In an increasingly mobile society, safe and reliable infrastructure that gets us from point A to point B is imperative. From county roads to interstate highways, transportation is what keeps our society moving.
Connecting communities across Kansas has been a staple of BG Consultants since 1976. As a recognized transportation engineering leader in Kansas, we have helped city, county, and state agencies, as well as private developers, design, repair, and maintain their vital infrastructure.
In the face of increasing demand created by aging roadways and bridges combined with funding limitations, communities trust our team to deliver innovative and cost-saving solutions that minimize impacts to the environment and neighboring properties. Keeping your long-term success in mind, we’ll help you analyze the worth of your existing infrastructure and formulate plans to maximize its service life. Throughout the design and construction process, we'll partner with you to communicate with the public, identify funding sources, and plan for the long-term management of your assets.
Transportation Engineering Services
- Road and highway design
- Structural design of bridges, culverts, and retaining walls
- Traffic signal analysis and design
- Transportation planning
- Traffic impact feasibility studies
- State and local permitting
- Parking and traffic circulation
- Site access
- Streetscape enhancement
Your community’s streetscape amounts to more than just the roads and sidewalks. A streetscape characterizes your community's identity, draws attention to local businesses, and becomes part of its history.
BG Consultants partners with cities across Kansas to transform downtown streetscapes into vibrant community attractions. Our projects extend from walkability and safety enhancements to major revitalization efforts. Even the simplest improvements can attract visitors and increase business performance. Our full-service team can help you create safe and efficient circulation for vehicular and pedestrian traffic, increase businesses’ visibility, and establish inviting spaces for commercial and social interactions.
Because streetscapes can have a major impact on local economic development, building consensus among all stakeholders is of vital importance to a project’s success. The professionals at BG Consultants take the time to hear every possible voice and concern. With creative design solutions, we work to minimize interference with businesses during construction and foster public satisfaction through the duration of the project.
Our goal is to bring together your community’s ideas as we work together to build an environment you’ll be proud to showcase.
Streetscape Services
- Street surfacing and parking
- Storm drainage
- Water system improvements
- Landscaping
- Sidewalks and pedestrian crossings
- ADA compliance and railings
- Street lighting
- Seating areas
- Decorative surfaces and parks
- Signage
- Public art
- Bicycle racks
Bridges are essential to any transportation system, but they are more than simple means of passage. They connect communities and people, enable commercial and agricultural growth, impact the environment, and, in some cases, reflect the scenic, historic, and cultural characteristics of a community.
The bridge design team at BG Consultants has delivered solutions for hundreds of bridges across Kansas. We know effective design requires proficient structural knowledge and an understanding of the surrounding environment. Our structural recommendations are responsive to span length, waterway opening, hydraulics, and all other site-specific concerns. We are accustomed to working with KDOT and other agencies to secure public, government, and environmental satisfaction with all aspects of the project.
While our solutions are grounded in years of experience, we have consistently been at the forefront of innovative bridge design in Kansas. Our bridge team leader has been nationally recognized for his progressive bridge research projects. We developed the first crash-worthy bridge rail for Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) bridge decks. Our team also developed an economical structural system for an Automated Small Vehicle Transit System (ASVT) that can be used on a university campus or congested city plaza. In the state, we were the first to utilize polymer overlays for repairing and resurfacing concrete decks, and first to incorporate inverted T pre-stressed beams in the construction of a continuous bridge.
Innovation, experience, and commitment — we have what it takes to deliver quality and cost-effective bridge designs.
Bridge Engineering Services
- Preliminary and final design of pre-stressed concrete bridges, post-tensioned concrete bridges, steel bridges, and box culvert bridges
- FRP bridge repair and strengthening
- Design of pedestrian bridges
- Bridge deck evaluation
- Emergency structural repair
- Rehabilitation of historical bridges
- Stone and timber retrofit bridges
- Retrofit design of bridges
- Chloride content testing on bridge decks
- Polymer concrete overlays
- Deck replacement
- Scour analysis and countermeasure design
- Constructability assessments
- Routine bridge inspections
- Annual bridge inspections
- Fracture critical inspections
- Research and testing
Kansas’ network of highways and roads has a direct impact on our region’s economy and quality of life. Our roadways must ensure the well-being of the traveling public, accommodate growing agricultural vehicles, and provide vital connections through our nation’s heartland.
With a highly qualified and experienced team that includes a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE), BG Consultants has helped private developers, rural communities, large municipalities, and the Kansas Department of Transportation successfully complete hundreds of road and highway projects. Because our team members are often involved in design and construction administration, our designs continually result in competitive bid prices and lower construction costs.
Maximizing your transportation infrastructure’s level of service requires an understanding of both physical assets and human behavior. Using real world analysis of the current use and future development surrounding your roads and intersections, our traffic experts pinpoint the causes and identify solutions to congestion and safety concerns. Our roadway and pavement designs respond to the challenges of age, maintenance, soil and ground conditions, drainage, and stormwater runoff.
Highway & Road Services
- Designs for pavement reconstruction, realignment, and widening of existing roads
- “Road Diet” improvement plans
- Passing and turning lane configuration
- Pavement marking and signage
- Designing accommodations for pedestrians and bikers
- Traffic signal systems
- Temporary traffic control plans
- Traffic impact studies
- Road safety assessments
- Area transportation plans
- Interchange and intersection capacity analysis
