Ford Motor Company’s new stormwater management system is protecting the automaker’s massive Dearborn Campus via 2 million cubic feet of storage, weather-monitoring technology, automated controls, and green infrastructure. Wade Trim led stormwater master planning and system design and provided engineering and survey expertise through construction. On March 8, the American Council of Engineering Companies of Michigan (ACEC/Michigan) honored the project with an Engineering Eminent Conceptor Award, its most prestigious designation for Engineering Excellence. In addition, Consumers Energy’s Mid-Michigan Pipeline Construction Survey project received Surveying Merit Award.
Ford’s Stormwater Management project was critical for its Dearborn Campus Transformation, a 10-year redevelopment of infrastructure and buildings to create a more modern, connected, and centralized campus environment. The 320-acre site and City of Dearborn were historically served by a combined sewer system that contributed to flooding issues during large storms. The new stormwater network of interconnected components includes detention ponds, new pipes, repurposed combined sewer, storage chambers, and green infrastructure. Smart, weather-monitoring technology and automated controls built into the network give Ford the ability to limit stormwater flow entering Dearborn’s combined sewer system during heavy rainfall, cutting the campus’s overall runoff rate from 3 cubic feet per second, per acre (cfs/acre) to 0.55 cfs/acre. Wade Trim helped the automaker navigate their evolving campus environment, space constraints, and coordination with other construction activities from concept to completion. The resulting greener campus features an innovative, efficient stormwater management system that protects Ford’s assets and surrounding communities from flooding.
Consumers Energy’s $550-million Mid-Michigan Pipeline project modernized 55 miles of transmission pipeline to increase the safety, efficiency, and reliability of the natural gas system for Michigan customers. During construction, Wade Trim provided comprehensive surveying services from preconstruction corridor survey to daily construction staking and precise as-built measurements of the installed pipeline’s critical features. Advanced digital solutions, including Trimble Connect, a custom digital twin, a cellular radio-based Global Navigation System, and an inventory database that managed thousands of survey points, enabled seamless and accurate data collection as well as real-time collaboration between field crews and office staff.
The Wade Trim Team and representatives from Ford received the Eminent Conceptor Award March 8 at the ACEC/Michigan 60th Engineering and Surveying Excellence Awards Gala hosted at the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo. From left: Rogerio Morozowski, ENV SP (Wade Trim); James Britton, PMP (Ford); John Maynard, PE (Wade Trim); Chris Williams (Ford); Chris Small, APA, Assoc. AIA (Ford); and Erich Smith, PE (Wade Trim).
Wade Trim’s Nick Grim (left) and Brad Otten with Consumers Energy’s Ann Wheeler received the ACEC/Michigan Surveying Merit Award for the Mid-Michigan Pipeline Construction Survey.
