An expansive walkway over taxiways is the highlight of the planned new International Arrivals Facility at Sea-Tac International Airport, south of Seattle.
A jury of local architects, engineers, contractors and owners cited achievement in building and infrastructure projects that provided essential services to the California and Hawaii region.
The Claude “Bud” Lewis facility was the first large-scale seawater desalination plant to be built in California, and the largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
For the $2.26-billion Transbay Transit Center in downtown San Francisco, Shimmick Construction coordinated construction up and around a temporary access trestle and four levels of shoring struts and wales.
The $3.7-million project was developed to reduce bacteria levels in the city of Torrance’s Herondo Drain by improving water quality in three stormwater basins.
The dust mitigation project aims to rectify issues created by the draining of Owens Lake in the early 20th century, which created the world’s second-largest source of dust pollution—second only to the Sahara Desert.
The first ground-up bus operations and maintenance facility for Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority in nearly 30 years, this 540,000-sq-ft sustainable facility is designed to optimize Metro’s bus transit service throughout Central Los Angeles and accommodate 200 buses fueled by clean natural gas.