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Pickering continues to play a major role in DeSoto County’s Waste Water Master Plan; read about our involvement here. Friday’s DeSoto Appeal acknowledged that DCRUA’s board voted to proceed with the Short Fork Waste Water Treatment Facility expansion. Pickering’s Senior Water/Waste Water Engineer overseeing this project – Jim Ditto, P.E. is quoted in the article, and you can read about it here.
Shelby Farm’s Woodland Discovery Playground has been chosen from among 150 pilot projects as one of the first three to be certified by the Sustainable Sites Initiatives’ system for rating the sustainable design, construction and maintenance of built landscapes. SITES 
is a partnership of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center of The University of Texas at Austin and the United States Botanic Garden. More here.
Building on the success of the Woodland Discovery Playground and Wolf River Pedestrian Bridge, the project team headed by James Corner Field Operations and including Pickering Firm, Inc., is presently in the design process for the park’s flagship project, the Patriot Lake expansion. Learn more about our Shelby Farms work here.
Pickering will be providing survey, site design and structural engineering for National College’s third location in Memphis. The new two-story facility will be built at 2576 Thousand Oaks Cove to house medical and computer training class rooms. Read more in 
this recent Daily News article.
The National College project is not the first educational work for Pickering. Over the years we’ve worked on a number of projects for UT Memphis and UT Martin, including fire alarm system upgrades and HVAC system improvements. Currently, we are partnering with ANF Architects on a total renovation and expansion of the UT Martin Fine Arts building, which will include a new theater.
Passengers using MATA’s new facility at Airways and Brooks will have greater travel connection options as Greyhound joins MATA in the new $15.8 million building, the first green project for both. Bus riders aren’t just getting a smart new facility though. MATA will also be providing passengers with a new “SmartTraveler” system that will provide real-time information about arrival times, delays and other pertinent schedule information via electronic signage and passengers’ Internet devices.
Pickering performed a boundary and topographical survey of the Brooks and Airways facility for MATA for demo and design purposes. We are also currently under contract with RNR Consulting to provide Geographic Information System (GIS) data to assist in mapping the stops on MATA routes to support the launch of the new SmartTraveler system in early 2012.
The Desoto County Regional Utility Authority recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Johnson Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility (JCWWTF). JCWWTF is one of two regional facilities designed to serve the wastewater treatment requirements of DeSoto County, MS. (Click here for more information on this overall project.) It is located in Walls, MS, off Highway 61 and will be built in phases as population growth and needs develop in the western portion of the county. The first phase of the facility is underway and is expected to be operational by March 2013. Max Foote Construction of Birmingham, AL, is the prime contractor for this $13.8 million phase. Upon completion, three antiquated and poor-performing facilities in the Walls and Horn Lake area will be shut down and their flow diverted to this new plant for treatment. Pickering designed the plant with up-to-date, energy-efficient equipment and processes that will provide a treated effluent, significantly minimizing environmental impact while at the same time reducing operating and maintenance costs.
