GK Engineers provided the electrical engineering for the rehabilitation of eight Uptown bus shelters along Westheimer Road as part of METRO’s 82 Westheimer BOOST corridor, as a subconsultant to BGE with Huerta Architects on the shelter architecture. The shelters are existing METRO stops upgraded from the original Uptown record drawings.

GK’s sheets give each shelter its own electrical plan with power, lighting and signage circuits tied to the corridor’s bus stop electric services, drawn to BGE’s title block and METRO’s standards. One wrinkle was Buy America: Uptown asked for LED fixtures that METRO could not approve as compliant, so Uptown furnishes and installs those separately while the GK design carries the circuits.

Design ran July through December 2023, with the Phase 2 specifications and estimate submitted to METRO in February 2024 and construction-phase services following under BGE. In 2026 GK joined BGE’s team under METRO’s architectural and engineering on-call contract for facilities and mobility projects.

Image: a rehabilitated METRO BOOST shelter on the 82 Westheimer corridor. Photo: METRO.