Roadway Design

Qk4’s transportation design projects have been the backbone of the firm for over 30 years. The staff’s experience and expertise include the designs of urban and rural highways; corridor location studies; highway drainage structures; complex construction phasing and the ultimate development of contract plans.
Qk4 has completed projects for Departments of Transportation in Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Indiana, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. Qk4 has also designed urban roadways for the local and surrounding areas’ public works and transportation departments.
Our engineers and CADD technicians utilize a variety of the latest design software to adapt to each client’s preferences. MicroStation®, AutoCad®, CAiCE®, InRoads®, and Geopak® are examples of programs used to efficiently prepare plans and studies.

Bridges

Qk4’s staff has successfully completed the design of highway and railroad bridges, ranging from those across single-lane county roads to those spanning multi-lane interstates. Projects have included bridges in high seismic areas, stream crossings with high scour potential, and intricate construction phasing to maintain traffic. Structure types include prestressed concrete I-beams and curved steel girders.

Traffic

Through the use of our technical expertise Qk4 has assisted both public and private clients in moving vehicles from place to place as efficiently and safely as possible.
Qk4 can call upon an experienced staff to perform all facets of traffic engineering: data collection, capacity analysis, parking studies, origin-destination studies, sign and marking plans, traffic modeling, corridor and alignment studies, and traffic management plans. Qk4 has considerable experience in conducting traffic impact studies, traffic counting and traffic forecasting for private and public developments.

Survey

Qk4’s land survey department has been providing service in the design of highway projects for over 30 years. These projects have included urban and rural roadway design, interstate highway and interchange design, and bridge design. Our land survey staff includes five fulltime field crews and permanent office staff to support, manage, and process survey information; giving us the flexibility to respond to the needs of our clients quickly and efficiently. All field crews utilize modern Total Station instruments, Static and Real Time GPS units, and state-of-the-art Data Collectors.

Land Acquisition

Understanding the importance of careful documentation, consistency and sensitivity in the land acquisition process is a key factor in Qk4’s proven ability to bring a project to successful, timely conclusion. Our land acquisition experience covers all phases of the process for acquiring residential, industrial, commercial, institutional, and rural/agricultural properties.
Qk4 has completed turnkey land acquisition projects for Departments of Transportation in Kentucky, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia. We have also completed projects for various municipalities, including utility companies.
Since 1985, Qk4 has offered land acquisition and relocation assistance services in accordance with the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970. Our professionals have extensive experience in the right-of-way acquisition process and are familiar with current state and federal policies, procedures and regulations.