Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest awarded Clark/McCarthy of Costa Mesa a design-build $394-million Recovery Act funded contract for a new hospital at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. Navy Medicine West is the sponsor for the hospital representing the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. NAVFAC Southwest will manage the largest American Recovery and Reinvestment Act project of 2009 to be awarded in the Department of Navy. �The naval hospital replacement project at Camp Pendleton is one of the largest Recovery Act projects within the Department of Defense and plays a critical role for the support and care for the
The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded LEED gold certification of the new three-story, 50,000-sq-ft Allied Health Education and Training Facility at San Diego Mesa College. McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. served as the construction manager on behalf of the San Diego Community College District. Architects | Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker was the project architect. Completed in August 2009, the new $23-million Allied Health Education and Training Facility is the district�s sixth facility to be LEED certified and the fourth to achieve LEED gold status. Construction was funded by the $1.555 billion Propositions S and N construction bond program, which is
Herb Nadel, president and founder of Los Angeles-based Nadel Architects Inc., has put together a new ownership group to help drive his company forward into �a new era.� Current Nadel executives, from left, Patrick Winters, Joan Frei, and Greg Palaski join founder Herb Nadel of Nadel Architects (center) Joining the new ownership team are firm executives Joan Frei, Patrick Winters and Greg Palaski. Nadel will remain the company�s president. Frei joins Nadel�s new ownership team straight from her role as the company�s senior vice president of business development. She joined Nadel in 1999 as the director of business development for
The Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority has opened bids for the Foothill Extension Phase 2A light rail alignment work. Photo: Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority Bids Open for Metro Gold Line Foothill Phase 2A Project The $450-million design-build-finance project will involve final design, construction and financing of 11.5-mi of track, utilities, crossings and systems; six stations and multiple bridges; and a 25+-acre light rail maintenance facility. Phase 2A will extend the Metro Gold Line light rail line from its current terminus in East Pasadena, adding stations in Arcadia, Monrovia, Duarte, Irwindale and Azusa. The Construction Authority
Construction industry organizations applauded President Barack Obama�s proposed $50-billion, six-year surface transportation plan, which was laid out this week. �The president clearly appreciates that the infrastructure-focused portions of the stimulus were effective in boosting employment and helping rebuild America�s aging infrastructure,� says Stephen E. Sandherr, CEO of the Associated General Contractors of America. �And while the most effective sequel to the stimulus is passing a fully-funded, six-year surface transportation bill, countless thousands of construction workers will have a better chance of retaining their jobs thanks to this proposal than they otherwise would once the stimulus runs its course.� Sandherr says
At a workshop in El Monte last week, the California Air Resources Board says it will abandon its original estimates of off-road diesel emissions, conceding that its off-road rule is not needed to meet ambitious goals for the off-road equipment in the construction and certain other industries. According to new estimates that the agency staff developed over the summer, the CARB says off-road fleets of diesel equipment will exceed the state�s emission goals for many years to come, based on the current and near future state of the construction economy. Mike Kennedy, general counsel for the Associated General Contractors of
If Kaiser Permanente’s new Anaheim Medical Center looks familiar, it might be because the facility has twin siblings also under construction in California. Cannon Design of Los Angeles adapted the Kaiser Permanente template to fit the needs of the Anaheim community. The Anaheim facility features a healing garden. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The $500-million facility is a Kaiser template hospital. “A template is our methodology for delivering a project faster so we don’t start from scratch every time,” says Joe Stasney, Kaiser project director. “We have a template base that serves as the foundation for the design of
It would have been easy for Dreyfuss & Blackford, project architects for the $110-million California Independent System Operator headquarters in Folsom, to go big and tall. The new Cal ISO headquarters complex is located in Folsom Dreyfuss & Blackford’s Cal ISO comcept employs clean and modern design elements Related Links: UC Merced poised to add fourth major building on campus Created by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Cal ISO is all about power: It runs the state’s electricity transmission grid. What better way to communicate power than a headquarters with big, monolithic facades and imposing vertical heights? But Gus Fischer,
When asked how his company continues to excel while so many other design firms wither during the recession, Phil Petrocelli points to a project that AECOM Technology Corp. recently worked on in the Southern California desert.
Students at the fledgling University of California, Merced, will soon have another facility in which to learn and grow – the $47-million Social Sciences and Management Building. STUDIOS Architecture designed the Social Science and Management Building Related Links: Central Valley Market Report Construction on the 101,500-sq-ft building began in September 2008, and when completed in May 2011, it will bring the number of major buildings at the 5-year-old campus to four. The new facility will house the E&J Gallo School of Management and much of the university’s School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts. Sundt Construction of Sacramento was selected
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