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2007 Distinguished Project Awards

Griffith Observatory Renovation and ExpansionProject

The Griffith Observatory is a world-class icon, a cultural landmarkof Los Angeles, and it appeared in many Hollywood movies. Theobservatory is a national leader in public astronomy with morethan two million visitors every year.

The project is the observatory's first major capital improvementsince its opening in 1935. The project's goal is to renovate andexpand the existing observatory from 27,302 sf. to 60,000 sf. Toaccount for the historical nature of the building, we decided toexpand the facility underground to retain the aesthetic quality ofthe historic facade and the front lawn. The expansion is achievedby underpinning the existing building and addition below theexisting front lawn.

Category: Construction Management

Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, CA

Cost$93 million

Start dateOctober 28, 2002

Completion dateSeptember 15, 2006

OwnerCity of Los Angeles, Department ofRecreation and Parks

Construction ManagerCity of Los Angeles,Dept.of Public Works

Bureau of Engineering, ConstructionManagement Division

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Glenn Singley, ChairLADWPDir.,Water Eng. & Tech. Svcs.PO Box 51111, Room 1336-BLos Angeles, CA 90051-0100Tel: (213) 367-0866Fax: (213) 367-3775Email: [email protected]

Bob Roessel, Vice ChairSRPManager, System Design, E&CSPO Box 52025, MS XCT315Phoenix,AZ 85072Tel: (602) 236-8648Fax: (602) 236-5905Email: [email protected]

Lee Willoughby, TreasurerJudicial Council of CaliforniaAsst. Dir. For Design and Construction2880 Gateway Oaks Drive, Suite 300Sacramento, CA 95833Tel: (916) 263-1493Fax: (916) 263-1329Email: [email protected]

John Carrillo, Past ChairAT&TDir. Corporate RE Property Mgmt.2600 Camino Ramon, Room 3E451San Ramon, CA 94583Tel: (925) 867-8985Fax: (925) 901-1007Email: [email protected]

Mark Stapke, Legal CounselMichelman & Robinson, LLP15760 Ventura Blvd., #500Encino, CA 91436Tel: (818) 783-5530Fax: (818) 783-5507Email: [email protected]

Tom BrozABS ConsultingMgr. of Prog. & CM300 Commerce Drive, Suite 200Irvine, CA 92602-1300Tel: (714) 734-2510Fax: (714) 734-4272Email: [email protected]

Graham DodsonJacobs EngineeringVice President, Los Angeles OperationsPO Box 6025, Suite 100Cypress, CA 90630Tel: (714) 503-3639Fax: (714) 503-3982Email: [email protected]

John EconomidesSan Diego County Water Authority4677 Overland AveSan Diego, CA 92123Tel: (858) 522-6000Fax: (858) 522-6568Email: [email protected]

Kenneth HancockExxonMobilMechanical Manager3700 W. 190th Street,Admin Bldg 218 Torrance, CA 90504Tel: (310) [email protected]

Neal HorowitzBP West Coast Products LLCMaintenance & Engineering Manager1801 E. Sepulveda Blvd.Carson, CA 90749-6210Tel: (310) 816-8800Fax: (310) 816-8279Email: [email protected]

Jim KilcourseAmgen, Inc.Executive DirectorOne Amgen Center Drive, M/S 38-4-BThousand Oaks, CA 91320-1799Tel: (805) 447-3499Fax: (805) 499-9827Email: [email protected]

Phil KirbyFaithful+GouldRegional Vice President-Pacific3020 Old Ranch Parkway, Suite 180Seal Beach, CA 90740Tel: (562) 314-4200 x4204Fax: (562) 314-4201Email: [email protected]

Ken LearAT&TDirector, Planning, Design & Construction2600 Camino Ramon, Room 3E452San Ramon, CA 94583Tel: (925) 823-1070Fax: (925) 901-1007Email: [email protected]

