El Paso

FM 1281 (known locally as Horizon Boulevard) is a major Texas Department of Transportation Highway for Horizon City, Texas. The highly traveled boulevard had limited sidewalks that were not well-connected, creating safety concerns for pedestrians and bicyclists. The City Council of Horizon City had a desire to install a sidewalk along Horizon Boulevard to provide connectivity to schools, parks, and commercial areas as part of their Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Program, while also delivering a safe place for residents to walk or bicycle.

Huitt-Zollars provided design services for a booster pump station, two 1.5 MG ground storage tanks, a 1.5 MG elevated storage tank, and a master meter/rate of flow controller connection to the El Paso Water Utilities system to serve the Fort Bliss area formerly called East Biggs. The East Biggs Development Area is a 2,500-acre master planned military facility.

Huitt-Zollars provided design and construction administration services to convert a portion of San Antonio Avenue into a two-way street while improving the existing parkway.

The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) initiative targeted the Army Installation of Fort Bliss, Texas to receive an influx of nearly 30,000 troops, ultimately totaling six new Brigade Combat Teams. Many compared the Fort Bliss Expansion Program to building a small city from the ground up. The $4.8 billion program encompassed 4,500 acres of greenfield development, 130 projects, and 300 facilities, totaling 11 million square feet of new buildings.

Huitt-Zollars provided PS&E preparation of the Redd Road Diamond Interchange at IH-10. This urban highway design included a new overpass, four ramps, mainlanes, improvements to existing frontage roads, and a three-span superstructure bridge utilizing TxDOT's new U beams. Special architectural treatments were utilized on the traffic rail, substructure elements, and retaining wall approaches. Plans included horizontal and vertical geometry, extensive retaining wall bridge design, surveying, signing, pavement marking, traffic signals, illumination, and traffic control planning.