Transformation Delivered

For more than a century, WSP has excelled in delivering the most significant, transformative transportation infrastructure projects in the U.S. Our team employs a highly technical and collaborative approach to construction management, which enables us to partner with clients to guide projects to successful completion.

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Value Proposition Comprehensive Services Experienced in All Delivery Methods
Innovation Integrated Project Control & Technology Thought Leadership Webinars
Spotlight on Our Experts Related Projects Sectors Services

Value Proposition

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Trusted Advisor to Our Clients

WSP takes pride in the long-lasting client-consultant partnerships we build. We structure our approach to maintain our client’s interests and streamline project delivery for cost and schedule efficiency.

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Specialized Expertise

Our experts have extensive experience managing construction of complex projects worldwide. WSP’s clients have access to the full range of professional construction services supported by more than 130 years of experience, insight and proven strategies.

 

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Zero Harm: Culture of Safety

A pillar of WSP culture, our Zero Harm safety initiative is a commitment by all employees to effectively mitigate risks from our activities—in office and on site—by seeking innovative solutions. Everywhere we operate, we make safety personal.

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Quality is a Habit

We believe quality must be built into everything we do if we are going to deliver excellence for our clients. From our first line, our resident engineers and inspectors, to our quality control manager and project principal, our commitment to quality is resolute.

 

Comprehensive Services

When an idea becomes a physical asset with value and usefulness, it represents the culmination of a long process. The construction phase bridges the gap between the concept on paper and a tangible asset. Properly managing this critical phase requires stringent planning and logistics.

On literally thousands of projects, WSP has been recognized by our clients for excellence in managing the construction of critical assets. Our comprehensive construction services allow us to provide clients with turn-key performance and manage every facet of construction.

Our on-site construction management teams deliver:

  • Program Management
  • Construction Management
  • Constructability and Design Reviews
  • Resident Engineering
  • Inspection Services
  • Project Controls
  • Construction Scheduling
  • Cost Estimating and Engineering
  • Contract Administration
  • Program/Project Management
  • Information System (PMIS)
  • Construction Safety
  • Quality Assurance/Quality Control

  • Independent Quality Control (IQC)
  • Independent Quality Firm (IQF)
  • Claims Avoidance
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Commissioning & Startup Management
  • Capital Asset Management
  • Value Engineering
  • Sustainable Development and LEED Certification
  • Community Outreach/Public Information
  • Stakeholder Coordination
  • Advisory Services
  • Building Information Modeling (4D and 5D Visualization)


Experienced in All Delivery Methods

WSP has developed field-proven best practices to implement projects successfully under a wide range of delivery methods, including:

  • Traditional Design, Bid, Build
  • Design-Build and Fast Track
  • Owner’s Authorized Representative
  • Construction Management
  • Construction Engineering and Inspection
  • Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management
  • Integrated Project Delivery
  • Public-Private Partnership
  • Program Management


Innovation

WSP has developed powerful software systems that easily integrate with industry-standard software tools to support and facilitate the successful execution of projects. Our Program/Project Management Information System (PMIS) is a dashboard application that integrates business information and key performance indicators in a centralized information package. It assists project management personnel in monitoring and managing project activities to control safety, quality, costs, schedule, risk, general documents management and other key functions.

PMIS applications are an integrated suite of independent project control software tools. Used in conjunction with established business processes, they provide effective project management, improve service, increase revenue and reduce costs. The PMIS is customized to individual projects and specific client requirements.


Key Benefits

Cost Reduction
— Reduced analytical labor costs when producing
— project reports
— Reduced costs through standardization

Efficiency
— Customization of user interface while pulling
— data from numerous applications
— Data consistency delivering a single source
— of information
— Easy query generation
— Intuitive integration with project work
— breakdown structure

Accessibility
— Web-based application accessible from
— anywhere at anytime
— Ease of access to project information
— Single-source access to all relevant project data

 

Integrated Project Controls and Technology

With ever increasing focus, businesses and government agencies are demanding greater visibility into project and program performance to achieve project completion goals. With tighter budgets and completion targets, project stakeholders need greater confidence that funds and critical resources are being well spent.

