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CURRENT PROJECTS

Completion Date

Client

Name

Project

Name

Project

Description

10/2007 NCTD San Diego Sprinter Project

B&C is currently designing, furnishing, and will startup and test all signal, crossing and communications systems for the new 22.5 mile Sprinter project from Oceanside to Escondido. The project includes Central office System, 15 passenger stations, over 45 grade crossings and tie-ins to existing freight and commuter rail facilities. Beyond track and signal engineering, this project includes paging, intercom, Visual messaging, backbone network equipment, communication cabinets, emergency telephones, CCTV, and security systems.

5/1/06 SAC RT Train Consist Enhancement

Modifications to GPS tracking system for development of train consist interface and tracking by both trains and individual rail cars.

01/2007 SF MUNI 3rd Street Extension

Design, furnish, startup and test wayside cases to control light rail vehicles along the 3rd street extension. Furnish and install all communications equipment for 18 passenger platforms including head-end interface equipment.

12/2006 VTA Warm Springs Project

Warm Springs to San Jose Extension project. B&C is providing design services for the VTA/BART extension for ATC and communications.

12/2006 Alstom Blue Orange Line

B&C provided all field personnel required to commission Blue-Orange line for Alstom signaling.

10/2005 ARINC RTU Project

Los Angeles MTA. B&C is currently designing and manufacturing 25 remote terminal units that will replace existing out of date units.

06/2005 SF MUNI Muni 3rd Street

Installation of over 21 miles of fiber optic cabling for the new 3rd street extension. Complete SONET, CCTV, RISS, Emergency telephone in 18 stations so that all services are monitored and controlled from new Muni Maintenance Facility.

04/2005 SF MUNI Drawbridge Project

Design, furnish, startup, and test wayside cases to control freight rail, light rail and drawbridge.

04/2005 SF MUNI 3rd Street Extension Addition

Design, furnish, startup and test wayside cases to control light rail vehicles along the 3rd street extension. Furnish and install all communications equipment for 18 passenger platforms including head-end interface equipment.

03/2005 Chervon Technology Center

Design/build installation of Cat 6 cabling, communications room build-out and single mode fiber optic cabling throughout 28 building campus. Upgrade of campus 10BaseT shared Gigabit Ethernet. Facility is the only Petroleum research facility in the Western hemisphere. Project requires team to install network around live petroleum experiments where safety is the only concern.

03/2005 SAC RT Switch Control

Provide programming change to 3 on-site VHLC processors to send switch, gate, and signal indications to the IT servers in the Sacramento Light Light control center. Interface these functions into the new GPS tracking system so operators can remotely control switches at those locations and monitor the status of switches, gates, and signals.

03/2005   Schools Project

Installation of Fire alarm, clock speaker, voice and data, Fiber Optics, and security systems for a number of Northern California school districts.

02/2005 VTA Tamien Project

Tamien to Lick Double Track Project. Provide all modifications to existing control points, startup and test new control point locations and furnish wayside equipment for CalTrain/UPRR.

02/2005 WMATA AVI Locator Project

Automatic Car Identification (ACI) - provide design, installation and testing for 50 RF scanners at 23 locations throughout the metro system. Twenty of these locations will utilize wireless radio communications to relay data from the wayside back to OCC (operations control center). The other 3 locations will be hardwired. The collected data will be used to track vehicles along the system which ultimately result in mileage calculations to be used by maintenance and OCC.

12/2004 Cleveland Electric AC Track Circuit Replacement

MARTA- B&C is responsible for design and procurement of equipment for replacing AC track circuits. B&C is also responsible for modifications of existing TC rooms, field testing and cutovers.

12/2004 WMATA Ground Detector Replacement

B&C is currently designing and installing new AC & DC ground detectors to replace outdated ground detectors.

03/2004 SF MUNI Wayside cases

Design, furnish, startup, and test wayside cases to control freight rail, light rail and drawbridge.

03/2004

SF PORT

Authority

Cantilever Drawbridge

Design, furnish, startup, and test wayside cases to control freight trains and new Cantilver drawbridge over the Islais Channel for the Port of San Francisco.

ON GOING US&S NYCTA ATS Project

B&C Transit provided all personnel to supervise installation, conduct field surveys, make all field design modifications, and perform all commissioning for Union Switch & Signal, Inc.

COMPLETED PROJECTS

Completion Date

Client

Name

Project

Name

Project

Description

06/2005 MARTA Avondale & Amour Yards

B&C Transit is designing, furnishing, and installing a computer based control center for both yards. Systems consist of 4 UNIX redundant hot failover servers, 13 workstations and printers, 8 LCD overview monitors,  and 8 video servers over T1 and fiber optic LAN.

9/2004 SAC RT GPS Tracking

Completed a 5 monitor stand alone system with graphical representations of the entire Sacramento Light Rail system. The system retrieves GPS latitude, Longitude, Direction, and Speed of rail cars and maps them on the track displays as they move throughout the transit line. This system integrates with a Microsoft SQL database residing on the IT servers.

5/2003 BART SORS

Sequential Occupancy Detection System. B&C Transit completed office systems for 24 locations to detect occupancies from MUX inputs and shadow trains with pseudo occupancy (rear end protection) using dynamic logic within redundant system servers at each TCR location. SORS computers integrate with Allen-Bradley PLC's and send all information to the Central mainframes at BART Central via BARTNET (Ethernet IP) for display on on all BART graphical mainline systems.

12/2002 BART Airport Extension

San Francisco Airport Extension Project: B&C Transit provided all personnel required to manage the overall systems integration for Amelco Electric, Inc. as well as integration of a new Bombardier Gealoc systems into an existing Alstom VPI system. B&C also provided the design and software for 6 fully controllable remote access terminals for the ATC system.

12/2/2002 BART Daly City Yard

Daly City Yard Lead Modification Project. B&C Transit provided all design (new and modifications), documentation, project management, and field-testing required to make all modification required to the Daly City Yard.

7/2/2002 BART Hayward Yard

Hayward Yard Track Improvements. B&C Transit provided all design (new and modifications), documentation, project management, and field-testing required to the Hayward Yard.

6/2001 BART Concord yard Expansion

B&C Transit provide all design, documentation, project management, and field-testing required to the Concord Yard.

8/2001

US&S

NYCTA 63rd Street

Rehab Project

B&C Transit provided all personnel to supervise installation, conduct field surveys, make all field design modifications, and perform all commissioning testing for US&S Inc.

12/2003

US&S

DART Expansion Project

B&C Developed a conversion tool to allow Boolean expressions to be converted to Ladder Logic graphics and vice-versa for Union Switch & Signal vital and non-vital processors.

12/2000

US&S

MARTA Extension

B&C provided all engineering services (design and commissioning) for the modifications to the Alstom vital and non-vital processors.

11/2000 ALSTOM WMATA F-Line Extension

B&C provided all field personnel required to commission the WMATA F-Line for Alstom Signaling.

12/1/1999 ALSTOM Taipei Blue Line

B&C provided all field personnel required to commission the Taipei Blue Line for Alstom Signaling.

6/1/1999 ALSTOM NYCTA Seabeach Line

B&C provided all field personnel required to commission the Seabeach Line for Alstom Signaling.

12/1998 BART DPX & CPX

B&C provided a resident engineer required to commission BART's DPX and CPX extensions for Alstom Signaling Los Angeles MTA.

 
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