Guy MehulaLos Angeles Unified School District333 South Beaudry Ave, 23rd FloorLos Angeles, CA 90017Tel: (213) 241-4811Fax: (213) 241-8384Email: [email protected]

Rick RuskDepartment of General ServicesChief, Project Management Branch707 Third Street, Suite 3-350 W. Sacramento, CA 95605Tel: (916) 376-1717Fax: (916) 376-1741Email: [email protected]

James TreadawayCity of Los AngelesDivision Engineer200 N. Spring St., City Hall, Rm 1400Los Angeles, CA 90012Tel: (213) 978-1932Fax: (213) 978-1944Email: [email protected]

Gene WakenCorey Delta ConstructionCEOPO Box 637Benecia, CA 94510Tel: (707) 747-7500Fax: (707) 745-5619Email: [email protected]

Peter WattsSan Manuel Band of Mission IndiansDirector of Project Development26569 Community Center DriveHighland, CA 92346Tel: (909) 864-8933Fax: (909) 864-5256Email: [email protected]

Executive DirectorAndrew Wiktorowicz, P.E.Western Council31320 Via Colinas, Suite 120 Westlake Village, CA 91362Tel: (818) 735-4733Fax: (818) 735-4738Email: [email protected]

31320 Via Colinas, Ste 120, West Lake Village, CA 91362(818) 735- 4733 • www.wccc.org

2007 Board of Directors

HONORABLE MENTION AWARD WINNER


Mt. San Antonio Science Building

Category: Buildings

The project also includes an exhibit and demonstrationareas, including an interactive “exploratorium” andinstructional museum designed to promote scientificinquiry and exploration for students and the general pub-lic.

The new building included modern instructional labora-tories; student collaborative activity areas faculty, staff,and division offices; meeting and conference rooms; labo-ratory support areas, including stock rooms, specimenand supply storage, instrumentation and hazardous andpathogen materials control.

In addition, the project includes rooftop instructionalareas, including astronomical observation center, speci-men greenhouse, meteorological receiving stations, anddemonstration solar panel array; instructional equipmentlaboratory instrumentation, classroom technology, andfurnishings to support science programs.

The Science Building was required by Mt. San AntonioCollege to be open on August 28th, 2006 for the start ofthe fall session. This proved very difficult due to therecord rainfall Southern California experienced the win-ter of 2005. Weather delays of three months along with$1,500,000 in owner-added scope provided an interestingschedule challenge for the project team. The schedulewas recovered through re-sequencing the logic of theconstruction schedule, adding resources, both equipmentand manpower, as well as adjusting delivery dates onequipment.

As a result the schedule was met and students filled theseats in the new building as expected. The project teamof Phil Valadez, Superintendent; Jerry Jones, Senior

Project Manager; Chandra Sutton, Assistant ProjectManager; and Cindi Short, Project Engineer are to becongratulated for never giving up and for finding solu-tions to every problem that arose during those finalmonths.

Cost$25 million

Start dateDecember 6, 2004

Completion dateAugust 20, 2006

DesignerNTD Architects

OwnerMount San Antonio College

ConstructionManagersBovis Lend Lease

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HONORABLE MENTION AWARD WINNER

Lab interior

Mt. San Antonio Science Building completed

Steel frame going up, February 2005

This project extensively modified DCT's activated sludgetreatment process to reduce nitrogen compounds in theDCT effluent to comply with forthcoming nitrogen com-pound limits mandated by the Regional Water QualityControl Board (RWQCB). This project installed five baf-

Category: Industrial Process/Manufacturing

Phase I Aeration Tank #1 Baffle Installation

fles, internal recycle pumps, mechanical mixers andadditional process monitoring and control equipmentin each of the 18 aeration basins. Additionally, the aer-ation system in each basin was replaced, with City-fur-nished aeration equipment, creating anoxic and aera-tion zones needed for the nitrogen removal treatmentprocess. This project also replaced the return activatedsludge (RAS) systems with larger capacity pumps, pip-ing and valves. DCT's power distribution system wasalso upgraded by the addition of motor control centers,electrical substations. All instrumentation and controlequipment was connected to DCT's computerized net-work distributed control system. DCT remained inoperation during this “overhaul” of its treatmentprocess.