Therefore, project controls analytics, processes and reporting tools are essential to establish baseline project delivery plans, to then deliver timely project progress and performance analysis, recommendations and reporting throughout project execution and completion.

WSP’s Project Controls & Technology (PCT) team provides comprehensive project management and related technology services. With more than 170 trained professionals located throughout the U.S., our staff integrates directly into program/project teams with state-of-the-industry project management and control processes, techniques and tools critical to achieving project delivery goals.

 

Project Control Services

  • Cost Estimating
  • Planning and Scheduling
  • Risk Management
  • Cost Management
  • Earned Value Management
  • Claims Mitigation
  • Document Control
  • Commercial Management
  • Program Reporting
  • Technical Writing/Specifications
  • Project Support Services

Technology Services

  • Business Analysis
  • Systems Integration
  • Software Engineering
  • Cloud Engineering
  • Data Analytics
  • Geospatial Services
  • Software Configuration
  • Software-as-a-Service
  • Project Office IT Networking
  • Systems Training and Support Services
  • Cyber Security Consulting Services


Thought Leadership

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Transforming Transportation

The Seattle underground scene has a new star: The Alaskan Way Tunnel, which improves the commute through the city’s downtown and paves the way for a revitalized public waterfront.

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Puget Sound Gateway

Construction is under way on the Puget Sound Gateway Program in Washington’s South Puget Sound region. WSP USA is serving as the program management consultant and as the general engineering consultant.

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Dallas Horseshoe Improves Traffic

One of Bob Brown’s earliest childhood memories is traveling with his parents through a notoriously complex maze of tricky interchanges, bridges and roadways in downtown Dallas.

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Bayonne Bridge Raising

Raising the Bayonne Bridge—a world’s first—has opened the East Coast’s largest seaport to Panamax shipping vessels while preserving the historic steel arch bridge.

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Marc Basnight Bridge

The new 2.8-mile bridge over the Oregon Inlet of North Carolina’s Outer Banks replaces the aging Bonner Bridge, which is now being removed.

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Northwest Corridor Express Lanes

The largest transportation project in Georgia’s history has brought “life-changing” and lasting improvements to congested commutes north of Atlanta.

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Related Projects

Webinars

Delivering Mega Projects in Highly Urbanized Environments

What it takes to make a mega infrastructure construction project successful and how to deliver on time, within budget, and with minimal impact to travelers. Hear WSP’s national construction management experts discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with construction in congested urban environments. Neal Weitman, national director of program and construction management, and Howard Caldwell, Texas director of construction services, have helped clients mitigate risk by planning for and addressing these challenges early, during design, during construction and through innovative contracting strategies. Their presentation looks at risk allocation, procurement strategies, construction sequencing and the criticality of partnering with project stakeholders. Howard discusses his personal experience on Texas’ State Highway 161 construction project.

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Building in the Bronx

Managing construction of two major highway projects — bursting at the seams carrying travelers to New York City and New England — without major impacts to travelers was no small feat. As arteries connecting to several highways, including the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, New England Thruway and major truck routes north and south across the rivers, keeping businesses adjacent to, and below, the highway operating was paramount. Come listen to Jack Haran and Bill Prazenka share their experience managing construction of these two connecting mega projects, utilizing innovative techniques to accelerate construction and reduce closures.

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Alternative Delivery Construction: Strategies and Lessons Learned

Doug Andrew, director of strategic initiatives, alternative delivery projects, WSP USA, will discuss common goals of successful urban mega projects. With more than 50 design-build and public private partnership projects completed across the country, Doug brings decades of experience to share on how the delivery method helps clients properly allocate risk while minimizing impacts to traffic, keeping the public informed, optimizing scope and lifecycle cost, and ensuring safety and quality.

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