Background

BART, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the City of Oakland, and the Port of Oakland plan to close the three-mile gap between the BART's Coliseum station and the Oakland Airport by constructing an Oakland Airport Connector. This $230 million project includes up to four new stations, a tunnel section, a maintenance facility and aerial and at-grade guideways.

Fugro's Role and Performance

Fugro’s scope of services included both geotechnical site characterization and analyses. The site characterization scope of work included:

• Conducting site reconnaissance

• Researching previous studies in the immediate alignment vicinity

• Obtaining permits/permissions from government agencies and private owners for field exploration access

• Exploring subsurface conditions with subsurface borings (23) and Cone Penetration Test (24) soundings

• Laboratory testing

• Developing interpretative subsurface cross sections

• Preparing geotechnical data and site characterization reports.