For the first time in nine years, a commercial construction project tops ENR California's annual ranking of the largest construction starts in the state last year.
Turning an unused pipe chase into an access tunnel for crews so they can walk safely under a busy street from the parking lot to the site epitomizes the type of workarounds that have kept the 70%-complete 500-MW replacement of the 460-MW Unit 3 Scattergood Generating Station on track.
Dissatisfied with traditional project delivery, Sutter Health began experimenting with lean practices and integrated project delivery nearly a decade ago.
The landmark Herbst Theatre in San Francisco's War Memorial Veterans Building will look much the same when theatergoers return in September—if all goes according to plan.
Using fast-tracked delivery, crews took only 17 months to construct a 340,000-sq-ft casino that includes a 9,000-sq-ft events center and more than a dozen eateries, along with more than 70 acres of site infrastructure improvements.
Workers had to contend with bay muds, limited site access and protected wildlife species during the tidal restoration project for three islands comprising Bair Island, a 2,600-acre former salt pond within the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge—the largest urban wildlife refuge in the U.S.
As one of the largest sewage treatment plants in the U.S., the Robert B. Diemer facility delivers 520 million gallons of water per day to Orange and Los Angeles counties, or enough water to fill the Rose Bowl every four hours.
Atascadero City Hall was hit by a 6.5-magnitude earthquake in 2003. The upper rotunda twisted independently from the rest of the building, causing perimeter walls to peel away from the building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Reflecting Hawaiian heritage through tropical design motifs, the four-story condominium addition at Poipu Beach Grand Wyndham Resort includes 13 luxury units and the Spa at Koloa Landing.