If time is money, then Brutoco Engineering and Construction has saved cash-strapped California officials both. The 91 Freeway will be widened with an additional lane. Related Links: Construction starts on NOAA laboratory in La Jolla Page & Turnbull, Plant build Walt Disney Family Museum URS to provide planning for Port of Long Beach RJC, Straub to renovate Naval Post Graduate School halls Blach, Hodgetts + Fund Architects complete performing arts center in Menlo Park Clark awarded San Ysidro pedestrian bridge project New San Diego Ronald McDonald House Seeks Solar System The Fontana, Ca.-based company won an American Recovery and Reinvestment
Blach, Hodgetts + Fund Architects complete performing arts center in Menlo Park Related Links: Construction starts on NOAA laboratory in La Jolla Page & Turnbull, Plant build Walt Disney Family Museum URS to provide planning for Port of Long Beach RJC, Straub to renovate Naval Post Graduate School halls Clark awarded San Ysidro pedestrian bridge project Blach Construction and Hodgetts + Fund Architects have completed a performing arts center for Menlo-Atherton High School in Menlo Park. The city of Menlo Park and the high school partnered to fund the project, located on the school campus. The 31,000-sq-ft, 65-ft-high building was
Related Links: Construction starts on NOAA laboratory in La Jolla Page & Turnbull, Plant build Walt Disney Family Museum RJC, Straub to renovate Naval Post Graduate School halls Blach, Hodgetts + Fund Architects complete performing arts center in Menlo Park Clark awarded San Ysidro pedestrian bridge projec URS Corporation was selected by the Port of Long Beach to provide master planning, engineering design services, and program management services for Phases Two, Three and Four of the Pier G Terminal Redevelopment Program in Southern California. The estimated $500 million terminal redevelopment will be designed to further the Port of Long Beach
The new San Diego Ronald McDonald House, which opened its doors in June, is asking its donors to fund the purchase and installation of a 109kW photovoltaic array to produce solar energy, which will result in approximately a 30% savings in power costs. Related Links: Construction starts on NOAA laboratory in La Jolla Page & Turnbull, Plant build Walt Disney Family Museum URS to provide planning for Port of Long Beach RJC, Straub to renovate Naval Post Graduate School halls Blach, Hodgetts + Fund Architects complete performing arts center in Menlo Park Clark awarded San Ysidro pedestrian bridge project Orange
The California Department of Transportation and the San Bernardino Associated Governments are now under way on the next two phases of the Interstate 215 widening project through downtown San Bernardino. I215-5th St. Bridge Phase 2 I-215 Aerial Orange Show Road to Inland Center Drive SANBAG awarded a $172,655,044 contract to Skanska-Rados Construction to build phase 3. The investment includes $128 million of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds that is expected to create thousands of jobs, many in the Inland Empire. The project is being conducted by a joint-venture, in which Skanska, as leader, has a 60% share and local
It may not appear so from the outside, but inside the five-story concrete shell of the old B.F. Sisk Courthouse in Fresno, a new $70-million ($56 million in construction costs) Superior Courthouse is taking shape. One of the B.F. Sisk courtrooms, as envisioned by SmithGroup. Related Links: Top Design Firms “We are completely transforming the interior of this 1960s federal court building into a modern courthouse,” says David Moore, lead architect for the San Francisco office of SmithGroup Architecture. “It’s a complete gut and renovation.” The 192,000-sq-ft make-over broke ground in July 2008 and is scheduled for completion in late
Lowe Enterprises leads massive, $500-million project that will consolidate, upgrade existing facilities The three-phase project will create nearly 1 million sq ft of office space for San Diego County. The first phase of the project includes a central plant to serve the complex. Related Links: Top Design Firms Central Valley Market Report “We’re looking for something that will be timeless,” says RJC Architects principal James Robbins of the $500-million San Diego County Operations Center, a massive development under way in the county’s Kearny Mesa district. “The center’s existing buildings have been there for close to 50 years. We’re expecting these
Ledcor Construction Inc. has completed construction for San Elijo Hills Town Center, a new zero-lot-line commercial/residential mixed-use project located within the masterplanned community of San Elijo Hills in San Marcos in northern San Diego County. The residential and retail project consists of three separate three-story buildings. Related Links: Swinerton Breaks Ground on NASA Project at Ames Research Center KMA Architecture, Straub Construction Begin Design-Build Project at Camp Pendleton McCarthy Completes Parking Garage for Grossmont College Jacobs Receives Hospital Contract from City and County of San Francisco Bernards Starts Construction on Harley Ellis Devereaux-designed Child Development Center Skanska USA Completes Central
The Associated General Contractors of California has put out an alert to its members to hold off retrofitting their equipment with CARB-compliant diesel emission reduction filters (retrofit filters). Related Links: 13 Architectural Firms Awarded Courthouse Projects by the AOC Ellerbe Becket Joins AECOM “There are regulation revisions and studies in process that will affect the types of compliant filters, the pieces of equipment they are approved for and where they are installed on the equipment,” the AGC reports. “Before you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars retrofitting equipment that may be in violation of Cal/OSHA regulations, Cal/OSHA and CARB must
According to a report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, about $16 billion worth of inefficiency and waste in the U.S. construction industry is due to lack of interoperability – people planning, bidding or building off the wrong information. Related Links: Swinerton Breaks Ground on NASA Project at Ames Research Center KMA Architecture, Straub Construction Begin Design-Build Project at Camp Pendleton McCarthy Completes Parking Garage for Grossmont College Jacobs Receives Hospital Contract from City and County of San Francisco Bernards Starts Construction on Harley Ellis Devereaux-designed Child Development Center Skanska USA Completes Central Utility Plant to Power State
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