California Builder and Engineer articles from October 2006

California Builder and Engineer archives from October 2006

California Construction Statistics.(public works)
October 2, 2006... Staff Public Buildings And Heavy Construction Year-To-Date Comparisons: 2005-2006 Year-to-date, public works construction totaled $14.4 billion, a 32.5-percent jump over the first seven months of 2005. Public works construction in...

California Asphalt Update 2006.
October 2, 2006... By P.T. Hill Volatility in crude oil prices has contractors and public works officials scrambling nationwide. While price fluctuates in any normal construction season, the past two years have seen such a high level of increase and...

Inland Empire Energy Plant.
October 2, 2006... By Loren Faulkner The $500-million-plus Inland Empire Energy Center is moving forward in construction in Romoland, Calif. The cutting-edge technology used for this plant includes the first General Electric H System to be used in the United...

Vulcan Materials Gets Top Awards.
October 2, 2006... By Loren Faulkner Community Involvement, Environmental Performance and Safety are the categories. Although the Irwindale, California, asphalt plant of Vulcan Materials Company recently pulled in a national award from NAPA (National...

Daniel Boyle Engineering Merging With Psomas.(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Staff Los Angeles, Calif.-- Psomas has announced the signing of a letter of intent to merge with Daniel Boyle Engineering, Inc. Steven Winchester, Psomas vice president and head of the company's water division, said, "This merger is in...

40 Years of Service Recognized.
October 2, 2006... Staff Los Angeles, Calif.-- Bobcat Company, a business of Ingersoll Rand, a diversified industrial firm, has recognized a California dealership for its exemplary service in providing customers with Bobcat compact equipment. The following...

Sukut Construction Announcements.
October 2, 2006... Staff Santa Ana, Calif.-- Sukut Construction recently announced that Dave Grattan has been promoted to lead the company's new environmental division. As division president, Grattan will head up Sukut's specialized team of environmental...

Acute Care Pavillion.
October 2, 2006... Staff San Diego, Calif.-- McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., www.mccarthy.com , is performing preconstruction services on behalf of the Children's Hospital and Health Center for its proposed new 279,000-square-foot Acute Care Pavilion,...

SDWD Garners Awards.
October 2, 2006... Staff San Diego, Calif.-- The city of San Diego Water Department has announced that four of its Capital Improvements Projects (CIP) were selected to receive awards by local professional associations. The San Diego International Chapter of...

Kalb's Q & A for California Contractors.
October 2, 2006... Staff I often hear from people who work in the construction industry who want to become licensed contractors. They are doing the right thing, which makes answering our first question more difficult. Other news from the latest CSLB meeting...

Construction Starts Summary.
October 16, 2006... Staff How To Use the Construction Starts Summary: The information on this page reports non-residential construction activity in the region by contract value. The chart at the bottom of the page tracks cumulative starts for all...

Editor's Report.
October 16, 2006... By Loren Faulkner By the time this issue of California Builder & Engineer magazine is in our readers' hands, it will be just a couple of weeks away from voting time in November. Five important bond measures summarized below deserve -- in...

The Last Mile.(steel pipeline construction)
October 16, 2006... By Loren R. Faulkner J.F. Shea finishes up placing a seven-mile stretch for San Diego Pipeline Number 6. Probably the last thing J.F. Shea excavating crews expected to unearth werehuman remains. But while digging by a creek bed near...

One Car, Two Engines, 350 MPH.
October 16, 2006... By Steve Hudson JCB sets a new land speed record for a diesel-powered car. It isn't every day that someone sets a new land speed record, particularly in a diesel-powered car. But that's exactly what happened a few weeks ago -- not once...

MWD Upgrading Rialto Pipeline.
October 16, 2006... Staff San Bernardino, Calif.-- Improvements to a major pipeline bringing imported water to 1.5 million residents in eastern Los Angeles and western San Bernardino counties have been authorized by the board of directors of the Metropolitan...

UC revises construction contracts and procedures.
October 16, 2006... Staff The University of California announced its completion first phase of a comprehensive process to review and revise the university's construction contracts and procedures. The modified contracts and procedures will help eliminate, or...

SCCA awards 15 student scholarships.
October 16, 2006... Staff The Southern California Contractors Association presented 15 scholarships to students enrolled in construction oriented college programs at its annual Scholarship Awards Banquet, held August 9 at the Phoenix Club in Anaheim. Dr....

5th Street Bridge.
October 16, 2006... Staff San Bernardino, Calif.-- HDR, a world-wide architectural, engineering and consulting firm, will be a consultant for Jacobs Civil Engineering, a local firm, on a $27-million project called the 5th Street Bridge. The project is the...

Navy Broadway Complex.
October 16, 2006... Staff San Diego, Calif.-- SCS Engineers has been retained to conduct environmental due diligence for a 14-acre site of the Navy Broadway Complex, located on West Broadway and Pacific Highway in downtown San Diego. SCS Engineers was...

Noyo River Bridge Awarded.
October 16, 2006... Staff A California project has been named along with nine other national winners in Portland Cement Association's (PCA) 10th Biennial Bridge Awards Competition. The competition, instituted in 1988, recognizes excellence in design and...

Safety Counts!(employee safety training)(Column)
October 16, 2006... By Mark McLaughlin Unsafe Attitudes = Workplace Woes (Editor's Note: Mark McLaughlin is director of Communications for MANCOMM and American Safety Training, Inc., www.mancomm.com .) Self-improvement professionals will tell you...