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John Deere, Coastline Equipment and Sierra Landscape & Development
(Left) Sierra Landscape & Development’s John Deere CT 322 Compact Track Loader working at Park Elementary School in Alhambra. (Right) Andrew Brown, Compact Equipment Specialist for Coastline Equipment and Kevin Watchler, Vice President of Sierra Landscape Development, Inc.
Richard Watchler started Sierra Landscape as a one-man operation back in 1983 in order to provide quality residential and commercial landscape and maintenance services to the San Gabriel Valley. About four or five years ago Sierra Landscape decided to concentrate more on commercial and public works type projects. Richard’s son, Kevin Watchler was a big part of this transition. Today, Sierra Landscape Development, Inc. performs a variety of public works and commercial projects, from half-day service calls to working for some of Southern California’s largest general engineering contractors on multi-million dollar projects. In order to remain productive and competitive, they rely on John Deere equipment form Coastline Equipment; their most recent purchase is a JD CT322 compact track loader. Kevin Watchler explains, “I have always been fond of John Deere. I am very impressed with the power and performance that the CT322 track loader machine provides day in and day out. We demoed all of the other brands and it was clear to us that the John Deere was superior. This track loader makes all the difference in the world on the hillsides and slopes on our project. The stability of this machine is just amazing and it has been a very welcome addition to our company.” Kevin adds, “We hit it off right away with Coastline Equipment and their personable employees like Andrew Brown. The whole Coastline team provides excellent service that keeps us coming back for all of our equipment purchases, parts and service needs.”
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Skanska/Rados Joint VentureSANBAG Interstate 215 Widening Project Scheduled for Early Completion Written by: Brian Hoover Left: Crews utilize a rubber tire excavator to dig and lay pipe in various locations. Below: An excavator loads excess dirt into a truck for export off the project.
If you live or travel through the Inland Empire, you know what it is like to endure the constant congestion and traffic woes of the 91 and 215 freeways, particularly in the Riverside/San Bernardino areas. The I-215 through downtown San Bernardino has been in desperate need of a major redesign in order to accommodate the explosive growth of the Inland Valley. The San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG), the Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) and the Federal Highway Administration are implementing the I-215 widening projects. The final cost of the I-215 widening project is estimated to come in at around $800 million and will be completed in 4-phases. It is also one of the largest freeway construction projects in California to receive American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds. The RCTC proposed projects to widen 29.25 miles of the I-215 from the I-15/I-215 junction in Murrieta to State Route 60 in Riverside. It includes reconstruction of nine interchanges and the addition of a general use and carpool lane in each direction. The 6
project also upgrades and extends 7.5 miles of I-215 from Interstate 10 to University Parkway. Phase 1 began back in February of 2007 and involved the reconstruction of the 5th Street Bridge. Phase 1 was completed in February of 2008, while Phase 2, which began in December 2007, was completed in July of 2010. The third phase began in September of 2009, and completion is expected some time in 2013. The fourth and final phase, which began in January 2010, will be completed by mid-2013. Skanska/Rados Joint Venture is involved in constructing Phase 3 freeway improvements. Phase 3 will extend the highway from Rialto Ave. to Massachusetts Ave. and involves construction of two new freeway lanes in each direction, one carpool and mixed flow, new on- and offramps on 5th Street and Baseline and reconstruction of the Baseline, 2nd, 3rd, 9th and 16th Street bridges.
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Specifically on September 2, 2009, Skanska/Rados was awarded a $154, 273,000 contract from SANBAG, which escalated to approximately $164 million due to change orders. In general, the contract calls for 19 new bridges plus 1 temporary bridge, 20, 815 lf of cast in place concrete retaining walls with a combination of spread footings and footings on piles, 2,368 lf of mechanically stabilized embankment walls, 3,208 lf of sheetpile shoring to support an existing railroad, 80,250 cy of concrete pavement, 88,600 tons of AC pavement, a storm drain system with pipe sizes ranging from 8� in diameter to 96� in diameter, landscape and irrigation, and freeway and city street electrical systems. All work must be completed within 1,000 working days, and Skanska/Rados Joint Venture is currently on schedule to finish 6-months early. www.calcontractor.com
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Alex Medyn is a Project Executive for Skanska, USA, responsible for large and multiple projects. Alex is also one of the executives overseeing operations on the Skanska/Rados Joint Venture project and comments, “Our contract first began on October 19th, 2009 and is scheduled for completion in July of 2013. The main portion of our work runs right through the heart of San Bernardino and is a little over 3-miles long. It is essentially a complete reconstruct of the I-215, extending what used to be 2 to 3 lanes into what will now be 4 to 5 lanes in each direction. We have contributed to a re-design that established a rather complicated staging plan on this job, mainly due to maintenance of traffic (MOT) issues that have and will continue to occur during construction. With around 16 stages in all, one of the stages involves the construction of around one-third of the overall pavement section. Other stages are very small and take up only about a 100,000 sq. ft. area. At the start we had to move around 600,000 yards of earth, 450,000 yards of which needed to be exported off site. This was due to the major grade change necessary to reconfigure all of the off-ramps. Originally the freeway ramps exited to the east, which meant that southbound 8
traffic would exit over the northbound traffic to the east. There were bridges extending over the median and onto the east side and because of this the earthwork on the southbound side of the freeway needed to be 20 to 30 feet higher. There was a significant difference in elevation between the northbound and southbound sides and now we were given the task of lowering the southbound side and in some cases raising the northbound side in order to end up with a level plain all the way across. We are now in the process of constructing new conventional bridge ramps on the southbound side that will go over the railroad tracks and then on into the west side of town.” Another major part of this job involved the demolition of the existing concrete freeway and asphalt shoulders and on- and off-ramps. In addition to tearing up all of the concrete and asphalt, it was necessary to demo eight bridges. Steve Bubalo Construction Co. was sub-contracted by Skanska/Rados Joint Venture to recycle all of the concrete and asphalt. Then as 100 percent recycled base, the crushed material is hauled back on site, where it is used as sub base and structure backfill. After this, 8 inches of lean concrete base is poured over the recycled base and
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After completion of the sheet-pile shoring, Pile driving commenced for the foundations of the cast in place retaining wall. This wall will support the weight of the railroad.
