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Despite initial concern that the project might be vulnerable to as much as $1 million in cost overruns, the two-phase, $36.5-million construction program was ultimately completed under budget thanks to innovative value engineering and negotiated change order requests.

The relocated Patsaouras Bus Plaza provides LA Metro’s transit users easier connections to bus lines serving Union Station. By widening both sides of the 30-year-old El Monte Busway Bridge, the project team created a 200-ft-long, 18-ft-wide concrete platform with benches, ticket machines and wayfinding kiosks, all covered by a steel canopy.

A two-year overhaul has transformed two ordinary spec buildings into a showpiece home for a leading Bay Area technology company.

Taking advantage of reduced traffic volumes resulting from statewide pandemic-related closures, the project team and Caltrans partnered to fast-forward this complex deck replacement on a Bay Area artery that typically handles nearly a quarter-million vehicles each day.

Totaling only one-quarter mile in length, the $172-million AirTrain extension significantly enhanced connectivity at San Francisco International Airport.

The $11-million project to raise Hell Hole Dam in Foresthill, Calif., was never going to be easy. Built in 1966, the earth-and-rock embankment dam impounds two rivers to form Hell Hole Reservoir in a rugged, remote location. 

This 160,000-sq-ft structure features four stories of adaptable, creative workspace in the commercially robust and rapidly developing area of Westside LA.

Relying on energy storage as a peak-capacity resource required a new building to safely house a battery energy storage system in Long Beach, Calif.

The key new construction industry product resulted from a two-decade engineering push that culminated with a green manufacturing facility in Willows, Calif., a small town in the heart of the Sacramento Valley.