For the design and construction team of the $700-million Kaiser Fontana replacement hospital project, a major occupational hazard faced daily is a severe sense of d�j� vu. That�s because the 314-bed hospital and accompanying facilities are being built by the exact same team � general contractor McCarthy Building Cos. of Newport Beach and construction administrator HMC Architects of Ontario � that built Kaiser Permanente�s Downey Medical Center in 2009. Those firms were so successful with the earlier project, saving their client $46 million in construction costs and finishing three months ahead of schedule, that Kaiser chose to use them again
Work is fully underway at San Diego International Airport on a Terminal 2 West expansion with 10 new gates, new curbside check-in areas, duel-level roadway, more security lanes and an expanded concession area. The $1 billion project is called �The Green Build� and officials say it will create 1,000 jobs at peak construction as well as qualify for a LEED silver certification. Completion is scheduled for early 2013. Flatiron, in a join venture with Turner and PCL Construction Services, Inc., will be working on the expansion of the Terminal 2 West building and airside (the runway side of the new
Engineering News-Record (ENR), part of McGraw-Hill Construction, and the leading construction news publication in the industry, has launched its first of seven regional editions with ENR Southeast. ENR�s regional editions provide local market coverage, rankings and insights. Regional editions will appear in the pages of ENR six times per year in California, the Midwest, Mountain States, the Southeast, the Southwest, and Texas/Louisiana. New York will be published 10 times per year as a special magazine supplement to ENR. ENR California�s first issue is Feb. 7. �ENR Southeast has us all very excited,� says Keith Fox, president, McGraw-Hill Construction. �The high-quality
SGPA Architecture and Planning reports that Michael Collier, AIA, principal and director of the San Francisco office and vice president of Business Development, retired at the end of 2010. Collier, who joined SGPA in 1984 as a project manager took over as office director in 1987 and became a principal in 1988. He will continue his leadership on the corporate board of directors. COLLIER �Mike has been instrumental in establishing SGPA�s presence in Northern California,� says Dave Reinker, president. �He�s provided leadership in many areas including establishing the branding of our retail, mixed-use, senior living and wellness studios. While we�ll
Every year, since 1982, The American Institute of Architects, California Council has celebrated outstanding architecture through the AIACC Design Awards program. Beginning in 2007, the AIACC began including urban design projects in the Awards program. . The purpose of the AIACC Awards for Urban Design is to recognize distinguished achievements that involve the expanding role of the architect in urban design, city planning, and community development. The awards seek to identify projects and programs that involve public participation and contribute to the quality of the urban environment. These include urban design projects, planning programs, civic improvements, environmental programs, and redevelopment
The 2011 officers of the AGC of California are formally being installed in January. The installation will take place on Jan. 28 during a special dinner at The Grand Californian at Disneyland in Anaheim, held in conjunction with the first division and state board meetings of the year. AGC of California�s elected leaders for 2011 are, from left, AGC of California CEO Tom Holsman; treasurer Curt Weltz, Flatiron West, Inc., Benicia; senior vice president John Nunan, Unger Construction Co., Sacramento; president Gerry DiIoli, Herzog Contracting Corp., Oceanside; vice president Randy Douglas, Tierra Contracting, Inc., Goleta; and immediate past president Bob
The American Society of Safety Engineers has released a film titled �American Society of Safety Engineers � A Century of Safety� (www.asse.org/ASSECenturyofSafety ) that tells the story of work safety and tragedy through the decades and why we are safer today. The ASSE says the film not only tells the story of how and why we are safer at work today, but the genesis of safety in the workplace and the occupational safety, health and environmental profession. It also part of ASSE�s 100th anniversary. ASSE was founded in 1911 in New York City and now has more than 32,000 occupational
Prior to being sworn in as lieutenant governor, Mayor Gavin Newsom earlier this month nominated Vince Courtney of the Northern California District Council of Laborers to serve on the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. Vince Courtney �As the SFPUC continues its work to seismically rebuild our water and wastewater systems and deliver renewable power to San Francisco, Vince Courtney�s valuable experience in workforce training, the building and construction trades and labor negotiations will be tremendous assets to our regional public utility,� says Mayor Newsom. �He is widely respected by business, labor and the community alike and I know he will
San Francisco-based Forell/Elsesser Engineers Inc. was selected by Build Change to assist with the post-earthquake permanent housing reconstruction and technical assistance program in Haiti. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Jan. 12, 2010 Haiti earthquake damaged or destroyed an estimated 285,000 homes, leaving 1.6 million Haitians homeless, or almost 20% of the total population. Building upon its award-winning post-earthquake housing reconstruction programs in Indonesia and China, Build Change is partnering with Habitat for Humanity International and the Development Innovations Group on a U.S. AID�s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance-funded project to provide technical assistance and support to the government of Haiti
Thanks to a $13-million gift from The Otis Booth Foundation, the Natural History Museum (NHM) of Los Angeles County is going forward with a light-filled, three-story entrance pavilion, as designed by Los Angeles-based CO Architects. The new, glass-walled Otis Booth Pavilion will prominently exhibit one of the museum�s signature holdings, a 63-ft-long fin whale skeleton, and will serve as a beacon to greet visitors and Los Angeles denizens alike. �The goal of the Otis Booth Pavilion design is for the north face of the Natural History Museum to be as transparent as possible to visually offer the Museum�s collections to
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