then a couple of inches of asphalt are put down as a bond breaker. Lastly, a foot of joint plain concrete pavement is then paved into place. This process will be repeated section by section until all 61,000 cubic meters of joint plain concrete pavement (JPCP), 32,000 cubic meters of lean concrete base and 15,000 metric tons of asphalt bond breaker are in place. Another 45,000 tons of hot mix asphalt will be utilized on on- and off-ramps and side streets before jobs end, in addition to 35,000 cubic meters of structural bridge concrete and 27,000 cubic meters of retaining wall concrete. All of the bridges, walls and earthwork were self-performed by Skanska/Rados Joint Venture. Alex, Skanska/Rados Joint Venture continues, “One of the biggest challenges on this project has been the MOT. The major grade differential has created quite a traffic challenge, so much so that the decision was made by the owners to restage the project. Combining certain stages has allowed us to expedite the overall process, resulting in less impact to the public and a completion date www.calcontractor.com
Concrete finishers work on sidewalk grade for one of the bridges on the 215 project.
Barrier crew prepares to form the Access to the work is difficult An excavator helps install beam barrier rail on a bridge. while maintaining traffic around and plate shoring for bridge the work. footings along the railroad ROW.
that may shave as much as six months off of the original schedule. Another reason why this huge undertaking has gone so smoothly is due to the high-end subcontractors that have been hired on. Contractors like Coffman Specialties, who has and will continue to perform most all of the concrete paving and All American Asphalt, who has performed all of the asphalt paving. Other major subcontractors include Foundation Pile, who is doing all of the driven pile work and Anderson Drilling who is performing all of the CDIH pile work.� The Skanska/Rados portion of the I-215 widening project has included some fairly extreme feats of engineering. For instance, two of the bridges constructed as part of this contract had to be jacked into place. Skanska/Rados actually built the bridges approximately 4-feet higher than usual. The bridge is then designed to sit on jacks so that it can be lowered down onto the abutments. This is done in order to create clearance for the workforce that is building falsework underneath the bridge, while continuing to allow traffic to flow safely. www.calcontractor.com
Another major undertaking involved the massive sheet pile shoring built to maintain the integrity of the railroad system. This portion of the job was subbed out to Blue Iron, Inc., who utilized double tie-backs and walers, to construct a mile-long retaining wall as high as 30-feet in the air and 12-feet from the centerline of the outermost track. The sheet pile was used in 50-foot lengths, with 20 feet being imbedded into the soil. Steve P. Rados, Inc. is a Californiabased heavy engineering construction company with a proven record of outstanding performance on diverse projects ranging from bridges, interchanges, streets and highways to water transmission lines, sewer systems, treatment plants, flood control structures, marine pipelines, reservoirs and channels. In business for over 87 years and with projects in almost all 50 states, Steve P. Rados, Inc. maintains offices in both Southern and Northern California in order to provide its clients with responsive and innovative solutions to a wide range of construction challenges. For more information please contact Steve P.
Rados, Inc. at (714) 835-4612 in Santa Ana and (916) 475-1654 in Sacramento or visit them online at rados.companies.com. Headquartered in New York, Skanska USA is one of the largest, most financially sound construction and development companies in the country with expertise in construction, civil infrastructure, public-private partnerships and commercial development initiatives in select U.S. markets. In California, Skanska is well known for constructing roadways and bridges, however their capability also extends far beyond to cover sectors such as earth moving, water and wastewater treatment plants and flood control structures. In California, they maintain a massive equipment fleet, which allows Skanska to mobilize on nearly any site and they own and operate mobile crushers used to recycle asphalt and concrete, which they then sell or use on their jobsites. For more information on Skanska, USA, please visit their website at www. usa.skanska.com/SoCal or call their California headquarters in Riverside, California at 951 368 6406. Cc
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Griffith Company Completes Award Winning Wilmington Waterfront Project On Time Amidst A Myriad of Unforeseen Challenges Wilmington, California community members are now enjoying their new 30acre Wilmington Waterfront Park located in the Port of Los Angeles between one of its busiest container terminals and the adjacent community where 53,000 Wilmington residents live and work. To see the awesome transformation from blight to beauty on this once brownfield site, all one has to
do is look at the before and after pictures. Planning for the $55 million Wilmington Waterfront Project (formerly known as the Harry Bridges Buffer Project) goes clear back to the 1980’s when community members began pushing their support for the transformation of the
area along Avalon Boulevard, beginning at the waterfront and up to C Street. The Wilmington Waterfront Development Subcommittee submitted their final plan in 2004, which called for the development of areas around the intersection of Harry Bridges and Avalon Boulevards, a promenade and other visitor-serving development at the waterfront, as well as an open space
Left: Aerial view of the brownfield site prior to construction. Right: Aerial view of the new Wilmington Waterfront Park reconnecting the community and the waterfront. Above Center: Aerial view with Port and Bay in background. 10
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Right The El Paseo Promenade sports contrasting colored concrete which required our crews to stagger pours. 2nd Right: Pouring the East End Plaza, our crews worked tirelesslyyet safely, without a single lost time incident.
