Condos have staged a comeback. The multifamily and hospitality sector achieved a major turnaround in 2012, placing 10 projects, totaling nearly $2.4 billion, on ENR California's Top Starts list. In 2011, only two $100-million-plus projects in that segment got under way. In 2010, there were none. Related Links: View the Ranking of the Top 35 Construction Starts of 2012 in California ENR California The $800-million Graton Resort and Casino was the largest hospitality project to break ground last year. Located about 50 miles north of San Francisco, the project's total cost includes a multistory hotel in a planned later phase.
Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), the owner of Los Angeles International Airport, is in the middle of a $4.1-billion capital improvement plan—one of the largest public works programs in California. A key element of the capital plan is a $438-million replacement for the airport's central utilities plant (CUP). The massive new facility has the complexity, scale and scope to present plenty of challenges for the project team. Related Links: Los Angeles World Airports Named ENR California Owner of the Year (4/19/2012) ENR California "There is something for every discipline: major operating systems, four electrical substations, miles of underground pipe and
By Scott Blair Related Article: Condo, Transit Projects Dominate California's 2012 Top Project Starts 2012 Top Starts In california Rank Project Location Project Cost ($ mil.) Start Date/ End Date Owner/Contractor/Designer 1 New Santa Clara Stadium Santa Clara $1,000 June 2012 March 2016 Owner: Santa Clara Stadium Authority GC: Turner/Devcon, Joint Venture Design: HNTB Corp. 2 The Carlsbad Desalination Project Carlsbad $901 Dec. 2012 June 2014 Owner: Poseidon Resources Inc. GC: Kiewit Shea Desalination (Kiewit Infrastructure West and J.F. Shea Co. JV) Design: IDE Technologies; ARCADIS; Tetra Tech 3 Graton Resort & Casino Rohnert Park $800 June 2012 Late 2013
Related Links: Upload Your Firm's New Hires and Promotions in the ENR California People Photo Gallery! ENR California People News CURTISTrevor C. Curtis has been hired by Samsung C&T, Engineering & Construction Americas, Long Beach, as director of business development. Curtis has 39 years of experience in construction and business development with global companies, focusing on alternative delivery methods in the transportation and toll-road infrastructure, transit and light rail, education and health care sectors. Before joining Samsung C&T, Curtis served as regional director with Hochtief AG in the U.K. and U.S. and, most recently, as vice president/global lead in
The VA Palo Alto Health Care System is seeing a lot more than patients these days. With roughly 17 projects totaling nearly $1 billion under way or currently in planning, the hospital’s 92-acre campus in Palo Alto is booming like a gold rush town. Image courtesy SmithGroupJJR The $100-million, 174,000-sq-ft Polytrauma and Blind Rehabilitation Center is the largest project currently under construction at the Palo Alto VA campus. Related Links: View Other Health Care Project Articles “This is unique for us because there are so many major projects happening on an active hospital campus,” says Jason Nietupski, the center's facility
With billions of dollars in public-sector construction under way, the San Francisco Bay area is an epicenter of activity for design and construction firms that build government-funded facilities.
The new $34-million Eleve Lofts & Skydeck is big on ideas and luxury, yet compact and efficient. When opened next month, the 170,000-sq-ft mixed-use project will feature one of the country's largest active roof and six levels of unique "micro-apartments" targeted at the emerging 20 to 34-yr-old Generation Y crowd of young professionals. Image courtesy American Multifamily inc. The massive roof deck includes all the project's open space, from barbeques to a full dog park. Photo by Greg Aragon The project uses wood framing 65 ft above the podium, which is the maximum allowable height for bearing wood shear wall
Despite the high-tech robots and building-size 3D printers being pitched at ENR’s FutureTech Conference on March 14 in San Francisco, one group of building experts presented a vision of the future that involves something a bit more old-fashioned: teamwork and communication. Photo courtesy ENR Gerald Hartford with Hartford Engineering says he prefers to work with subcontractors directly on the fabrication models as early in the project schedule as possible. Related Links: ENR FutureTech Conference Turns Heads With Process Innovation “We have a lot of great technology and have made a lot of shifts in process, but as an industry, we
Rendering courtesy Pelli Clarke Pelli The 1,070-ft-tall Transbay Tower will be the tallest building in San Francisco upon its completion in 2017. Related Links: Los Angeles Natural History Museum Gets Major Makeover ENR California: Project News As construction activity picks up in California, so does contract work for Los Angeles-based real estate law firm Allen Matkins. "The market is on fire," says attorney Delmar Nehrenberg, chairman of construction and development practice for Allen Matkins. "I've never seen anything like it." Nehrenberg, who is working on contracts for projects worth about $1.5 billion across the state says San Francisco and Hollywood are two
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