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
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
Specialty contractors are as different as their niches, but most agree the market has to get a lot better before they’re healthy again. ASAC President Santo Pernicano’s firm, Area-West Fence, is working on the San Vicente Dam project in Lakeside with Kiewit Pacific. No. 32 Clark Pacific supplied the concrete work on Mineta San Jose Airport’s car rental facility. Related Links: 2010 Top Specialty Contractors List Top Specialty Breakdown and Methodology List “One might argue that this is one of the steepest [construction] declines in my generation,” says Tony Guzzi, CEO of Norwalk, Conn.-based EMCOR Group, Inc. Guzzi, whose global
It was a tough decision but when the dust settled and the hammering stopped, the Army Corps of Engineers was selected 2010 Owner of the Year by editors and contributors of California Construction Magazine. Folsom Dam’s auxiliary spillway project is the recipient of nearly $1 billion in federal funds Equipment at the Folsom Lake project site div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" “Winning this award is great and not because the corps is a winner, but because the taxpayer is the winner.” says Dr. Christine Altendorf, director of programs for South Pacific Division of Army Corps of Engineers. USACE/South Pacific
The Guy West Bridge at California State University-Sacramento will close for five weeks beginning July 18, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District begins construction on a $3.2 million levee improvement project on the American River. �We�re going back and fixing gaps in the levee system that were not addressed in earlier construction,� says John Hoge, Corps project manager. Hoge says when the bridge opened in 1967, the Corps had a contract to construct approximately 20 miles of cutoff wall along the north and south banks of the American River, but the contract did not include dealing with
Shovels, hammers or hard hats were nowhere in sight. Instead, hair curlers, buttons and paper clips were used to construct future train stations for California’s new proposed high-speed rail. Held in Downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, July 17, the “groundbreaking” was part of an interactive community design forum to engage the public on high-speed rail. The event was hosted by railLA, an organization comprised of the Los Angeles Chapters of the American Institute of Architects (AIA/LA) and the American Planning Association (APA-LA), created to raise public awareness about the future of high-speed rail. “We are doing these workshops to get
It was a tough decision but when the dust settled and the hammering stopped, the Army Corps of Engineers was selected 2010 Owner of the Year by editors and contributors of California Construction Magazine. Christine Altendorf Larry Smith �Winning this award is great and not because the Corps is a winner, but because the taxpayer is the winner.� says Dr. Christine Altendorf, director of programs for South Pacific Division of Army Corps of Engineers. USACE/South Pacific Division was chosen by the editorial staff and contributing editors of California Construction magazine based on criteria including maintaining a robust pipeline containing high-profile
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
Crews are readying their wet suits as the first segment of the $890 million Warm Springs Bay Area Rapid Transit extension project prepares to cut through an aquifer at Fremont Central Park in the city of Fremont, on the southeast side of the San Francisco Bay. Slide Show Photo: put photo credit here photo caption here Related Links: Link here Donec at augue a enim venenatis fringilla. Sed sollicitudin velit nec sapien. Duis libero nulla, sagittis placerat, hendrerit sit amet, mollis non, metus. Praesent mauris ipsum, placerat ut, commodo a, mollis sed, nisl. Aliquam fermentum sem. Ut venenatis purus vitae
The construction market is a tricky thing, especially in the current economy. But a look inside California Construction Magazine’s annual list of the Top Project Starts for 2010 can reveal some exciting and interesting insights into work going on across the state. McCarthy Building Cos. and HMC Architects are working on the Kaiser Permanente Fontana replacement hospital project. The new Temecula Civic Center is being built by Edge Construction. Related Links: California Construction 2010 Top Project Starts “The market right now is generally very mixed,” says David Hobstetter, principal with San Francisco-based KMD Architects. “The housing and commercial office markets