Cost$34.5 million

Start dateApril 6, 2004

Completion dateJanuary 8, 2007

DesignerCity of Los Angeles,Department of Public Works,Bureau of Engineering

OwnerCity of Los Angeles

ConstructorKiewit Pacific Co.


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EXCEPTIONAL AWARD WINNER

Nitrogen Removal Conversion ProjectDonald C.Tillman Water Reclamation Plant

RAS Wetwell top deck forming & PVC liner installation

Phase I Aeration System Testing

City of San ClementeTalega Fire Station

Category: Buildings

The City of San Clemente has a new3,510-acre master planned communi-ty called Talega. This community sitsin the coastal hills North of the maincoastal part of the City. The City hadan existing fire station that served theNorth part of the City, but that sta-tion was only capable of housing oneengine company. With the develop-ment of the Talega community, anew, larger station was needed whichwas capable of housing two firefight-ing companies-be they engine ortruck.


What made the planning, design andconstruction of this new fire stationunique was the fact that the City ofSan Clemente contracts with theOrange County Fire Authority for fireservices, but the City owns the firestations located within its City limits.This situation only occurs in oneother city out of the 22 cities thatreceive fire-fighting services fromOCFA. As such, during the plan-ning, design and construction of theTalega Fire Station, both the City ofSan Clemente and the OrangeCounty Fire Authority (OCFA) wereheavily involved.

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Cost$3.1 million

Start dateNovember 1, 2004

Completion dateJanuary 24, 2006

ArchitectRRM Design Group

OwnerCity of San Clemente

Construction ManagerABS Consulting Inc.

Talega sight

Construction underway

Talega Fire Station completed


Category: Buildings

BP Flare Continuous Sulfur Analyzer & Sample Conditioning SystemMangan worked with BP Carson Refinery,Thermoelectron, and Jacobs Engineering to partnerwith the local regulatory agency, SCAQMD, to createthe world's first ever continuous Flare SulfurAnalyzer. The team pooled their expert technicalknowledge of flares, analyzers, sample systems, dataacquisition, and sulfur detectors to build this worldclass, innovative system. This analyzer has set thestandard for all other refineries in Southern Californiafor sulfur emissions from flares.

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Cost$3.5 million

Start dateJanuary 7, 2005

Completion dateMarch 15,2006

Design TeamMangan Inc., JacobsEngineering,Thermoelectron

OwnerBP

ConstructorJacobs Field Services North America

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employment opportunity.

Conversion of Costco Warehouseto New Magnolia Police StationThe City of Riverside conducted a search for a site to locatethe new Westside Police Precinct. During that search anexisting building was found that could potentially be con-verted into the police facility and thus save money as com-pared to building a brand new building from scratch. Thisexisting building was a former “Costco” warehouse that hadbeen closed and then subsequently acquired by Life Bank.Life Bank had converted half of this existing 104,000-square-foot warehouse into office space and had leased theother half out to an ice skating rink.

When the City of Riverside reviewed the Life Bank facility,they saw an existing facility of approximately 66,000 squarefeet, which had 56,000 square feet of office space and 10,000square feet of warehouse storage. This seemed like a naturalfit for a police precinct, which required both office spaceand a warehouse-type storage area for evidence/propertystorage. The City felt that it might be possible to just moveright in with minimal changes being made.

When the City of Riverside advertised for Statements ofQualifications for A/E Services for the conversion of theLife Bank facility into the City's new West Precinct PoliceFacility in October 2003, the City was looking for an A/Eteam that could design the conversion and one that couldpossibly manage the construction of the conversion. TheCity was also looking for a team that could complete the


Category: Buildings

Finished entry monument for the new Magnolia Police Station


design and construction within six months and for a prede-termined construction budget of $4.8 million. The City'santicipation of a quick schedule and small budget was basedon a concept of making minimal changes to the interior ofthe facility. The city's thought was to just repaint, recarpet,structurally upgrade to “essential facility” standards, andmove in.

