2025-06-24 PL-INT-2025-010825 Uchiyama Erskine Architects - Category PL.5

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Experience and Past Performance Project Title: Assess Banyan Drive Properties Project Location: Hilo, Hawai'i Project Owner: State of Hawai'i, Department of Land and Natural Resources Project Challenges and Action Responses: Project Challenge#1— Lack of Record Documents Challenge: The three properties involved in the project were all older multi-story buildings with little or no record drawings that could be made available or found. Action Response: UEA made numerous calls to building management,the State and County in an attempt to locate record drawings. Little or no information was provided. UEA sent a team to the properties to develop a diagram of the site and each floor level of each building on each property. UEA then distributed the diagrams to its consultant engineers. UEA coordinated site visits between its team of engineers and building management applicable for each of the properties. UEA and its consultant engineers used the diagrams to sketch and document actual field conditions. UEA utilized the sketches to update its floor plan diagrams for each of the properties. After the floor plans were updated,they were redistributed to the consultant engineers for use moving forward with the rest of the project. Project Challenge#2— Development of an Objective Evaluation System Challenge: One of the primary objectives of this assessment report was to provide recommendations to the State of Hawai'i as to how to utilize each of the subject properties in the future. UEA wanted to base its primary recommendations on an objective evaluation system that was supported by data. Action Response: A matrix based comparison and scoring system was used to evaluate each of the three properties independently from one another. The criteria used in the matrices were identified based upon feedback from the design team and State of Hawai'i. The goal of the matrix scoring system was to establish a standardized means of measurement to objectively evaluate each property through direct comparison of potential outcomes and identify a primary recommended course of action for future use of the subject properties. UEA also coordinated with the State of Hawai'i to identify an alternative set of recommendations for each property. The alternative recommendations assumed that limited funding to address areas of distress would be made available.