After years of legal challenges and pipe dreams, a major $984-million water desalination plant has been green-lighted for construction near San Diego. Image courtesy of Poseidon Resources The plant will be the nations largest seawater desalination plant. “This project has been a longtime coming,” says Peter MacLaggan, senior VP of development for Poseidon Resources of Carlsbad, Calif., the developer. “It’s something that the vast majority of the residents in the area have tremendous support for.”The plant, which will be the nation’s largest seawater desalination plant, was approved November 29 by the San Diego County Water Authority’s (SDCWA) Board of Directors.
The new $180-million Rental Car Center at San Diego International Airport will not only be large in scope; it will also be energy-efficient. When complete in 2014, the facility will comprise 1.7-million sq ft and combine 12 different car rental agencies in one mega-structure. Photo Courtesy of Sundt Construction Work is underway on the new $180-million Rental Car Center at San Diego International Airport. “There is a real sustainability aspect to it,” says Brad Kirsch, preconstruction manager for Sundt Construction, which is building the project in a joint venture with Austin Commercial.Kirsch says by eliminating the redundancy of shuttles going
Completed in June 2012, the Dept. of Veterans Affairs' $34-million, 91,000-sq-ft Mental Health Center complex in Palo Alto, Calif., centers on a secure activity courtyard and garden.
The first LEED-Gold-certified kindergarten and middle-school building in the city of San Jose, this 6,000-sq-ft library creates a new focal point at the campus, which dates to the 1850s and is one of the oldest schools in Northern California.
Members of the construction team call the $956-million Palomar Medical Center in Escondido "The Hospital of the Future," saying that it sets benchmarks in health care architecture and construction.
Sited along the Pacific Coast Highway, the project is adjacent to an active oil field, marshlands, residential communities and a restaurant, as well as the city of Newport Beach and Caltrans access easements and rights-of-way.
Complying with state-mandated seismic deadlines, this seven-story, acute-care replacement hospital in Castro Valley is also the industry's first to use an 11-party integrated project delivery contract, in which the owner and 10 participants are contractually required to collaborate.
The 193,729-sq-ft project included demolition; hazardous materials abatement; ADA-compliant restrooms; anti-terrorism measures; replacement of four large air-handling units; new ductwork; new electrical systems; erecting infection-control barriers during construction; and installing flexible, demountable partition panelized systems and sewer piping.
Touted as the largest capital improvement project in Stockton's history, the DWSP improves water reliability, protects groundwater and provides drought protection for the city, which was no longer able to rely on pumped groundwater and purchased water for its municipal supply.
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