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Southwestern Operations & Maintenance Facility
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles, California – Hensel Phelps/Herzog, a joint venture
This is a secured maintenance facility serving multiple light-rail lines consisting of track, buildings, equipment, supporting systems, miscellaneous appurtenances, and related site development. The track configuration and site layout support safe and efficient LA Metro Light Rail Vehicle (LRV) movements for switching between facilities and tracks and between the SW Yard Facility and the mainline route. The SW Yard facilities also accommodate LA Metro staff and other employees engaged in general administration, operations, repair and maintenance, and transit security.
Project Design
The main building is a three-story building with office space and a maintenance shop that has four maintenance rail tracks for service and inspections, heavy repair, and blowdown track. The building also includes a storage area with high-density shelving and vertical storage units.
Separate from the main building are ancillary buildings that include a material storage building, paint and body shop, car wash, and cleaning platform that service the light rail vehicles.
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The project scope included 26,000 track feet of ballasted track; maintenance building (51,750 sf), car repair building (27,600 sf); control tower (1,600 sf), car wash (8,000 sf), TPSS, (3,000 sf); material storage building (9,100 sf); cleaning platform (1,800 sf); paint & body shop (4,800 sf); and several incidental structures such as guard houses and signal houses.
This project also included the design build of the overhead cantenary, a full systems package and integration and testing of the systems package including coordination with the main line track.
This project won the Associated General Contractor of California Awards for Excellence in Project Management and Partnering.
This project was finished on time and under Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority’s budget.
