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John holds the following certifications, as they are mandatory for the work that he has overseen for the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority (ISTHA):

• First Aid & CPR & AED
• Excavation, Digging & Locates: AST 2020 Field Station
• Fall Protection & Bucket Trucks: AST 2020 Field Station
• Cranes – Rigging, Signals & Load Charts: AST 2020 Field Station
• Backing, Spotting & Load Securement: AST 2020 Field Station
• MOT & Closures: AST 2020 Field Station
• Fall Protection Hazard Awareness
• Traffic Control Hazard Awareness
• Confined Space Hazard Awareness
• Locates Best Practices (One Call Compliance)
• Trenching & Excavation Hazard Awareness
• Electrical Hazard Awareness
• Load Securement

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This five-phase project will improve fourteen miles of I-20, I-26 and I-126 that includes the area commonly called “Malfunction Junction”.

We are providing the design and the lighting for these two phases, which includes both high mast towers along the interstates and interchanges as well as conventional roadway lighting along the ramps and side streets. Phase 2 includes a very complex Diverging Diamond Interchange at the crossing of US176 and I-20. Information here for the Carolina Crossroads overall project: https://www.SCDOTCarolinaCrossroads.com

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We are reviewing and revising their lighting policy, standards, specifications and pay items to bring them more current. We provide design reviews from other firm designs and development of lighting master plans and retrofit projects. We have provided several large-scale LED retrofit designs, developed the LED specification and evaluated many short tunnels for experimental installation stemming from our work with short tunnel research.

We share our experiences with other state agencies and municipalities to assist the Iowa DOT lighting program move to the front of the line on many relevant issues, such as high mast tower lighting deployment, among other issues.

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Wi-Skies holds a key role with Tennessee Department Of Transportation, where we are in the process of overhauling the Department’s lighting policy manual, specifications and standard drawings! Much of this work is essential due to evolving technologies and national recommended practice, but also due to debatable language and directive within the existing policies that put the Department at risk for design-build efforts.

Wi-Skies experience on the other side of the table provides invaluable insight to improved contract language, which would be difficult to debate in the future. This work also includes adding several standard drawings in an effort to streamline the design and construction work throughout the state.

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However, urban curb still exists in portions of the roadway and the lighting was installed based on the original urban collector setting and subsequent setbacks.  Because of this, most of the lighting installed on the outside of the roadway is within unprotected clear zone and subject to frequent knock-downs.  As the entire 6.5 mile corridor is continuously lit, this results in a lot of maintenance.  To properly address this situation, coupled with inadequate lighting, the recommendation was made to provide a new lighting system through the corridor which will increase pole setbacks coupled with barrier protection as warranted.  This new lighting system will also replace and upgrade the existing lighting along the median wall, where applicable. 

As the corridor was untouched for decades, full survey, LIDAR and SUE is necessary, which we are coordinating the effort on through our sub-consultant.  The entire electrical system, including service point locations, cabling and conduit except for that within the barrier walls for the lighting system will be replaced as part of this project as well. 

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The bridge spans a total of almost 1000’ of walkable path, including a 140’ long covered portion as it crosses Northside Drive. All of the pathway is being lit to high pedestrian traffic lighting design criteria, including vertical illuminance design criteria, which is being accomplished with a combination of pedestrian scale LED fixtures for outside of the covered portion and architectural ceiling mounted fixtures inside the covered portion.

The sidewalk areas along the perimeter of the west loop are also being lit to ensure good visibility of fellow pedestrians while not providing a glare concern to the drivers along Northside Dr.

In addition to the pedestrian lighting, Wi-Skies was also responsible for designing the impressive architectural lighting features on, in and around the bridge. Both sides of the bridge have continuous multi-color rope lights which span a total of over 2000’. Additionally, accent lights are provided at crucial areas, such as the bridge decorative columns and outer aluminum skin of the bridge as it crosses Northside Dr. All of the decorative features are centrally controlled for the client to have the ability to change the colors freely, depending on the venue.

While the architectural features of this bridge will mesh well with the new stadium’s architectural features, as it is immediately adjacent to the new stadium which will be aerially viewed often to show off both the stadium’s architectural features, the lighting on the bridge really sets the bridge and its features apart from the stadium.

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Sixteen miles of I-26 is being expanded to accommodate an additional lane in each direction from mile post 85 to 101 north of Columbia, South Carolina. As part of the project, two interchanges are being revised which include full lighting design which Wi-Skies is responsible for designing. Additionally, Wi-Skies will design and implement a new state of the art Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) system in the northbound direction.

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This interchange is the busiest and fastest-growing interchange in the Atlanta area, subject to traffic volumes of over 250,000 vehicles daily. The overall design intent is to provide collector-distributor (CD) lanes throughout the project limits for a total of 8.3 miles along both SR 400 and I-285, which will eliminate much of the congestion in the area due to a poor existing interchange layout.

Throughout the design process, several lighting and ITS design alternatives were designed and considered.

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