THE ENGINEER-LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT TEAM:
Dick Montgomery, Chief Engineer and Ol' Ben, Chief Landscape
Architect, agreed that our procedure should require the Landscape
Architects to draw the preliminary road centerline. Drawings were
to show tangents connecting the P.I.s, the compass points for each
curve, the tangent points perpendicular to the compass points, and
the radius of the curve shown concentric to the centerline. The
purposes of our agreement were to communicate to the Design Engineer
the controls implied in the location of the centerline, and to overcome
the time-loss in Landscape Architects doing tedious calculations
that Engineers could do faster. Once the drawing was approved by
the Chiefs, the teams worked through the construction drawings and
put the specs together. It worked. The team approach was and IS
the secret to success enjoyed by the NPS.
