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Before 2010, getting to UTEP via I-10 westbound could be dangerous. The Schuster Avenue exit regularly had traffic backed up to the highway as it rounded the I-10 bend around the Sunset Heights neighborhood. James Stevenson, a TxDoT design engineer, recognized the problem and helped to shape the Schuster Avenue exit in two ways to help ease the congestion. Stevenson first suggested building a bridge over Schuster to connect I-10 to University Avenue at the “Pick” roundabout, and second, he added a right turn lane at the intersection with Schuster. This right turn lane marked the first job Stevenson sealed as a professional engineer.
UTEP
Antes de 2010, llegar a UTEP por la I-10 en dirección oeste podía ser peligroso. La salida de la Avenida Schuster regularmente tenía atascos de tráfico en la carretera al doblar la curva I-10 alrededor del vecindario de Sunset Heights. James Stevenson, un ingeniero de diseño de TxDoT, reconoció el problema y ayudó a dar forma a la salida de la Avenida Schuster de dos maneras para mejorar la congestión vial. Stevenson primero sugirió construir un puente sobre Schuster para conectar la I-10 con Avenida University en la rotonda "Pick" y, segundo, agregó un carril para girar a la derecha en la intersección con Schuster. Este carril de giro a la derecha marcó el primer trabajo que Stevenson consiguió como ingeniero profesional.
CE: What projects in the El Paso area have your worked on?
JS: I worked in El Paso from 1999 to 2016, so about 17 years of my career was in El Paso. So first project I worked on extensively or actually the first job they (TxDOT) assigned me to was the Anthony Travel Information Center that's out there on the Far West side of town. They were just building it so I went out there and just for only about a week worked out there doing some inspection. I was a construction inspector when I started so just means I inspected ongoing construction work, but they later moved me very quickly to a much larger project which is Artcraft R. There was nothing out there but the fields and nothing really there. So that was my first real big project. Inspecting work bridges, concrete pavement, asphalt pavement, bike trails, the landscaping retaining walls. After that, they needed a Chief Inspector for a very small difficult project in downtown El Paso on Paisano, we were installing new traffic signal poles in a very congested and highly crowded are for underground utilities. After that I did a large sidewalk in illumination project on Alameda from intersection around the cotton Alameda area all the way West, to loop 375 on the Far East side of town. After that I moved into the design group in El Paso and helped with the project designs on the US 54 extension and from Hondo Pass out to Sean Haggerty. The first job I sealed with my professional engineers sealed was if you go to the intersection of Schuster and I-10, there's a little right turn lane there. We put in to help try to get traffic to move through the intersection. That was the first job I stamped. So actually, a UTEP related project was the first job I ever put engineering seal on.
James Stevenson
Title: Design Engineer and Traffic Control
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CE: What projects in the El Paso area have your worked on?
DV: In the last seven years or so, every single project probably touched something concrete-related in this market. I guess you could say my career started at Ft. Bliss and then from there jumped to the Fountains of Farah. Some eye-catching projects include the east side Aquatic Center as well as Top Golf, where we did a three-story retaining wall, and at I-Fly, a wind tunnel with tall concrete panels to create the upper air chamber. The projects we did for TxDot were the UTEP monuments, the Texas Tech monuments, and the towers. My favorite of that project was the tower by the Spaghetti Bowl. That's the tallest tilt-up concrete panel in El Paso.
David Venegas
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CE: What projects in the El Paso area have your worked on?
OV: We just finished what's called Eastlake Marketplace for Jerry Rubin and River Oaks Properties, about a 7.37-million-dollar retail shopping center on the Eastside. We're presently doing phase two and three out there. In the UTEP area, we did the picks that you see along I-10 for TxDOT as a change order to a project that you call an aesthetics project, and the towers along Reynolds, North-South Freeway. In the past, I was president of the company that did the design-build for the Larry Durham center. We did the Schuster apartments for UTEP, the border patrol station out of Lordsburg, New Mexico, and quite a few projects throughout the city and on base. Recently, we completed a vehicle maintenance facility for the Community College.
Oscar Venegas
Title: Budgeting