A design/build team led by San Carlos-based Gonsalves & Stronck Construction recently completed a historical rehabilitation to one of Woodside�s oldest and most significant equestrian properties. Photography by Steve Whittaker Photography by Steve Whittaker The Folger Estate Stable, together with the other buildings that formed the grand country estate of the coffee magnate James A. Folger II, was designed in 1905 by Arthur Brown Jr., famous for later work including San Francisco City Hall, Coit Tower, and other California landmarks. Even in this youthful work, Brown�s Beaux-Arts training and personal genius is clearly evident in a design that draws upon
Construction on the $102-million Orange Freeway (State Route 57) Northbound Widening Project will begin this fall as officials, construction workers and business leaders gathered recently to celebrate the kickoff of the Orangethorpe to Lambert segment. The Orange County Transportation Authority, in partnership with Caltrans, is sponsoring improvements to the SR-57, which will add a northbound lane from north of the SR-91 near Orangethorpe Avenue in Placentia to Lambert Road in Brea. The project will also add traffic and merging lanes at various locations, reconfigure entrance and exit ramps, construct retaining walls and sound walls and standardize existing general purpose lanes
An October completion is planned for the $100-million Valley Performing Arts Center at the southwest corner of California State University, Northridge. C.W. Driver is the general contractor and HGA Architects and Engineers is the designer on the project, a five-story, 166,000-sq-ft performance hall that includes a 1,700-seat concert hall designed to support orchestra, opera, Broadway, film and dance; 175-seat black box theater; backstage support; classrooms; 230-seat lecture room; rehearsal and events space; and a new broadcast facility for KCSN public radio. It is being built to LEED silver certification standards. C.W. Driver�s construction team is using 34,000 sq ft of
Now that Mineta San Jose Airport has its new 12-gate Terminal B and concourse, an upgraded Terminal A and a Consolidated Rental Car Center and public parking garage, regional passengers can now take the time to absorb the enhanced, modern atmosphere and, literally, bask in its glow. The $1.3-billon project, almost a decade in design and development, certainly improves Silicon Valley�s main transportation hub operationally, but it does something else as well: It enhances the region�s image. Or, as Steve Weindel, Gensler�s principal in charge of design, put it: The designers set out to �create an iconic building that people
The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners last week unanimously approved the Environmental Impact Report for the project to replace the aging Gerald Desmond Bridge at the Port of Long Beach with a new, nearly $1 billion span that will accommodate future traffic needs and dramatically improve safety for vessels and vehicles alike. The Port of Long Beach, in partnership with Caltrans, will oversee the project to design and build a higher, wider bridge parallel to and just north of the existing Gerald Desmond Bridge. Once the new bridge is completed and open, the old structure will be taken down.
Specialty contractors are as different as their niches, but most agree the market has to get a lot better before they’re healthy again. ASAC President Santo Pernicano’s firm, Area-West Fence, is working on the San Vicente Dam project in Lakeside with Kiewit Pacific. No. 32 Clark Pacific supplied the concrete work on Mineta San Jose Airport’s car rental facility. Related Links: 2010 Top Specialty Contractors List Top Specialty Breakdown and Methodology List “One might argue that this is one of the steepest [construction] declines in my generation,” says Tony Guzzi, CEO of Norwalk, Conn.-based EMCOR Group, Inc. Guzzi, whose global
It was a tough decision but when the dust settled and the hammering stopped, the Army Corps of Engineers was selected 2010 Owner of the Year by editors and contributors of California Construction Magazine. Folsom Dam’s auxiliary spillway project is the recipient of nearly $1 billion in federal funds Equipment at the Folsom Lake project site div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" “Winning this award is great and not because the corps is a winner, but because the taxpayer is the winner.” says Dr. Christine Altendorf, director of programs for South Pacific Division of Army Corps of Engineers. USACE/South Pacific
Workers are closing in on completing five major school projects across Los Angeles. The work is part of Los Angeles Unified School District’s $20-billion school construction and modernization bond program, a herculean effort in which district officials seek to remedy three decades of under-construction by building 131 new schools and completing 20,000 modernization projects by 2012. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" “During those 30 years, the population of L.A. grew – some areas faster than others,” says Neil Gamble, director of facilities construction for LAUSD. “To handle school overcrowding, we implemented forced busing, sending students from overburdened schools to
Swinerton Builders and Sausal Corp. broke ground on two San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge toll plaza projects this month that will result in a new 22,600-sq-ft toll administration building in the parking lot directly east of the existing toll administration facility and a new 10,600-sq-ft structure to house Caltrans’ Bay Bridge tow services operations. Swinerton, Sausal break ground on Bay Bridge Toll Plaza projects div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Swinerton’s bid to construct the new toll administration building was $13.7 million, with completion slated for late 2012. HNTB is the project designer. Because the new building is a toll-related facility,
As David Kalb, our Wednesday question-and-answer columnist for the Daily Pacific Builder delves into contractor licensing issues, we always find satisfaction knowing there is someone in Sacramento who knows what to do no matter what the problem. But recently, Kalb, who is president of Capitol Services Inc., found a subject that is definitely sensitive to all California contractor firms and has an overall solution that is going to be extremely difficult to get to. Here’s part of his column: Who is and who isn’t a “real” American citizen is one of the top issues of our day. As a nation
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