The landmark Herbst Theatre in San Francisco's War Memorial Veterans Building will look much the same when theatergoers return in September—if all goes according to plan.
With so many firms competing for available professional staff, successful recruitment often comes down to achieving the right personality fit between employee and company.
Photographer George E. Baker Jr. uses the artful backdrop of a nautically themed mural to echo the action taking place in the foreground during concrete placement at 101 Polk in San Francisco. Baker shot the scene at around 1:00 a.m. with an ultra-wide angle lens using illumination from the jobsite's light towers. San Francisco-based Pacific Structures (a division of Build Group) is constructing the residential building, which will rise 13 floors and hide the mural. Pacific Structures is also performing the concrete work. Photo by Golden State Photographic Submitted By: Build Group, San Francisco Related Links: ENR California Construction Project
Using fast-tracked delivery, crews took only 17 months to construct a 340,000-sq-ft casino that includes a 9,000-sq-ft events center and more than a dozen eateries, along with more than 70 acres of site infrastructure improvements.
Workers had to contend with bay muds, limited site access and protected wildlife species during the tidal restoration project for three islands comprising Bair Island, a 2,600-acre former salt pond within the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge—the largest urban wildlife refuge in the U.S.
As one of the largest sewage treatment plants in the U.S., the Robert B. Diemer facility delivers 520 million gallons of water per day to Orange and Los Angeles counties, or enough water to fill the Rose Bowl every four hours.
Atascadero City Hall was hit by a 6.5-magnitude earthquake in 2003. The upper rotunda twisted independently from the rest of the building, causing perimeter walls to peel away from the building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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