connection between the two. Four community workshops were then held, with comments solicited relative to community access to the waterfront and commercial development. Over 1,000 people attended the final workshops and together with their ideas to take a sustainable, strategic approach to the area, the Wilmington Waterfront Development Project would finally soon become a reality. Construction began in 2009 and the Wilmington Waterfront Park officially opened to the public in 2011. Today, the waterfront park offers 11 acres of green open space, 8 acres of plazas, a waterfront promenade, floating docks for recreational vessels, water features, a 200-foot observation tower, restoration of the old Bekins Storage facility for a Waterfront Red Car Museum, with much more commercial and industrial development to come. Griffith Company was the general contractor on this project and they definitely earned the recognition they received from the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) by recently being awarded the Build America Award. The Build America Awards honor the nation’s outstanding construction projects and the contractors that epitomize excellence in the commercial construction industry. Through the hard work and dedication of 12
their crews and subcontractors, Griffith Company transformed this once depressing industrial area replete with contaminated soil and water to a beautiful community landmark. Griffith Company successfully met a myriad of challenges including issues with: contamination, abatement, permits, design delays, third party interference and utility relocations. Their project management team generated almost 700 RFI’s, responded to 17 delta plan changes and provided proposals to 141 RFQ’s while successfully managing 40 subcontractors, in addition to their own internal crews. In all, Griffith worked over 250,000 hours without a single lost time incident. This in addition to meeting every goal on their partnering charter including those on schedule and cost containment, which is obviously very important to any job owner. The project was full of innovative applications like the use of titanium dioxide coated walls to help absorb vehicle emissions. Griffith Company was also responsible for building a state of the art Iconic Bridge, one of only two cable-stay pedestrian bridges in California. As to environmental sensitivity and green technology features, Griffith Company complied with the most strict diesel emission requirements in the country and constructed storm water capture
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facilities and biofilters that have a minimal impact to the adjacent bay. They also contributed to the community by helping out the neighbors with sandbags and 24 hour pumping during a ten year storm and even painted a wrought iron fence at the local community center. The most important of all of the accomplishments on this project is undoubtably the fact that Griffith was able to provide an amazing facility for the Port and local residents, a place for the neighborhood youth to spend their afternoons on a playground or lounging on the grass. “What made it an award winning project, were the people that were the core of the team, our people, and the subcontractors, who were the unsung heros,” says Sadaqat Rana, Project Manager for Griffith Company. This project also defines the ultimate in environmental enhancement and serves as a buffer that screens the local community from port activities, while creating a recreational venue infused with green technology. The new park occupies an area that is one city block wide by nine city blocks long, To bring the vision to fruition Griffith Company constructed a 16 ft tall, 2,650 ft long landform, undergirded with piles and a series of retaining walls, from which pedestrians and bicyclists are afforded views www.calcontractor.com
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of San Pedro Bay while traveling a wide promenade sheltered with shade trees and ornamental landscaping. The rest of the park gently slopes down to a mix of sloped and level features including large lawns, pavilions, open-space plazas, a terrace, an observation deck and groves of trees. Multiple walkways intersect the park in both directions, providing access to four cast-in-place pedestrian bridges and such amenities as playgrounds, water features, and an amphitheater. A project of this importance and magnitude is usually not completed without at least a few challenges and this job was certainly no exception. For instance, under a previous contract, several years back, buildings were cleared and the contaminated materials on the 30-acre site were mitigated. “Or so we thought”, states, Dan McGrew, Vice President of Griffith Company. “On several occasions, chemically impacted soils (CIS) were encountered by our crews requiring special abatement and handling. In addition, at various locations the team ran across high levels of lead contamination. It took third party permitting agencies eight months to finalize approvals. Almost one fourth of the project (non-contiguous) was unavailable for construction until we abated the lead. This added www.calcontractor.com
to the fact that at the start of our project the grading permit had not been approved, due to the byzantine bureaucracy of the City of Los Angeles. We were more than five months into the project before our major grading could begin. Also, low levels of methane were encountered and another three months were lost waiting on the appropriate permit. As we installed the storm drain system we began a jack and bore operation under a live rail crossing. As we dug our bore pits we discovered an unknown fuel plume in the ground water. Six months later, after the storm drain system was redesigned we went to work. And we still needed to mitigate the ground water. Our dewatering filtration system filtered one million gallons of water each day, treating Total Suspended Solids, Turbidity, Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons, Copper, Nickel and Arsenic in concentrations that exceeded the MCL. The delays continued as the water main feeding the site remained in plan approval with Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) for well over a year, at which point, LADWP informed the Port the waterline would be installed by their own internal crews. The work was removed from our contract and we waited almost another ten months before the work was complete. Once again
