The HOK Los Angeles-designed Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center received the “Community Impact Award” and the “Under Construction – Healthcare Award” as part of the 41st annual Los Angeles Business Council’s Architectural Awards. Hathaway Dinwiddie is the general contractor on the project, which is slated to open in 2013.According to the architectural judges, the 11-story pavilion’s “outstanding design and construction will ensure the excellence of pavilion visitors’ experiences as they flow with ease through a spacious plaza reception area, outpatient clinics, diagnostic and imaging facilities, a pharmacy, an education center, research laboratories, a café, three-floors of underground
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission General Manager Ed Harrington, joined by state and federal officials, this week dedicated the newly constructed, $114-million Tesla Water Treatment Facility in Tracy. With a capacity of 315 million gallons per day (mgd), the new Tesla plant is the largest water UV facility in California and the third largest in North America. The SFPUC says this facility is being commissioned nine months before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency establishes a new requirement for a second disinfectant for all unfiltered drinking water systems in the nation.The new facility will provide multiple redundant treatment systems to increase
The Associated General Contractors of California, along with state transportation agencies and industry stakeholders, recently met with Federal Highway (FHWA) Administrator Victor Mendez to discuss the national “Every Day Counts” initiative. The meeting in Sacramento, hosted by Caltrans Acting Director Malcolm Dougherty, focused on sustainable infrastructure funding and efficient project delivery systems.The EDC Initiative is designed to reduce delivery time of transportation projects and accelerate technology and innovation deployment. During the meeting AGC requested assistance from the FHWA to partner with environmental and regulatory agencies to facilitate accelerated project delivery.“The EDC is designed to identify and deploy innovation aimed at shortening project delivery, enhancing the
The American Institute of Architects reports that June marked the third consecutive decline in revenue at U.S. architecture firms as measured by the Architecture Billings Index (ABI). The ABI reflects the approximate nine- to 12-month lag time between architecture billings and construction spending. The AIA reported the June ABI score was 46.3, almost a full point from a reading of 47.2 the previous month. This score reflects a continued decrease in demand for design services (any score above 50 indicates an increase in billings).However, the AIA says the new projects inquiry index was 58.1, up sharply from a mark of
The first of 10 projects of Caltrans’ mandated Design-Build Demonstration Program – the State Highway 99 Chowchilla Rehabilitation Project in Madera Co. – was awarded last week to Granite Construction Co. Construction on the $37-million project is planned to begin this month and is estimated for completion by December 2012. The project will repair nearly 4 mi of Highway 99 in both directions in Chowchilla from the South Madera Overcrossing to the Avenue 16 Overcrossing. Existing guardrail, lights, signs, and drainage systems within the project limits will also be upgraded or repaired, as needed.With the design-build construction method, Caltrans expects
If all goes according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s plan, in 59 hours starting 7 p.m. Friday, July 15, Los Angeles will avoid “Carmageddon.” All of Southern California, it seems, is bracing for the shutdown of a 10-mile section of Interstate 405 so that one of its overpasses, the Mulholland Drive Bridge, can be partially demolished as part of a $1-billion project to upgrade the I-405 between Interstate 10 and U.S. 101.The media-saturated region dubbed the weekend closure “Carmageddon” in reference to the end of Southern California driving as we know it. More than 300,000 vehicles traverse that section of
McCarthy Building Cos. last week oversaw the placement of the final 1,200-lb steel beam atop the new Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center. The topping out ceremony featured KP leaders and employees, city officials and McCarthy executives.The 12-story, 349-bed hospital is scheduled to open in 2014, and will replace the existing hospital across MacArthur Boulevard. The construction is part of the state-mandated earthquake safety retrofit of all California hospitals, known as Senate Bill 1953. NBBJ, San Francisco, serves as the project’s architect.The first of three phases of the project was completed in May 2009 with the opening of the Broadway Medical
Bolstered by a variety of highly successful recent events and initiatives, including a newly launched partnership with The ACE Mentor Program of California, the completion of its largest executive leadership development program to date and several recent and planned construction career awareness events, AGC’s Construction Education Foundation continues to make inroads promoting construction education and building the future workforce in California. Earlier this month, the AGC Foundation held an official kick-off mixer and fundraiser event in downtown Sacramento to celebrate the partnership it has forged with The ACE Mentor Program. Hosted by AGC’s Delta Sierra District, the event featured presentations
A partnership of AGC of California and HILTI North America held two comprehensive statewide seminars June 7 and 8 that provided nearly 150 construction industry professionals and 90 companies with important information and training about the latest regulatory measures, legal climate and potential solutions to jobsite dust control. The seminars in Northern and Southern California are among the most recent in the ongoing series of industry training opportunities offered year round by the AGC on a host of hot button industry issues. In addition to the recent dust control seminars, AGC offerings have included everything from fall protection to developing
San Francisco’s BRIDGE Housing recently opened the doors on two new affordable housing projects in the city and broke ground on yet another in Oakland. Photo courtesy of BRIDGE Housing The total project cost was $92 million and the development cost was $55 million. The project team also included TWM Architects + Planners, architect of record; BAR Architects, design architect; and Cahill Contractors as general contractor.Located within the six-story building, IOA’s senior-services facility includes an Adult Day Health Center, Alzheimer’s Center, therapeutic rehabilitation and primary care clinic, as well as program space for case management, elder suicide prevention, elder abuse
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