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Herb Nadel, president and founder of Los Angeles-based Nadel Architects Inc., has put together a new ownership group to help drive his company forward into �a new era.� Current Nadel executives, from left, Patrick Winters, Joan Frei, and Greg Palaski join founder Herb Nadel of Nadel Architects (center) Joining the new ownership team are firm executives Joan Frei, Patrick Winters and Greg Palaski. Nadel will remain the company�s president. Frei joins Nadel�s new ownership team straight from her role as the company�s senior vice president of business development. She joined Nadel in 1999 as the director of business development for

The Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority has opened bids for the Foothill Extension Phase 2A light rail alignment work. Photo: Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority Bids Open for Metro Gold Line Foothill Phase 2A Project The $450-million design-build-finance project will involve final design, construction and financing of 11.5-mi of track, utilities, crossings and systems; six stations and multiple bridges; and a 25+-acre light rail maintenance facility. Phase 2A will extend the Metro Gold Line light rail line from its current terminus in East Pasadena, adding stations in Arcadia, Monrovia, Duarte, Irwindale and Azusa. The Construction Authority

Construction industry organizations applauded President Barack Obama�s proposed $50-billion, six-year surface transportation plan, which was laid out this week. �The president clearly appreciates that the infrastructure-focused portions of the stimulus were effective in boosting employment and helping rebuild America�s aging infrastructure,� says Stephen E. Sandherr, CEO of the Associated General Contractors of America. �And while the most effective sequel to the stimulus is passing a fully-funded, six-year surface transportation bill, countless thousands of construction workers will have a better chance of retaining their jobs thanks to this proposal than they otherwise would once the stimulus runs its course.� Sandherr says

At a workshop in El Monte last week, the California Air Resources Board says it will abandon its original estimates of off-road diesel emissions, conceding that its off-road rule is not needed to meet ambitious goals for the off-road equipment in the construction and certain other industries. According to new estimates that the agency staff developed over the summer, the CARB says off-road fleets of diesel equipment will exceed the state�s emission goals for many years to come, based on the current and near future state of the construction economy. Mike Kennedy, general counsel for the Associated General Contractors of

If Kaiser Permanente’s new Anaheim Medical Center looks familiar, it might be because the facility has twin siblings also under construction in California. Cannon Design of Los Angeles adapted the Kaiser Permanente template to fit the needs of the Anaheim community. The Anaheim facility features a healing garden. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The $500-million facility is a Kaiser template hospital. “A template is our methodology for delivering a project faster so we don’t start from scratch every time,” says Joe Stasney, Kaiser project director. “We have a template base that serves as the foundation for the design of

It would have been easy for Dreyfuss & Blackford, project architects for the $110-million California Independent System Operator headquarters in Folsom, to go big and tall. The new Cal ISO headquarters complex is located in Folsom Dreyfuss & Blackford’s Cal ISO comcept employs clean and modern design elements Related Links: UC Merced poised to add fourth major building on campus Created by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Cal ISO is all about power: It runs the state’s electricity transmission grid. What better way to communicate power than a headquarters with big, monolithic facades and imposing vertical heights? But Gus Fischer,

Students at the fledgling University of California, Merced, will soon have another facility in which to learn and grow – the $47-million Social Sciences and Management Building. STUDIOS Architecture designed the Social Science and Management Building Related Links: Central Valley Market Report Construction on the 101,500-sq-ft building began in September 2008, and when completed in May 2011, it will bring the number of major buildings at the 5-year-old campus to four. The new facility will house the E&J Gallo School of Management and much of the university’s School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts. Sundt Construction of Sacramento was selected

While many housing projects are sitting on the table waiting for the economy to pick up, Mercy Housing California is serving up a buffet of new developments around the state. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" “Things have slowed down the last couple years with the recession, but [work] is coming in and we are fully staffed and I think we will meet our goal this year,” says Rick Sprague, regional director of resource development for the San Francisco-based company, which develops, finances and operates affordable housing for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs. “There were some delays

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners unanimously approved the Environmental Impact Report for the project to replace the aging, 42-year-old Gerald Desmond Bridge at the Port of Long Beach with a new, nearly $1 billion span. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The Port of Long Beach, in partnership with Caltrans, will oversee the project to design and build a higher, wider bridge parallel to and just north of the existing Gerald Desmond Bridge. Once the new bridge is completed and open, the old structure will be taken down. The project will generate an average of 4,000 jobs per