California Builder and Engineer articles from August 2006

California Builder and Engineer archives from August 2006

California Construction Statistics.
August 7, 2006... Staff Public Buildings And Heavy Construction Year-To-Date Comparisons: 2005-2006 Public works construction in May 2006 totaled $2.1 billion, down 37 percent from April, but up 17.3 percent over May 2005. Public building in May was up...

Caterpillar Launches M-Series Motor Graders.
August 7, 2006... Staff New graders feature joystick control for easier, more efficient operation Motor graders have been built by Caterpillar Inc. since 1931, and a motor grader was the first product manufactured at the brand-new Caterpillar Decatur,...

GPS, Sensors And Color Codes.
August 7, 2006... By Loren Faulkner rete company claims efficiency and better use of trucks are the payoffs for converting to monitoring system The days of ready-mix cement truck drivers leaving the yard and returning hours later with barely a check-in...

"Bracing Berkeley" Seismic Report.
August 7, 2006... Staff Richmond, Calif.-- The University of California, Berkeley, undertook one of the most comprehensive and costly seismic retrofit programs in history. Though never damaged by a major earthquake, it was the threat of future destruction...

Northern California Development Makes Progress.
August 7, 2006... Staff Alamo, Calif.-- Transcan Development, LLC was recently awarded the marketing and leasing contract for County Crossings in Antioch, Calif., by CB Richard Ellis (CBRE). Projected to be the largest retail development in the San...

CRA's Chuck Maltese to Retire.(California Rental Association)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Staff Indian Wells, Calif.-- Chuck Maltese , executive director of the California Rental Association since 1988, recently announced his retirement from the organization. Maltese's retirement was effective June 30. "Chuck has given CRA...

Ray Imhoff Passes Away.(Obituary)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Staff Ray Nelson Imhoff passed away at his home in Concord, Calif., May 12, 2006, at age 87. Mr. Imhoff was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 2, 1919. His grandfather Nelson brought the family to California when he was six months old. Ray...

Construction Signals Mixed.
August 7, 2006... Staff Washington, D.C.-- "A surge in nonresidential construction spending in April nearly offset a slowdown in single-family home building and improvements," said Ken Simonson, chief economist of The Associated General Contractors of...

Long Beach Port Plans.
August 7, 2006... Staff Long Beach, Calif.-- PinnacleOne, a national construction consulting firms, announced that it has been selected to provide construction management services for the Port of Long Beach, California's Pier E Terminal Redevelopment...

$79 Million In Construction Contracts For L.A. Community College District.
August 7, 2006... Staff Los Angeles, Calif.-- The Los Angeles Community College District announced that it awarded $79,642,640 in construction contracts in May 2006 to businesses for construction and upgrade projects at three of its nine colleges. Each...

CRA Names Blackwell New Executive Director.(California Rental Association, Dale Blackwell)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Staff The board of directors of the California Rental Association last week announced that Dale Blackwell , Aba Daba Rents, Sacramento, Calif., has been named new executive director of CRA. Blackwell replaces Chuck Maltese who retired June...

Kalb's Q & A for California Contractors.
August 7, 2006... Staff The Better Business Bureau has advised for many years that if "something sounds too good to be true, it likely is." "Generally" speaking, that caution often extends to what you may hear about contractor licenses as our first question...

New Corporate Center Construction.(Kelly Corporate Center IV)(Brief article)
August 7, 2006... Staff Construction is wrapped up for Kelly Corporate Center IV, a new 77,500-square-foot concrete tilt-up office building within Kelly Corporate Center, located at 1000 Aviara Parkway in Carlsbad, Calif. San Diego-based Smith Consulting...

Editor's Report.
August 21, 2006... By Loren Faulkner Nearly everyone agrees air quality needs drastic improvement in Southern California, including participation in the process by the construction industry in general. But what happens when proposed rules are so expensive or...

Workhorse In Lemon Cove.(Company overview)
August 21, 2006... By Mike Crummy Quarry operation handles hard granite with new breaker. For some people, the word "granite" conjures up images of academic buildings on a college campus or perhaps a really nice stone countertop in the neighbor's...

IECA Field Day DEMO.(International Erosion Control Association Environmental Connection 2006 conference)
August 21, 2006... By Tara Deering Contractors Learn to Successfully Install Erosion Control Products with Compact Equipment As part of the International Erosion Control Association (IECA) Environmental Connection 2006 conference in Long Beach,...

Construction Vehicles: Assets Or Liabilities?
August 21, 2006... By Gary H. Gokey, CSP, ARM Steps for an effective fleet management program Are your company vehicles, either those that are incidental or primary to the business, costing you too much money to operate or are they actually a benefit to...

Liberty Station Grows.
August 21, 2006... By Loren Faulkner New construction as well as redesigning of older buildings continues at San Diego's Liberty Station, a multimillion-dollar re-creation of the city's former Naval Training Center. First built in 1921, the 361-acre military...

Fall Protection Could Save Your Life ...
August 21, 2006... By Greg Cole If you are working in construction, then you already know that falls are a major concern on your job sites. One statistic estimates that about 1,000 construction workers will be killed on the job this year -- and of them, 33...

Important Construction Agreement Made.
August 21, 2006... Staff Sacramento, Calif.-- In July, five AGC of California members signed a partnership agreement with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), members of the Small Business Council, and representatives from the Consulting...

D3 Settles In At El Cajon.(D3 Equipment)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Staff El Cajon, Calif.-- D3 Equipment, a Case construction equipment dealer, is up and running at their new San Diego County location at 1475 Pioneer Way, in El Cajon. D3 had formerly been located in North San Diego. D3's other locations...

Construction Under Way At Moreau Catholic High School.(TBI Construction & Construction Management Inc.)(Brief article)
August 21, 2006... Staff Hayward, Calif.-- TBI Construction & Construction Management, Inc., a general contractor and construction manager in the greater Bay Area, has begun construction on a new three-story building addition and interior modifications at...