McCarthy Begins Site Work for Lincoln Library

Rendering of Lincoln Public Library at Twelve Bridges courtesy of NTDStichler Architects.

The Roseville office of McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. is currently overseeing the site preparation phase for the $16.5 million construction of the Lincoln Public Library at Twelve Bridges, a joint effort among the city of Lincoln, Sierra Joint Community College District and Western Placer Unified School District.

The Auburn office of NTDStichler Architects is the design firm.

The library will be adjacent to the local community college and high school in Lincoln and will serve both campuses and the growing population of the greater Lincoln area.

Building construction of the two-story, 40,000-sq.-ft. facility is scheduled to begin in the first quarter with an expected completion next year.

The library will include a structural-steel frame with stained concrete surface. Celestorial glass will provide natural light throughout the facility. Pedestrian and bicycle access also will be made available from both campuses.

Ware Malcomb Awarded IKEA Store in West Sacramento

Ware Malcomb, an Irvine-based architecture, planning and interior design firm, was awarded the design of an IKEA store in West Sacramento.

The store will include a two-story, 265,000-sq.-ft. retail building with a 166,000-sq.-ft. footprint. It will be located on a 20-acre, undeveloped site adjacent to Interstate 80.

Rendering of IKEA Store in West Sacramento courtesy of Ware Malcomb.

Construction will include conventional foundations; concrete slab on grade; steel columns and girders; concrete tilt-up exterior walls; a steel-framed second floor with metal deck and concrete fill and a metal-framed roof structure. A surface parking lot will have spaces for approximately 1,150 vehicles.

The building will include two restaurants, a Swedish food market and administrative offices.

Ware Malcomb has designed two other IKEA stores in California-including one in East Palo Alto that opened in August 2003 and a store in Dublin that will open in several years.

Construction Begins on Surgery Clinic in San Diego County

Construction is under way for the El Cajon Surgery Clinic, a 6,822-sq.-ft. medical care and surgery center on Navajo Road in El Cajon. Doctors Naga Raja Thota and Anuradha Koka-Thota are the owners.

The facility will consist of a two-story, wood-framed building with surface parking. Completion is slated for the middle of the year.

Smith Consulting Architects designed the building shell and has coordinated all mechanical, plumbing and electrical details. Agoura-based Estrin-Hinds Construction Co. Inc. is the general contractor.

Other project stakeholders include Partners Planning and Engineers (civil engineer); McParlane & Associates (mechanical engineer); Prime Structural Engineers; and MPE Consulting (electrical engineer). Med-Pro Inc. is the medical design consultant and Ahles Landscape Architecture is the landscape architect.

WWCOT to Design Senior Center in San Fernando Valley

WWCOT, a Santa Monica-based architecture firm, has been selected by the Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging to provide architectural and engineering services for a self-contained, senior living complex on JHA's Eisenberg campus in the San Fernando Valley.

The 150,233-sq.-ft., senior living complex will include 109 one- and two-bedroom condominiums ranging in size from 800 to 1,300 sq. ft. and a 48,708 sq.-ft. subterranean garage.

A 32,648 sq.-ft., 52-year-old skilled nursing facility on the site will be razed to make room for the new facility. The 125 residents of the building will be relocated to a new 249-bed Residential Medical Center now under construction nearby on JHA's Grancell Village campus.