RINA North America offers a full range of civil engineering, geotechnical, environmental and site development services, including construction management.
We serve as facilitators for stakeholder groups, interface with regulatory agencies, and provide expert testimony in public hearings.
We understand our clients’ concerns for structural compatibility, efficiency in operations, and durability of our solutions.
With these challenges in mind, our engineers assist clients in the industrial, manufacturing, and municipal sectors in determining the best use of land with a unique focus on safety, efficiency, and lifecycle costs.
- Environmental Site Assessments
- Geotechnical and Groundwater Investigations
- Sanitary and Water Utility Investigations
- Traffic Impact Studies
- Site Development Planning
- Site Geometric Layout Design
- Roadway, Intersection and Parking Lot Design
- Sanitary and Water Utilities Design
- Floodplain, Floodway and BFE Studies
- Surface Grading and Drainage Design
- Sedimentation and Erosion Control Design
- Sitework Drawings and Specifications
- Stormwater and Construction Permitting
- Bidding and Construction Support
- Demolition Planning
We designed the expansion of rail car storage at the existing Lakeshore Rail Car and Tanker Services. The project included the over 9,600 track feet for five new storage tracks.
We performed a geotechnical investigation and existing conditions survey. Available space for the expansion was limited and there was no room for a detention basin.
The scope included preparing conceptual design to determine the feasibility of the project.
The project final design included infiltrating 100% of the stormwater into the underlying sand.
We provided services to obtain a permit from the City of East Chicago..
We designed two rail tracks from the CSX mainline to the manufacturing facility. The project included the construction of two storage tracks, grading design (including an additional 135,000 cubic yards of rail embankment), design of a storm sewer, three on-site stormwater detention ponds, associated outfall structures, and sediment and erosion control measures.
We performed calculations, prepared design and construction documents, and obtained necessary permits.
We also designed new truck access to an existing rail dumper building that included new access roadway, rail crossing, and improvements to the building floor to allow truck access to the building hopper and conveyor system.
We were selected to be the engineer of record for a 27.57MW DC/ 20MW AC solar facility located in the Midwest.
We developed the site/civil design for the project, which included existing conditions and site preparation, solar array, utilities and equipment layout, access road, fencing, substation and laydown area, geometrics and details, tracker pile, inverter and transformer equipment foundations and details. t
We prepared the site stormwater pollution prevention plan, a hydrology report which included pre- and post-development stormwater runoff estimates.
Additional hydrology analyses and civil design were performed to elevate modules and inverters in portions to address flooding concerns from a localized depression within that tract.
We also performed project electrical design and prepared record drawings following construction.
We performed design of a levee and associated improvements to reduce the impacts of flooding from the Little Calumet River into an adjacent residential neighborhood.
Our scope included a detailed watershed study to confirm watershed limits and identify up to three conceptual solutions to manage overland flow on the land side of the levee.
The team performed a detailed river survey to obtain adequate bank cross sections and bathymetric survey to perform detailed hydraulic design of the river modifications and to adequately model the river for the dam modifications, rock riffle, and levee design. Geotechnical field investigation was performed to determine foundation conditions for the levee and potential borrow sources for levee construction. Preliminary design included the levee, detention basins, pump stations and storm sewer improvements to handle storm water flows upland of the proposed levee.
Phase 1 included removal of the top of an existing sheet pile wall dam across Deep River, installation of rock riffles with fish and canoe passages, a boat launch constructed of articulated concrete block mat, public parking areas, and a bike path with pedestrian bridge connecting the residential area to a recreation building on the other side of the river. Phase 1 was completed in 2021.
We designed a new 66,000 square-foot parking lot to address the client's need for employee parking at their existing facility. The new parking lot provides nearly 200 parking spaces. Additional features included a pedestrian crosswalk with signs and signals, lighting for parking lot and crosswalk, a stormwater detention basin to offset the new impervious parking area, and landscaping in the form of parking islands and a screening berm.
We provided the topographic survey and geotechnical investigation for the project site, which included some flood-prone areas and assisted in obtaining a wetland delineation report for the project.