our work areas were impacted creating rescheduling and loss of productivity. Our site superintendent worked tirelessly looking ahead and putting the puzzle together as the Port kept handing him different pieces of the job. We knew that we were going to have to do something extraordinary to get this all done on time, so we worked some long hours and some Saturdays and compressed operations. In the end, our project team mitigated these delays by continually re-sequencing the work and moving the critical path forward. We accelerated the project for a nominal agreed price and did not pursue deserved compensation for lost productivity for out of sequence work or extended onsite or office overhead. Instead we rolled up our sleeves and met the needs of the Port and community and finished the park prior to the grand opening event, which was scheduled months in advance. This was another project in which we showed the owner that Griffith Company is the contractor of choice.” The project’s landmark feature is undoubtedly the state-ofthe-art Iconic Bridge. Griffith Company constructed the red, cable-stayed pedestrian bridge that measures 105 feet tall and extends 157 feet long with two columns forming a mast and cables supporting the bridge
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LA City Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the community take the first stroll around the El Paseo Promenade. More than 3,000 people gathered to officially open the Wilmington Waterfront Park. deck that is lined with stainless steel handrails. The Iconic Bridge at Wilmington Waterfront Park is the first bridge of its kind in Los Angeles and only the second cable-stayed pedestrian/ bicycle bridge in the state. Other advanced state-of-the-art features included West Fountain, the Adventure Playground Wet Deck and the Splash Fountain, which utilized reclaimed water. To ensure the health of the thousands of children enjoying the water features, Griffith installed a filtration system using a UV inhibitor that effectively eliminates the bacteria from the water. In addition a chlorine and acid system was installed to control ph and manage algae growth. Construction of the Great Lawn provided outstanding elements as well. The almost six-acre lawn area is comprised of both natural and artificial turf. In fact one third of the area is artificial turf, greatly reducing water usage. Griffith crews installed an underground drain system with slotted pipe and drainage rock that effectively facilitates the infiltration of storm water back into the ground. The westerly natural turf lawn will be used for overflow parking 14
for large events and required an integrated support system to minimize damage with vehicular use. Griffith crews compacted two feet of soil to 95% relative compaction and then placed a special 1” thick plastic honeycomb layer that was filled with topsoil and planted with turf. The Wilmington Waterfront Park has been constructed with many state of the art features and materials that set it apart from the normal community park. One of the interesting materials added to the surfacing of many of the retaining walls was a powder called titanium dioxide. Studies in Europe indicate the titanium dioxide could effectively eliminate up to 45 percent of the nitrogen oxides that touch the augmented surfacing by converting them to nitrates, which are then simply washed away by rainfall. This coupled with the 650 trees and other landscaping Griffith crews planted will certainly continue to enhance air quality around the park. Another unique material for the project was the masonry block used for the four buildings that Griffith Company constructed. Astra-Glaze
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masonry block was utilized on each of the buildings. The glazed units are pre-faced architectural concrete masonry blocks that have a thermoset glazing compound permanently molded to the face. Special proprietary formulations create an impervious, sanitary and chemical-resistant facing. The glazed masonry units are virtually impenetrable by graffiti, spray paint, permanent markers, grease and crayon. In Southern California where graffiti is so widespread, this was definitely a unique and important element. Dan McGrew of Griffith Company concludes: “All of us at the Griffith Company are very proud to have been part of such a tremendous technical achievement. We take our hats off to Sasaki Associates for their outstanding and unique urban design and planning on this project. The whole concept of this project is extraordinary. I am happy to be part of the Griffith Company in utilizing these wonderful innovations and designs, particularly in such an urban industrial area. We were able to take a broken down contaminated waste area and help turn it into a 30-acre paradise.” Cc www.calcontractor.com
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Oakland Airport Connector to keep the city moving Written by: Lacey Krause
When complete, the OAC will provide a safe, reliable and convenient connection between the existing BART line at the Coliseum Station and the Oakland International Airport.
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to the Oakland Airport must exit the train at the Coliseum Station, haul their luggage down the stairs and catch the AirBART bus. AirBART is often delayed as the busses travel along busy Hegenberger Road, causing unpredictable wait times on either end of the route. “The biggest issue for air travelers is the sheer lack of convenience,” said project manager Tony Inocencio. “A lot of people fly out of San Francisco instead of Oakland because they can take BART, which drops them off right
in front of the terminals. This project will offer patrons the very same option here in Oakland.” The OAC is a design-build joint venture between Flatiron and Parsons, with the main subcontractor, Doppelmayr Cable Car, also holding a 20-year operations and maintenance contract. “Doppelmayr is based out of Austria and is worldrenowned for their ski lifts, and they are now using the same technology to develop cablepropelled automated people mover systems around the world,”
Above: Ongoing installation of the guideway. Below: The project included construction of a maintenance facility that can also serve as a future station. Flatiron built the concrete structure and lower floors of the building. Turner Construction will soon begin work to complete the building.
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Top: Crews from Flatiron subcontractor Case work on cast-in-drilled-hole piles on the project. The holes were eight to ten feet in diameter and about 80 feet deep on average. Below: The Oakland Airport Connector project includes construction of 136 columns in Oakland, Calif.
