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Owner of the Year:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
12/01/2010 By Greg Aragon

The Army Corps of Engineers/South Pacific Division was chosen this year’s winner for maintaining a robust pipeline of high-profile projects, which have resulted in thousands of construction jobs.

Contractor of the Year:
Teichert
12/01/2010By Greg Aragon

Sacramento’s Teichert was chosen for its commitment to safety and giving back to the community and industry while working to improve California’s vital infrastructure.

12/01/2010	Best of 2010 By Greg Aragon This year, a panel of 13 judges, representing architects, builders and associations, chose 51 winning projects among the more than 135 submissions for the Best of California 2010 program.
11/01/2010	Top Green Designers 2010 By Greg Aragon It wasn’t long ago that green design was a novelty or an experiment done on guinea pig projects. But that was then and this is now.
11/01/2010	Green Building By JT Long A 2010 Green BIM SmartMarket report from McGraw-Hill Construction says that the growth of green projects will drive the growth of BIM use in the industry and, ultimately, productivity improvements in the design and construction industry
11/01/2010	Walking the Walk By Robert Carlsen SFPUC focuses on ‘super-green’ headquarters building.
09/01/2010	Top Design Firms 2010 By David Silva Having the ability to offer clients a complete menu of services is a major reason why this year’s top design firm AECOM has consistently outperformed other design firms in terms of revenue.
09/01/2010	Central Valley Market Report By David Silva Work on the $110-million, 277,000-sq-ft California Independent System Operator headquarters facility began in August 2009, with Vanir Construction Management of Sacramento running the show as construction manager, the Oakland office of Clark Design-Build onboard as general contractor and Dreyfuss & Blackford as the architect.
09/01/2010	KP utilizes template methodology on Anaheim hospital project By Greg Aragon If Kaiser Permanente’s new Anaheim Medical Center looks familiar, it might be because the facility has twin siblings also under construction in California.
09/01/2010	Urban Infill: Taking Affordable Housing to a New Level By Greg Aragon While many housing projects are sitting on the table waiting for the economy to pick up, Mercy Housing California is serving up a buffet of new developments around the state.
08/01/2010	School Design & Construction By Greg Aragon Workers are closing in on completing five major school projects across Los Angeles.
08/01/2010	Owner of the Year By Greg Aragon It was a tough decision but when the dust settled and the hammering stopped, the Army Corps of Engineers was selected 2010 Owner of the Year by editors and contributors of California Construction Magazine.
08/01/2010	2010 Top Specialty Contractors By Greg Aragon Specialty contractors are as different as their niches, but most agree the market has to get a lot better before they’re healthy again.
07/01/2010	Top 25 Highway Projects By Greg Aragon Numerous big highway projects around the state are helping to keep things moving as the construction industry continues to dig out of the recession.
07/01/2010	Contractor of the Year By David Silva Teichert, the Sacramento-based construction, materials, equipment and development company, has been named California Construction’s 2010 Contractor of the Year for its commitment to safety and giving back while working to improve California’s vital infrastructure.
07/01/2010	Legal Firms Directory 2010 By David Silva We begin our annual directory with a look at the construction law industry, which is working overtime these days on payment disputes, squabbles over competitive bids and desperate contractors chasing jobs into unfamiliar territory.
06/01/2010	Top Project Starts 2010 By Greg Aragon California Construction’s annual list of the Top Project Starts reveal some exciting and interesting insights into work going on across the state: This year’s rankings include seven healthcare projects in the top 10, including no. 1’s $1.6-billion University of California, San Francisco’s Medical Center at Mission Bay.
06/01/2010	Los Angeles Market Report By David Silva Work on the $165-million Interstate-10 restoration project, one of several high-profile freeway projects underway in Southern California, includes the complete resurfacing of the road, in both directions, between the I-5 and I-605. The resurfacing alone is a massive undertaking, given that the I-10’s San Gabriel arm is one of the most trafficked stretches in the state.
06/01/2010	Stimulus Project of the Month: Presidio Parkway Project By David Silva When motorists take to San Francisco’s new $1-billion Presidio Parkway in late 2013, they won’t see some of the massive foundation piles placed deep into ground below. But they will feel the support of some of the largest cast-in-drilled-hole piles currently in use.
05/01/2010	Top Green Contractors By David Silva Veteran builders readily admit that what they viewed less than a decade ago as an industry fad – the notion that projects should be designed and built with a high degree of environmental sensitivity – has become a widely accepted, permanent industry practice.
