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With a $15-billion portfolio of projects from LA Metro alone, California is brimming with construction opportunities.

Building Construction Spending Is on Track to Drop This Year While Non-Building Strengthens

California judges say lower court erred in subway contract breach decision and $93M award to LA transit agency

With a new leader, a $4.5-billion capital program and now a green light to pursue a major rail support facility, the Port of Long Beach is rebounding from a major tenant’s bankruptcy and looking to fulfill a zero-emissions goal.

In aspiring to create the first structure in California to meet the Living Building Challenge—and become one of only a handful of such projects around the globe—the team behind the Sacramento offices for Architectural Nexus confronted a steep learning curve. 

Tasked with building a high-security, blast-resistant structure on a steep slope, the design-builders of Los Angeles’ U.S. Courthouse had nowhere to go but up. 

Any preconceived notions about what the American AgCredit Agriculture Center and Headquarters might look like are immediately upended when the Santa Rosa, Calif., building comes into view. 

The design-build Terminal Island Water Reclamation Plant expansion project, featuring high-tech water-purifying treatments, was a study in complexity. 

All ended well this month, with the opening of San Francisco’s tallest landmark.