Phil Washington grew up on the South Side of Chicago in public housing with a single mom caring for a family of six. “The people building infrastructure in my community did not look like me,” he says. “I wondered, ‘Why can’t I get a job helping to build my own community?’”
Considering that Richard “Dick” McLane “fell into engineering,” it seems appropriate that he ends up digging deeply into a project both literally and figuratively.
Tunneling through an urban environment like that of Los Angeles is complex enough. Add to that a medley of poor soils (including tar pits); a variety of dangerous gases; and two seismic faults and it becomes a task that until not so long ago was impossible.
California agencies with tens of billions of dollars of construction joined more than 40 other groups in a movement to drive contracting opportunities for historically underutilized businesses.
Located in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, a one-of-a-kind tenant improvement project marks the new Southern California headquarters for this creative client.
Located at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and La Jolla, the lens-like shape of this tower draws inspiration from the film and television industry of Los Angeles.
Designed pro bono by architect Frank Gehry, the Children’s Institute Inc.’s Watts Campus is a two-story, steel-framed facility at the corner of E. 102nd Street and Success Avenue in Watts, Calif./p>