Articles Tagged with ''ENR 2024 California Best Projects''

Since its initial construction in 1912, the historic Capitol Park Hotel has served a variety of roles, from women’s college to furniture store and most recently as temporary housing for the homeless before closing down in 2020.

Sonoma Academy’s new professional-grade performing arts facility spans more than 27,000 sq ft. The structure will support the high school’s robust theater activities as well as music and film programs.

The 300-ft-tall commercial office high-rise 200 Park in San Jose, Calif., is just the second tower built with the SpeedCore concrete-filled composite steel plate shear wall core system. The result is the Northern California 2024 Project of the Year.

The 2024 ENR California’s Best Projects competition honors an array of projects boasting dynamic and innovative design and construction methods.

A grand opening in December 2023 marked the completion of this $22-million design-build, multiphase project that expanded and replaced an outdated pool facility with a 25,800-sq-ft recreation and aquatic center.

Constructed on a 20-acre site, this $219.5-million state-of-the-art wastewater treatment facility treats between 8-10 million gallons of water per day.

To significantly improve air quality and reduce odor emissions at the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, crews replaced outdated odor control equipment with advanced technologies, specifically four biotrickling filters (BTFs) and eight carbon scrubbers to effectively remove hydrogen sulfide and foul-smelling gasses from the influent sewer and headworks areas.

Completed in January 2024, this complex renovation included significant updates to the W Hotel’s main lobby, reception area, restaurant, ballroom, meeting rooms, banquet kitchen and exterior courtyard. The project team also completed an extension of the main grand stair structure.

Once home to the Oprah Winfrey Network, this 40,000-sq-ft West Hollywood office building now belongs to Hartbeat, the media company owned by Kevin Hart.

Spanning 25 acres in North Hollywood, a mixed-use development is breathing new life into what was a struggling shopping center, artfully transforming the space into contemporary apartments.