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 By 2015, the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center in California will be able to keep providing comprehensive emergency, trauma and inpatient services even after a major disaster, thanks to a 448,000-square-foot acute care hospital that is currently under construction.
The $887.4 million building will be nine stories tall with tw...
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 One might be tempted to give up when weighed down with a lot of work but not enough resources to get it all done. But for Jay Loomis, a civil engineer for the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT), surviving challenges is all about being surrounded by the right people an...
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 Having completed the first stage of preliminary design, CDM Constructors Inc. has been selected by the city of Stockton, Calif., to work on the second stage of the Delta Water Supply project. This design/build effort will provide a new supplemental water supply for the Stockton area by pumping water from th...
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 All across America, great things have been accomplished when people pitched in to help improve a community. Such a story can be found in Rio Rancho, N.M., where Hewlett-Packard decided to construct a new customer contact center at a time when the stock market crashed, followed by the housing market co...
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 The prestigious San Diego Yacht Club has been in its current location at Point Loma since 1924, and in existence since 1886. So when the club planned to renew its 40-year lease with the San Diego Unified Port District, it included a complete rebuild of its support facilities.
“In order to re...
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 Whether a company has been in business for nine years or nine decades, fair pricing is an issue that never ceases to stir debate. In the commercial lighting world, now more than ever, pricing is a hot topic. What does “fair” mean? How does a lighting distributor ensure that it is...
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 In penitentiaries, moving boulders used to be punishment. But for Connolly-Pacific Co., it is profit. “It’s amazing how much rock we can push off the big barges,” marvels Ollie Schergat, captain. “The big barges hold from 4,000 tons to 4,500 tons of rock, and the smaller ones ho...
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 Choosing the right name for your small construction business can have a huge impact on its success. But what about your business phone number? Does it really matter what number you have, as long as it’s printed correctly on your trucks, business cards, product literature, website, e-mails and other materials? Ac...
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 California Construction Looking Bleak California’s construction industry will build fewer projects and employ fewer people through at least 2015, according to the National Association of Business Economics. As a result, the hard-pressed industry will generate fewer emissions for at least the same time period, giving California time to revise its em...
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 As it stands now, North Las Vegas’ 44-year-old City Hall is not very functional. Originally built in 1966 to serve the city’s population of 36,000, the town’s growth has almost made it unusable with city offices scattered across multiple locations. “The building is very old and too small to se...
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