Submitted by Rudolph and Sletten The new 488,000-sq-ft, $360-million El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, which replaces the 49-year-old original, followed a number of guiding principles throughout the designing, planning and construction to maintain focus on building a community hospital of the future. The new building accommodates 223 licensed beds – 85% private – and an emergency room/department holding an additional 36 beds. The building also includes a 10-bed observation unit, a conference center, 16 operating/interventional treatment rooms, a multi-track emergency department and flexible nursing modules with 28 critical care and 180 acuity adaptable beds. Design for El Camino Hospital
Submitted by Griffin Enright Architects St. Thomas is a K-8 catholic grade school in a densely populated part of Los Angeles on an extremely small site. The $13-million project consisted of a new playground stacked over parking, new driveway and new gym/multi-purpose room, library and art room. The new driveway wraps around the perimeter of the site simultaneously providing a fire lane, a buffer for the school community, and diffusing local traffic congestion by providing a new onsite drop-off. The new building is located on the west side of the site to both provide shade for the aftercare program on
Submitted by FTR International The $37-million Health, PE and Fitness Center at Los Angeles Mission College is a product of great design and efficient construction methodology. Of significance in recent times is the emergence of activity/fitness center as a gathering place for social interaction with the intent to enhance the overall experience of the students and users. The new two-story, 90,000-sq-ft facility presents exceptional features that include a three-court multi-functional gymnasium, a state-of-the-art fitness room full with technologically advanced equipment and three dance/training rooms complete with wood floor and full height wall mirrors that all the community will benefit from
Submitted by Robert A. Bothman Inc. The project included the installation of a new synthetic turf field with an all-weather track at a San Francisco high school near Fisherman’s Wharf, and included concrete, athletic equipment, irrigation, storm drainage and electrical. The site was very tight and compact because it was in downtown San Francisco, so no more than one or two trucks could be there at a time. There were issues with storage and general construction because of the tight space due to existing retaining walls that could not be removed. All the poles and structures around the site had
Submitted by C.C. Myers Inc. The $141.5-million San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Detour Tie-In Roll-Out/Roll-In project involved the replacement of a portion of the truss on the bridge. A 300-ft, 3,300-ton, double-deck section of the East Span was cut and removed then replaced with a seismically upgraded 3,600-ton replacement structure. Executing the movement of two sections of bridge 150 ft in the air, at a combined weight of nearly 7,000 tons, embodies a very unique and complex heavy-engineering undertaking. Part of a long-planned seismic upgrade by the California Department of Transportation, this massive retrofit project was performed to create a .5-mi
Submitted by KPRS Construction Services The new $45-million Beckman Coulter headquarters in Brea features innovative design solutions to typical office configurations. Since Beckman Coulter Inc. is a leading developer and manufacturer of complex biomedical testing systems that relies on innovation and collaboration to remain competitive in the marketplace, the project architect Gensler focused on promoting team collaboration through an open floor-plan layout. The pHitness center, open Lemontree Café and the Living Room comprise the Town Center at the center of the Beckman Coulter campus. These distinct features promote wellness and innovation in an open outdoor layout, bringing employees together to
This year, a panel of 13 judges, representing architects, builders and associations, chose 51 winning projects among the more than 135 submissions for the Best of California 2010 program. The Orange County Water District Advanced Water Quality Laboratory in Fountain Valley was the Overall Top Project in Southern California. Related Links: Northern California Winners Southern California Winners The jury awarded points to construction submissions based on a number of criteria, including overcoming challenges and teamwork, safety, innovation and contribution to the industry/community, construction quality and craftsmanship, and function and aesthetic/quality of the design. This year’s lineup of winning projects are
Submitted by Carrier Johnson + CULTUREComposed primarily of glass and metal, the south-wing addition to the $51-million Cal State Dominguez Hills Leo F. Cain Education Center is a five-story, state-of-the-art library facility whose monumental scale is attenuated by a simple yet elegant design inspired by transparency and luminosity – traditional metaphors for learning, inspiration and progress. The new 140,000-sq-ft addition provides the much-needed space to house the educational and cultural resources for the growing campus and surrounding community, including access to the university’s entire collection of books and research materials (currently at over half a million volumes), comfortable study areas,
Submitted by Bomel Construction This $20-million parking structure with an architectural cast-in-place staircase is the second design-build parking structure project the Bomel/IPD team has successfully completed on the campus in the last five years. Some of the major challenges of the project included the relocation of Folino Drive, which is a major traffic artery through the campus, to wrap around the south and east sides of the structure in order to mitigate congestion during construction. LED lighting was also utilized for reduced energy usage and the structure was designed with the intent of installing photovoltaic panels on the roof deck
Submitted by Swinerton Builders Building 24 is an 8,800-sq-ft single-story wood- and steel-framed building with a 1,700-sq-ft mezzanine located at the Chevron Richmond Technology Center in Richmond. It was originally built in the early 1980s as a lab facility and was converted into office and warehouse space in the 1990s. In 2008, Chevron identified the need for an Operations Control Center (OCC) at the RTC to support complex research units across the campus. Building 24 houses the OCC along with office space, training and conference facilities, a server room and break room for 24-7 operation. Many challenges were encountered during
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