McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. was recently honored with a California Awards for Performance Excellence (CAPE) Prospector Award by the California Council for Excellence, the only general contractor to win this year. The CAPE program, which emulates the highly esteemed Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program, recognizes organizations that demonstrate superior performance in seven key business areas, including leadership, strategic planning, customer and market focus, measurement, analysis and knowledge management, workforce focus, process management and results. “We are pleased to be recognized as a CAPE winner along with other prestigious recipients including premier healthcare and education institutions,” said Chad Dorgan, McCarthy vice
Not content to see themselves locked at 2.5% of the national craft union workforce for the past 30 years, more than 625 tradeswomen gathered in Oakland last weekend to learn how to boost those numbers at the first national conference for women in the trades. Photo by Vicki Hamlin, Tradeswomen Inc. Photo by Vicki Hamlin, Tradeswomen Inc. Sean McGarvey, national building trades� secretary-treasurer The meeting, co-sponsored by the AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades Dept., included women craft workers from across the country and Canada. It was also the 10th annual Women Building California conference, which, according to conference organizers, never
Turner Construction Co. recently contracted with Brookfield Properties to provide general contracting services for the renovation of a retail mall in downtown Los Angeles. The $23-million project, recently branded as Fig at 7th, is located at 735 South Figueroa Street. The Fig at 7th project includes the full renovation of a three-story, 330,000-sq-ft retail mall. Turner says it will demolish the existing slab flooring, guardrails, escalators, elevators, interior and exterior finishes, and signage, and install new flooring, new monumental stairs, escalators, finishes, paving, signage, demising walls, and temporary storefronts. Turner will also provide modifications to the mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and
Data centers are not traditionally known for their green aspects, but one Silicon Valley firm firmly believes that customers have embraced LEED-certified energy-efficient operations that are in line with California�s sustainability demands. Vantage opened the reconstructed V3 data center at the beginning of the year. Wholesale operator Vantage Data Center recently opened its doors to the first of three buildings at its $300-million, 18-acre campus in Santa Clara off Walsh Avenue, which was formerly occupied by Intel. At a recent Earth Day showcase, featuring booths and panel discussions, Vantage also announced the Apollo Innovation Initiative, a data center development framework
Seven outstanding projects built by AGC of California contractors were chosen as winners in the 24th annual Associated General Contractors of California's Constructor Awards program. The winning projects, along with all of the Constructor Awards finalists named in this year’s competition, were honored as the “best of the best” in California construction during the 2011 Awards Banquet and presentation at The Fairmont, Newport Beach earlier this month. The prestigious black tie event, the “Oscars” evening for the construction industry, was attended by nearly 300 people from top construction firms throughout the state. In addition to naming the Constructor Awards winners
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) released a report detailing the enormous impact high-speed and intercity passenger rail projects will have in driving job development, while also rebuilding America’s manufacturing sector and generating billions of dollars in business sales. The report, “The Case for Business Investment in High-Speed and Intercity Passenger Rail,” reinforces the point that investments in high-speed and intercity rail will have many direct and indirect benefits. Nationally, due to proposed federal investment of high-speed rail over a six-year period, investment can result in supporting and creating more than 1.3 million jobs, APTA says. For each $1 billion invested in high-speed rail
A federal judge recently affirmed that Caltrans’ Disadvantaged Business Enterprises program was “clearly constitutional,” denying a complaint filed in federal court in 2009 by the Pacific Legal Foundation on behalf of the Associated General Contractors of San Diego. Judge John A. Mendez, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, found that since 2007 the department made the necessary changes to its DBE program to satisfy legal concerns about the program’s constitutional requirements. Caltrans implements a DBE Program as a condition of receiving $3 billion in federal transportation funding annually. The program ensures a level playing field for disadvantaged and small
HMC Architects has acquired Beverly Prior Architects, which will become HMC+Beverly Prior Architects and will continue to serve clients from its current San Francisco office. The merger enhances both companies’ geographic reach, while strengthening positions in multiple market segments, according to HMC’s President and CEO Randy Peterson. HMC has California offices in Ontario, Irvine, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego and San Jose. HMC Architects’ prominence in K–12 and community college markets will enhance Beverly Prior Architects’ education markets in addition to offering additional expertise in healthcare, interior architecture and specialty education consulting services, Peterson adds. He says that Beverly Prior
The team of Pinner Construction Co. and gkkworks will head a $28-million design-build contract on the Dorsey High School redevelopment project for the Los Angeles Unified School District. The LEED silver project, the district�s first-ever design-build effort, will be completed by June 2014. Major components of the multi-phase Dorsey High School project include construction of 17 interim classroom buildings, demolition of eight existing classroom buildings and a girls’ gymnasium, construction of a two-story, 28,000-sq-ft classroom building and 22,000-sq-ft gymnasium and the extensive modernization of an existing 19,000-sq-ft gymnasium. Some of the benefits for the project owner using design-build delivery include
Crews from Caltrans and American Bridge/Fluor Enterprises joint venture last week placed a steel segment atop the four independent legs of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge’s self-anchored suspension span (SAS) tower. Caltrans spokesman Bart Ney says the new section, known as the “grillage,” will evenly distribute the weight of the 480-ton cable saddle that will hold the SAS’s nearly mile-long single cable as it passes over the tower. The section is nicknamed the “grillage” due to the position of internal steel plates which create the appearance of a grill grate, Ney says. The tower section arrived in the Bay Area
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