Tag: california

July 9, 2024

In total, the project will cost $12.8 billion, according to the San Jose Spotlight. The price tag is a far cry from the original figure of $4.7 billion in 2014, KQED reported. This isn’t Bechtel’s first time working on the […]

January 12, 2024

The website features a map that spotlights numerous projects, from a solar energy storage site in Kings County north of Los Angeles to a new border crossing facility in San Diego and Bosch’s $1.5 billion investment in a chip fab […]

December 6, 2023

A pair of grants are set to boost two major West Coast intercity passenger rail projects. The U.S. Dept. of Transportation awarded $3.1 billion for California High-Speed Rail construction and $3 billion toward building the planned Brightline West project to […]

November 30, 2023

California agencies with tens of billions of dollars of construction in the works joined more than 40 other groups around the country on Nov. 20 in a movement to drive contracting opportunities for historically underutilized businesses, known as HUBs. Fourteen […]

November 8, 2023

Progressive design-build continues to gain momentum across the United States, especially in California, according to panelists at the 2023 Design-Build Conference and Expo in Washington, D.C., last week. “We had over 160 design-build related bills introduced,” said Richard Thomas, director […]

June 23, 2023

Granite Construction is steadily paving a path through its home state of California. The Watsonville-based contractor said the California DOT awarded it a $48 million contract to add a new peak-period carpool lane to Highway 101 near Montecito as part […]

September 29, 2022

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a California commercial framing and drywall contractor for national origin and sexual harassment, alleging supervisors addressed Latino workers with racial slurs and threatened to sexually assault them. The EEOC’s suit against Orange County, […]

September 28, 2022

The Sept. 28 signing by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) of bills aimed at addressing the state’s need for affordable housing is expected to facilitate construction of millions of new units for low- and middle-income residents and create more than […]

August 22, 2022

California doesn’t mess around. The state takes sustainability seriously and ranked 10th among the 2019 Top 10 States for LEED, according to the USGBC. CALGreen is California’s first green building code and the first in the nation state-mandated green building […]

July 20, 2022

Sacramento-based Otto Construction has been selected as ENR California’s 2022 Contractor of the Year. The 75-year-old company boasts a strong portfolio of projects across Northern and Central California that include senior living complexes, historical renovations, educational facilities and healthcare buildings. […]

September 2, 2021

The development was deemed essential despite the shelter-in-place orders in California during the height of the pandemic. As construction work continued, the project team partnered with Prescient, maker of a pre-designed and pre-engineered framing system. With this system, the project […]

July 12, 2021

California and the Northwest’s top contractors reported steady gains in regional revenue in 2020—despite setbacks due to COVID-19 and the year’s unprecedented wildfires—thanks to solid backlogs and continued strength in the government and multifamily sectors. Looking ahead, contractors expect continued […]

May 21, 2021

The drought response proposal is part of Newsom’s California Comeback Plan, a $100 billion investment to help the state recover from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The plan includes expanded tax rebates for two-thirds of Californians and aid for […]

March 19, 2021

Petaluma, Calif., recently banned the construction of new gas stations within the city limits. The city totals less than 15 square miles and has 16 gas stations. A new law caps the number of stations at 16, even if some […]

January 21, 2021

Brian Kelly, the authority’s CEO, disputed Tutor Perini’s claims to the Times and said that the letter was an attempt to blame project difficulties on “everybody else,” but that it would review the general contractor’s claims. Another CHSRA official told […]

May 15, 2020

Since the coronavirus outbreak hit the U.S., construction leaders across the country have worried that infrastructure projects like road and bridge construction could suffer as state DOT revenue declines and that federal funding could be waylaid as Congress turns its […]

May 3, 2019

Despite the California high-speed rail project being scaled down to a more manageable — and cheaper — scale, the agency governing the project still had to deliver bad news to California lawmakers on Wednesday via its latest project update. The […]

January 31, 2019

CEQA is often used as a big stick by environmentalists or others opposed to a California development because protests under the act can delay a project for a significant period of time. Being able to leapfrog over some of the […]

September 27, 2018

Streetcar projects provide even more opportunities for contractors experienced with building light rail systems since they often have many of the same characteristics like the construction of stations, tracks, associated infrastructure and sometimes the relocation or addition of electric and […]

July 23, 2018

Devcon Construction has built some of Silicon Valley’s most innovative structures, but its work extends far beyond the tech industry, with a diverse portfolio of nonprofit, institutional and large-scale development projects. The Milpitas, Calif.-based firm is on pace for about […]