As a result of the Statement of Qualifications submissionand follow-on shortlist interview, the ABS Consulting teamwas selected to perform the design and management theconstruction of the project envisioned as a simple, “patchand paint” project. The ABS Consulting team was selectedfor three prime reasons. First, it was lead by a structuralengineering firm; second, that same lead firm was also aprogram and construction management firm, and; third,during the shortlist interview, the team had presented a“fast-track” approach and a design concept that potentiallywould complete the project in nine months (six months wasnot achievable in the team's opinion), and within the $4.8million construction budget.

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Cost$8.4 million

Start dateFebruary 25, 2005

Completion dateJune 26, 2006

Project ManagerABS Consulting Inc./EQEProgram and ConstructionManagement Group

OwnerCity of Riverside

ArchitectWilliams Architects

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Category: Infrastructure


Runway 8/26 and Runway 15/33Pavement Reconstruction - Bob Hope AirportThe Bob Hope Airport formerly called Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport, is located in the City of Burbank, butowned and operated by the Burbank-Glendale-PasadenaAirport Authority. The Airport Authority selected DMJMHarris to perform planning, engineering design, and construc-tion management services for pavement rehabilitation forRunway 8/26, Runway 15/33, and the airport's perimeter ser-vice road. Runway 8/26 is 5,801 feet long by 150 feet wide andis nominally five inches of asphalt over crushed aggregate base.Runway 15/33 is 6,885 feet long by 150 feet wide and is nomi-nally five inches of asphalt over crushed aggregate base. Otherproject elements included drainage modifications, utilities,demolition, signing and striping, and overlay of five miles ofservice road.

DMJM Harris's scope of services for this FAA-funded, $10.3million project included existing condition assessment; geot-echnical and subsurface investigations; topographical surveyand base map development; preliminary and final design; engi-neering support during construction; and construction man-agement services, including resident engineering, constructioninspection, surveying and materials testing. DMJM Harris's

services, design and construction management, complied withFAA requirements, and DMJM Harris provided weekly reportsto FAA and the Airport.

DISTINGUISHED PROJECT AWARD

Cost$10.3 million

Start dateMay 17, 2006

Completion dateNovember 11, 2006

OwnerBurbank-Glendale-PasadenaAirport Authority

Construction ManagerDMJM Harris, Inc.

ConstructorSully Miller Contracting Company

Pavement reconstrucion underway for Bob Hope Airport

American River College Learning Resource CenterThis project was intended to modernize and expand anexisting campus facility to meet the ever-increasing needsand numbers of students.

When meeting with the architect and builder, the collegehad several priorities and concerns. The four main goals ofthis project were to expand the facility to accommodate theLearning Resource Center, Beacon program andESL/Foreign Language Programs, to reconfigure the existingLRC to support specialized reading and writing programs with-in the Humanities department, link multiple disciplinesback to a common center at the Learning Resources Centerand create a singular and unique statement for this forward-looking multidisciplinary program.The majority of scope changes were due to existing under-ground utilities and subsurface site conditions that were notknown at the time of construction. Numerous utilitiesrequired relocation as well as structural changes to thefoundation to accommodate unknown subsurface condi-tions. The existing LRC built in the 1960's also had severalunanticipated hidden conditions that required additionalwork by the contractor.

Category: Buildings

American River College Learning Resource Center


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DISTINGUISHED PROJECT AWARD

Cost$8.4 million

Start dateSeptember 6, 2004

Completion dateSeptember 6, 2005

OwnerLos Rios Community CollegeDistrict

General ContractorRoebbelen Contracting, Inc.

General ContractorLPA Sacramento, Inc.

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