05/01/2010	Sacramento Market Report By Greg Aragon Sacramento may have one of the country’s largest urban infill projects underway, but that doesn’t mean the city’s overall construction market has completely bounced back from recession.
05/01/2010	Steady as She Goes: Tight Site for Mercy General's New Tower By Greg Aragon There is a delicate operation underway at Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento that requires steady hands and surgeon-like precision.
05/01/2010	Keeping the Jobsite Safe: Expo Offers Extensive Agenda By Robert Carlsen If the recent sixth-annual Safety Expo: Statewide Safety Training & Construction Management event proved one thing, it’s that construction industry representatives in California crave information.
05/01/2010	Stimulus Project of the Month: Terminal Development By David Silva San Francisco International Airport’s $383-million Terminal 2 renovation project is representative of several developments unfolding at the facility – all of them good.
04/01/2010	Top Contractors in California 2010 By Greg Aragon As California’s construction industry continues to feel the recession’s pinch, some of the state’s top contractors are tightening their tool belts and concentrating on their company’s individual talents to stay ahead in the game.
04/01/2010	Bay Area Market Report By David Silva Being inside Sustainability Base, a $2- million, 50,000-sq-ft steel-frame building going up at Mountain View’s NASA Ames Research Center at Moffet Federal Airfield, may well be the closet you’ll ever come to visiting the moon.
03/01/2010	Healthcare Construction 2010 By David Silva Throughout the state, the healthcare construction segment is keeping A/E/C firms busy, even in a static economy.
03/01/2010	Equipment: Above and Beyond By Tudor Van Hampton After a spate of bad accidents, two large crane owners step up their safety protocols.
03/01/2010	San Diego Market Report By Greg Aragon Affordable housing has managed to break new ground in San Diego at a time when other construction sectors have slowed.
12/01/2009	Owner of the Year By Robert Carlsen There’s no question that for the past year, the California Department of Transportation has played a major role in working to right the state’s construction employment downturn during the economic recession.
12/01/2009	Contractor of the Year By Robert Carlsen McCarthy Building Cos., a national construction firm with 76 ongoing projects in the Golden State, has been named California Construction’s 2009 Contractor of the Year.
11/01/2009	Green Building Innovations By Robert Carlsen Green building is here to stay. And despite the recession – and maybe even because of it – the construction industry is focused on improving sustainable design and building and continued innovation when it comes to being green.
11/01/2009	Heavy BIM Special Report By Stephen Jones. Senior Director, Business Development, McGraw-Hill Construction A common misperception about BIM is that it’s just for designing and constructing buildings.
11/01/2009	Building Smarter: BIM and Beyond By Melody Spradlin. South Bay Office Leader, Dome Construction, San Jose Today’s contractors have become “smart builders” who are using highly sophisticated computer modeling tools to tackle complex projects at biotech and computer labs and other high-tech manufacturing facilities.
11/01/2009	Building Foundations for Future Organizational Development By Terry Kramer There is no doubt that the construction industry has been turned upside down during this economic debacle. Bodies have flown out the door in droves. The employee cuts were sometimes made in a coherent manner and at other times the cuts were emotional, reactive decisions to rapidly declining revenues and profits.
11/01/2009	Sacramento Market Report By David Silva Just as its name suggests, Sacramento International Airport’s “Big Build” project is a case study in all things large.
11/01/2009	Construction Firms Need to Prepare for New Mechanic’s Lien Procedures By William L. Porter Since 1879, the California Constitution has guaranteed contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and others who have not been paid for work and materials supplied to a private works project the right to sell the property where the work was performed in order to obtain payment.
11/01/2009	Breathing New Life Into Old Facilities By Pam Hunter Many municipal wastewater systems built in the 1970s and 1980s are nearing the end of their useful lives, forcing municipalities and utilities around the country to look at ways of breathing new life into their treatment plants.
10/01/2009	Top Design Firms By Joe Florkowski Design firms say they had a good 2008. But with the recession in full swing in 2009, those same design firms are making more cautious plans while refocusing on quality and their strengths.
10/01/2009	Central Valley Market Report By Greg Aragon It may not appear so from the outside, but inside the five-story concrete shell of the old B.F. Sisk Courthouse in Fresno, a new $70-million ($56 million in construction costs) Superior Courthouse is taking shape.
10/01/2009	New San Diego County Operations Center Targets ‘Timelessness’ by David Silva “We’re looking for something that will be timeless,” says RJC Architects principal James Robbins of the $500-million San Diego County Operations Center, a massive development under way in the county’s Kearny Mesa district.

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