A vibrant concert hall, a wind farm perched high above a Hawaii town and a sustainable winery education facility: This year's ENR California top projects certainly are a diverse group.
Thanks to this $135-million renovation, the 100-year-old Natural History Museum in Los Angeles now celebrates the scientific process and the joy of discovery rather than focusing on traditional displays.
By optimizing the collaborative benefits of design-build delivery, the project team completed this fast-track lab and office build-out ahead of schedule and under budget.
Intuit's LEED-Gold tenant improvement project at its Mountain View campus provides 1,800 employees with a light-filled interior space and 22 acres of site improvements that project officials say are intended to nurture innovation and support work/life balance.
The $5.4-million revitalization of Yucaipa's central shopping area, also known as the Historic Uptown District, transformed an antiquated four-lane arterial roadway into a two-lane concrete roadway.
The mixed-use West Coast headquarters of Extron Electronics incorporates a six-story, 198,000-sq-ft Class A office building, a first-floor, 9,000-sq-ft steak house and an adjacent 8,000-sq-ft saloon/country-music concert venue.
Featuring $35 million of mostly behind-the-scenes MEP and building systems updates on a circa-1928 structure, the project included what team members say is the first known California use of a high-mist fire protection system.
The $50-million El Monte Transit project more than doubled the size of the existing station so that it can more efficiently serve the 40,000 daily transit passengers who travel between downtown Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley.
Hawaii's largest wind project, built on former sugar cane fields that now serve as cattle grazing pastures, is delivering renewable energy for almost 14,500 Oahu homes.
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