The first ground-up bus operations and maintenance facility for Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority in nearly 30 years, this 540,000-sq-ft sustainable facility is designed to optimize Metro’s bus transit service throughout Central Los Angeles and accommodate 200 buses fueled by clean natural gas.
Constructed on the Spruce Goose Building Site for Howard Hughes in Playa Vista, this three-story structural steel building includes 66,000 sq ft of offices, screening and film production rooms, production facilities and a 143-space parking structure.
For the Pacific Center Campus Development (PCCD) project, the team transformed a vehicle-oriented, suburban corporate campus into a pedestrian-oriented, human-centered environment for a major Fortune 500 technology company.
The Exposition Light Rail Transit Phase 2 in West Los Angeles is a textbook case in how to maneuver through major city arteries, say Best Projects judges.
As part of the nine-year, $1.62-billion Port of Long Beach Middle Harbor Redevelopment Program, Arcadis provided full construction management services under a five-year, $31-million contract for Phase 1.
The design-build team of Hensel Phelps and Fentress Architects delivered the first air traffic control tower to employ a performance-based seismic design with vertical post-tensioning.
Complex shoring and underpinning helped crews safely renovate the 1939 Art Deco-style University of California printing plant and build a 30,000-sq-ft addition encased in a sweeping metal skin.
The team solved a significant geotechnical challenge linking the 11-level art museum expansion to the existing five-story museum on a tight infill block in downtown San Francisco.