It was a tough decision but when the dust settled and the hammering stopped, the Army Corps of Engineers was selected 2010 Owner of the Year by editors and contributors of California Construction Magazine. Folsom Dam’s auxiliary spillway project is the recipient of nearly $1 billion in federal funds Equipment at the Folsom Lake project site div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" “Winning this award is great and not because the corps is a winner, but because the taxpayer is the winner.” says Dr. Christine Altendorf, director of programs for South Pacific Division of Army Corps of Engineers. USACE/South Pacific
Workers are closing in on completing five major school projects across Los Angeles. The work is part of Los Angeles Unified School District’s $20-billion school construction and modernization bond program, a herculean effort in which district officials seek to remedy three decades of under-construction by building 131 new schools and completing 20,000 modernization projects by 2012. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" “During those 30 years, the population of L.A. grew – some areas faster than others,” says Neil Gamble, director of facilities construction for LAUSD. “To handle school overcrowding, we implemented forced busing, sending students from overburdened schools to
Swinerton Builders and Sausal Corp. broke ground on two San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge toll plaza projects this month that will result in a new 22,600-sq-ft toll administration building in the parking lot directly east of the existing toll administration facility and a new 10,600-sq-ft structure to house Caltrans’ Bay Bridge tow services operations. Swinerton, Sausal break ground on Bay Bridge Toll Plaza projects div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Swinerton’s bid to construct the new toll administration building was $13.7 million, with completion slated for late 2012. HNTB is the project designer. Because the new building is a toll-related facility,
As David Kalb, our Wednesday question-and-answer columnist for the Daily Pacific Builder delves into contractor licensing issues, we always find satisfaction knowing there is someone in Sacramento who knows what to do no matter what the problem. But recently, Kalb, who is president of Capitol Services Inc., found a subject that is definitely sensitive to all California contractor firms and has an overall solution that is going to be extremely difficult to get to. Here’s part of his column: Who is and who isn’t a “real” American citizen is one of the top issues of our day. As a nation
The Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (CRSI) of Schaumburg, Ill., recently announced a new chairman and the addition of eight new members to its Board of Directors at its annual conference in Naples, Fla. John P. Simmet, president and CEO of Simcote Inc., St. Paul, Minn., was elected as the new chairman of CRSI. The new Midwest regional representative director is Robert Shuhert, Ambassador Steel, Auburn, Ind. The new Midwest at-large directors include Louis Colarusso, ERICO, Solon, Ohio;Keith LePage, Whitacre Engineering, Canton, Ohio; and Timothy Thomas, American Steel Fab, Pevely, Mo. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" HONORS Don Oglesby, senior
The Mineta San Jose International Airport recently unveiled its renovation/expansion of Terminal A, a new Terminal B and a 3,000-space consolidated rental car facility, designed by Fentress Architects and constructed by Hensel Phelps Construction Co. Project principals include Hensel Phelps and Fentress Architects SJC now operates 28 gates for its 13 airlines, with an annual capacity of 14.4 million passengers. The $660-million design-build project components include system modernizations and aesthetic upgrades to Terminal A, a new Terminal B to replace Terminal C, and airport roadway and parking improvements, including a new consolidated rental car facility known as ConRAC. The seven-deck,
The biggest beneficiary of the largest federal stimulus project by the U.S. Dept. of the Interior is a fish. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Two fish, actually – green sturgeon and Chinook salmon, the migratory habits of which are at the center of a $230-million Fish Passage Improvement Project at the Red Bluff Diversion Dam in Red Bluff, south of Redding. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ruled last year that the dam’s gates threaten the long-term survival of the fish, and so the government is shelling out more than a quarter-billion dollars to lend the creatures’ spawning rituals
Turner Construction Co. recently completed 13,000 sq ft of office tenant improvements for Hearst RealAge. Turner completes tenant improvement project div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Headquartered in San Diego, Hearst RealAge’s tenant improvements included office space, multiple conference rooms, a reception area, a kitchen, and an exercise room. Glass partitions intermixed with level-four finish walls provided linear definition in the space. The project’s challenges included working in an occupied Class A office building, an aggressive schedule, radius soffits, and glass walls. The project’s architect was Gensler, and subcontractors included Brady Co., SASS Electric, Control Air, Spooners Woodworks, Howards Rug,
Klamath Community College has begun fast track construction of three buildings that will double the size of the 57-acre campus. Klamath Community College Health Sciences Building, Klamath Falls, Ore. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" A 16,000-sq-ft career technology center is scheduled for completion by fall 2010. The other two structures, a health sciences building and the 10,000-volume, 3,500-sq-ft Klamath County branch library will be completed in winter 2011. Total construction cost is $11 million. Reflecting the distinctive Klamath Basin setting, the structures are sited on six acres of former farmland and will create a pedestrian connection to the existing
The Seattle office of Skanska USA has secured a $114.6-million contract from the WDOT to construct the replacement of the SR 99 Viaduct from South Holgate St. to South King St. in downtown Seattle. The scope of work will replace the southern mile of the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a new side-by-side roadway that meets current earthquake standards, has wider lanes and improves mobility for people and goods south of downtown. The existing seismically vulnerable structure carries thousands of vehicles to and from downtown Seattle, two major stadiums and the Port of Seattle each day. Additionally, the resulting structure will
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