PROJECT DETAILS Start Date: November 2010 End Date: June 2014 Revenue Service Scheduled To Begin: Nov. 1, 2014 Value: $361 million Contract Type: Design-build Owner: Bay Area Rapid Transit District Project Manager: Tony Inocencio, Flatiron
Tony said. “The OAC vehicles will move about by clamping onto one of the four pinched loop cables that run below them.” Once Flatiron has completed the alignment’s 136 cast-in-place columns and bent caps, as well as related utility relocation and a 200-foot cut-and-cover tunnel, Doppelmayr will step in to install a prefabricated tubular steel guideway on which the trains will run. Turner Construction will build the platform portion of the project’s two new stations, as well as the central maintenance and control facility, which has the capacity to become a third station in the future. The driverless trains will depart every four to five 18
minutes, with one train running in each direction and a total ride time of 8.5 minutes. In total, Flatiron used about 40 thousand cubic yards of concrete on the project. The concrete was a combination of 4,000 PSI standard concrete, 4,000 PSI corrosion resistant concrete and 5,000 PSI concrete. Flatiron’s dedication to using local and minority contractors was a big selling point in acquiring the job. “The contract listed an 18 percent disadvantaged business enterprise requirement, but Flatiron committed to 20 percent and put programs in place to meet that goal,” Tony said. Working in an urban
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area like Oakland often means accommodating the needs and schedules of many different agencies and municipalities. “Luckily, Flatiron has people with a positive approach, who partner and figure out how to get things done instead of just saying ‘that’s not our problem,’” Tony said. Flatiron’s previous experience in the Bay Area made the job a natural fit for the company, said Richard Grabinski, vice president and Benicia District manager. “The OAC project is located right in the heart of our district and is a great fit for our resources,” Richard said. “Knowing the area and the work so well has helped us make a smooth transition into the design-build environment.” Cc www.calcontractor.com
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McCarthy Selected as Design-Build Contractor for New $34 Million San Diego County Administration Center Waterfront Park and Parking Structure SAN DIEGO -(September 19, 2012) – Local San Diego residents and visitors can look forward to maximizing their recreational enjoyment of the city’s Pacific Coast waterfront location with the future construction of the San Diego County Administration Center (CAC) Waterfront Park Development project, located along Pacific Coast Highway between Ash and Grape streets in downtown San Diego. McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., (www.mccarthy.com) recently was awarded the $34 million design-build project, which also includes an underground parking garage. McCarthy’s design-build team includes SGPA, architect-ofrecord; Schmidt Design, landscape architect; and IPD (International Parking Design) for the parking portion of the project. The official groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for September 25th, with project completion slated for summer 2014. The CAC Waterfront Park Development project will convert the large eight-acre, on-grade parking lots north and south of the historic Administration Center and the immediate outdoor areas west and east of the building to a large, 12-acre community and regional open space amenity. The park will encompass expansive civic greens, a children’s play area, specialty 20
garden areas, elaborate water features and a public restroom. The single-level, subterranean parking garage, located off Ash Street, will accommodate 254 cars. Site work includes all related underground building systems. “With this project being so close to the waterfront, the underground parking structure poses the most significant challenge since it will require dewatering and substantial shoring,” said Bob Betz, senior vice president of McCarthy. “Managing construction of a large park while the County Administration Center remains operational will also require careful coordination to minimize noise and disruption to employees working in the building.” Since 1938, the San Diego County Administration Center has stood on the San Diego bay front, welcoming residents and visitors alike and symbolizing the ideals of public service as “The noblest motive is the public good.” The McCarthy design-build team has brought aboard a consultant to navigate any
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issues related to the County Administration Center’s historical building status to ensure consistency of integration and integrity. Other consultants involved in the San Diego CAC Waterfront Park project include Sierra Pacific as the site work contractor, Jessen-Wright as the structural engineer, Nasland as the civil engineer, Sparling as the electrical engineer, MA Engineers as the mechanical engineer, and G Force as the environmental engineer. About McCarthy: Recognized as one of the nation’s few true builders, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., is the country’s 8th largest domestic general contractor (Engineering News-Record, May 2012) and the largest general contractor in California. The company is committed to the construction of high performance green buildings; progressive job site technology; and safer, faster and more cost-effective execution. In addition to San Diego, McCarthy has offices in Newport Beach, Sacramento and San Francisco, Calif.; Phoenix; Las Vegas; St. Louis; Dallas; Houston; Atlanta; Albuquerque; and Collinsville, Ill. McCarthy is 100 percent employee-owned. More information about the company is available online at www.mccarthy.com. Cc www.calcontractor.com
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Granite Celebrates 90 Years of Building America In honor of its 90-year anniversary Granite recently hosted commemorative events at more than 40 locations nationwide on Friday, June 1, 2012. These events, including the one at its corporate headquarters in Watsonville, California, were held to recognize the impact Granite has made on building infrastructure projects across America for the past nine decades. “This is an important event for our employees and our company,” said James H. Roberts, Granite president and chief executive officer. “We are honored to be part of such a rich legacy and proud of our teams for the work they do every day to continue to build our future.” “Our Code of Conduct, established nine decades ago by our founding president Walter J. ‘Pop’ Wilkinson, is the
cornerstone of our Core Values and is a central theme of our celebration,” continued Roberts. “Granite’s Core Values fosters trust between our company, our employees and our customers and serve as a guide for how we treat one another. And although Pop’s passing in 1958 marked the end of an era, we remain committed to keeping these values alive for another 90 years.” Offices nationwide held celebrations to recognize employees, and thank customers,
