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Request for Qualifications
Stage 1 Design Team Submittal
A Collaboration presented on September 5, 2014 by:
Ross Barney Architects, Lead Architectural Designer
Long & Associates, Architect, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Civil, and Structural Engineer
PlaceMaker Design Studio, Landscape Architect
Scheda Ecological Associates, Marine and Coastal Biology Consultant
Gary Mormino, Historian
ADEAS‐Q, Transportation Engineer
Engineering Specialties Group, Aerial Transportation Engineer
Terracon, Geotechnical and Environmental Engineer
ARO Engineering, Marine and Coastal Engineer
Hatcher Engineering, Fire Protection Engineer
Inhabitect, Green Roof Consultant
Polaris Associates, Surveyor
Willis Construction Consulting, Cost Consultant
Aqua Marketing & Communications
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_Cover Letter
Bryan Eichler September 4, 2014
Engineering and Capital Improvements
City of St Petersburg
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One Fourth Street North, 7 Floor
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
To the Design Team Selection Committee for the St. Petersburg Pier,
Ross Barney Architects in association with our Tampa Bay based partner, Long and Associates,
is pleased to present our qualifications for your consideration as the Design Team for the St.
Petersburg Pier.
Our team has the talent, experience and enthusiasm to handle the two important challenges
that the reimagining of the St. Petersburg pier creates: conducting a meaningful and resonant
public process allowing citizens to contribute to and appreciate the final design and, most
importantly, creating a memorable, durable and lovably iconic public space.
We have recent experience building public spaces on marine structures like the ongoing $150
million Chicago River Walk project. Recently we designed and executed extremely successful
public process for the design framework of the Bloomingdale Trail (now the 606) which will turn
a 2.7 mile underutilized rail embankment into a new linear urban park.
But while we believe that our past projects recommend us for the Pier, the most important asset
we bring is our creative, problem solving vision. Our team possesses the ability to look at the St.
Petersburg Pier critically and effectively making a space that will continue to be vital years into
the future.
This project is challenging and exciting. Because we are so interested in the questions posed by
the history, condition of the pier, we took some time to imagine an approach which we include
along with our qualifications. Please consider our vision as a beginning not a finished proposal
since we lack all important stakeholder input, but we are intrigued with the notion of preserving
the Pyramid. We think it can be recast and remolded into a dynamic new experience that
stresses its unique position astride Tampa Bay. We are interested in recreating the pier
connection as a vibrant, pedestrian centric gathering space. We will study transportation options
to arrive at the Pyramid including water taxis and ferries and perhaps a gondola style cable car.
I am certain you will be receiving qualifications from many design professionals, local and
nationwide teams. But I can promise you that that our team will give you the best and most
creative solutions. Please give us the opportunity to show you our ideas for the Pier. Please
contact me personally for any further clarifications or questions, 312.832.0600 ext. 221 or
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_Proposed Design Team Organization
ARCHITECT - ENGINEER QUALIFICATIONS
PART I - CONTRACT-SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS
A. CONTRACT INFORMATION
1. TITLE AND LOCATION (City and State)
St. Petersburg Pier, Design Team Selection
2. PUBLIC NOTICE DATE 3. SOLICITATION OR PROJECT NUMBER
B. ARCHITECT-ENGINEER POINT OF CONTACT
4. NAME AND TITLE
CAROL ROSS BARNEY, FAIA, PRESIDENT
5. NAME OF FIRM
ROSS BARNEY ARCHITECTS, INC. D.U.N.S. - 113642367
6. TELEPHONE NUMBER 7. FAX NUMBER 8. E-MAIL ADDRESS
312.832.0600 312.832.0601
(Check)
9. FIRM NAME 10. ADDRESS 11. ROLE IN THIS CONTRACT
x 5892 E. Fowler Avenue MARINE BIOLOGIST/ COASTAL
SCHEDA ECOLOGICAL Tampa, Florida 33617 BOTANIST
i. ASSOCIATES (Florida Woman Owned /Small
Business Enterprise)
CHECK IF BRANCH OFFICE
x GARY MORMINO St. Petersburg and St. Petersburg
235 10th Ave N Pier Historian
Saint Petersburg, Florida 33701-1707
j.
CHECK IF BRANCH OFFICE
x ADEAS-Q 446 Second Street North, Suite 100 TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER
k. CHECK IF BRANCH OFFICE St. Petersburg, Florida 33701
x ENGINEERING SPECIALTIES 8501 Turnpike Drive, Suite 106 AERIAL ENGINEER
GROUP Westminster, Colorado 80031
l. CHECK IF BRANCH OFFICE
x POLARIS ASSOCIATES, INC. 2165 Sunnydale Boulevard, Suite D SURVEYING (St. Petersburg Small
Clearwater, Florida 33765 Business Enterprise)
m. CHECK IF BRANCH OFFICE
x NATHAN GRISWOLD, 1129 Woodmere Ave, Suite J GREEN ROOF CONSULTANT
INHABITECT, LLC. Traverse City, Michigan 49686
n. CHECK IF BRANCH OFFICE
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_working with multiple clients, sub-
consultants and the public
Our team has extensive experience working on complicated projects, with multiple clients, the public, and
subconsultants. For example, the Bloomingdale Trail Framework Plan entailed multiple public meetings
with more than 500 individual attendees. While the client was one city department, the ultimate product,
a new park, would be managed by another government agency. We met with both the client and the
ultimate manager, as well as other interested public agencies and non-profits, routinely throughout the
project.
We are especially dedicated to working with the public. Ross Barney Architects’ clients are largely
government and institutions. We seek out this type of work because we believe in serving the public.
They are the ultimate client.
Additional Sub-Consultants
Should our team be shortlisted, we may wish to add consultants with expertise in the areas of lighting,
acoustics, market analysis, public programming, and community engagement.
Minority, Women, Veteran, and Small Business Enterprises
Ross Barney Architects is a certified WBE and DBE by the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, Minnesota,
Maryland, and California and would likely also qualify as a Florida MBE and St. Petersburg SBE. We
know by our own experience that the work assigned to VOSB/MBE/WBE/SBE team members must be
meaningful. If it is not, the VOSB/MBE/WBE/SBE loses the opportunity to gain the experience that will
help the company grow into a self sufficient competitive entity.
In addition to Ross Barney Architects, our team includes five other VOSB/MBE/SBEs. Long &
Associates, the architect and mechanical, electrical, plumbing, civil, and structural engineer, is a VOSB.
PlaceMaker Design Studio, the landscape architect, is a Florida MBE and Pinellas County SBE. Polaris
Associates, our surveyor, is a St. Petersburg SBE. Scheda Ecological Associates, the marine and
coastal biology consultant, is a Florida MBE. Willis Construction Consulting is also a VOSB.
ross barney architects
City of St. Petersburg
Project Management
Ross Barney Architects
Carol Ross Barney,
FAIA
Lead Architectural Designer
Long & Associates PlaceMaker Design
Lex Long, Studio
AIA, LEED AP Chris Anuszkiewicz,
Architect, MEP, Civil, and RLA, ASLA
Structural Engineer
Landscape Architect
Scheda Gary ADEAS‐Q Engineering
Ecological Mormino Jason Collins, Specialties
Associates Historian PhD, PE, AICP Group
Thomas F. Transportation Mike
Engineer
Ries Deiparine, PE
Marine and Aerial
Coastal Biology Transportation
Consultant Engineer
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