Submitted by Roebbelen Contracting The new 54,000-sq-ft, two-story Fairmont Elementary School is the first LEED facility for Vacaville Unified School District. An interactive touch-screen display, located in the main foyer, tracks energy consumption as well as energy produced by the wind, turbine and solar panels. The display has brought a whole new hands-on education opportunity for students to learn about sustainability. Not only are they hearing about it, seeing the features at the school they attend each day, but they can make a difference by being accountable for their own energy usage and savings. The building includes 27 classrooms, office,

Submitted by Gonsalves & Stronck This Woodside-based project consisted of a historical rehabilitation and restoration of a 1905 horse stable designed by Arthur Brown Jr. (who also designed San Francisco City Hall, War Memorial Opera House and Coit Tower) for the coffee magnate, James A. Folger II. The timber building underwent complete repair and seismic retrofit. A major part of the restoration was structural. Heavy timber trusses supporting the roof and second story hay loft had sagged and crushed existing support columns; support deflections were upwards of 10 in. caused by termite damage, water infiltration, neglect, and old age. Major

Submitted by McCarthy Building Cos. The new, 279,000-sq-ft, $178.9-million Acute Care Pavilion is the state’s first acute care facility to meet rigorous standards for quality and safety mandated by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, while also achieving the level of occupant health and environmental sustainability required to earn LEED certified status. The four-story pavilion houses a much-needed surgical center, 84 medical/surgical beds, a neo-natal intensive care center, and a cancer center. It also provides 16 operating rooms with associated support departments, a 28-bed hematology and oncology unit, a 10-bed bone marrow transplant intensive care unit, a 32-bed

Submitted by Swinerton Builders This $19.4-million project involved the construction of a new four-story building combining UCSD’s self-supporting catering program and the Housing & Dining Services administration offices into one new facility. The steel and concrete slab-on-grade structure contains an approximate 8,000-sq-ft catering kitchen, lobby and break room on the first level. Office space for the Housing & Dining administrative support is located on the remaining floors, as well as an event space and terrace located on the fourth floor. LEED features include community connectivity, water efficient landscaping, optimizing energy performance including enhanced commissioning of mechanical and electrical systems, low-emitting

Submitted by Moon Mayoras Architects The $214-million, four-story new general acute care inpatient care facility, the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Pavilion at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, offered many challenges for the entire project team. Most of the significant challenges were the result of the initial stated objective to respect and preserve the original 1970 Eisenhower hospital building (“Ike Wing”), designed by the renowned mid-century Modernist architect Edward Durell Stone. The Annenberg Pavilion was designed to relocate and augment the existing inpatient beds from the existing Ike Wing into a new state-of-the-art facility, while providing opportunities for adaptive reuse

Submitted by Sasaki Associates The new $43.7-million Wildcat Recreation Center encompasses more than 110,000 sq ft of space on two floors, including a gymnasium, climbing wall, multi-activity court, cardio/weight room, outdoor spa and swimming pool. Located on a prominent southwest corner of the campus, the building is a beacon of activity with exterior materials and color palette drawing from the campus’s architectural history and the regional setting. The WREC is seen as a “family room” for the campus -- an environment that is a safe, healthy, and affordable alternative to off-campus activities. The center is LEED gold certified. The structural

The Stanford University School of Medicine recently held opening ceremonies for its new Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge (LKSC), designed by NBBJ. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Representing the first completed phase of the Stanford University School of Medicine’s master plan, the 120,000-sq-ft building brings together cutting-edge medicine, modern education, and advanced technology, while serving as a new academic and social hub for the Stanford campus. Whiting Turner served as the general contractor on the $90-million project. Set at the crossroads between the Stanford Medical Center and adjacent science quads on a new landscaped pedestrian thoroughfare,

California State University, Fullerton recently completed a $20-million, 1,500-stall parking garage, the third facility on campus and the second by the design-build general contractor, Bomel Construction Co. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" In addition to erecting and assisting project architect International Parking Design with the design of the six-level garage, Anaheim Hills-based Bomel was in charge of re-routing Folino Drive, one of the major streets on campus. The cast-in-place concrete parking facility also features a parking information center, where patrons can get campus directions and purchase parking passes. The center is near a pedestrian plaza with outdoor seating for

The $66-million Temecula Civic Center is more than a big, new facility for the city. The development is also a tribute to the history of the area. “We are an old west town and we want this project to reflect that image, while being an anchor to the rest of the city,” says David McBride, project manager for Temecula. He says it is being constructed to replace Temecula’s small, outdated city hall, which is currently located in an industrial area and is “busting at the seams” with employees. Designed in Mission Revival style by Redding-based Nichols, Melburg & Rossetto (NMR)

The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust (HIT) announced a $33 million commitment of union pension capital to finance the Arc Light Co. project, a development that will create much needed in-town rental apartments in San Francisco. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The project will convert a five-story historic commercial building in the South Beach neighborhood at 178 Townsend into 94 housing units, 20% of which will be reserved for low-income households. It will include an underground parking facility, more than 4,400 sq ft of retail space and a children’s day care center. With its many green features, Arc Light is