Boswell's Relevant Experience
Introduction
Since its founding in 1924, Boswell Engineering has kept pace with the rapidly changing technological advancements in the industry in order to provide its clients with state-of-the-art engineering services. Boswell offers a unique package of services that have been developed to accommodate increased demand by state and federal agencies to have the condition of their waterfront facilities and bridges spanning waterways investigated, assessed, and rehabilitated. With over 260 employees manning four offices in the northeast, Boswell Engineering is a progressive, diversified, full-service consulting engineering firm, possessing design, commercial diving, and land surveying capabilities that extend into municipal, highway, sanitary, hydrological, bridge, marine, environmental, and mechanical disciplines.
Boswell Underwater Engineering (BUE), a marine division of Boswell Engineering, has a highly qualified staff specifically committed to inspecting and evaluating the condition of submerged components of bridges and marine structures. Boswell Engineering is currently ranked number 292 among ENR's Top 500 Design Firms and number 37 among ENR's Top 100 Construction Management Firms and possesses the largest staff of engineer divers, commercial inspector divers, and fathometer surveyors among these noteworthy groups. Boswell’s uniqueness centers on the fact that it is not dependent on subcontractors that provide commercial diving or hydrographic survey services for the purpose of inspecting waterfront and bridge structures. In this regard, the firm is one of the limited number of engineering consultants to have total in-house diving and fathometric surveying capabilities on a commercial scale. Underwater engineering and hard hat diving expertise have been consolidated under one roof in order that strict control of the work proliferates within its ranks. Such a combined package equates to better hands-on performance and an underlying cost savings to the client by eliminating specialty subcontractors. In addition, work is executed in a more timely fashion since coordination of separate contract entities is largely avoided.
BRIDGE DIVING INSPECTION, FATHOMETER SURVEYING, DESIGN &
MARINE CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE
Since its inception in 1987 through 2007, the unique Underwater Engineering Division of the Boswell organization has completed over 800 marine related projects, many of which involved the assessment and rehabilitation of waterfront facilities, submerged structures, and marine and ferry terminals. One hundred twenty-seven (127) of these projects required diving inspection during new construction or repairs of existing marine facilities to assess conformance of contractor workmanship with bid documents and to verify pay quantities. In addition, through the year 2007, the firm has performed bridge diving inspections on a total of 8,186 substructure units (SSU) encompassing 2,578 bridges spanning waterways, and fathometer surveys on an additional 767 bridges situated over water. This type of performance can only be achieved by a large and stable organization such as Boswell which has the necessary financial resources to maintain a permanent and sizeable staff of full-time engineer and inspector divers, including structural and CADD engineers, and a huge array of diver support equipment. BUE dive crews never go into the field without secondary backup equipment in order to avoid production delays. Additionally, Boswell’s Highway and Structural Divisions have designed more than 215 bridge and marine structures and have inspected the superstructures of more than 800 bridges. Supplementing this, our Construction Management Division has supervised the construction or retrofitting of more than 78 bridges, 29 over water.