Reno Starts Industrial Complex in Otay Mesa

Legacy Partners is the developer for the $18 million Ocean View Corporate Center in the Otay Mesa area of San Diego. Completion is scheduled for October.

SAN DIEGO—General contractor Reno Contracting of San Diego has begun Ocean View Corporate Center, an $18 million, 275,000-sq.-ft. industrial complex in the Otay Mesa area of San Diego.

Smith Consulting Architects of San Diego was retained by Legacy Partners, developer of the project. Reno Contracting, the general contractor, began the construction in April, with completion slated for October.

Ocean View Corporate Center will encompass an 86,070-sq.-ft. building, a 100,152-sq.-ft. building and an 89,416-sq.-ft. building. The industrial campus will house a total of 21 units available for rent. Units will range from 5,793 sq. ft. to 26,528 sq. ft. and will include divisible floor plans, grade-level loading doors and highly articulated concrete wall panels. Select units will feature mezzanines.

Environmental Solutions to Consult for San Diego Bank

SAN DIEGO—Environmental Business Solutions has been added to the approved list of environmental consultants for Torrey Pines Bank in downtown San Diego.

Environmental Business Solutions will be responsible for performing phase one and two site assessments and reviewing third-party reports on an as-needed basis.

W.M. Klorman Construction Corp. Gets Concrete Work for Police Project

EL MONTE—W.M. Klorman Construction was awarded a $4 million contract to provide structural concrete work for the new Manhattan Beach Fire and Police Facility.

The general contractor for the 60,000-sq.-ft., two-story building is San Francisco-based Swinerton Builders. Groundbreaking took place on Jan. 10. The project is expected to be completed in summer 2005.

The building includes a 180,000-sq.-ft. basement, ground-level concrete structure parking for 327 cars, shooting range, living facilities and holding cells. The original station, built in 1958, will be demolished.

The project was designed by the Culver City office of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum Inc.

Nibbi Bros. Nabs 2 Projects

Nibbi Bros. has begun construction of a mixed-use, low-income housing development in San Francisco. The $16 million project is being run by the Public Initiatives Development Corp., a non-profit development subsidiary of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (rendering courtesy of Leddy Maytum Stacey Architects and Paulett Taggart Architects).

SAN FRANCISCO—Nibbi Bros. has begun construction of a nine-story, mixed-use, low-income housing development in San Francisco.

The project is being run by the Public Initiatives Development Corp., a non-profit development subsidiary of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. The $16 million project consists of a nine-story concrete building with basement in San Francisco's mid-Market area and will have 106 efficiency studios with private baths, community and social services, laundry facilities and a rooftop garden.

The ground floor and one level below ground will house the returning tenant, Bindlestiff Studio, a Filipino community theater.

The design team of Leddy Maytum Stacey Architects and Paulett Taggart Architects have incorporated many sustainable design approaches on the project and are pursuing LEED Silver Certification.

Nibbi Bros. was also selected as general contractor for an expansion of St. Thomas More, an elementary school in San Francisco. The project owner is the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The architect is Corlett, Skaer & DeVoto Architects Inc.

The project includes construction of a two-story classroom and gymnasium building as well as relocation of an existing portable classroom. The new larger facility will enable the school to house a pre-school in addition to grades K-5. Construction will begin in November 2004 and be completed in August 2005.

Ware Malcomb Awarded Design of Trius Corporate Headquarters

OCEANSIDE—Irvine-based Ware Malcomb has been awarded the design of the TRIUS corporate headquarters project in Oceanside, a development of O'Bryan-Smith Investments Inc. of San Diego.

OSI is a commercial real estate investment and development firm specializing in multi-occupancy industrial projects ranging from $5 million to $15 million dollars. TRIUS specializes in the leasing of medical equipment.

The project includes the design of a 23,000 sq.-ft. industrial building on 1.34 acres. It is located at the northwest intersection of Avenida De La Plata and Avenida del Oro. The building includes 4,000 sq. ft. of custom office space and 19,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space. The project is divisible and can accommodate two tractor-trailer trucks with a recessed well, and two grade-level doors. Coverage is 39% with parking at 2.5:1,000.

The general contractor, Douglas E. Barnhart Inc. of San Diego, is expected to begin construction this quarter.

Jacobs Receives Hospital Project in France

PASADENA—Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. and Architect Group 6 have received a $117 million hospital reconstruction and relocation project from Hospital Clairmont Ferrand University in the Clairmont Ferrand Region of France.

Jacobs, one of the top engineering service providers for the French health-care sector, is providing engineering, procurement and construction management services.

The project entails the integration of a mother-and-child health-care facility into the general surgery-oriented hospital complex, upgrading it from an obsolete building into a facility featuring the latest hospital technology. The project encompasses 75,000 sq. ft. and will be on an aggressive three-year schedule. The expansion and upgrade allow the hospital to meet growing service demands.

Tetra Tech Awarded $17 Million in New EPA Contracts

PASADENA—Tetra Tech Inc. was recently awarded more than $17 million in new contracts from the U.S. EPA Office of Water. The three contracts support development of water quality standards and pollution prevention strategies in the United States, and begin immediately.

Under a five-year, $12.2 million contract, Tetra Tech will support the EPA Office of Water to assess and manage risks

associated with toxic bioaccumulation of contaminants in surface waters. Tetra Tech will provide a broad range of technical support, including EPA guidance support, scientific methods development and national assessment of the extent and severity of watershed contamination.

Under a five-year $3.3 million contract, Tetra Tech will support the EPA Office of Water to develop, revise, and implement ecological criteria for the protection of water quality on a national, state and site-specific basis. This includes conducting the National Wadeable Streams Assessment under a congressionally mandated initiative to the EPA.

Tetra Tech was also awarded a one-year, $1.8 million contract extension to a separate EPA contract to provide technical services for EPA's nationwide animal feeding operations, permitting initiatives under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System program.

Del Mar Union Breaks Ground on Seventh Elementary School

SAN DIEGO—Construction manager Douglas E. Barnhart Inc. has broken ground on a 67,000-sq.-ft. elementary school for Del Mar Union School District. The architect for the district's seventh grade school is San Marcos-based Trittipo & Associates Architects.

The school will serve the communities of Costa del Sol, Seabreeze, Bordeaux, Bougainvillea, Windwood Apartments and Villa Andalucia Apartments. The school will include an administration building, library, multi-purpose room, 35 classrooms and an arts and music facility. The school is scheduled for a May 2005 completion and will open in September 2005.

Team members for the project's design include John Trittipo and Bob Nelson of Trittipo & Associates. Barnhart team members include Glynna Hoekstra, construction manager; Mike Abel, project manager; and Kevin Boland, site supervisor.