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Saratoga Residential Development

Granbury, TX

Expertise

  • Residential

Services

  • civil engineering
  • land surveying

Size

  • 175 acres

Saratoga is a 175-acre single family residential development providing variable lot sizes ranging from townhomes and patio homes to 8,400 square-foot lots, with a multi-family component. The development also included commercial lots with frontage along US 377.  The overall goal of the project was to better serve the community of Granbury, Texas by creating more residential lots and offering a variety of options from mid-level to premium home lots. BHB provided civil engineering and landscape architecture services for this project.

For this four-phase project, BHB’s services included developing a land plan and preliminary plat for overall development, and designing all the public infrastructure including: roadways, water, sewer, and storm drain. These phases also consisted of the design of all-purpose trails, playgrounds, and various other amenities. The all-purpose trail is approximately 3,000 LF in length and goes through the park and provide residents with leisure time activities.

Public open spaces with retention ponds, fountains, meandering walkways, and a public park area were incorporated into the overall design to provide community amenities for future residents.

One of the challenging aspects of this project was mitigating stormwater runoff leaving the site, since there was not an immediate creek to discharge to. BHB’s solution was designing multiple unique stormwater detention pond outfalls designed to match pre-development flowrates and flow characteristics. One of these unique solutions included designing detention ponds in series that allowed for one detention pond to flow into another, while both provide stormwater storage to ensure that downstream properties are not adversely impacted.

Key People

  • John W. (Bill) Baird, Jr., PE, RPLS

    John W. (Bill) Baird, Jr., PE, RPLS

    Founder | Chairman Emeritus | Senior Civil Engineer

    John (Bill) Baird has over 50 years of active management, design, estimating, and coordination experience, and is still actively designing and managing projects. He has provided project management and design for many civil engineering projects for various client types, with expertise spanning municipal, industrial, commercial, educational, religious, and institutional projects. His design experience includes extensive site development; streets, roadways, and thoroughfares; bridge and culvert projects; flood control; storm water detention; water distribution and sewage collection; and water and sewage treatment plants.

    Bill lives in Burleson with his wife Terresa and enjoys traveling, gardening and, most especially, spending time with his grandchildren.

    Project Experience

    Catholic Charities of Fort Worth
    Fort Worth Country Day Lou and Nick Martin Campus Center
    Fort Worth Country Day Sid W. Richardson Visual Arts Center
    Granbury Dental Center
    Granbury Resort Conference Center
    Early Learning Center
    Saint Patrick Cathedral Parish Hall
    Texas Wesleyan University Rosedale Renaissance

    Education

    University of Texas at Arlington:
    Bachelor’s Degree/1972/Civil Engineering

  • Tom Kellogg, RLA

    Tom Kellogg, RLA

    Associate | Senior Landscape Architect

    As a Landscape Architect, Tom Kellogg has experience working in a project management position for both multi-disciplinary firms and landscape architecture design firms. His project history includes a wide variety of types, including parks and recreation, commercial landscape design, streetscapes, multi-family developments, and multimodal recreation trails.

    Living only a mile away from our Grapevine office, Tom discovered BHB while he was riding his bike and instantly wished he could work here. As it turned out, BHB was looking for a landscape architect at the time, and the rest is history.

    Outside of work Tom enjoys bicycling, something he’s loved doing since he was a kid. Tom also enjoys camping, traveling, visiting museums, and playing video games with his teenage son, Colin.

    Project Experience

    Imperial Construction Office and Shop
    Monterra Medical Campus
    Park Hill Surgery Center
    The Bowden: Event & Weddings

    Education

    University of Arkansas:
    Bachelor’s Degree/1982/Landscape Architecture

  • Joe LaCroix, PE

    Joe LaCroix, PE

    Principal | Civil Engineer

    An explorer at heart, Joe once had dreams of following in the footsteps of Lewis & Clark. He loves to travel to any new place, exploring and discovering the many experiences that the world has to offer. His calling here at home, though, is the creative design process of civil engineering. He was drawn to this line of work for the opportunity to work with clients and take their vision for a project to design on paper, through construction, and into the built world. As a principal at BHB, he enjoys the ability to work on a wide variety of projects while also being involved in the Texas Society of Professional Engineers and the MATHCOUNTS program. Joe is also a graduate of the Professional Engineer Leadership Institute.

    Outside of work, he enjoys traveling with his wife Meridith, and is a scoutmaster for a local Boy Scout Troop.

    Project Experience


    Education

    University of Texas at Arlington:

    Bachelors/2013/Civil Engineering

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