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JERRY H. WILLIAMS, P.E. Consulting Hydrologist and Forensic Engineering/Construction Expert Design Civil/Structural/Geotechnical Experience AND Construction Experience |
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Project List
The following is a representative sample highlighting a variety of the hundreds of projects, engagements, and investigations Jerry has undertaken in the last 25 years:
Camco Construction Company |
Jack Haight Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. Cost: $125,000. A one story, tilt-up concrete office-warehouse. Developed complete structural design calculations with drawings including site engineering (drainage, parking, curb and gutter, landscaping plan). Performed on-site construction inspection to assure conformance to the plans and specifications. Drafted architectural, structural, and construction details necessary to compile and create a complete set of working drawings. |
The Land Group |
Sommerset Hollow Residential Development, Farmington, Utah, for Envirowest Realty. Cost: $3 million. Land development engineering (surveying, soils exploration, water and sewer systems in mountainous terrain). Using an aerial topographic survey, designed and engineered a storm sewer system including numerous catch basins, c.m.p drainage structures, concrete pipe, and two large detention ponds with inlet-outlet structures. Completed hydrologic studies, run-off calculations, storm routing, and all the curb and gutter design and calculations. Assisted in construction surveying and staking. |
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Ridgeview Planned Unit Development, Lander, Wyoming. Cost: $1 million. Wrote construction specifications for the potable and irrigation water supply and distribution systems, sewage lagoons and the collection system. Designed the water pumping system and the three sewage lagoons in a closed system with the effluent being used on nearby pastureland. | |
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Blazon Coal Mine No. 2 Entrance Facility Drainage Control, Carbon County, Utah. Cost $500,000. Determined runoff calculations, and designed a detention dam with a flow control channel, and a primary treatment system for local site run-off which consisted of a routing system and sedimentation ponds. |
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Reaveley Engineers |
Alta View Hospital Patient Tower, Sandy, Utah. Cost: $2.3 million. Designed a 4-story tower, triangular in plan, with a parking plaza. Architectural constraints, coupled with unusual soil conditions and a difficult site dictated some complex structural conditions to resist lateral seismic forces, and overturning moment. Designed unique connections because of the high forces. Worked closely with the contractor to manage the job. |
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St. George Hall of Justice, St. George, Utah. Cost: $1.5 million. Designed high security facility housing the local jail, law enforcement offices, judges' chambers, and courtroom. A 2-story concrete, masonry and steel frame building with 24 sides, the unusual configuration of the building plan, the differences in the upper and lower plans, and significant seismic forces required some unique force transfer mechanisms which included difficult-to-make connections integrating the three building materials. |
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Free-Wing Turbine Company |
Revolutionary Electricity-generating Wind Turbine, Salt Lake City, Utah. The direction of the development was three-pronged: (1) design of a small (125 KW) wind turbine; (2) construction and operation of a prototype; and (3) design of a large (80 MW) wind turbine. Performed all of the structural and mechanical design and calculations for the support structure itself (excluding the sheaves), the gear systems and power transfer. With no precedent for this design work, established a theoretical optimum for overall size, column tilt, cable sag, sheave size, gearing arrangements and power transfer, etc.; then drafted a set of working drawings for the prototype. |
Newbery Engineering |
Amax Chemical Molybdenum Scavenger Building, Climax, Colorado. Cost: $40 million. A 12-story, highly complex steel building. Designed a system of 7' deep x 45' and 55' long steel floor trusses with lighter rolled shapes carrying the load to the trusses and a bracing system. Saved a total of $500,000 over the original, uneconomical design proposal. Designed two heavy overhead crane support systems in the same facility. |
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Duval Corp. |
Potash Refinery Warehouse Rehabilitation, Carlsbad, New Mexico. Cost: $1 million. Performed the structural analysis of the existing arched rigid-frame warehouse, then designed temporary shoring systems to support the superstructure for removal and replacement of the foundation piers. Ensuring conformance to the drawings, supervised the fabrication of the three types of shoring systems previously designed. Devised the construction schedule and supervised the contractor. |
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Telesis, Inc. |
Structural/Architectural Design, Geotechnical Investigations, and Civil/Surveying Projects, Carlsbad, New Mexico. Day-to-day management activities including design of 4 single-span bridges and 1 multi-span bridge, 2 banks, 2 church buildings, 3 office buildings, 4 large office-warehouse-shop combination buildings, an apartment complex, a motel, a fully automatic carwash, one residence, and various other facilities and structures. Major geotechnical projects totaled 31 and included pump-in borehole testing, installation of monitoring wells and piezometers, in addition to regular soils investigations and materials testing. Planned each project, instructing the drillers in the details of location and depth of borings, supervising the laboratory tests, then analyzing the data and writing the reports. |
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First City National Bank, Roswell, New Mexico. Cost $1.2 million. Built as a single story, but designed for future expansion to three stories, the large amount of glass in the exterior walls and other architectural constraints, including a set of curved (in-plan), cantilevered trusses made difficult fabrication details. Submitted proposal for fabrication to the steel supplier and came up with an economical solution, which was simple to fabricate and erect. Overall, this building is structurally crisp and clean and very economical. | |
