AGC of California held its first division and state board of directors meetings of 2012 recently at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Sacramento, followed by the Installation of Officers’ banquet. Photo by Carol Eaton AGC of California's 2012 officers installed include, from left, Immediate Past President Gerry DiIoli, Herzog Contracting Corp., Oceanside; Treasurer Jon Ball, Hensel Phelps Construction Co., San Jose; Vice President Curt Weltz, Flatiron West, Inc., Benicia; President John Nunan, Unger Construction Co., Sacramento; Senior Vice President Randy Douglas, Tierra Contracting, Inc., Goleta; and AGC of California CEO Tom Holsman. AGC’s state board covered a wide range of
Gruen Associates Architects, Turner Construction and KPFF Consulting Engineers lead the list of Spotlight Award winners to be honored at the gala event on Feb. 23 at the California Club in Los Angeles. The ACE Mentor program for the Los Angeles and Orange County metro area will highlight the decade-long volunteer work of these three firms on behalf of inner-city high school students.Individual mentors to be honored include Donald Barker, architect, formerly with Richard Meier Architects, mentoring in Pasadena high schools; Matt Barnard, structural engineer with Degenkolb Engineers, who helped found the ACE team serving Belmont and other downtown area
The 57th annual Golden Beaver Awards dinner was held recently at the J.W. Marriott Hotel at LA Live in Los Angeles. Four industry veterans were honored. J. Doug Pruitt, chairman of Tempe, Ariz.-based Sundt Construction, Inc., received the Management Award. A civil engineering graduate of Oklahoma State University, Pruitt joined Sundt in 1966 and rose through the ranks to become president and chief operating officer in 1992, then was named chairman and CEO in 1998.At the podium receiving the award, Pruitt lamented the industry’s widening lack of a skilled workforce and said he fully supports The Beavers’ endowments and scholarships. “We
The Division of Ratepayer Advocates (DRA), an independent consumer advocacy division within the California Public Utilities Commission, last week recommended that shareholders of Pacific Gas and Electric Co., not ratepayers, should fund the vast majority of the utility’s natural gas pipeline safety upgrade costs due to the company’s mismanagement of its pipeline safety programs. In August 2011, PG&E submitted a plan that it estimates will cost $2.2 billion for high-priority pipeline testing, repairs, and renovations over the next few years. PG&E has asked the CPUC for the authority to charge its customers $768.8 million for phase 1, which would fund
AGC of California 2011 President Gerry DiIoli commended two students for being named 2011 President‘s Scholarship recipients. Josh Payne and Sy Harrell, both slated to graduate Chico State in 2013 with degrees in construction management, were honored at AGC’s state board of directors meeting on Jan. 27 in Sacramento. AGC of Californi9a 2011 AGC of California President Gerry DiIoli introduced the 2011 President's Scholarship recipients, Sy Harrell (left) and Josh Payne (right), both of Chico State. Each year the AGC Associates Council works with many of the individual districts as well as the Construction Education Foundation to raise $5,000 for
Denise de Ville has joined HOK as vice president and director of corporate commercial business development, based in San Francisco. HOK says De Ville will expand its corporate and commercial portfolio, which includes headquarters for Adobe, Apple, AMD, Biogen Idec, California State Teachers' Retirement System, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Symantec and USAA, and commercial developments for Hines; Wilson Meany Sullivan; McCarthy Cook; Boston Properties; Sares-Regis; and David Taylor Interests. Before joining HOK, she led business development for AECOM Western U.S., Ellerbe Becket and DES A+E. Vic Sibilla has been appointed director of JBA Consulting Engineers' Orange County office. He will manage
The federal government is reimbursing California for $182 million the state has already spent on Caltrans’ construction of the Devil’s Slide project along Route 1 between Pacifica and Montara. Altogether, the Obama Administration has released nearly $1.6 billion via the Federal Highway Administration’s Emergency Relief Program to reimburse 30 states, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and federal land management agencies for repairs to roads and bridges caused by “storms, flooding, hurricanes and other natural and catastrophic disasters.”The funding was approved by the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2012.California is also getting a reimbursement for two other
The Orange County Great Park Corp. unveiled its next construction phase – the $21.5-million 2012 Western Sector Park Development Plan Capital Improvement Project, which will include soccer fields, a community garden and a new visitor’s center pavilion. Rendering courtesy of Orange County Great Park Corp. A rendering of the new visitor's center. The bid package for the capital improvement project, which is designed by WRNS, was released for public bid Jan. 12, and construction is expected to begin in March. Bids for 2012 Western Sector Park Development Plan Capitol Improvement Project are due Feb. 24.The corporation will then analyze the
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has selected the city of Richmond as the site for its second campus. The Richmond Field Station is owned by the University of California and was one of six final sites under consideration by the LBNL. Rendering courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab The second campus site at Richmond The main LBNL campus, the first of the University of California’s Department of Energy laboratories, will remain at its current site in the Berkeley hills above Strawberry Canyon. The new Richmond campus will bring onto one site several existing labs that are now scattered throughout the
New construction starts in December fell 3% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $410 billion, according to McGraw-Hill Construction. Nonresidential building in December held steady with the prior month, and residential building was able to show modest improvement. However, the nonbuilding construction sector lost momentum in December, as electric utilities retreated from the record pace witnessed earlier in the year. For all of 2011, total construction starts slipped 2% to $421.4 billion, following the slight 1% gain reported for 2010.After the steep declines reported during the 2007-2009 period, when activity dropped a combined 38%, the overall volume of new
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