PL-INT-2023-005610 06.29.23 AECOM CAT PL.3, PL.4, PL.5, PL.6, PL.7

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AECOM I County of Hawaii,Planning Department,Fiscal Year 2024 F. EXAMPLE PROJECTS WHICH BEST ILLUSTRATE PROPOSED TEAM'S 20.EXAMPLE PROJECT KEY NUMBER QUALIFICATIONS FOR THIS CONTRACT O (Present as many projects as requested by the agency, or 10 projects, if not specified. Complete one Section F for each project.) 21.TITLE AND LOCATION(City and State) 22.YEAR COMPLETED PROFESSIONAL CONSTRUCTION HDOT, Highways Division, Historic Properties for the State Highway System SERVICES (If applicable) (Honolulu, HI) 2022(projected) 23.PROJECT OWNER'S INFORMATION a.PROJECT OWNER b.POINT OF CONTACT NAME c.POINT OF CONTACT TELEPHONE NUMBER State of Hawaii, Department of Transportation Highways Division, Planning Branch Pua Aiu (808)271-1605 869 Punchbowl Street Pua.Aiu@hawaii.gov Honolulu, HI 96813 24.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT AND RELEVANCE TO THIS SERVICE CATEGORY(Include scope,size,and cost) AECOM was contracted to develop a Historic Properties Repository to Challenges and Solutions document known historic properties and cultural sites and associated When this project was initiated,no one had yet deter-mined where survey areas along the State Highway System in Hawaii.The purpose the documents were being held or stored.There was no index or other was to support highway project compliance with Federal National Historic identifying information available from HDOT or State Historic Preservation Preservation Act(NHPA)Section 106 and State of Hawaii Revised Division.The team had to make a significant effort,engaging in-person Statutes(HRS)Chapter 6E.More than three hundred cultural resource with SHPD leadership as well as individual HDOT staff,to gain access documents were collected in a cloud-based Repository,accessible by and gather documents stored in many inaccessible locations.The data users directly via SharePoint or through a map-based web app hosted on collection plan evolved constantly and great flexibility was required to ArcGIS Online.The ArcGIS online map shows geospatial data for the ensure documents could be effectively collected,processed,and included sites and survey areas described in the documents,allowing HDOT proj- in the repository;more than 300 high-priority documents were processed ect managers to identify those that are in and near their planned project and included despite these challenges. areas.AECOM provided one year of technical support and updates to the Repository as new projects were completed.During that time HDOT users The specialized staff involved in this project were located across multiple learned to incorporate these new tools into their projects. time zones.Scheduling meetings that worked for the client in Hawaii as well as the geospatial team in the eastern continental US was a chal- The following process was developed in consultation with stakeholders at lenge;the team utilized tools such as Microsoft Teams and SharePoint HDOT-HWY through a series of work-shop meetings.A progress meeting to facilitate collaboration.Because the project was being conducted via was held after 100 documents were input into the Repository,and a final cloud-based platforms from the start,the transition to remote work during presentation was conducted after 300 documents were incorporated. the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic was relatively seamless. Documents pertaining to archaeological and architectural historic resources were collected in a digital format from collections at HDOT and the State Historic Preservation Division(SHPD)and prioritized as high,medium,or low,based on their likelihood to contain relevant historic - property data.High priority documents were data mined for relevant * cultural and geospatial data to create the foundation of the Repository database. Maps of the surveys and historic properties were extracted ,g the documents and georeferenced.The boundaries of surveys and "` T3, , historic properties were digitized from these maps,or,where maps were unavailable or of insufficient quality,were estimated from other geospatial information in the originating document.These geospatial representations were linked with the other data collected and uploaded to ArcGIS Online . as a feature service that powers the web app interface. " An 11-minute training video was developed to educate us-ers on the tools available to them in the web app.Four live virtual training sessions are being scheduled.The scope also includes one year of technical support , 1111 for users,as well as one year of quarterly updates to the repository to incorporate cultural data from newly completed projects. HDOT Historic Properties Web App AUTHORIZED FOR LOCAL REPRODUCTION STANDARD FORM 330(REV. 7/2021) PART I - PAGE F-4