community partners and area dignitaries. During these ceremonies, Granite will bury time capsules and highlight the contributions it has made to the communities in which it works. Since being incorporated in 1922, Granite has grown to become a $2 billion company specializing in building roads, tunnels, bridges, airports and other infrastructure-related projects. Over the company’s 90-year history, it has been involved in constructing some of the nation’s most treasured landmarks including the original road to Yosemite National Park, the California Aqueduct, Highway 101, and more recently Houston’s Rapid Transit Light Rail project and portions of the World Trade Center in New York. Cc
NEWLY COMPLETED CARPOOL LANES ON U.S. ROUTE 101 TO REDUCE CONGESTION IN SONOMA COUNTY Rohnert Park - Caltrans and the Sonoma County Transportation Authority (SCTA) today celebrated the addition of carpool lanes on the U.S. Route 101 Wilfred interchange project in Rohnert Park and the U.S. Route 101 Central project in Petaluma and Cotati. “With more than 20 miles of continuous carpool lanes stretching from Petaluma to Windsor, commuters who use car pools and buses will benefit from reduced travel times,” said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty. “This brings us closer to our goal of less congestion, improved air 22
quality, and increased safety along U.S. Route 101.” The $53 million project added two new carpool lanes, one northbound and one southbound. Both new lanes connect to existing carpool lanes. The project also features improved on and off-ramps, and a new Golf Course Drive undercrossing that connects
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the western and eastern sides of Rohnert Park. The project was financed in part by $29 million in Proposition 1B bond funds. The $82 million Central project features new commuter lanes on U.S. Route 101 from Rohnert Park Expressway to Old Redwood Highway in Petaluma, and was financed with almost $34 million in Proposition 1B funds. In 2006, California voters approved Proposition 1B, investing $19.9 billion in roads, bridges, ports and transit. In total, about $14 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been allocated. Cc www.calcontractor.com
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$745 MILLION IN NEW TRANSPORTATION FUNDING WILL DRIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND UPGRADE STATE’S TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
The California Transportation Commission recently allocated $745 million in new funding to 118 transportation projects that will provide congestion relief for motorists statewide and bolster the state’s economy. The remaining $663 million in allocations came from assorted transportation accounts funded by state and federal dollars. Here is how the funds break out by District. District 1 Highlights of the funding allocations include: • Humboldt County - $11.5 million to construct retaining walls and improve drainage on Route 299 near Blue Lake. • Humboldt County - $3.6 million to install metal beam guardrail at various locations along a 43 mile segment of Route 299. • Mendocino County - $4.1 million to replace a culvert with a bridge to improve fish passage at Dunn Creek on Route 1. District 2 Highlights of the funding allocations include: Siskiyou County • $253,000 allocated for a project 24
in Siskiyou County on State Route 89 in McCloud at Broadway Avenue, to install flashing beacons, paved pedestrian crosswalks, improving safety for vehicles, and pedestrians. • $938,000 allocated for a project in Siskiyou County on State Route 96 near Happy Camp to stabilize the slope and remove slide material and debris damaged by heavy rainfall. • $568,000 allocated for a project in Siskiyou County on State Route 3 near Yreka at Juniper Drive to construct left turn lanes. • $568,000 allocated for a project in Siskiyou County on State Route 97 to install a two-way left turn lane, pavement overlay and improve drainage from south of Maple Avenue to north of First Avenue near Weed. District 3 Highlights of the funding allocations include: • Placer County - $245,000 was awarded to the City of Rocklin for landscaping improvements by planting additional trees near Sierra College Boulevard and Interstate 80 to increase the
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visual impact at this interchange. • Butte County - $7.92 million from the State Highway Operation and Protection Program (SHOPP) to rehabilitate 18.8 lane miles of State Highway 70 near Oroville from Palermo Drive to the Garden Drive Overcrossing to improve ride quality, prevent further deterioration of road surface, minimize the costly roadway repairs and extend the pavement life. • Nevada County - $5.8 million from the State Highway Operation and Protection Program (SHOPP) to rehabilitate 20.8 lane miles of State Highway 20 near Grass Valley and Nevada City from Route 20/49 to Junction 49 at Uren Street to improve ride quality, prevent further deterioration of road surface, minimize the costly roadway repairs and extend the pavement life. • Nevada County - $3.9 million from the State Highway Operation and Protection Program (SHOPP) to rehabilitate 12 lane miles of State Highway 20 near Grass Valley and Nevada City from Indian Springs Road to the Junction of Route 49 to improve ride quality, prevent further deterioration of road surface, minimize the costly roadway repairs and extend the pavement life. District 4 Highlights of the funding allocations include: • Alameda County- $1,174,000 for a Caltrans project to remove and replace old metal median barriers and concrete slab with new concrete median barriers and www.calcontractor.com
concrete slabs. The completed project will reduce needed repairs, crews’ exposure to traffic and provide additional shoulder width. • Contra Costa County$5,868,000 for a Caltrans and Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) project to widen eastbound State Route (SR) 4 in Antioch from Hillcrest Avenue to SR160. The project will widen approximately two miles of SR4 from four to six lanes. • Contra Costa County$18,910,000 for a Caltrans and MTC project to construct auxiliary lanes in both directions of I-680 between Sycamore Valley Road in Danville and Crow Canyon Road in San Ramon. The completed project will include two miles of auxiliary lanes and shoulders with retaining walls and sound walls. • Contra Costa County$18,459,000 for a Caltrans project to rehabilitate bridge decks near Richmond at Scofield Avenue and another location at Western Drive. The project will rehabilitate three bridges by replacing bridge decks to maintain structure integrity District 5 Highlights of the funding allocations include: • $5.8 million to construct the building for the Santa Cruz Metro Base operations by replacing the existing facility with a new environmentally friendly facility that includes solar and water reclamation components. The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (SCCRTC) is cosponsoring this project. District 6 Highlights of the funding allocations include: • An allocation of more than $2,000,000 for a bridge www.calcontractor.com
