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“2016 is shaping up as a great year for the South Bay/San Jose construction and development economy,” LaVelle says.

Suspecting that the California High- Speed Rail Authority intentionally misled the state Legislature on costs, state Assembly Republicans are seeking to subpoena state documents on the estimated $68-billion high-speed-rail (HSR) project and set up a special committee to receive sworn testimony from CHSRA officials.

Balfour Beatty Construction promoted Sean Holliday to vice president and business unit leader of its Northern California office in Oakland.

Driven by strong residential growth, “opportunities in commercial construction in the Riverside area are growing rapidly as well,” Gilley says.

California’s first public-private partnership for road construction used a temporary bypass and creative scheduling to speed up replacement of a 70-year-old seismically vulnerable access to San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge.

Contracting firms, propelled by red hot markets in California’s major cities, continued to see revenue climb in 2014.

The founders of Sunnyvale-based Level 10 Construction set some rather ambitious goals for their new company when it debuted in September 2011.

The Bureau of Reclamation and the California Dept. of Water Resources (CWR) offered additional detail to their revised plan to build a $15-billion water conveyance system in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

A crane on a trestle lifts an architectural steel assembly, including a 9-ft-tall cast node, into place along the perimeter of the $4.5-billion Transbay Transit Center, which is taking shape in seismically active San Francisco.