Starting with a feasibility study in 2019, Pare assisted the Kent County Water Authority (KCWA) in evaluating its existing facility in West Warwick, RI, and then investigating multiple potential sites for a new central operations office and fleet maintenance facility. KCWA supplies and distributes water services to more than 87,000 consumers in Kent County and portions of Cranston, Scituate and North Kingstown, RI (a region encompassing more than 172 square miles). With a staff of approximately 40 people, KCWA had significantly outgrown their previous facilities in West Warwick.
Following KCWA’s selection of a 31.5-acre site in West Greenwich, RI, Pare completed a conceptual site design and then prepared site enabling plans depicting the interim site conditions including clearing, grubbing, erosion and sediment controls, rough earthwork, and stabilization. These site enabling plans were used for the permitting of interim sitework operations with the RIDEM Freshwater Wetlands Program prior to completion of the full building and site design package.
Pare then teamed with Vision 3 Architects to provide final design and construction documents for the new 46,000-SF headquarters complex. The new complex includes a 16,000-SF Central Office Building and a 30,000-SF Fleet Maintenance Building to garage KCWA vehicles and to provide workshop and outside storage space under an attached canopy. Pare provided full engineering design services including site assessment, site layout and circulation design, geotechnical engineering, wetland delineation, stormwater management design, utility design, local and state permitting, as well as full structural design for the administration building, covered storage canopy, and a canopy for a standalone fueling facility.
During construction, Pare’s Construction Services Group provided Owner Representative services including attendance at project meetings, review of payment applications, conformance with funding source requirements, and regular on-site construction observation.
This project won second place in ACEC-RI’s Engineering Excellence Awards for a project with construction costs of more than $10 million.
