FKP Architects’ senior associate and project designer, Mezio S. Zangirolami, AIA, LEED AP, was recently named among the Houston Business Journal’s 2010 “40 Under 40” honorees. The annual awards program identifies 40 leaders on the rise who excel in their industries, are respected business leaders and show leadership in their communities. Zangirolami graduated from the University of Houston with a bachelor’s degree in architecture. TEXO, the combined chapter of the North/East Texas Chapter of the Associated General Contractors and the Associated Builders and Contractors North Texas, named Hank Mouser of Balfour Beatty Construction, its 2010 Safety Professional of the Year.
The Burbank City Council has approved development applications submitted by the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority for construction of a $120-million Regional Intermodal Transportation Center (RITC) and associated improvements at Bob Hope Airport. The authority says it intends to put the project out to bid in late winter/early spring 2011. Airport spokesman Victor Gill says the authority has already contracted gkkworks to provide program management services for the RITC, and the Los Angeles firm of Anil Verma Associates is providing construction design services. Completion of the project is expected by December 2012. The RITC will allow air, rail, bus, and rental car
A design/build team led by San Carlos-based Gonsalves & Stronck Construction recently completed a historical rehabilitation to one of Woodside’s oldest and most significant equestrian properties. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The Folger Estate Stable, together with the other buildings that formed the grand country estate of the coffee magnate James A. Folger II, was designed in 1905 by Arthur Brown Jr., famous for later work including San Francisco City Hall, Coit Tower and other California landmarks. Even in this youthful work, Brown’s Beaux-Arts training and personal genius is clearly evident in a design that draws upon 17th-century French
RJC Architects reports the completion of the $54.5 million Marine Corps Special Operations Command (MARSOC) headquarters at Camp Pendleton. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" RJC Architects, in partnership with RQ Construction Co. of Carlsbad, designed and built a 89,000-sq-ft headquarters building and a 21,000-sq-ft academic instruction building at the 33-acre MARSOC complex located within the 125,000-acre Marine base in north San Diego County. The new headquarters building includes command offices, auditorium, medical department and a secure compartmentalized information facility.
The State Allocation Board reports that it has allocated $408 million for shovel-ready school construction projects across the state. These state matching funds will help finance 78 school construction projects within 42 school districts and are expected to create more than 7,000 new jobs. �Today�s action by the board moves these 42 districts to the head of the line and gets them the funding they need to start construction on vital education facilities,� says SAB Chair Cynthia Bryant. �New construction activity spurs job creation and gives our economy the boost it needs to get back on track.� The funding was
Urban Housing Communities LLC reports that construction has begun at The Crossings at Big Bear Lake, a 42-unit affordable housing community developed in collaboration with the city of Big Bear Lake�s Improvement Agency and Bank of America. Upon completion next summer, the $17-million community will offer healthy, supportive and eco-friendly apartment homes to local working families earning between 30 percent and 60 percent of San Bernardino County median income. Architecture and planning firm KTGY Group, Inc. of Irvine is the architect on the project and Irvine-based SL Residential is the general contractor. The Crossings at Big Bear Lake will offer
The San Francisco Bay Area city of Fairfield reports that it has closed its bond financing for the Frank-Lin Distillers Products Ltd. construction project. The city worked through the California Enterprise Development Authority (CEDA) to issue a $22-million, tax-exempt Recovery Zone Facility Bond. Proceeds of this bond were used to finance the construction of a $34-million, 288,000-sq-ft building on 15 acres in the Tolenas Industrial Park. Frank-Lin was the first completed Recovery Zone Facility Bond project in California to go through the state reallocation process. San Jose Construction is the general contractor on the project. The engineering firm is Kier
The Nevada Department of Transportation has retained CH2M HILL to lead the development of a system master plan for the Interstate 15 corridor and its systemic connectors between Southern California and Northern Utah. Working with the I-15 Mobility Alliance comprised of Nevada, California, Arizona and Utah, in addition to project partners in Colorado representing other multimodal systemic connectors to I-15, CH2M HILL will assist in defining a long-range multimodal transportation system vision, governance, funding strategies and project prioritization needed to serve all modes of transportation along the corridor. The Englewood, Colo.-based engineering, consulting, construction and operations firm says this vision
McCarthy Building Cos. topped out structural steel on the new Terminal C at John Wayne/Orange County Airport when construction workers from W&W Steel Co. lifted and secured the final steel beam to the top of the structure. Over the last four months, construction workers used a 350-ton crawler crane to install 2,400 pieces of structural steel for the new terminal. Serving as the general contractor for the project, McCarthy is building a new 280,000-sq-ft, three-level terminal with six bridged aircraft gates at the airport. The new terminal is being built just south of the existing terminal complex. Once completed, John
Community Conservation Solutions has honored the South Los Angeles Wetland Park as the Green Solution Project of the Year. Green Solution Projects focus on solving critical water quality problems while restoring paved, urbanized areas to green open space. The wetland park project, currently under construction, is transforming a nine-acre former rail transit yard into a public green park space. The wetland will serve to capture and treat urban runoff from the 525-acre surrounding watershed. At the same time, precious green open space and a nature experience will be added to South Los Angeles. Psomas is the prime consultant for the
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