Completed seven months ahead of schedule, the Bay Tunnel Project provides an essential water conduit underneath San Francisco Bay in an environmentally and seismically sensitive area.
Located on the Stanford University campus, the single-story sanctuary completes the lifelong dream of artist Nathan Oliveira, who died in 2010 after teaching at Stanford for three decades.
This adaptive reuse project transformed an existing 29-story office building into an apartment community offering 418 units and many indoor and outdoor amenities in San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood.
In this year’s Best Projects competition, the panel of industry judges rewarded projects that boosted efficiency through new technology and collaborative pre-planning and that provided essential spaces for the community.
A panel of safety experts has chosen the winners of ENR California’s Excellence in Safety award, part of the Best Projects 2015 competition that will be profiled in more depth in the Dec. issue of ENR California, and presented at two awards banquets in early December.
