Rudolph and Sletten finishes Cuyamaca College building
 Rudolph and Sletten, Inc. has completed the Communication Arts Center at Cuyamaca College in Rancho San Diego.
Rudolph and Sletten served as construction manager for the $44 million project, which houses the reading, speech, English, American Sign Language, English as a Second Language, music, fine arts, theater arts, and assisted learning programs. NTD Architecture designed the 90,000-sq-ft facility, which brings a first-ever performance venue to the campus: a 366-seat multi-purpose auditorium that will be used for recitals, concerts, and theater productions, as well as for assemblies.
The center also includes a 90-seat digital theater with widescreen cinema projection for instructors’ multimedia presentations, a music/media library, rehearsal space, music practice rooms, and art studios. In addition, the Communication Arts facility adds multi-disciplinary laboratory and independent learning spaces for the various programs.
The three-story building is constructed of steel and cast-in-place concrete. Some 57,000 cu yds of soil were excavated from a vacant hillside to provide space for the center. After excavation, Rudolph and Sletten constructed a 23,675-sq-ft retaining wall for the shoring system, with 116 soldier beams. Construction on the project began approximately two years ago.
Bilbro finishes renovation project at St. Augustine High
 Bilbro Construction Co., Inc. has completed renovations on Vasey Hall at St. Augustine High School in San Diego.
Built in 1922, Vasey Hall was the designed by the same architect who designed many of the museums in nearby Balboa Park. The historically-designated structure was in need of a 21st Century update to better serve the school’s student population.
Infrastructure and finishes were upgraded for the 7,000-sq-ft facility, which houses classrooms, student leadership and administrative offices, chapel, art studios and band room. Ziebarth Associates was the architect for the project. B&G Consultants was the owner’s representative.
Kiewit Pacific starts on Folsom Dam project
 Kiewit Pacific has started work on the first phase of the Folsom Dam Joint Federal Project in Folsom.
State officials, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, recently held a groundbreaking ceremony to launch construction of the project.
The $1.3 billion project will shore up dikes and build a new spillway to drain off the huge influx of water from heavy storms that otherwise might threaten the citizens of Sacramento. It will support more than 2,200 new jobs in the Central Valley. When completed in 2015, the project will protect Sacramento from a 200-year flood, two times greater than the current protection.
The Folsom Dam project is a partnership among the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Central Valley Flood Protection Board and the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency.
It is the largest dam project currently being undertaken by the Bureau of Reclamation anywhere in the country.
In addition to the joint project, the Bureau of Reclamation will complete dam safety work on Dikes 4, 5, and 6, and the Mormon Island Auxiliary Dam. The project will be constructed in three phases. A contract for the first phase was awarded in October in the amount of $16,068,000 to Kiewit Pacific Co. of Concord.
Last year’s passage of the Water Resources Development Act resulted in $444 million of additional authorized federal funds for the project. The first phase has Kiewit Pacific doing clearing and excavation work at the site. Kiewit won the contract mainly because it was in the midst of a $117-million, four-lane bridge project across the American River below the dam and had lots of equipment handy, resulting in the lowest bid.
J.R. Roberts/Deacon begin Oak Walk project in Emeryville
Citrus Heights-based J.R. Roberts/Deacon, Inc. has started construction on Oak Walk, a $34 million mixed-use condominium-over-retail property in Emeryville.
The architect for Oak Walk is Hunt Hale Jones of San Francisco.
Oak Walk will offer one-, two- and three-bedroom homes in a range of housing types from urban flats to shopkeeper walk-ups and family-style town homes.
The development plan also evokes the design of European plazas with public spaces and parking areas set off by strong edges using building facades, landscape treatments, and paving appointments.
The project will also include 5,500 sq ft of retail on the ground level.
An unusual component of Oak Walk is the relocation and preservation of five single-family homes now situated at the edge of the site, providing a transition between the retail-focused higher density of San Pablo Avenue and the decades-old neighborhoods of single-family homes and schools to the east.
McCarthy completes parking structure for San Diego hospital
McCarthy Building Cos., Inc. has completed construction of the new $25.7 million 332,279-sq-ft design-build parking structure for the Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center in San Diego.
The project was completed nearly two weeks earlier than the estimated completion date. The top-level podium of the parking structure has been engineered to support a new Ronald McDonald House, to be constructed at a later time.
The Ronald McDonald House site preparation involved the coordination and installation of more than 600 sleeves for future plumbing systems that haven’t been installed yet, a high bay condition versus the normal floor-to-floor height, a flat non-ramped surface, beams and girders that were twice the normal size, and super congested post-tension concrete reinforcing.
Walker Parking Consultants served as architect for the project, with IDS as structural engineer and Project Design Consultants as civil engineer and landscape architect. Randall Lamb Associates was the electrical engineer and Shadpour Consulting Engineers, mechanical engineer.
Situated on the side of a hill, adjacent to the I-805 freeway, the new parking structure encompasses one floor built above street level, and five floors built below ground. The structure incorporates cast-in-place columns and post-tensioned concrete decks, and features a split-faced, block exterior facade.
Building the structure into the hillside was another challenge of this project. More than 65,000 cu yds of soil were excavated, and a 780-linear-ft soil nail wall reaching up to 50 ft in height was constructed against the embankment.
|
print this page
e-mail this page
