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January Construction Technical Seminar

Technical Speaker: Brahama Singh, P.E.

Topic: Klyde Warren Park

Klyde Warren Park serves as a central gathering space for Dallas and its visitors. The 5.2-acre deck park is an urban green space built over the Woodall Rodgers Freeway between Pearl and St. Paul streets in downtown Dallas. The park is level with adjacent streets and preserves clearance for the highway below. The deck is made of more than 300 concrete box beams. Concrete slabs span the spaces between the bottoms of the beams forming planter boxes. The planter boxes support sustainable landscaping that includes 37 native plant species and 322 trees. Construction on the deck began in October 2009, and the park grand opening was in October 2012. The $110 million project was funded through a public-private partnership.

The presentation will focus on construction challenges of building this structure over a major freeway with minimum disruptions to traffic.

Ms. Brahama Singh, P.E. served as the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Construction Engineer for the Klyde Warren Park, previously known as the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park. Currently, Brahama is the Lead Bridge Engineer for the $800 million Dallas Horseshoe Project.

She was a TxDOT summer employee from 2000 to 2003 in the Lubbock District headquarters office in traffic operations and plan review. In 2004 Brahama began serving in the Dallas District Bridge Design and in 2007 she rotated to Roadway Design section. In 2009 she became a Texas Professional Engineer and was promoted to Construction Engineer for the East Dallas Area Office.

Brahama is a 2004 graduate of Texas Tech University. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering and a B.S. in Engineering Physics. In 2011 she earned a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering Structures from the University of Texas at Arlington.