Engineering and Capital Projects Divisions
The City's Engineering and Capital Projects Department provides engineering services for the City of San Diego. The Department is also responsible for providing traffic engineering services for the community.
The department consists of five divisions.
Architectural Engineering and Parks
This Division manages the implementation of non right-of-way and vertical capital improvement projects. This includes design and project management of the following.
- Public buildings
- Recreation facilities
- Airport facilities
- Water and sewer treatment plants
- Reservoirs and dams
- Process facilities (pump stations)
- Brick and mortar CDBG Agency agreements
Field Engineering
This Division manages construction contracts, materials testing, land surveying services and geological assessment/support. This responsibility includes this following.
Project Implementation & Technical Services
This Division provides centralized technical, operational and project support services to the other divisions within the Department, as well as other departments in the City. These services include the following.
- Preliminary engineering and asset management
- Project controls
- CIP fund management
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance review for CIP projects
- Contracting, quality control and standards
- Environmental and permitting assistance
- Community outreach
- Information technology
Right of Way Design
This Division manages the implementation of right-of-way and related horizontal capital improvement projects. This includes design and project management of the following.
- Water and sewer pipelines
- Transportation and street related projects
- Bikeways, pedestrian features
- Bridges
- Flood plains and drainage infrastructure
- Slopes and coastal erosion affecting streets
- Traffic signals
- Streetlights
- Utilities undergrounding projects
Transportation Engineering
This Division manages and coordinates the planning, modeling, and efficient and safe operation of the City's transportation system. This responsibility includes the following.
- Program management and coordination with regional transportation and granting agencies
- Traffic investigations and studies for signs, markings, traffic control devices, speeding concerns, and parking issues
- Accident data analyses
- Traffic signal systems management
- Traffic studies includes traffic counts and radar speed surveys
- Red light photo enforcement
- Investigation and programming of street lights, pedestrian safety and safe routes to school projects
View "A Guide to Your Transportation Engineering Division"
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