The $500-million Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will raise the curtain this September on an eye-popping museum and theater complex that honors the past, is designed to resist future seismic forces and appears to defy the laws of gravity.

Although it is a landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Alameda High School, built in 1924, had been vacated by students since 1978 and was fully shuttered in 2012.

A failing sea cave leading to extensive cracking in the roadway at a popular tourist destination had the makings of a disaster.

In 2014, the National Basketball Association’s Golden State Warriors purchased the 780-ft by 650-ft site for a new arena because it afforded views of Mission Bay and was large enough to accommodate the team’s plans.

Virginia DOT and City of Sacramento are using PlanGrid technology for field inspections, among others expanding cloud-based project management tools.

The city’s largest infrastructure project connects downtown with East Los Angeles.

Herrero Builders Inc., the Boldt Co. and Webcor will construct a 955,000-sq-ft hospital for the University of California, San Francisco.