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North Loop Road Railroad Overpass, North of Carlsbad, New Mexico. This county road bridge was proposed as a single span with very high abutments. A new road was to cross the railroad at a deep cut. Reviewed the site conditions, railroad clearance requirements, and the time elements, and proposed an alternate design using pre-cast concrete members and a 3-span system. This solution reduced the estimated cost by more than $100,000. |
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Westinghouse |
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), Carlsbad, New Mexico. Managed several projects with an annual value of $4 million. Worked in the Construction Management division at this underground nuclear waste repository: (1) Providing the interface between outside contractors and Westinghouse organizations - Quality Assurance, Safety, etc.; (2) Preparing regular project reports covering progress, performance, and cost; (3) Preparing purchase requisitions, change orders, etc. for construction contracts, materials and supplies; and (4) Providing technical support for projects, including inspections, review and approval of submittals and test reports, contract changes and close out of contracts or work packages. |
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As senior engineer with the Geotechnical-Geosciences department, wrote several engineered work packages for conducting experiments underground. Prepared the package to instrument the new 2200' deep air intake shaft, as well as provided the interface between Westinghouse, Sandia National Laboratory, and other groups. |
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Jerrell Engineering |
Pecos Valley Chile and Produce Processing Facility, Lake Arthur, New Mexico. Cost: $1.3 million. As the prime design professional as well as the construction manager, developed 8 month, fast-track schedule--in time for the annual chile harvest. Time was critically short to develop the site. The topographic survey called for a significant amount of fill from the rear of the 20-acre site to accommodate the runoff calculations for the grading and drainage plan. Monitored the quality of the filling operation, prepared the design drawings and assisted in arranging to bring utilities to the site. Prepared the construction contract documents and obtained bids for the concrete work and erection of the prefabricated steel building, as well as specifications for the chile dehydrator (which was of a new type) and the other numerous pieces of equipment. Determined the electrical control equipment layout and the specific arrangement for an efficient operation. While managing construction, designed a plan to receive the very large and heavy dehydrator using two cranes and heavy equipment dollies. |
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4 Major Subdivisions, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Cost to-date over $2.5 million. As project engineering manager, completed the design of these projects in close coordination with the developers and city engineers, particularly in addressing the drainage of not only local runoff, but drainage through the sites as well. Performed preliminary design and supervision of the final design of a flood control system incorporating two dams along with their flow control devices. Improved broken and steep topography by balancing the economics of cut and fill with accepted geometric standards for streets, along with proper water and sanitary sewer for over 300 lots in a total area of approximately 160 acres in these four subdivisions. | |
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Lea County Cheese Plant and Southwest Dried Products, Lovington, New Mexico. Cost over $2 million. Adjacent facilities, designed to process over 1 million pounds of milk per day and built on a fast-track basis in less than 9 months. Performed runoff calculations, the site drainage plan, designed all the structural systems and performed the calculations on those systems. |
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Supervised the drawings, which also included the architectural and equipment layout. An unusual tower, 40' x 40' in plan and 70' tall with a completely open interior (that is no internal structural support system), housed the whey dehydrator and was integrated with a prefabricated steel building that enclosed the offices, other equipment rooms, and a warehouse. |
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Evans & Associates, Inc. |
Structural Failure and Drainage Investigations, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Investigations and accident reconstruction, occasionally including traffic accidents. Recording accident scenes with photographs, videos, measurements, evidence gathering and interviewing. Measured layout with a total station in combination with a data collector, downloaded to a computer file for compilation, study and analysis. Performed the necessary calculations, wrote reports of findings, conclusions and/or recommendations complete with photographs and drawings. Advised attorneys of engineering and technical aspects of the case for trial preparation and testified as an expert witness. Acted as principal investigator and designated expert on several major cases involving fatalities, or severe physical trauma. Two were related to structural failures and two others were drainage and flooding issues. |
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Williams Engineering and Construction |
Professional Engineering, Water Resources, Forensic and Technical Investigations, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Civil/structural engineering, surveying, transportation and traffic engineering, forensic and technical investigations, and construction management. With principal partners, performed surveying and engineering on subdivisions, boundary surveys, construction staking, traffic impact analyses, hydrologic and drainage studies, utilities design, feasibility studies, civil and structural engineering for buildings, structural failure and flood damage investigations, and expert testimony in our respective areas of expertise. Personally performed civil and structural design for numerous commercial buildings and private residences, as well as performed the engineering (including drainage studies, street design, etc.) for several subdivisions. Jerry has been the principal investigator and designated expert on over 60 cases including several major cases involving fatalities or severe physical trauma. |
Jerry H. Williams, P.E.
156 Wyatt Drive, Suite 1
Las Cruces, New Mexico 88005
Mailing Address: PO Box 16227
Las Cruces, New Mexico 88004
Phone 505-526-2444
Fax 505-526-0901
JWilliams@JHWmsPE.com
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