Jane Stanford Way is the historic thoroughfare that runs through the heart of Stanford University. It is a pedestrian walking mall and the main bus/emergency vehicle route adjacent to several notable buildings, including Hoover Tower, Main Quad, and Memorial Auditorium.
The project’s scope included: 3,000 lineal feet of domestic water, lake water, and reclaimed water. In addition to 300 tons of asphalt paving, crews installed the sanitary sewer and storm drain and rehabilitated Stanford’s outdated utility system to provide a new system with a 50-year lifespan.
The primary challenges for this project were material availability and accelerated schedule, each of which exacerbated the other. With supply shortages happening globally due to the pandemic, it was challenging to meet Stanford’s schedule for students to move back into the dorms in early September. As material arrived at the site throughout summer, we increased the number of crews on site to make up for lost time, installing as much pipe as we had on hand. This even included a night crew coming in to assist when there weren’t enough hours in the day shift to keep the work on schedule. On top of this, we had to keep pedestrian, bus, and emergency access through the street at all times. This area is very popular with visitors, and even with a reduction of students in the summer, it remains a busy street.
McGuire and Hester was involved in the design phase of the project, which allowed a smoother transition into the field work, and we performed a number of items on behalf of the Stanford Project Manager, such as developing traffic control plans with the Public Safety Department and coordinating work with the transportation department who manage the bus routes.
The crew completed this work on time, exceeded the expectations of the client, and did so without any safety incidents or work complaints. Our awesome crew:
| Ismael Ahumada | Roberto Carriedo Ramirez |
| Daniel Brown | Gustavo Guijosa |
| Albino Camacho | Mauricio Mares Maravilla |
| Baldemar Calderon | Gerardo Ramos Torres |
| Ramon Magana Valencia | Raphael Espinoza |
| Victor Morelos | Ruben Reyes |
| Ignacio Santacruz Torres | Mario Castillo |
| Miguel Topete | Marlin Johnson |
| Joseph Pate | Sergio Ramos Ruelas |
| Juan Garcia Ruelas | Julio Buenrostro |
| Andres Cabrera | Ramon Magana Valencia |
| Jose Munoz | Jose Pinedo |
| Roman Camacho Lopez | Michael Cardona Ahumada |
| Johann Berg | Rodolfo Del Real |
| Mark Martinez | Taylor Pope |
| Rodrigo Ledesma | Sierra Schultz |
| Carlos Lemus Zavala | Javier Briseno |
| Jose Garcia | Pedro Briseno |
| Fidel Pena | Thomas Rached |
| Faigata Fatu | Ryan Gheno |
| Mario Castillo Ferreyra | Robert Ruiz |
| Dulce Bugarin | Hector Hernandez |
| Ismael Blanco | Joaquin Cortez |
| Jose Pinedo Raigoza | Daniel Rafferty |
| Felipa Gonzalez | Ramon Arvizu Garcia |
| Hector Buenrostro | Joaquin Cortez Garcia |
| Jose Flores Ramos | Alfonso Barbosa |
| John Economopoulos | Jaime Virgen |
| Jose Montes | Jonah Obrien |
| Keith Mollet | Antonio Aranda |
| Cody Zito | Dominic Wade |
| Francisco Calderon | Gary Parker |
| Jesus Carriedo | Jose Luis Hernandez |
| Joshua Morrison | Juan Covarrubias |
| Miguel Angel Calderon Jr | Miguel M Calderon Sr |
| Nicholas Lambert | Roberto Pena |
| Jose Zamora | Dulce Bugarin Rodriguez |
| Rodolfo Garcia | Rogelio Vilchis |
| Chuck Perry | Alonso Del Toro |
| Carlos Matute | Erik Myers |
| Florentino Contreras | Jaime Acevedo |
| Joel Topete Acosta | Keith Anderson |
| Raul Ceja | Tomas Gonzalez-Avila |
| Carlos Bribiesca | Fortino Arjon |