replacement project on State Route 58 in Kern County near Tehachapi, at the Sand Canyon Undercrossing (Bridge#50-0345L). • An allocation of more than $1,800,000 to rehabilitate pavement on State Route 168 in Fresno County, in and near Prather, from north of Oak Creek Road to north of S & E Road. • An allocation of $50,000 for a railroad depot restoration project in Kingsburg, on California Street, between Draper Street and Earl Streets. District 7 Highlights of the funding allocations include: • $35.7 million to rehabilitate the San Diego Freeway (I-405) from the Hollywood Freeway (US 101) to the Golden State Freeway (I-5) in the San Fernando Valley. • $16.4 million to replace an existing seawall to protect the roadway from sea wave forces, improve a nearby roadway, build a bicycle lane, and construct a public access stairway and an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant ramp to the beach on the Pacific Coast Highway (State Route1) near Ventura. • $12.4 million to rehabilitate 11.9 miles of pavement on I-5 from San Fernando Road to Weldon Canyon Road in the San Fernando Valley. District 10 Highlights of the funding allocations include: • Tuolumne County: $2,885,000 near Buck Meadows at Big Oak Side hill Viaduct on State Route 120, replace deck and seals, and upgrade railing on bridge. • San Joaquin County: $41,779,000 rehabilitate roadway on Interstate 5, from Charter Way to Country Club Boulevard. This includes reconstruction of
the existing eight freeway lanes, widening inside shoulders, reconstructing outside shoulders and auxiliary lanes in order to improve safety and ride quality. • City of Ripon: $400,000 Main Street Phase 2 Enhancements. This includes landscaping, installing new decorative architectural features and streetscape on Main Street, from Acacia Avenue to Industrial Avenue. • City of Jackson: $455,000 construct building and ADA accessibility improvements for the Kennedy Tailing Wheels Park Building. District 11 Highlights of the funding allocations include: • $8.5 million to install ramp metering, closed circuit television, changeable message signs, traffic monitoring stations, fiber optic cable and maintenance pull-outs on State Route 56 and on Interstate 5 (I-5) in San Diego; • $2.6 million for seismic retrofit and bridge improvements at the connector from eastbound State Route 75 to northbound I-5 and at the Interstate 805 Kearney Villa overcrossing in San Diego; and • $2.3 million to install guardrail and concrete barriers along Interstate 8 from Fletcher Parkway to Severin Drive in La Mesa and at Dunbar Lane near Harbison Canyon. District 12 Highlights of the funding allocations include: • $3.1 million for Bristol Street Widening in the City of Santa Ana from Third Street to Civic Center Drive. • $1.2 million to Reconstruct and Revegetate slopes in the Cities of Orange and Anaheim, from Santiago Canyon Road to State Route 91. Cc
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ACPA Urges Bi-Partisan Support of Transportation Authorization Rosemont, Ill. (September 13, 2012) Amid reports that both the U.S. House of Representative and Senate are delaying further consideration of the highway authorization measures until after recess, the American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) is urging strong bi-partisan support of the bill. Unless both bills pass their chambers, we will face short-term extensions of the current, unreformed programs for the foreseeable future and bankruptcy of the Highway Trust Fund within one year. Commenting on the proposal advanced by House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.), ACPA¹s Legislative Issues Task Force Chairman Peter Deem (Industry Associations Consultant for Holcim (US) Inc. ) says, “As proposed, the plan will stabilize highway funding, prioritize the critical needs of the Federal-aid highway system, and reduce the bureaucratic complexities of the program overall. “We are discouraged, however, that there appears to be little bipartisan support of the highway bill. This is a sharp departure from past programs, where elected officials on both sides of the aisle worked together to serve
the best interests of road-users, state agencies, and the Nation as a whole,” he says. “We are also very dismayed to see the move by many Senators to attach extraneous or nongermane amendments in the Senate’s version of the highway bill, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (S. 1813),” he says. “We are very concerned that these amendments will not only slow the progression of the bill, but may in fact threaten the bill all together.” Deem says there are, of course, key differences in both the House and Senate versions of the bill, but the overarching goals of systemic reforms, durable funding mechanisms, and focusing on core priorities are very similar. Once the bills pass the House and Senate, it will be important to resolve the differences as quickly as possible, enact a conference report that can pass both chambers and be signed into law by President Obama. “We are urging our members whose voices and votes number in the thousands to stand up and be counted by contacting their Members of Congress, and asking them to support the pending legislation (H.R. 7 in the House and S. 1813 in the Senate).
“As an industry, we stand united in our hope that Congress will support legislation that meets the spirit and intent of the original sponsors. Investing in our nation¹s surface transportation network is essential to maintaining global competitiveness; continuing economic recovery and furthering economic growth; and creating new jobs “For every day that investments in highways are delayed, it¹s another day that we lose opportunities to be competitive in the global marketplace.” The time for Congress to act on surface transportation authorization is now. The transportation needs of the country are too great, and the impacts on the nation’s economic health and well-being too substantial to delay passage of a surface transportation bill any longer. Cc
New Six-Lane Freeway And Interchange On Highway 99 Will Reduce Congestion And Speed Up Goods Movement MERCED COUNTY- Caltrans and its partners, the Merced County Association of Governments and the city and county of Merced, broke ground today on the $128 million Highway 99 Arboleda 26
Drive Project. The project will construct a new interchange at Arboleda Road and upgrade Highway 99 from a four-lane expressway to a six-lane freeway on a
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seven-mile section just south of Merced between Buchanan Hollow Road and the Miles Creek Overflow. The project is anticipated to be completed in late 2015. Cc www.calcontractor.com
ACPA Names Recipients of 22nd Annual Excellence in Concrete Pavement Awards
Edwards Air Force Base receives new F-35 ramp and security upgrade..
