During this $20-million harbor improvement project, a parking lot was transformed into what the city calls a "new centerpiece of the Los Angeles waterfront."
The $40.6-million Waterfront Park project in San Diego converted two surface parking lots around the historic Administration Center Building into an open space for the community.
The project team squeezed two buildings totaling 88,000 sq ft, parking spaces big enough for tour buses and routes for delivery truck circulation into a very tight, eight-acre site for this probiotic dairy beverage maker's first U.S. plant.
The 1936 Beaux-Arts office building in San Francisco's Civic Center National Historic Landmark District was vacated in 2007 due to seismic deficiencies.
Value engineering and careful planning helped the team deliver the $17-million East Valley Water District headquarters 71 days ahead of schedule and $400,000 under the guaranteed maximum price—all while maintaining a spotless safety record.
Seismic upgrades were performed and all major building systems were replaced on a 1920s-era, 26-story tower—one of the tallest buildings of its time on the West Coast.
The fast-tracked design-build project became the first social infrastructure project in the U.S. procured under the principles of performance-based infrastructure (PBI) contracting, which uses a public-private partnership not only to fund design and construction but also to provide long-term operations and maintenance.