CASE STUDY
PROJECT:
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART)
Station Expansions
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) sought construction-manager-at-risk partners to complete the Light Rail System Station Expansions, including stations of the Red and Blue train lines. The project extended existing stations to accommodate three-car light rail vehicles (LRV) trains with level boarding where the previous station design only accommodated two train cars. By expanding the platforms at these stations, three-car trains can be operated system-wide, and increasing capacity of the service for the public transit authority serving most of the North Texas region. The transit entity released a complex solicitation for the project requiring a strategic and compelling response.
Situation
DART released a complicated project solicitation requiring numerous volumes of documentation, strategy, and oversight. In an effort to ensure engagement from minority and women-owned (MWBE) firms, the transit authority requested creative proposal and team responses in order to effectively compete for the projects.
Solution
PRAXIS developed a compelling business teaming strategy to ensure maximized MWBE participation in a manner which would also elevate the entire team, including the joint venture partners. In addition to developing the project teaming arrangement, PRAXIS executed a complex pursuit including highlighting logistics, complex construction scheduling, and team capabilities.
Results
Our client and project partners were successfully awarded the project and successfully completed their scope of work.
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PRAXIS LAND & LABOR ACKNOWLEDGMENT
As a Dallas, TX-based firm, our work takes place on the lands of the Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), Towakani, Caddo, Wichita, as well as the tribes that may have lived here and roamed the area – including Comanche, Kiowa and Apache—historic Indigenous communities in Texas. In offering this land acknowledgment, we honor, respect, and affirm Indigenous sovereignty, history, and experiences.
In addition, we acknowledge that much of what we know of this country today, including its culture, economic growth, and development throughout history and across time, has been made possible by the labor of enslaved Africans and their ascendants who suffered the horror of the transatlantic trafficking of their people, chattel slavery, and Jim Crow. We are indebted to their labor and their sacrifice, and we must acknowledge the tremors of that violence throughout the generations and the resulting racial, political, social, and justice inequities that permeate the Built Environment.