(King of Prussia, Pa.) The Pulaski Drive Bridge Replacement Project in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, won the 2024 Road and Bridge Safety Improvement Award. Dawood, an international engineering and technology firm, represented Whitpain Township as the project’s prime transportation engineering consultant.
Chad Decker, PE, PTOE, Dawood Vice President and Transportation Market Lead
The yearly award is given during the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors (PSATS) Annual Education Conference in Hershey to local governments across the state recognized by PSATS, the Pennsylvania Highway Information Association (PHIA) and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) for marquee road and bridge safety improvement projects.
Led by Manager of Highway Services Jason Cowen, PE, Dawood’s team completed the Pulaski Drive Project’s design and bid process—replacing the bridge with a culvert and implementing stormwater management and erosion and sedimentation controls. Services entailed road and culvert design, a traffic control plan, a right-of-way plan, geotechnical engineering, and environmental permitting.
The project, located just west of the Pulaski Drive and Clearview Avenue intersection, includes the reconstruction of approach roadways and sidewalks. A portion of work was funded through the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission’s municipal bridge retro-reimbursement program.
About Dawood
Established in 1992, the Dawood family of companies plans, designs, and constructs sustainable environments throughout the U.S., features Government Finance Solutions, develops real estate through Good Hope Ventures, and extends surveying, geographic information systems, and building information modeling internationally through ArchiTube, its 3D wholly owned digital transformation company in Poland and the Middle East. Dawood delivers award-winning technology, digital twins, planning, design, and predictive analytics to transportation, utility, energy, industrial, planning, economic and land development, environmental, municipal, movie and entertainment, real estate, and retail clients. The company’s workforce development, mentor-protégé, and community programs advance STEM, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
Pennsylvania Road and Safety Award
PSATS, PHIA, and PennDOT Pennsylvania Road and Safety Awards Program criteria consider multimodal resource innovation, community and economic improvement benefits, and comprehensive planning processes that engage municipal stakeholders.