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Historic St. Casimir Church awarded Water Winner in the 2023 Green Building Challenge. This 132 year old church is blazing new paths in green infrastructure. Click the following link to see engineering designs that prevent sewage overflow from entering Lake Erie: 2030districts.org/cleveland/clev_green_building_challenge/
Learn about design and phase details from project engineer, Aaron Appell, PE in the following FreshWater Cleveland article: www.freshwatercleveland.com/breaking-ground/St_Casimir_Phase_II_112823.aspx
The Cottages at Riverview designed for Pirhl Developers, LLC and New Sunrise Properties - a 62-unit residential development serving independent seniors, ages 55 and older, in Elyria, Ohio. Bramhall Engineering and Surveying Company was responsible for the Site Survey and all Civil/Site Engineering tasks.
"Bramhall was on this project from start to finish and we relied on their expertise and timely response." - Mary Ellen Melcher, Director of Project Management at Pirhl Developers, LLC
We are currently in the search for new members to add to our team. Our current open positions are a seasonal field inspector, a full-time CAD technician and a full-time survey crew member. Interested? Get the scoop here!
The City of Sheffield Lake retained Bramhall Engineering in the fall of 2016 to prepare construction documents for a wood observation deck and permeable paver walkway at Shell Cove Park. Pat Hastings, the Sheffield Lake City Superintendent, spearheaded the project. Through his efforts the City secured a $90,000 grant to replace an existing wood structure with one that is handicap accessible. Hastings said he was very fond of that old wood deck. You see, he had worked on the original construction when he was in high school. Scott Maiden and Keith Rohal completed the field work. Aaron Appell, Steve Miglets and Clarence Watkins prepared the plans. Back in July we had a company outing in the 1948 suite cheering on the Indians. Good times were had by all - now let's continue cheering them on as they take on the Yankees tonight! GO TRIBE!!!!!!
Bramhall is proud to have worked with Master Site Developer The Richard E. Jacobs Group LLC. to bring Cabela’s to Avon. The 13 acre site includes a 77,000 square-foot building, more than 460 parking spaces and 1.1 acre wetland enhancement area. In conjunction with the Cabela’s Site Development, 1,500 linear feet of Chester Road was widened from 2 lanes to 5 lanes including sanitary and storm sewer extensions, waterline replacement, relocation of overhead power and communications facilities to all underground. Bramhall provided civil engineering and land surveying services including lot split, lot consolidation, site preparation drawings, storm sewer design, on site storm water management facilities, storm water pollution prevention (SWP3) documents, public road widening (Chester Road), sanitary design, waterline design, utility easements, utility coordination and construction staking.
Over the past two years that I have worked at Bramhall, I have had the pleasure of working alongside Clarence. He always has wisdom to bestow upon me every time that I am in his office and he truly is the quintessential renaissance man. I had the opportunity to sit down and talk to him about one of his hobbies - other than engineering of course! What got you interested in wood working? I took wood shop in junior high like all boys of my generation. I still go back there in my mind when I hear a power tool or smell fresh cut wood. I always wanted to make furniture or a larger craft, but lacked the time and the money for tools. As I got older and became an "empty nester," I had time to turn my attention to other things. That is when I decided to buy a table saw, I kept it in the box for a year. I was afraid to use it. You need to know what you are doing or you will hurt yourself, I'm still waiting on the more time and more money part though! Is wood working something that relaxes you? I enjoy working in my woodshop. When I am out there working on a project I am often listening to the radio, working on a project and thinking about my family. Where do you draw inspiration from to craft your projects? I used to read a lot of woodworking magazines, but as time has progressed I can find many ideas on the web. Is there a particular item that you've made that really sticks with you? I really enjoyed making the mantle shelf for my daughter-in-law. I was tentative about cutting every piece of wood, afraid that I would make a mistake, but it all turned out ok. Do you think that your engineering background plays a role in your expertise with wood working? Yes, seeing 3D objects and breaking it down to a plan and parts list is fun. I really haven't had time do what I would like to do...I have a million ideas in me, or I should say that I've borrowed from other real wood workers. Bramhall provided a host of Low-Impact Development solutions in a compact urban space for the historic St. Casimir Church in Cleveland, as well as grant coordination for the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s 2016 Green Infrastructure Grant. The project features permeable pavement and bio-retention to reduce runoff, and will be completely funded by the Sewer District grant. Read more about the church's green infrastructure initiative here.