Rosemont, Ill., December 19, 2011 The American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) has named recipients of its 22nd annual “Excellence in Concrete Pavement” awards, which recognize quality concrete pavements constructed in the United States and Canada. The awards program encourages high-quality workmanship in concrete pavement projects, and serves as a forum for sharing information about highly successful projects. Judges representing various stakeholder groups throughout the transportation-construction community evaluate projects. The program recognizes contractors, engineers, and project owners who completed www.calcontractor.com
outstanding projects. One of the requirements of the program is that a projects must be completed in the calendar year prior to judging, which is the project descriptions show dates of 2010 or earlier. The award winners include 25 ACPA contractor members, and were distributed geographically among 17 different regions represented by 15 ACPA-affiliated Chapter/States. ACPA presents awards in both gold and silver levels. Judging is based on a point system, with independent judges awarding points for quality construction, addressing unique and unusual challenges, innovation, traffic management, and other criteria. In the case of ties, award judges present awards to co-winners.
This California projects that received the 2011 ACAPA Excellence Awards Include: Project: F-35 Ramp and Security Upgrade (Design-Build), Main Base Runway, Phase 4, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Contractor: Interstate Highway Construction, Inc. Owner: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer: CH2M Hill, Inc. This $10.5 million design-build project included replacement of the runway wings and keel section, as well as construction of a new parking ramp for the much anticipated F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft and speed of delivery standpoint. The project scope included removal and replacement of 32,540 SY of 12.5 in. and 20.5 in. concrete on the runway, with 21,230 SY of 12.5 in. concrete and 5,780 SY of 6 in. concrete shoulders. Other work included airfield electrical, structure adjustments, high security fencing, tie downs, monitoring well adjustments, blast deflector installation, observation tower demolition and miscellaneous structural removals. Awarded in July 2009, the design began immediately, but aircraft testing and the Space Shuttle schedule dictated a January 2010 construction start. Further delayed by unusual rainfall and the addition of a hydrant and piping system, schedule setbacks were averted by performing the ramp and runway work concurrently. Cc
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Caltrans Welcomes New District 12 Director Ryan Chamberlain
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IRVINE - On September 6, Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty announced the appointment of Ryan Chamberlain as the District 12 Director, overseeing all department functions within Orange County. The appointment will be effective September 17. “Having been born and raised in Orange County, I have seen the County grow and mature into the economic hub that it is today,² said Chamberlain. “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to come home and work with our many public and private sector partners and stakeholders in continuing to improve mobility and safety for all travel modes throughout California.” Ryan joined Caltrans over 12 years ago and has held positions in Local Assistance, Environmental Planning and Transportation Planning. He has extensive experience in the transportation sector in Caltrans Headquarters and Districts 7 and 12. As Deputy District Director of Planning and Local Assistance in District 12, Ryan worked cooperatively with regional and local agencies in developing partnerships, policy, transportation plans, and provided guidance on a wide range of planning concepts and current practices. Most recently, Ryan served as the Caltrans Division Chief of Transportation Planning in Sacramento where he managed a program of approximately 650 positions statewide predominantly under Project Studies, Systems and Goods Movement, State, Regional, and Local Planning. Prior to joining Caltrans, Ryan worked on environmental compliance and geospatial mapping at PBQ &D in Orange. Ryan graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a degree in Environmental Studies and considers himself a lifelong learner who embraces innovation in both his professional and personal life. Ryan will be relocating back to Orange County with his wife Jodi, son Lucas, and daughter Alexa. Cc
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Established in 1983, American Asphalt Repair & Resurfacing Co., Inc. is a full-service asphalt maintenance contractor with offices in Hayward and Fontana, California. Today the company works primarily in the public works, commercial, private, industrial and residential sectors with an emphasis on: asphalt repairs, new construction, Petromat overlays, concrete construction, seal coating, slurry seal resurfacing, crack filling, striping and ADA compliance, as well as general sweeping and cleanup work. Steve Aguirre is the Chief Operating Officer for American Asphalt Repair & Resurfacing Co., Inc. and comments, “In order to keep up on our production rate, we run our machinery at a very high level and our Wirtgen fleet has never let us down. We recently purchased our third Wirtgen machine from Nixon-Egli Equipent Co. and this Wirtgen W 120 is truly a working beast. We go with Wirtgen simply because they manufacturer a high quality machine that is well built from top to bottom and requires low maintenance. Our new Wirtgen W 120 is the perfect sized machine for the Small to Mid-Size parking lot work we have been doing so much of lately. It is also extremely versatile in many other applications and the folding conveyor belt feature makes it ideal for transporting. Jason Lacey is our sales representative from Nixon-Egli and he and the entire staff have always provided prompt, excellent service whenever we have needed them for maintenance or repairs. Even to the point of meeting us in the field for repairs in order to keep us on schedule. We sincerely appreciate everything that Nixon-Egli has done for our company over the years.”
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