Submitted by McCarthy Building Cos. The new, 279,000-sq-ft, $178.9-million Acute Care Pavilion is the state’s first acute care facility to meet rigorous standards for quality and safety mandated by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, while also achieving the level of occupant health and environmental sustainability required to earn LEED certified status. The four-story pavilion houses a much-needed surgical center, 84 medical/surgical beds, a neo-natal intensive care center, and a cancer center. It also provides 16 operating rooms with associated support departments, a 28-bed hematology and oncology unit, a 10-bed bone marrow transplant intensive care unit, a 32-bed
Submitted by Swinerton Builders This $19.4-million project involved the construction of a new four-story building combining UCSD’s self-supporting catering program and the Housing & Dining Services administration offices into one new facility. The steel and concrete slab-on-grade structure contains an approximate 8,000-sq-ft catering kitchen, lobby and break room on the first level. Office space for the Housing & Dining administrative support is located on the remaining floors, as well as an event space and terrace located on the fourth floor. LEED features include community connectivity, water efficient landscaping, optimizing energy performance including enhanced commissioning of mechanical and electrical systems, low-emitting
Submitted by Moon Mayoras Architects The $214-million, four-story new general acute care inpatient care facility, the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Pavilion at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, offered many challenges for the entire project team. Most of the significant challenges were the result of the initial stated objective to respect and preserve the original 1970 Eisenhower hospital building (“Ike Wing”), designed by the renowned mid-century Modernist architect Edward Durell Stone. The Annenberg Pavilion was designed to relocate and augment the existing inpatient beds from the existing Ike Wing into a new state-of-the-art facility, while providing opportunities for adaptive reuse
Submitted by Sasaki Associates The new $43.7-million Wildcat Recreation Center encompasses more than 110,000 sq ft of space on two floors, including a gymnasium, climbing wall, multi-activity court, cardio/weight room, outdoor spa and swimming pool. Located on a prominent southwest corner of the campus, the building is a beacon of activity with exterior materials and color palette drawing from the campus’s architectural history and the regional setting. The WREC is seen as a “family room” for the campus -- an environment that is a safe, healthy, and affordable alternative to off-campus activities. The center is LEED gold certified. The structural
The U.S. Green Building Council announced the launch of LEED for Retail, its newest green building rating system, and the LEED Volume Program, a program designed to meet the certification needs of high-volume property developers. The programs were unveiled at last week�s Greenbuild International Conference & Expo in Chicago. The LEED for Retail rating system recognizes the unique design and construction needs of this market sector, enabling forward-thinking retailers to integrate green building design, construction and operation into ground-up construction, retail interior and build-out projects. Nearly 100 national and independent retailers and franchisees, including Bank of America, Best Buy, Chipotle,
Just prior to the annual Greenbuild conference in Chicago last week, the U.S. Green Building Council reports that this month the total footprint of commercial projects certified via the LEED green building rating system surpassed 1 billion sq ft. The USGBC says another 6 billion sq ft of projects are registered and currently working toward LEED certification around the world. �This traction demonstrates the transformation of the way we design, build and operate buildings,� says Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO and founding chair, USGBC. �Not only does green building contribute to saving energy, water and money, it also creates green jobs
AGC recently held its annual Fall Conference and Division and State Boards of Directors Meetings in Indian Wells earlier this month, which drew many of the state�s top construction industry leaders who elected the association�s leadership for 2011 and focused on the future goals and direction of AGC. Top leadership of the AGC of California for 2010, elected by the State Board of Directors will include (left to right) AGC of California CEO Tom Holsman; Treasurer Curt Weltz, Flatiron West, Inc., Benicia; Senior Vice President John Nunan, Unger Construction Co., Sacramento; President Gerry DiIoli, Herzog Contracting Corp., Oceanside; Vice President
California Construction Magazine�s Best of California awards ceremonies next month will feature two high-profile design professionals as keynote speakers. Paul Danna, design principal for AECOM�s Western U.S. region and China studios and current president of the American Institute of Architects� Los Angeles chapter, will headline the Long Beach breakfast event on Dec. 1 at the Renaissance Hotel. And John King, the San Francisco Chronicle�s urban design critic, will keynote at the San Francisco breakfast event Dec. 2 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel. The statewide competition annually recognizes construction and design excellence in Northern and Southern California. An independent jury of
BCCI reports that its client, The Energy Foundation, received award recognition from the U.S. Green Building Council�s Northern California Chapter won the Outstanding Existing Building Project: Green Team of the Year award. The Energy Foundation is the first project in California to achieve LEED-CI platinum certification. The organization, a partnership of philanthropic investors that promotes clean-energy technologies, sought a newly designed space that reflected its mission, which is to advance energy efficiency and renewable energy with innovative technologies. BCCI teamed with the Foundation and TannerHecht Architecture to complete construction of the Foundation�s headquarters, located at the Bently Reserve building in
Amid construction crews hoisting structural steel beams and a couple of classes of grade-school children anxious to take part in the morning festivities, officials from the Los Angeles Unified School District, general contractor Taisei Construction Corp., architect Dougherty + Dougherty Architects and construction manager Cumming recently held a ceremonial groundbreaking on the construction site of a K-5 elementary school on the city�s densely populated south side. South Region Elementary School No. 10 is one of 131 news schools in a decade-long, multi-billion-dollar capital improvement program that LAUSD is deploying to end involuntary busing and return all schools to a two-semester
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