RSF Visitor Parking Lot Low Beam Hazards Retrofit; NREL Tracking No. 15-018 Award Number: DE-AC36-08GO28308 DOE/EA-1968 (NREL STM) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Date: 06/04/15 Location(s): CO Office(s): Golden Field Office
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RSF Visitor Parking Lot Low Beam Hazards Retrofit; NREL Tracking No. 15-018
Award Number: DE-AC36-08GO28308
DOE/EA-1968 (NREL STM)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Date: 06/04/15
Location(s): CO
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposes pedestrian safety retrofits to the Research Support Facility (RSF) covered visitor parking lot at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) South Table Mountain (STM) campus located in Golden, Colorado.
There was a recent incident on the STM campus where a pedestrian walked into a low structural beam in the RSF Visitor Parking Lot and sustained a head injury while walking from their vehicle to the RSF building. This proposed project would construct barriers to prevent pedestrians walking into support beams of the photovoltaic canopy covering the parking lot. A design-build construction subcontractor would be contracted to provide design and construction services for new pedestrian barriers in the RSF Visitor Parking Lot. On the northern portion of the RSF Visitor Parking Lot, the existing raised concrete curbs would be removed and replaced with flush pavers. Additionally, four metal barriers would be installed where there are potential head room conflicts. Boulders would be added in three locations in the southern part of the RSF Visitor Parking Lot to create a pedestrian barrier at the cross braces. A more detailed Project Management Plan and project design figures are uploaded to the PMC database.