In a race against time and the elements, a team of historic rehab experts has mobilized to save a former machine shop from collapse at San Francisco’s Pier 70 shipyard.
After a Kiewit employee detected a leak early on Jan. 20 in a temporary cofferdam protecting workers and downstream interests on the $900-million Folsom Dam Auxiliary Spillway Project in California, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers evacuated a dozen crew members and equipment while the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) closed the bulkhead gates to prevent catastrophic flooding in the event of a cofferdam failure.
Structural concrete work for the 603-suite Great Wolf Resort included a nine-story cast-inplace structure for the hotel and 40 tilt-up panels of all different sizes for a three-acre indoor/outdoor water park.
Designed to mimic its surroundings, the design-build Manhattan Beach Library features roof lines, window systems and millwork that mirror the character of Manhattan Beach.
The LEED Gold 1Tenth project, formerly 875 Stevenson St., shares a block in San Francisco’s resurgent Mid-Market area with the adjoining historic 1355 Market Street building; together the two buildings comprise the Market Square revitalization effort.
Described by the project team as the “Empire State Building on its side,” the 510,000-sq-ft mixed-use development fills four acres once used for the maintenance and storage of rail cars.
A hub for the Mission Bay campus in San Francisco, the 264,000-sq-ft building links academic, research and medical disciplines, including the University of California, San Francisco’s new medical center.
The first office tower completed in San Francisco since the Great Recession, the 28-story, 350,000-sq-ft, steel-framed building sits in the city’s evolving South of Market (SoMa) district.
For San Francisco’s vibrant Castro neighborhood, this $8.8-million streetscape beautification and improvement project included widening the sidewalks, adding leaning rails and landscaping, paving, installing decorative rainbow crosswalks and matching tiles for the entryway to the landmark Castro Theater.