Swinerton Builders recently completed the new toll operations building at the Bay Bridge for Caltrans’ Bay Area Toll Authority. Photo courtesy of Swinerton Builders The new Toll Operations Building at the Bay Bridge. The 22,000-sq-ft, steel-framed, two-story building is comprised of concrete on metal deck with pile foundations. The exterior features white metal panels and glass curtain wall, with a glass hand-railed walkway to the main entrance.The new toll operations building will continue to provide Caltrans administration, toll collection, and electronic monitoring of the toll operations, each of which required specially designed and constructed fire suppression, communication, and security systems.
Bomel Construction Co., Anaheim, and International Parking Design, Sherman Oaks, recently completed construction on a 1,200-stall, 500,000-sq-ft parking structure complex that serves the Thornton Hospital Cardiovascular Center at UC San Diego’s East Campus in La Jolla. Photo courtesy of Bomel Construction The new parking structure/soccer field at UCSD. The Bomel-IPD team developed a plan to build two adjoining structures, instead of the owner’s original plan to erect one, and overcame an assortment of pesky construction challenges to complete the $24 million project on time and within budget.The project’s pre-existing conditions included a sloping canyon site, unforgiving soil, a proposed adjacent
The Corrections Standards Authority of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has awarded $602 million to 11 counties for the expansion or construction of county jails. The award is in adherence to Gov. Jerry Brown’s public safety realignment program, which, as Assembly Bill 109 passed and signed last April, seeks to keep lower-level offenders and parole violators from revolving through the state prison system and places them in local facilities. County facilities that need to increase jail capacity were required to apply for the funds. Los Angeles, Riverside and Orange counties were awarded $100 million each. Stanislaus will receive $80
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority will receive a $900-million grant commitment from the Federal Transit Administration for the BART Silicon Valley Berryessa Extension Project. Related Links: BART Silicon Valley Extension Project Gets Final Approval FTA Deputy Administrator Therese W. McMillan presented the $900-million Full Funding Grant Agreement at a ceremony at San Jose City Hall Monday, along with the first $100-million allocation. The FFGA is a multi-year contractual agreement that formally defines the project scope, cost and schedule, and establishes the terms of the federal financial assistance.The VTA says the execution of the FFGA is the final step before construction
Caltrans this week started construction on the replacement of the Paramount Boulevard bridge in Montebello, which was demolished by a fuel tanker truck fire Dec. 14. Related Links: Flatiron Contracted for Emergency Freeway Overpass Project in LA The $40-million project is funded by the Federal Highway Administration Emergency Relief Program to cover initial clean-up, demolition and construction.The construction has been placed on an expedited schedule to complete the work by summer, according to Caltrans. Ortiz Enterprises Inc., Irvine, is the general contractor.After the fire, State Route 60 was closed from the Long Beach Freeway (Interstate 710) to the San Gabriel
The design-build team of Pinner Construction Co. and gkkworks recently started work on the Los Angeles Unified School District’s first design-build project in its 51-year history. Photo courtesy of Pinner/gkkworks Demolition work at Dorsey High. Image courtesy of gkkworks gkkworks' vision of the Dorsey High School redevelopment The $28-million Dorsey High School redevelopment project also received an unprecedented quick approval by the Division of the State Architect. After submitting the construction documents, Pinner, Anaheim, and gkkworks, Pasadena, got an OK after just seven months. “Normally, it takes nine to 12 months to get these projects approved,” said gkkworks principal Vincent
The Sacramento City Council voted 7-2 to approve the Sacramento Kings arena financing plan term sheet recently hammered out by Mayor Kevin Johnson, the owners (the Maloof family) and the National Basketball Association, paving the way for construction to possibly begin this year. Photo courtesy of AEG Financing has been approved for the Railyards arena project. According to the city council, the term sheet provides a framework for how the city will develop the $391-million Entertainment and Sports Complex at the Railyards site in conjunction with the Sacramento Kings, Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) and the ICON-Taylor group. The city will
AGC of California has announced the selection of 19 projects as finalists in the 25th Annual Constructor Awards program. AGC received 40 Constructor Awards entries this year – the highest number of entries received in a single year since the awards program began. All winners will be announced at the AGC Awards Banquet on April 14 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. One winner will be named in each of seven Constructor Awards categories.Also to be honored at the banquet will be AGC of California’s 2012 Achievement Awards recipients. They include: Contractor Achievement Award winner Marshall Agee, Agee Construction
California needs an additional annual infrastructure investment of $65 billion to bring its aging systems up to date, according to conclusion of the California Infrastructure Report Card 2012 released this week by Region 9 of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). ASCE, which was supported in the effort by the American Public Works Association, University of California, Irvine Civil & Environmental Engineering Affiliates and the American Council of Engineering Cos., gave the state an overall grade of "C." This is the second report of its kind for California. The first report card was issued in 2006 and gave the
Having recently been awarded a high-profile project in Redwood City, 93-year-old venerable Southern California construction firm C.W. Driver has opened an office in the Northern California city of San Mateo on the San Francisco Peninsula. Mike Castillo, previously vice president of operations and a 25-year veteran of Rudolph and Sletten, was hired as senior vice president for the region.C.W. Driver said Castillo will oversee new projects in the areas of education, health care/biomedical, public sector, military contracting, entertainment, retail, corporate and hospitality.C.W. Driver was recently named general contractor for a project at the PDI/DreamWorks Animation Northern California facility in Redwood
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