Assessing the Feasibility and Implications of Managed Retreat Strategies

for Vulnerable Coastal Areas

Honolulu City’s new intermodal facility is a 33,000 sq. ft. 2-story maintenance, repair and administration building on a 9.15-acre site adjacent to the Kalihi-Palama Bus Facility. SSFM participated in Phase 1b of the multistage project providing provided structural and civil engineering services for the site. The facility will house Handi-Van accounting, customer service, scheduling and dispatch operations for the 139 Handi-Vans that service the island.

The facility incorporates a number of green features. It is unpainted to reduce exterior maintenance, has a veil of vines and flowers covering the exterior to reduce heat and lessen the demand for air conditioning and places perforated metal screens on the windows to temper the afternoon sun.

Civil engineering services included clearing, grubbing and site grading, providing domestic and fire protection service, domestic wastewater connection from the public sewer, conducting a site drainage study and providing a drainage collection system for the building roof drains, preparing an erosion control plan, reviewing flood zone requirements, and preparing the NPDES Permit Application.