 Bramhall provided limited civil engineering and land surveying services including lot split, lot consolidation, storm sewer design, on site storm water management facilities, storm water pollution prevention (SWP3) documents, public road widening (Long Road), culvert design, waterline design, utility easements and utility coordination.
 Jamie recently joined the Bramhall team as a member of our Transportation Services section. Jamie’s background is primarily in the design and construction of transportation projects for public agencies. With over 13 years of experience, Jamie has participated in a variety of projects, from interchange upgrades to safety projects to recreational trail and sidewalk installation. Jamie will be primarily responsible for all aspects of roadway design on projects for the Ohio DOT and the Local-Let program. Jamie is a registered as a P.E. in the State of Ohio and is also a Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control. Please join us in welcoming Jamie to the BRAMHALL team! Drag racing has been a part of Stephen's entire life, from watching his uncle and dad race, until he was old enough to start racing himself. At the age of 11 years old, he began his racing career. His first car was a junior dragster with 5 horsepower (hp) Briggs and Straton engine that wasn't the belle of the ball by any means, but he was hooked.
Once he was on the cusp of ending his junior career, his dad surprised him with a bigger motor that produced more horsepower, changing his 1/8 mile speed to 9.2 seconds at 60 miles per hour. His junior dragster days ended when he turned 17. The following season he jumped into the adult program and raced his dad's 1972 Chevy Nova for a couple of years. His dad decided to sell the Nova and they bought a hard tail dragster. They put a Nova's motor in the dragster and man, did that thing fly! It took his 1/4 mile speed to 9.3 seconds at 145 miles per hour. Two years later they upgraded motors to a 427 Dart Little M Block that was producing 650 hp at the flywheel (in other words, real fast). This picked them up a whole second in the 1/4 mile to 8.3 seconds at 160 miles per hour. Stephen's current project is a new swing arm dragster with a mono shock, which will allow him to compete at different tracks that aren't as smooth as Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio that he currently races at. He tried to debut the new dragster at the 2016 spring warm-up at Summit but, alas, the car was not quite ready. Although the new dragster currently isn't performing as good as he'd hoped, his passion and drive for the sport are one that no car can pass.  From Left to Right: Tom Baldwin, Jamie Talpas, John DeChant. Join us in congratulating three Bramhall team members who have reached significant professional milestones:
 Bramhall provided design, EPA permit coordination and construction management for a $500,000 expansion and upgrade to the Sheffield-Sheffield Lake Schools waste water treatment plant. Timeline was everything, as the plant had to be back on line for the start of the 2015-2016 school year.
 Bramhall provided site engineering and foundation design services for the Northfield Oldcastle Building Expansion 2015. Elements of the project also included building coordination, building foundations and equipment foundations.
 Bramhall provided site, foundation, and structural engineering for the Shelly Materials W. 130th St. aggregate yard. The project also involved coordination with railroad, local and state agencies.
Site HistoryThe Project Site has a varied and multi-faceted land use history. In the 1930's the site included portions of an inter-urban trolley rail line. The majority of the site was used predominantly as agricultural land up to the 1950's. In the 1960's, portions of the property were used as a borrow site for construction of IR90/SR2. The site was briefly used as a recreation park up until the early 1970's with a 30 acre and 38 acre lake that were both approximately 25 feet deep. In the 1970's the site began to be used as a storage facility for fly ash, which is a residual waste material produced in the combustion of coal. The property was purchased from a local utility company by the City of Avon and in 2004 began a creative site redevelopment planning process. The Design Phase for the French Creek recreation Complex began in 2008. The baseball stadium opening for play 12 months later on June 2, 2009 on schedule and under budget, with a sold-out capacity crowd of over 5,000.  A. 5,000 seat capacity independent league stadium; cost: $12 million
Bramhall's RoleBramhall was responsible for all civil/site engineering, infrastructure design, value engineering, construction administration including continuous critical path construction determination to condense the construction timeline from 16 months to 12 months, private utility company coordination including gas, electric, telephone, and cable, weekly progress meetings, change order review, pay application review, construction staking and construction inspection, OEPA compliance storm water pollution prevention inspections, as-built drawing preparation, coordination of government agency permitting and compliance with Ohio Environmental Agency Division of Solid and Infectious Waster Management, Division of Surface Water, Division of Drinking Water, US Army Corps of Engineers, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Coordination of Wetland Investigation and Delineation, Coordination of Phase 1 & 2 Environmental Site Assessments, Dedication Plat, Private Utility easement preparation, and the continued development and layout of the site for future use.
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