San Ysidro Land Port of Entry Pedestrian Processing Facility Opens
SAN YSIDRO, CA: Southern California’s San Ysidro Land Port of Entry (LPOE)—the busiest international border crossing in the western hemisphere, with 70,000 northbound vehicle passengers and 20,000 northbound pedestrians crossing daily—officially opened on August 15, marked by a ribbon-cutting ceremony hosted by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). The Main Pedestrian Processing Building is part of the $741 million, three-phase expansion project to accommodate growing cross-border traf...
Rady Children’s Hospital Opens Doors to Newest Southern California Outpatient Pediatric Care Center
On Saturday, August 11, Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego (RCHSD) is officially welcoming its newest outpatient pediatric care facility in the Riverside County community of Murrieta, California, with a grand opening event open to the public. The newly opened Rady Children’s Medical Plaza offers pediatric services including primary care, subspecialty care, developmental services and specialized programs for children on the autism spectrum. The design-build team of McCarthy Building Companies, In...
Fluor to Design and Build Quellaveco Copper Project in Peru
IRVING, Texas - Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today it has received the full notice to proceed for the engineering, procurement and construction management of Anglo American’s Quellaveco copper project in the Moquegua region in the south of Peru. Fluor will book the undisclosed contract value in the third quarter of 2018. “As one of the world’s largest undeveloped copper deposits and one of the largest projects in Peru, Quellaveco will be a flagship project for Fluor, our client and...
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects-Designed Salesforce Transit Center Opens August 12, 2018
San Francisco, CA –Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects unveils the1.2 million square foot Salesforce Transit Center including its rooftop park, Salesforce Park. Stretching four blocks along Mission Street, one block south of the city’s Financial District, the long awaited Transit Center is a new paradigm for urban design in the United States. Pelli Clarke Pelli’s architectural design illustrates how a dense, urban, transit-based development can provide a sustainable and livable city. In the futur...
Building Chicago’s Skyline: Inside the Cab of a Crane Operator
CHICAGO -- In a city like Chicago, summer is often thought of as the "construction season" and 2018 is no exception. But what most of us know about construction, and what is going on with these projects, is from outside the metal fences that surround them for years on end. So WGN's Julie Unruh grabbed a hard hat and a vest to make the trip straight to the top of one of the most notable builds going on in the city right now. At Vista Tower, 400-plus employees of McHugh Construction are b...
Rady Children’s Hospital Opens Doors to Newest Southern California Outpatient Pediatric Care Center
Murrieta, CA (August 7, 2018): On Saturday, August 11, Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego (RCHSD) is officially welcoming its newest outpatient pediatric care facility in the Riverside County community of Murrieta, Calif., with a grand opening event open to the public. The newly opened Rady Children’s Medical Plaza offers pediatric services including primary care, subspecialty care, developmental services and specialized programs for children on the autism spectrum. The design-build team of McCa...
Phase 2 of I-11 Boulder City Bypass Expansion Project Opens August 2018
Boulder City, NV: Phase II of the Boulder City Bypass, a major 12.5-mile roadway project in the Mojave Desert southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada is set to open on August 9, 2018. It is the second segment of Interstate 11 (I-11) from US-95 to US-93 near the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge. This two-phase project is part of a comprehensive interstate vision for I-11 to provide a major trade commerce route between Mexico and Canada going through Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Las Vegas and Pho...
Muralist to Turn Residents’ Vision for the Future of Downtown Sacramento into Wide Open Walls Creation
Sacramento, CA (August 2, 2018) -- The stories shared by hundreds of local residents with their vision for the future of downtown are coming to life during the 11-day Wide Open Walls mural festival. Inspired by the six-word stories shared with the hashtag #DowntownSacStory on social media, Spanish artist Iker Muro (MurOne) will paint five stories of the parking garage owned by Pac West Office Equities at 555 Capitol Mall. Notably, the Downtown Sac Story mural will be the first of its kind for Ca...
EVWD Board Approves Selection of SNRC Design-Build Partner
Highland, Calif. – East Valley Water District’s Board of Directors approved Balfour Beatty / Arcadis as the design-build partner to lead the design and construction of the Sterling Natural Resource Center (SNRC), located on the east side of Del Rosa Drive, at the July 25 regular meeting. The state-of-the-art wastewater treatment facility will produce water to recharge the natural groundwater aquifer, with a design focused on reliability, efficiency and flexibility to initially treat 8 million ga...
Gensler Designs Pair of Skyscrapers on Sri Lankan Coast
The Gensler-designed Sapphire Residences in Colombo, Sri Lanka, will be connected by a sky bridge topped with a swimming pool, and have interiors by Philippe Starck. Global architectural firm Gensler designed the skyscrapers for developer ITC Hotels. The shorter tower will be a 140-metre-tall hotel, while the taller one will reach 224 metres and will be filled with 132 luxury homes. Between the 19th and 21st floors the parallel towers will be connected by a 54-metre-long sky bridge. A bar...
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