mid block pedestrian crossings for connectivity to the east side of the Community.

“Nasland has been involved with the Highway 101 Improvement project for the past five years. We have been extremely pleased with Nasland's roadway design/streetscape expertise and quality of deliverables. I highly respect their professionalism and innovative thinking.”
Mo Sammak
City Engineer City of Solana Beach

Waterfront Park

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Waterfront Park

Location: San Diego, CA
Client: County of San Diego
Completion Date: 2014

Awards
2015 “Outstanding Community Improvement Project” - ASCE
2015 “Project of the Year Award” - ASCE
2015 “Project of the Year Award” - APWA
2014 “Orchid for Urban Planning” - San Diego Architectural Foundation

Project Summary

The San Diego County Administration Center Waterfront Park transformed two large 12-acre on-grade parking lots into a vibrant community and regional open space. The park features expansive civic greens, a children's play area, intimate garden rooms, and an interactive fountain. A 250-car underground parking garage was constructed off Ash Street to replace the former above-ground lots. The park’s amenities include a splash fountain, themed gardens like a Mediterranean garden and a children's play garden, as well as spaces for picnics, large events, sports, and lounging.

Nasland Engineering served as the civil engineering consultant, designing sustainable elements such as low-water irrigation, drought-resistant landscaping, low-energy lighting, and permeable ground surfaces to reduce stormwater runoff into the bay. Before construction, Nasland prepared a site preparation package, including the demolition of several buildings to clear the area for the park's construction.

UCSD Charles David Keeling Apartments

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UCSD Charles David Keeling Apartments

Location: La Jolla, California
Client: University of California, San Diego
Completion Date: 2011

Awards

2012 “Outstanding Environmental Engineering Project” - ASCE
2012 “Outstanding Chapter Project of the Year” - APWA
2011 “Award of Merit” - ASCE

Project Summary

The Charles David Keeling Apartments (originally known as Revelle College Housing) helps meet UC San Diego’s need for the increasing student population and on-campus housing. Located in the Revelle College neighborhood of the University of California San Diego (UCSD) West Campus, the site comprises approximately two-acres located south of the planned Housing and Dining Administration Services Building, west of the existing The Fleet Buildings and Parking Lot P104, and east of North Torrey Pines Road and Scholars Drive South. The project includes three housing buildings (510 beds) with associated outdoor areas to promote a more usable, student friendly, and storm water conscious area.

The project included innovative strategies for limiting the quantity and improving the quality of stormwater runoff which included a bioswale along Scholars Drive South, surface detention of low flows of stormwater and an extended surface detention basin on the south side of the proposed project. The interior courtyards were also utilized for stormwater treatment with a biofiltration basin.

Creative design and construction phasing had to be utilized with the re-routing of existing underground utilities and storm drains that originally crossed through the middle of the site. Construction coordination with the Housing and Dining Administration Building was essential because of the crossing over of the limits of work and desired seamless interaction between the two projects landscape, hardscape, and building layouts.

Nasland Engineering worked closely with the landscape architect to ensure the hardscape and landscape work together and to have not only a visual appeal but a functional aspect as well. The functional aspect was the design and layout of the multiple bioswales throughout the site that helped to work the stormwater retention, treatment, and infiltration.