Clark/McCarthy, A Joint Venture, which completed the $575 million Tom Bradley International Terminal Improvements and Baggage Screening Systems project last year, recently was awarded a $272 million design-build contract to replace the airport�s central utility plant. The project will provide LAX with a new, 75,000-sq-ft CUP with a 20,000-ton cooling capacity. The CUP�s equipment will include electric-driven centrifugal chillers, steam-driven chillers and a cogeneration system that uses steam generators to recover heat produced by gas-turbine-driven generators. The project team will be responsible for installing all the associated equipment, which encompasses a stand-by boiler, primary and secondary chilled water pumps, cooling
The Mesa Consolidated Water District�s board of directors unanimously awarded a $16.8 million construction contract for the district�s Colored Water Treatment Facility improvements to Brutoco Engineering & Construction of Fontana. Brutoco was the lowest of five contractors that submitted bids. Construction began Jan. 3 with completion planned for mid-2012. The project�s construction manager is MWH Constructors and the design engineer is Carollo. �This bid award is another key milestone for Mesa Consolidated Water District, and it marks the start of improving our Colored Water Treatment Facility with a more effective and energy-efficient system,� says Fred R. Bockmiller, Jr., P.E., the
A ceremonial groundbreaking took place this week for the new Arts & Humanities and Business Technology buildings at San Diego City College, the latest San Diego Community College District projects funded by Propositions S and N. Turner Construction Co. is the construction manager for the $89.2 million project. Other principals include X-nth, electrical/mechanical engineer; Stedman and Dyson Structural Engineers; Wallace, Roberts, and Todd Landscape Architects; and Gafcon, Propositions S and N program manager. Designed by Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects, the buildings are expected to earn a LEED gold certification. The Arts & Humanities building will consist of approximately 128,000 sq
San Francisco�s Board of Supervisors this week passed a mandatory green building ordinance that will require owners of non-residential buildings to determine how much energy each building consumes and to make that information public on an annual basis. The ordinance will also require commercial buildings over 10,000 sq ft to conduct energy efficiency audits every five years in order to help the building owners and managers optimize building efficiency. �San Francisco needs to increase the energy and resource efficiency of existing buildings if we are going to meet our aggressive greenhouse gas reduction targets,� says Mayor Edwin Lee. �This ordinance
The Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) has selected Hensel Phelps as the construction manager at risk for the new Santa Clara Family Justice Center, and has also named architects for 13 other state projects. Hensel Phelps submitted the winning proposal to provide preconstruction services, planning, and construction management services, which will include solicitation of bids from subcontractors. The AOC uses a CMAR for delivery of major capital-outlay projects such as the Santa Clara Family Justice Center. The competitive selection process factors in qualitative criteria, such as the firm�s experience, as well as the contractor�s fee. The CMAR is retained
Article toolbar Gonzalez Goodale Architects and Morillo Construction recently put the finishing touches on the 31,400-sq-ft Department of Water and Power building in Pasadena. The $10-million civic project, which houses operations, maintenance crews and supervisors along with a city Emergency Operations Center, garnered a Merit Award for design from the Pasadena Foothill chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Situated within Pasadena Water and Power�s corporate yard on 245 West Mountain Street, the new building reprises the volume and vertical rhythms of the historical 1930s brick and concrete warehouse across from it while maintaining a distinct contemporary architectural identity, the
The NoHo Arts District, with the assistance of developer Meta Housing, John Cotton Architects and general contractor Optimus Construction, broke ground last month on a combination NoHo Senior Artists Colony independent senior housing community and Road Theatre Co. theater. Located at 10747 Magnolia Boulevard in North Hollywood, the $42-million age-restricted independent living apartment community will offer 126 one-and two-bedroom units for renters 62 and older. Eighty percent of the independent senior housing units will be market rate, while the remaining 20% will be affordable. The 76-seat Road on Riverton theater, located within the community, will provide a new and important
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission last week gave final approval for replacing the 85-year-old Calaveras Dam near Fremont and Sunol in the East Bay. According to SFPUC spokeswoman Maureen Barry, the new $434-million dam project started bid advertising Jan. 31 with a pre-bid scheduled for Feb. 15 and contract award at the end of March. Construction is scheduled to start in the summer. Barry says pre-qualified prime contractors eligible to bid on the project include Dragados USA of New York; Barnard Construction Co. of Bozeman, Mont.; Kiewit Infrastructure Group, Fairfield, Calif.; Sukut Construction Inc., Santa Ana, Calif.; and Impregilo
BERGSTROM Scott E. Bergstrom has joined Blach Construction Co. in Santa Clara as a project executive leading its growing health-care team. A seasoned construction professional with nearly 20 years of experience in the industry, Bergstrom has served in project leadership roles with some of the region’s most notable construction firms, including Turner, Hathaway Dinwiddie and Rudolph & Sletten. Chief among his many construction achievements are the $300-million Valley Medical Center replacement hospital, an $80-million renovation of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, and the $7-million Britannia Oyster Point office park. He has worked on numerous other projects for clients such as El
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