A design/build team led by San Carlos-based Gonsalves & Stronck Construction recently completed a historical rehabilitation to one of Woodside�s oldest and most significant equestrian properties. Photography by Steve Whittaker Photography by Steve Whittaker The Folger Estate Stable, together with the other buildings that formed the grand country estate of the coffee magnate James A. Folger II, was designed in 1905 by Arthur Brown Jr., famous for later work including San Francisco City Hall, Coit Tower, and other California landmarks. Even in this youthful work, Brown�s Beaux-Arts training and personal genius is clearly evident in a design that draws upon
Construction on the $102-million Orange Freeway (State Route 57) Northbound Widening Project will begin this fall as officials, construction workers and business leaders gathered recently to celebrate the kickoff of the Orangethorpe to Lambert segment. The Orange County Transportation Authority, in partnership with Caltrans, is sponsoring improvements to the SR-57, which will add a northbound lane from north of the SR-91 near Orangethorpe Avenue in Placentia to Lambert Road in Brea. The project will also add traffic and merging lanes at various locations, reconfigure entrance and exit ramps, construct retaining walls and sound walls and standardize existing general purpose lanes
An October completion is planned for the $100-million Valley Performing Arts Center at the southwest corner of California State University, Northridge. C.W. Driver is the general contractor and HGA Architects and Engineers is the designer on the project, a five-story, 166,000-sq-ft performance hall that includes a 1,700-seat concert hall designed to support orchestra, opera, Broadway, film and dance; 175-seat black box theater; backstage support; classrooms; 230-seat lecture room; rehearsal and events space; and a new broadcast facility for KCSN public radio. It is being built to LEED silver certification standards. C.W. Driver�s construction team is using 34,000 sq ft of
The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners last week unanimously approved the Environmental Impact Report for the project to replace the aging Gerald Desmond Bridge at the Port of Long Beach with a new, nearly $1 billion span that will accommodate future traffic needs and dramatically improve safety for vessels and vehicles alike. The Port of Long Beach, in partnership with Caltrans, will oversee the project to design and build a higher, wider bridge parallel to and just north of the existing Gerald Desmond Bridge. Once the new bridge is completed and open, the old structure will be taken down.
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 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,
The Western Coatings Technology Center (WCTC) at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) is one step closer to reality, as ground was broken on a new $2.5 million facility. The Kenneth N. Edwards Western Coatings Technology Center will be located on the right side of Cal Poly's new Center for Science and Mathematics, pictured in architectural rendering. It will be named after Kenneth N. Edwards, CEO of Dunn-Edwards Paint, in recognition of his tremendous efforts in helping to fund the project. The WCTC is designed to expand industry-sponsored research on campus while providing state-of-the-art facilities for students to learn and
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