UC Davis begins management building and conference center
 The project team has begun work on the $34.5 million Graduate School of Management building and conference center complex at UC Davis.
The university says the energy-efficient, environmentally responsible project will help boost the profile of the nationally ranked management school and serve as an important new venue for business and academic conferences when it opens in fall 2009. It will also help anchor the campus’ emerging “front door” near Interstate 80.
The Sacramento office of Sundt Cos. Inc. is serving as general contractor. Sasaki Associates Inc. of San Francisco is the architect.
The UC Davis Graduate School of Management building will be called Maurice J. Gallagher Jr. Hall, in honor of the Las Vegas airline executive who in October pledged $10 million to support the project and establish an endowment for the school. The adjoining conference center will include a restaurant and meeting facilities. The complex will also include a hotel, to be constructed separately.
The structures will be located across from the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, adjacent to the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center, near the School of Law to the north and the soon-to-be-completed Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science to the west, and alongside a planned UC Davis Museum of Art.
Gallagher Hall, at 40,000 sq ft and three stories tall, will more than double the management school’s current space on the UC Davis campus. The school today occupies about 15,500 sq ft in a two-story building on the campus’ northeastern edge.
The school’s new stone, glass and stucco building will feature technologically advanced classrooms designed for interactive learning; expanded space for extracurricular activities; an upgraded and centralized student affairs and career services center for students to develop skills to advance their careers; and an outdoor garden and courtyard for informal gatherings and special events.
The adjoining 42,000-sq-ft, two-story conference building will include a 7,500-sq-ft restaurant, 14,000-sq-ft conference center and ballroom. The second floor will offer 20,000 sq ft of space for various university administrative units.
Campus planners expect that both Gallagher Hall and the conference center will meet LEED Gold standards, which would make it among the greenest buildings in the University of California system.
T.B. Penick & Sons finishes El Camino College project
 San Diego-based T.B. Penick & Sons has completed a three-story, architectural concrete humanities building at El Camino College in Torrance.
The $29 million hard-bid project has a 30,000-sq-ft footprint with a total of 83,000 sq ft of enclosed space. Project preparation and execution emphasized planning and monitoring along with exceptional standards of quality and safety. Successful completion was aided in part by T.B. Penick’s Green Hat program, a training and probationary program that trains, tests and evaluates each worker’s knowledge, skill, productivity and safety.
At all stages of construction, productivity levels, costs and esthetics were monitored and reviewed to meet schedule, budget and design requirements.
The T.B. Penick team coordinated closely with the construction manager and subcontractors during the project.
Firms begin work on Sacramento State student housing
 Work has begun on a new Sacramento State residence hall, a project expected to be completed by July 2009.
The MVE Architects-designed building is being built by Brown Construction in association with Mogavero Notestine.
The 209,050 square-foot building will replace Foley Hall, a former residence hall built in 1959 that was being used as an office complex prior to its demolition in August. Crews have been preparing the site for construction, and the facility is scheduled to welcome its first students in the fall of 2009.
The four-story complex will boost on-campus residence housing from about 1,100 to 1,700 students and offer a variety of suites, triples, doubles and single-occupancy rooms, each with its own bathroom, living room and a food preparation area, as well as common areas such as a central courtyard.
Student Housing Phase I project will be the first phase of providing new housing for students. The four-story, 209,000-sq-ft building will be of wood frame construction to match the existing residential complex. The building will house 600 beds in apartment style suites. Each housing unit will have either two double occupancy bedrooms (four people total) or five individual bedrooms (five total). The suites will have two bathrooms, a kitchen-like area and living room area.
The Student Housing Project will be incorporating sustainable measures such as energy efficient lighting and cooling systems, water efficient fixtures, low VOC products, and bike racks. The goal is to obtain LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Construction starts on The Lofts in San Diego
 DPR Construction has begun work on The Lofts at 707 Tenth Avenue, a new mixed-use residential building located in San Diego’s East Village neighborhood.
KMA Architecture & Engineering provided design development and construction documents for the project and Austin Veum Robbins Partners designed the project owned by Oliver McMillan. It is slated for completion in summer 2008.
The Lofts at 707 Tenth Avenue are located on G Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues and within walking distance from Petco Park and the neighboring Gaslamp District. The eight-level project will feature a sleek, modern design inspired by the flourishing commercial and residential development of downtown’s East Village with contemporary, urban lofts over street-level retail and live/work space, as well as below grade parking, all totaling nearly 137,700 sq ft.
Engineering services will be provided by Glotman Simpson, TKG Consulting, and Nasland Engineering. Schmidt Design is the landscape designer and Jules Wilson is providing interior design.
Bilbro completes construction of new ship repair facility
Bilbro Construction Co. Inc. has completed work on a new 31,250-sq-ft industrial facility for Propulsion Controls Engineering Inc. in the Southcrest community of San Diego.
Bilbro’s involvement with the project began in mid-2005 after PCE received notice from San Diego Gas & Electric that its property was being acquired through eminent domain to make way for a new power switching station. PCE, which repairs shipboard machinery, electrical, mechanical, hydraulic and control systems, had operated successfully in the neighborhood, located near the waterfront south of downtown, for 25 years. The nature of PCE’s business necessitated that a new facility be in close proximity to the harbor and Navy shipyards, but there was very little inventory of viable industrial properties in the area.
Bilbro Construction was asked to assist with site analysis, planning and developing a comprehensive relocation cost budget for presentation to SDG&E.
The selected site included a 1950s-era building that had to be demolished down to its structural components and then completely rebuilt with new electrical and mechanical systems, new underground utilities and upgrades and fire sprinkler retrofits. Two single-story buildings were developed to house a number of specialized work areas or “shops.” These include welding, Woodward governor, machine and electrical shops, and calibration, quality assurance and media labs, as well as accounting, personnel and other corporate offices.
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