If all goes according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s plan, in 59 hours starting 7 p.m. Friday, July 15, Los Angeles will avoid “Carmageddon.” All of Southern California, it seems, is bracing for the shutdown of a 10-mile section of Interstate 405 so that one of its overpasses, the Mulholland Drive Bridge, can be partially demolished as part of a $1-billion project to upgrade the I-405 between Interstate 10 and U.S. 101.The media-saturated region dubbed the weekend closure “Carmageddon” in reference to the end of Southern California driving as we know it. More than 300,000 vehicles traverse that section of
McCarthy Building Cos. last week oversaw the placement of the final 1,200-lb steel beam atop the new Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center. The topping out ceremony featured KP leaders and employees, city officials and McCarthy executives.The 12-story, 349-bed hospital is scheduled to open in 2014, and will replace the existing hospital across MacArthur Boulevard. The construction is part of the state-mandated earthquake safety retrofit of all California hospitals, known as Senate Bill 1953. NBBJ, San Francisco, serves as the project’s architect.The first of three phases of the project was completed in May 2009 with the opening of the Broadway Medical
Bolstered by a variety of highly successful recent events and initiatives, including a newly launched partnership with The ACE Mentor Program of California, the completion of its largest executive leadership development program to date and several recent and planned construction career awareness events, AGC’s Construction Education Foundation continues to make inroads promoting construction education and building the future workforce in California. Earlier this month, the AGC Foundation held an official kick-off mixer and fundraiser event in downtown Sacramento to celebrate the partnership it has forged with The ACE Mentor Program. Hosted by AGC’s Delta Sierra District, the event featured presentations
A partnership of AGC of California and HILTI North America held two comprehensive statewide seminars June 7 and 8 that provided nearly 150 construction industry professionals and 90 companies with important information and training about the latest regulatory measures, legal climate and potential solutions to jobsite dust control. The seminars in Northern and Southern California are among the most recent in the ongoing series of industry training opportunities offered year round by the AGC on a host of hot button industry issues. In addition to the recent dust control seminars, AGC offerings have included everything from fall protection to developing
San Francisco’s BRIDGE Housing recently opened the doors on two new affordable housing projects in the city and broke ground on yet another in Oakland. Photo courtesy of BRIDGE Housing The total project cost was $92 million and the development cost was $55 million. The project team also included TWM Architects + Planners, architect of record; BAR Architects, design architect; and Cahill Contractors as general contractor.Located within the six-story building, IOA’s senior-services facility includes an Adult Day Health Center, Alzheimer’s Center, therapeutic rehabilitation and primary care clinic, as well as program space for case management, elder suicide prevention, elder abuse
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) awarded the second phase of the Third Street Light Rail project, also called the Central Subway, to Barnard Impregilo Healy joint venture, Bozeman, Mont. The partnership’s bid was $233,584,015, the lowest responsive and responsible bid of six total packages sent to the SFMTA earlier this month. The agency engineer’s estimated cost for the project was $225 million.The other opening bids were submitted by Shea Traylor JV ($257.8 million), Frontier-Kemper/Tutor Perini JV ($296.3 million), Obayashi Corp./Kenny Construction Co. JV ($274.5 million), Judlau + Shimmick JV ($266.8 million) and Dragados USA-Flatiron West JV ($234.8 million).SFMTA
After months of negotiations, the Los Angeles City Council, Los Angeles Harbor Commission and labor leaders joined Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in signing a five-year Project Labor Agreement (PLA) for Port of Los Angeles construction projects beginning this fall. According to port spokesman Phillip Sanfield, the PLA will serve as a blanket agreement between the Harbor Department and the laborers trade unions affiliated with the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council (LIUNA) working on the designated capital improvement projects. The PLA covers 95% of the port’s projected $1.5 billion five-year capital budget. Approximately 20,000 jobs are expected to be
The first phase of the County of San Diego Operations Center project in Kearny Mesa recently received a trio of honors – the “Outstanding Governmental Building of the Year” by the California Center for Sustainable Energy, the “2011 Energy Champion for New Construction” by San Diego Gas & Electric and LEED gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. According to Dan Stewart, RJC Architects’ project manager, phase 1A of the massive project consists of two 150,000-sq-ft, four-story office buildings and a parking structure.RJC says that it teamed with general contractor Lowe Enterprises and Suffolk-Roel Construction Co. on the project
BOWMAN Structure Tone, New York, named Ronald H. Bowman Jr. executive vice president of Structure Tone Mission Critical, a division of the company that provides expertise in the development, implementation and management of critical systems and facilities to clients. Bowman will have global responsibility for the division, which is supported by the firm’s technology management group, ST Tech Services. Prior to joining Structure Tone, Bowman was executive vice president for Tishman Technologies. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Modern Spaces, Long Island City, N.Y., hired Craig Axelrod as executive vice president of project marketing for the firm’s new Modern Spaces
Article toolbar Green hospitals are nothing new in California, but a major medical-center project in northern San Diego County may be going a big step beyond the state’s environmentally friendly norm. Photo courtesy of Palomar Medical Center West Master Plan The 789,290-sq-ft medical complex features an 11-story patient tower and a two-story diagnostic and treatment wing. Team members working on the $956-million Palomar Medical Center West replacement hospital say they are aiming to set a new standard in the design of health-care facilities. The project, now under way, has had some bumps along its path but is scheduled to be
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