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The Mead Valley Library became an asset to the fast-growing city of Perris despite threats to the project's funding.

After enduring a decade of planning and funding issues, the project team delivered this $300-million courthouse, which is designed for a 100-year life span.

This LEED-Platinum "educate-by-example" center is one of the few buildings that use passive "no fan" downdraft natural-air ventilation.

One of only 12 proton-therapy cancer centers nationwide, this facility is the first delivered using design-build.

This 7.3-acre project, which expands an architecturally significant campus built in 1961, incorporates campus vernacular design while introducing new materials, forms and contemporary technologies.

Completed two months ahead of schedule, this education and research center seeks to train future business leaders in science and technology inside 80,000 sq ft of space that includes classrooms, lecture halls and an auditorium.

This seismic retrofit was completed ahead of schedule and at a cost savings for Caltrans.

Another description-defying building—which resembles a honeycomb with sharp edges—is taking shape in Los Angeles, directly across the street from the mother lode of nontraditional architecture—the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Construction is back on track for many, but not all, California specialty contractors, according to a recently conducted ENR California-McGraw Hill Dodge Analytics survey. The top 40 firms participating in the survey reported $5.65 billion in total 2012 revenue. That's up 42% from the $3.97 billion that the same number of companies reported in 2011. Related Links: View the Ranking of California's Top 50 Specialty Contractors View Complete List of Top Specialty Contractors by Market Sectors Specialty Contractor of the Year: ACCO Engineered Systems "Construction is looking up," says Larry Hollis, vice president of business development with San Jose-based Rosendin

Tunneling 100 ft below a busy city with varying substructure is a delicate job, especially when the work comes within 8 ft of existing tunnels. Such is the case on San Francisco's new $1.5-billion Central Subway Project, which began major subterranean excavation last month. Photo courtesy SFMTA Mom Chung began tunneling more than 100 ft underneath San Francisco. Related Links: Barnard Impregilo Healy JV Awarded San Franciscos Central Subway Tunneling Project "The tunnels pass through both soft ground and Franciscan formation, which is heterogeneous rock that is not predictable except in its unpredictability," says Sarah Wilson, a San Francisco Municipal