Reno Contracting’s Efficient Sustainable Practices (ESP) division was selected to provide energy and water conservation services to the County of San Diego under its energy and water sustainability program. In conjunction with the County of San Diego Department of General Services, Reno ESP will guide and support the county in its pursuit to lower energy and operational costs, drive down greenhouse gas emissions, as well as reduce water consumption, according to Walt Fegley, president of Reno Contracting, San Diego.Fegley says Reno ESP designed a strategic leadership relationship with Brummitt Energy Associates and Environmental Building Strategies. The wider team of specialty subconsultants
Webcor Builders named Jes Pedersen, the current executive vice president and chief business officer, as the company’s new president and chief executive officer, replacing longtime executive Andy Ball. Pedersen has served for years as a Webcor’s senior executive, who has led the transition of a company working only in the private sector to a now more diverse company with major projects in the public and federal marketplace.“On behalf of all of Webcor, I want to recognize, appreciate and give a special thanks to Andy Ball for all he has done for Webcor,” said Pedersen in a statement. “We are grateful
A team of 66 employees of McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. teamed up with Clark Construction and three subcontractor partners recently to raise over $5,000 for military members and their families in the annual 10-K World Famous Mud Run at the Camp Pendleton Base north of Oceanside. The Clark/McCarthy team captured fourth place out of 293 in the Mixed Division, placed number 14 out of 70 in the Female Division, and ran away with three of the top five spots in the Corporate Division, including a fourth place overall. The Clark/McCarthy team also had the highest number of participants of any
Crews from the Southland Tutor Perini JV met underground recently at the completion of one of four tunnel headings that comprise the New Irvington Tunnel project, a 3.5-mi component of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s $4.6 billion Water System Improvement Program (WSIP) to repair, replace, and seismically upgrade the Hetch Hetchy Water System’s aging pipelines, reservoirs and dams. Related Links: View the 'Hole Through' YouTube Video WSIP includes more than 80 projects spanning seven counties from the Called a “hole-through” in tunneling terminology, the road header teams from the Irvington Portal in Fremont and the Vargas Shaft 4,500 ft away
On the same day the California Department of Transportation used a live public Webinar to defend its safety testing of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge tower foundation, the newspaper that started a safety controversy, The Sacramento Bee, refused Caltrans’ request to retract its most recent story. Related Links: Questions Arise About Builder's Work on Bay Bridge Foundation Caltrans Calls on Newspaper To Retract Critical Bay Bridge Story Caltrans’ acting director Malcolm Dougherty sent a letter June 7 to Joyce Terhaar, executive editor of the Bee, requesting an immediate retraction of a May 27 story (“Records Raise Doubts on Bay
Question: What is “mechanics lien law,” what is it based on and where is it found? Answer: Mechanics lien law is intended to protect those unpaid for improvements to real property against the owner’s unjust enrichment and consists of a series of statutes that provide remedies with regard to payment for improvements to real property. These remedies include lien rights, a right to attach construction funds, a bond remedy and remedies relating to prompt payment. In California, the mechanics lien is a constitutional right, but the statutory right existed even before the constitutional right. Most recently, it was contained in
Facing allegations in a recent Sacramento Bee story that there were serious flaws in foundation testing that threatened the safety and integrity of the new east span of the Bay Bridge, Caltrans director Malcolm Dougherty called on the newspaper to retract the story. Related Links: Records Raise Doubts on Bay Bridge Concrete Caltrans Open to Outside Experts Reviewing New Bay Bridge In a letter to Sacramento Bee executive editor Joyce Terhaar on Friday, June 8, Dougherty outlines the “major flaws” in the May 27 story by reporter Charles Piller and calls on the paper to “set the record straight.” Caltrans
The city of San Diego's controversial Proposition A – a measure to ban the use of project labor agreements (PLAs) in public works projects not linked to federal or state funding – passed easily in Tuesday's election. Related Links: Project Labor Agreements Are At Issue Again in California For the next six months, “nothing will change except city-funded projects will not be subjected to forced PLAs and city contracts will start to be posted online,” says Jim Ryan, executive vice president of Associated General Contractors of San Diego.But on Jan. 1, 2013, state Senate Bill 829, approved by the legislature
Steven J. Riojas has been promoted to director of the science and technology program for HDR Architecture Inc., based in the firm's San Francisco office. A senior vice president with the firm, Riojas' architectural project experience includes programming, site master planning, design, project management, program management and client relations domestically and abroad. He has managed numerous projects that accommodate basic and applied research, development, scale-up and advanced manufacturing for a variety of life and physical sciences-related materials, components, systems, products and processes. Riojas holds a master's degree in architecture and a master's in urban planning from the University of Michigan.
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