Tamara Clarke has joined HOK's San Francisco office as senior project manager. Clarke has 25 years of experience in justice-sector projects, most recently as DLR Group justice and civic principal in Phoenix. Related Links: Upload New Hires & Promotions to ENR California's People Gallery Read Other Recent Updates About Construction Professionals Beverly Prior PRIORwas appointed president of Los Angeles-based HMC Architects, where she will lead the expansion, strategy and development of the 330-person firm. Prior has more than 30 years of industry experience. She was president of Beverly Prior Architects for 25 years until 2011, when the firm merged with
California's top contractors experienced a robust 2012 and anticipate an even stronger 2013, according to an annual survey conducted by McGraw Hill Research & Analytics and ENR California.
Aimed at preventing rail disasters like the one that killed 79 people in Spain last month, Los Angeles commuter-rail operator Metrolink is installing a sophisticated control system along its 512 miles of track. Image Courtesy of Parsons Installation of positive train control technology on Metrolink trains will help prevent collisions and over-speed accidents. Related Links: American Companies Adopt Swiss Hardware for Railroad Surveying FRA Issues High-Speed Rail Guidelines The $210.9-million project involves a network of software, signal network updates and communications towers—known as positive train control (PTC)—that will interoperate with similar systems overlayed onto freight-railroad networks operated by United Pacific,
A plan to expand and upgrade Southern California's congested state Route 91 has received a $421-million federal Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan. The U.S. Dept. of Transportation's July 3 loan announcement means construction on the $1.3-billion design-build project in Riverside County can begin by the end of 2013. Related Links: States Gear Up to Seek Expanded TIFIA Loan Aid "This project is going to make Riverside County more accessible and more attractive to potential employers and businesses once it's completed," says John Standiford, deputy executive director of the Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC), which applied for the
The San Francisco Bay Bridge will not open on time because of the ongoing effort to fix broken shear bolt rods. California lawmakers, meanwhile, vow to hold accountable those responsible for the delay to replace the seismically deficient current bridge. Image courtesy of Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee A saddle retrofit will replace the lost clamping force from the failed rods that are embedded in the pier cap. Image courtesy of Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee Locations for defective bolts, along with over 2,200 other bolts that will be either replaced after bridge completion or monitored over time, are shown
California’s largest dam removal project ever will take advantage of the area’s unique topography to allow builders to permanently divert the Carmel River into a new channel. Photo courtesy California American Water The San Clemente Dam was built in 1921. Image courtesy California American Water Crews will divert the river and leave the accumulated sediment in place. Related Links: Elwha River Restoration Project Involves Largest Dam Removal Effort in U.S. History As Funds Line Up, a Tall Dam In California Will Come Down Built in 1921 about 18.5 miles upstream of the Pacific Ocean in Monterey County, the 106-ft-tall San
For the second straight year, the Construction Management (CM) program at Sacramento State is reporting that 100% of its graduating class has secured a job. This means that since the May 25 commencement ceremony, all 32 graduates - 29 men and three women - have traded in their tassels for hard hats. Photo courtesy of Sacramento State/Randy Allen Some of the successful graduates of the Sacramento State Construction Management program. Related Links: ENR California "We pride ourselves on the ability to provide a practically orientated education in our undergraduate Construction Management program," says Mikael Anderson, chair of the Department of Construction
The new $110-million Life Sciences building at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles is designed with an array of state-of-the-art learning equipment inside. But when complete in two years, the three-story project will also dazzle with a unique and complex exterior. Image courtesy of CO Architects/C.W. Driver The building skin is made up of cement and metal panels, unitized glazing, stick-framed glazing, point-supported structural glass walls and a green roof system. Related Links: Read Other ENR California Project Stories First Net-Zero Bio Lab Nearing the Finish Line "The greatest challenge on the LMU-Life Science Building is the design, coordination
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) is investigating the death last week of an elevator mechanic at the $1.3-billion Levi’s Stadium, being built for the San Francisco 49ers in Santa Clara County. Donald White, 63, had been working on a ladder at the bottom of an elevator shaft in the early morning of June 11, when he was struck by an elevator counterweight and killed. White had been employed as an elevator mechanic for the past several years by Schindler Elevator Corp. of Morristown, N.J., according to a statement released by the subcontractor on the stadium project.
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