Built in 1956 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the 105-ft-tall, earthen-saddle Mormon Island Auxiliary Dam had a foundation that was deemed at high risk of liquefaction during an earthquake.
With new lab space, a museum and dynamic exhibits of sustainability, the 330,000-sq-ft Exploratorium in San Francisco triples the size of the previous site at the 1915 Palace of Fine Arts.
One of the state's first passive-HVAC commercial buildings, the teaching and research facility named for a winery pioneer is located on one acre of the Robert Mondavi Research campus at the University of California, Davis.
Since the mid-1990s, the two-lane road connecting U.S. Highway 1 with Santa Barbara County's Jalama Beach park had experienced excessive cracking and settlement, primarily because of a relocation in the 1960s to a site across from an old landslide.
Capable of recycling 100,000 gallons of water per day, the project diverts raw sewage from a large pipeline and treats it using a membrane bioreactor, followed by ozonation and UV irradiation so that the water can be used for irrigation and toilet flushing in nearby commercial buildings.
Built in 1923 as a memorial to those Californians who died in World War I, the historic Beaux Arts stadium was in dire need of a complete renovation and seismic safety upgrades.
As the central component of LAX's Capital Improvements Program—the largest public works project in Los Angeles history—the 1.2-million-sq-ft Tom Bradley International Terminal replaces its obsolete 30-year-old predecessor structure.
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