McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. has begun construction on 11 new educational buildings at Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, North San Diego County. The one- and two-story education facilities will comprise a total of 99,000 sq ft, and provide new classroom, performing arts, vocational education lab and food service space. Construction of these buildings represents the third and last phase of an overall $86 million renovation of Carlsbad High School that McCarthy began in June 2008. Final completion is slated for mid October 2011. Carlsbad High School is among eight schools within the Carlsbad Unified School District being constructed or modernized
Barnhart Balfour Beatty has announced the completion of the new Concert Hall and Arts Building on the Oceanside campus of MiraCosta College. The buildings are the newest additions to the college�s Creative Arts Complex and will provide performance and teaching spaces for the school�s music department. MiraCosta College Arts Complex Barnhart Balfour Beatty provided construction management services for the Creative Arts expansion, which includes the addition of the 12,000-sq-ft Concert Hall and a new 4,100-sq-ft Arts Building. The 400-seat Concert Hall has been designed specifically for vocal and instrumental performances and features a rehearsal and recital room. The Arts Building
As the recession slogs along, attorneys specializing in construction law continue to see problems in the building industry that go with lean times: payment disputes dissolving into stop orders and mechanic�s liens, squabbles over competitive bids and desperate contractors chasing jobs into unfamiliar territory. It�s all provided no end of work for construction lawyers, who first strive to keep their clients from wading unaware into potential legal quagmires and then fight to pull them out of the muck when they do. VAN DUZER �A lot of these issues are still playing themselves out in the market, but we�re seeing more
Teichert, the Sacramento-based construction, materials, equipment and development company, has been named California Construction�s 2010 Contractor of the Year for its commitment to safety and giving back while working to improve California�s vital infrastructure. Teichert worked on the Yocha Dehe Golf Club project at Cache Creek Resort in Brooks. Teichert has been contracted by Caltrans on a number of I-80 projects. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" �I am honored,� says Jud Riggs, Teichert president, chairman and CEO. Robert Carlsen, managing editor of California Construction, says: �McGraw-Hill Construction�s Regional Publications� Contractor of the Year recognition is our way of honoring
It�s Thursday afternoon. The coffee needs warming; documents, drawings and text books are piled around the office; sticky notes surround the computer; and Gary R. Searer is at his desk studying five unique projects. Gary Searer inspects a building as part of his job as a structural engineer for Wiss, Janey, Elstner Associates. Searer sorts through yet another assignment at his desk in Burbank. �This is a typical day for me,� says Searer, a structural engineer at the Burbank branch of Wiss, Janey, Elstner Associates, Inc. �I don�t just have one big project that I am working on. I am
Jim LaMantia, who describes himself as a former �hothead,� now works to keep the peace on construction sites throughout St. Louis as the executive director of PRIDE of St. Louis Inc., a group representing owners, contractors and the building trades. When LaMantia started in the construction industry in 1968 as an ironworker he says there was a lot of hostility between the unions and management and also between the diff erent unions. �There were jurisdictional fi ghts everywhere,� LaMantia says.PRIDE, founded in 1972 as what is thought to be the first labor-management group in the country, stands for Productivity and
Numerous big highway projects around the state are helping to keep things moving as the construction industry continues to dig out of the recession. And while most of these projects are being funded by traditional tax and bond measures, many are being infused with funds from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. �The impact of the stimulus has been huge,� says Earl Seaverg, Caltrans program manager for the recovery act. �It�s been able to help us fund and move stalled projects to construction that would have otherwise remained on the shelf due to the downturn in the economy.� Caltrans
John Wayne Airport�s massive improvement project � a $543-million effort representing one of the largest public works programs in Orange County history -- is scheduled for completion by December 2011. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Pasadena-based Parsons Corp. is overseeing all three elements of the project, including construction of a 282,000-sq-ft, three-level terminal (Terminal C); construction of a 725,000-sq-ft replacement parking structure (Parking Structure C); and a 14,600-sq-ft central utility plant. The first significant improvement project at the airport in 20 years will help the airport handle a scheduled passenger increase from its present 9 million annually to 10.8
Gov. Rick Perry has reappointed Bill Thornton of San Antonio as chair to the Alamo Regional Mobility Authority for a term to expire Feb. 1, 2012. Thornton received a bachelor’s degree from Trinity University, a doctorate of Dental Surgery from Baylor College of Dentistry, and completed his oral surgery residency at Baylor Medical Center. In addition, Gov. Perry has reappointed David Allex of Harlingen as chair to the Cameron County Regional Mobility Authority for a term to expire Feb. 1, 2012. He received a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University at Kingsville and attended the Institute of Organizational Management at
Last month, San Francisco voters approved Proposition B, a $412-million �Earthquake Safety and Emergency Response� bond that will cover the first phase expense of seismically upgrading a number of neighborhood fire stations and emergency water systems and construct a new public safety building in Mission Bay. This is great news for construction and design firms in the city, since these projects mean ongoing jobs. The Emergency Firefighting Water Supply System, officially called the Auxiliary Water Supply System (AWSS), is an independent high-pressure water supply system dedicatedto fire protection. It was built in 1913 in response to the 1906 Great Earthquake.
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