Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, a privately held consulting firm with 500 employees in 14 offices around the world, has acquired Treadwell & Rollo, a premier geotechnical and environmental engineering firm based in San Francisco. The acquisition, the first in Langan�s 40-year history, firmly establishes a nationwide footprint for the company by adding 70 high-caliber professionals from Treadwell & Rollo�s California offices in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, and Sacramento. �This is momentous news for Langan and Treadwell & Rollo, not to mention the engineering and environmental design industry,� says David T. Gockel, president/CEO of Langan. �Two elite firms with
The State of California, Department of Transportation and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority issued a notice of intent to award a public-private partnership project worth $1 billion to a consortium around Essen, Germany-based HOCHTIEF Concessions for the design, construction, finance, operation and maintenance for 33 years of San Francisco�s Presidio Parkway project. HOCHTIEF�s 50% partner on the Golden Gate Bridge southern access project is Meridiam Infrastructure, based in Luxemburg. The consortium�s construction team is led by HOCHTIEF subsidiary Flatiron. The German firm set up HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions North America in 2009 to bid on PPP projects in Canada. It
Salesforce.com announced the purchase of approximately 14 acres of undeveloped land in the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco from Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. The company plans to build a facility that will become its new headquarters. The land, which is adjacent to the University of California, San Franciso campus on one side and the San Francisco Bay on the other, is part of the San Francisco Mission Bay redevelopment area. It is located directly on the San Francisco Muni T line at the UCSF station, and is also directly accessible from the Mariposa Street exit off of 280.
University of California, Davis Medical Center and design-build contractor McCarthy Building Cos., with architect and engineer Watry Design Inc., broke ground on a sevem-level, 1,200-stall parking structure. Cost of the design and construction of the project is $20.7 million and work is expected to be completed by September 2011. �Watry and McCarthy have successful track records working on campus projects throughout the U.C. system and we are thrilled to have their combined skill and talent on the new and much needed U.C. Davis Medical Center�s parking structure,� says Doug Austin, project manager of the U.C. Davis Health System. The 417,000-sq-ft
For 29 years, the American Institute of Architects, California Council has celebrated outstanding architecture through the AIACC Design Awards program. Once again, the AIACC last week announced recipients of this year�s competition. According to the council, architects realize that design is about relationships, not just �looks.� �It�s about how look and feel, use and comfort, stability and durability come together to support one another,� the council says. �How light shapes space and space shapes light -- and how light and space together suggest where we would most like to sit. There are less tangible benefits, too, like the delight that
An increasing number of California architects and contractors are employing building information modeling tools to enhance their use of green technology in new projects and renovations. A 2010 Green BIM SmartMarket report from McGraw-Hill Construction, the publisher of California Construction, showed that 78% of companies that use software to share digital models of buildings’ functions plan to incorporate BIM within the next three years to measure sustainability. The same report indicated 17% of green BIM practitioners believe they realize more than 50% of BIM’s potential to achieve green objectives. “The growth of green projects will drive the growth of BIM
If you’re a tough public utilities commission advocating energy efficiency and water conservation and other sustainable requirements for taxpayers, and you plan on building a new headquarters, the old saying “if you’re going to talk the talk, you’ve got to walk the walk” holds a more serious sway. Webcor crews start to go vertical on the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission headquarters building in the Civic Center. KMD/Stevens Architects designed the SFPUC building. Related Links: Green Building In San Francisco, its PUC is facing this challenge every day while moving toward a spring 2012 completion of its new, LEED-platinum building.
It wasn’t long ago that green design was a novelty or an experiment done on guinea-pig projects. But that was then and this is now. “Today everybody’s doing it,” says Steven Spaid, with San Francisco-based SmithGroup. “But less than five years ago you really had to sell the client on investing in green because it cost more.” As you can see in the following rankings of the Top Green Designers of 2010, architectural and engineering firms are moving steadily into the sustainability world with impressive number of LEED-accredited professionals being added to their teams, bigger green revenues and higher-profile green
Alamo Iron Works in San Antonio announced the appointment of Francis “Duffy” Shea as president of the company. In this position, he will be responsible for all aspects of AIW’s steel and industrial supply business. Shea has over two decades of experience in the industrial marketplace and supply distribution. LJA employees earn Professional Engineer�s Licenses from the state of Texas. LJA Engineering Inc. announced that five employees in the firm’s Houston office recently received Professional Engineer’s License from the State of Texas. They are: Jared Ciarella, PE, Sean Wallace, PE, Mehdi Nezami, PE, Jeff Ebersole, PE and Amanda Carriage, PE,
The Stanford University School of Medicine recently held opening ceremonies for its new Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge (LKSC), designed by NBBJ. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Representing the first completed phase of the Stanford University School of Medicine’s master plan, the 120,000-sq-ft building brings together cutting-edge medicine, modern education, and advanced technology, while serving as a new academic and social hub for the Stanford campus. Whiting Turner served as the general contractor on the $90-million project. Set at the crossroads between the Stanford Medical Center and adjacent science quads on a new landscaped pedestrian thoroughfare,
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