This aircraft hangar was designed to accommodate four CH-47 Chinook helicopters side by side in the maintenance bay, and the design and installation criteria as well as quality control tolerances far exceed industry standard due to the nature, weight, and cost of the aircraft. The hangar area is over 40,000 sq. ft. with associated office, shop and maintenance areas in the adjacent core area. The telescoping hangar door is 280’ x 28’ which allows four aircraft to be moved into and out of the hangar simultaneously. In front of the hangar a 580,000 sq. ft. concrete hardstand allows movement of the aircraft between the runway and the hangar. This project has achieved LEED Silver Certification.

Baker-Aicklen and Associates performed critical design team functions from the outset, beginning with participation in the initial LEED charettes to determine credits to be pursued by the project to successfully achieve the government-mandated Silver certification. Throughout the fast-track design phase of the project, Baker-Aicklen performed admirably to deliver compliant, well-conceived civil designs including site work, wet utilities, extensive storm drainage facilities, and the massive concrete hardstand which plays such a critical role in allowing the Chinook aircraft to move safely and efficiently between the hangar and taxiway areas. The design team set new precedents for submission of the various design packages, a very high standard set by Baker-Aicklen with the initial designs and maintained by the entire design team throughout the design phase.

Throughout the CH-47 Aircraft Maintenance Hangar project, into the following Chapel and Religious Education Facility project currently under construction, and into upcoming teaming opportunities Baker-Aicklen has been a key team player and has provided a dependable foundation upon which Solis Constructors and the other design team members can build.

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 The project limits reside within the Edwards Aquifer Contributing Zone and will require coordination with TCEQ to discuss project scope, expected pollutant loading rates, appropriate permanent controls to meet the water quality requirements of the design drainage area and the development of a Contributing Zone Plan (CZP).  The project scope includes surveying services, preliminary and final design of roadway geometrics, right-of-way and utility coordination, urban storm sewer design, permanent structural water quality and detention controls, culvert analyses, signing and pavement marking plans, storm water pollution prevention plans, traffic control plans and construction sequencing, and utility layouts.

The project scope includes surveying, surface and subsurface utility locates, preliminary and final design of roadway geometrics, right-of-way and utility coordination, urban storm sewer design, permanent structural water quality and detention controls, culvert analyses and design at intersecting streets, signing and pavement marking plans, storm water pollution prevention plans, traffic control plans and construction sequencing, and utility layouts.

Williamson County, CR 170:

Baker-Aicklen is currently providing professional engineering and surveying services for the City of Round Rock’s Main Street Extension from San Saba to the IH 35 NBFR, including a bridge over Lake Creek.  The Main Street extension to IH 35 is expected to be a critical move in the redevelopment process and will provide a visual “gateway” to downtown.  The scope of this project includes surveying, location of surface and subsurface utilities, preliminary and final design of roadway geometrics, pedestrian facilities, right-of-way and utility coordination, geotechnical services, environmental services, bridge design, urban storm sewer design, permanent structural water quality and detention controls, signing and pavement marking plans, storm water pollution prevention plans, traffic control plans and construction sequencing, and utility layouts.  In addition to super-structure and sub-structure type and geometry, the bridge design services include an analysis of alternatives that will consider aesthetics in the form of rail options, concrete facings, and elements relative to the City’s master planning including illumination and art work.  Environmental services include permitting through US Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Environmental Review for Community Development Block Grant Program.

At their Tuesday, October 5, 2010, meeting the Austin Community College’s (ACC) Board of Trustees selected four architect / engineering teams to design proposed campuses in Bastrop, Elgin, Kyle and San Marcos.

ACC selected the team of O’Connell Robertson & Associates and Baker-Aicklen & Associatesfor the Elgin site and the team of Pfulger Associates Architects and Baker-Aicklen & Associates for the San Marcos site.  Gensler Architects were selected for the Kyle site and SHW Group for the Bastrop site.

ACC has purchased 87 acres in Bastrop, 98 acres in Elgin, 96 acres in Kyle, 72 acres in San Marcos and 100 acres in Leander. ACC expects to open the first phase of the new campuses in the Fall of 2013.

Proposed Austin Community College Sites in Elgin and San Marcos, TX.