We are proud to announce that Swinerton Builders Los Angeles has received the Major Corporate Partner Award from the National Association of Minority Contractors Southern California Chapter. Held on November 18^th, the “New Challenges Equal Innovative Solutions” 12^th Annual Awards Dinner honored award recipients, including Swinerton Corporate Community Relations Manager/Project Manager Steve Lamar, who accepted the award on behalf of Swinerton. Congratulations to the Los Angeles division for this prestigious honor!

On December 2^nd, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and Liberty Mutual Group recognized Swinerton Builders Los Angeles for exceptional safety performance in the construction of new schools through LAUSD’s Owner Controlled Insurance Program. Safety Manager Jon Gregg and Safety Representative Scott Kubiszewski accepted this award from LAUSD’s Chief Facilities Executive Kelly Schmader and Construction Safety Director Phillip Hannifin.

Previously a member of HMH Builders, Jon Gregg joined the Los Angeles Division of Swinerton Builders in September 2009. Jon was the safety officer for the LAUSD Sandra Cisneros Learning Academy (CRES #14) project and has been instrumental in our success in safety at LAUSD by incorporating Swinerton’s high safety standards into site-specific safety programs at each of the schools. We are currently constructing and working closely with LAUSD’s safety personnel to ensure success for both Swinerton and LAUSD.

The Center for Environmental Innovation and Leadership announced the winners of the second annual CEIL Awards.  The awards recognize military and federal, teams and programs that have demonstrated exemplary performance in integrating environmental stewardship into day-to-day activities. 

Leadership in Innovation:  Granted to a program employing a novel approach to achieve one or more environmental objectives using technology, management, financing, public-private partnerships or others.  2011 winner:  NASA Ames Research Center for Sustainability Base.

To see more winners, click the link below:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/federal-projects-win-ceil-environmental-awards-134395003.html

We are proud to announce that for the second year in a row Swinerton and HMH projects were honored in ENR Construction’s Annual Regional Best Projects Awards! These awards recognize the best construction projects and the companies that design and build them. Projects compete in 18 specialized categories, ranging from civil/infrastructure to green building and are judged on a number of criteria including safety, innovation, and overcoming challenges/teamwork.

With four of our projects finishing at the top of a very competitive field, congratulations are in order to everyone involved on these projects that made them a success in the first place:

Best Multi-Family Residential/Hospitality Project: Four Seasons Hotel & Private Residences, ENR Mountain States

Best Healthcare Project: Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa Hospital Campus Expansion, ENR California

Green Building Award of Merit: NASA Ames Research Center Sustainability Base, ENR California

Specialty Contracting Award of Merit: Kaiser La Mesa Solar, ENR California

The Carlyle, built by Swinerton Builders Los Angeles division, recently won a 2011 PCI Design Award. The winners of PCI's award competition each make use of the capabilities and benefits of precast concrete. Each winning entry celebrates what has been achieved with the paterial and sets the bar for other designers.

Receiving the award in the Multifamily Building category, this 24-story structure featuring luxury high-rise condominiums utilizes precast concrete architectural panels.

To read more about The Carlyle and see additional winners, please click the PDF

NASA's Ames Research Center and the Department of Energy (DOE), at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif. are collaborating on technologies and processes for what may be the "greenest," highest-performing building in the federal government.

"We are thrilled to be applying NASA aerospace technologies to our everyday living and working environments," said Steven Zornetzer, associate center director at NASA Ames. "This collaboration represents the first of many research partnerships for Sustainability Base that will bring NASA technologies down to Earth and connect them with capabilities from other federal laboratories and the private sector to leverage taxpayer investment and improve the quality of life for everyone."

To read more, click the link below:

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=34733

Swinerton Builders Los Angeles ranks #11 amongst the Los Angeles Business Journal‘s largest contractors according to L.A. County billings.  

To see the entire list, click the PDF below:

Swinerton Builders Orange County ranks #5 amongst the Orange County Business Journal's Tenant Improvement Contractors.

To see the full list, click the PDF

We are delighted to announce that our project, the NASA Sustainability Base has been nominated for a 2011 Katerva Award. The Katerva Awards are an annual set of awards for the very best sustainability initiatives on the planet.

NASA’s new Sustainability Base, which William McDonough + Partners designed with AECOM and Loisos+Ubbelohde and is being built by Swinerton, is at the entrance to Ames Research Center at Moffett Field and is designed to showcase NASA’s culture of innovation. The client charged the WM+P team with delivering a facility that embodies NASA’s spirit, fosters collaboration, supports health and well-being, and goes beyond LEED® Platinum in its pursuit of Cradle to Cradle® solutions.

To read more about Sustainability Base, click the link below:

http://ow.ly/5r3VA

Swinerton Builders San Francisco was honored March 12 as one of only five firms nationwide to win an AGC in the Community Award from AGC Charities, Inc.

Partnered with The Always Dream Foundation, Swinerton donated over 1,000 hours of work to help build the Always Dream Play Park in Fremont, California. The park was built with the vision in mind that children of all capabilites could play together.

To learn more about the Always Dream Play Park, click the link below:

http://www.alwaysdream.org/playpark

To learn more about the Always Dream Foundation, click the link below:

http://www.alwaysdream.org/

To learn more about Swinerton's philanthropic ventures, visit our Swinerton Foundation page:

http://www.swinerton.com/web/do/content/about/swinertonFoundation

To read more about Swinerton's work on the Play Park, check out the attached PDF of the March 25th issue of Daily Pacific Builder.

Oakland Fire Station 18 was just awarded Public Works Project of the Year from the Northern California Chapter of the American Public Works Association! Located at a highly visible, busy thoroughfare in Central East Oakland, Fire Station 18 provides an important new landmark for this mixed-use working class neighborhood. Seeking LEED Gold certification, it will be the first LEED certified fire station in Oakland, representing a major sustainability milestone for the city.

Swinerton delivered Fire Station 18 under budget and ahead of schedule using the “CM-@-risk” project delivery method.

The American Public Works Association (APWA) is an international educational and professional association of public agencies, private sector companies and individuals dedicated to providing high quality public works goods and services. Chartered in 1938, APWA is the largest and oldest organization of its kind in the world with over 25,000 members.

Congratulations to the project team for a job well done!

The American Concrete Institute Awards Committee recently announced that UCSD Housing & Dining project has been selected to receive the “Architectural Cast In Place Concrete” award as part of our American Concrete Institute, San Diego Chapter Awards program.  A plaque will be presented at the Annual Awards Banquet to be held on Friday, May 6, 2011, at the Catamaran Resort Hotel.

Even though they were literally building inside a box, it was Swinerton Interiors San Francisco’s outside-the-box window display that took home first place for people’s choice award in the annual IIDA Windows Competition! The goal of the competition is to beautify and dress-up empty storefront windows in the Union Square and Financial District in time for the holiday season, and highlight the vibrant creativity of the local design and construction community.

Swinerton partnered with Interior Architects and Sidemark as one of 20 teams to design, furnish, and construct an 8’0” x 8’0” window scene. While their theme of “home” was simple, the end result was anything but with moss covering the entire inside of the room!

Congratulations go to the entire team for their creative efforts on this project, with special recognition going to Project Engineer Sarah Grossman and Carpenter Deland Kaneshiro for their outstanding leadership!

The Ritz Carlton Highlands Resort has been awarded LEED certification – a remarkable accomplishment for a luxury hotel located literally half-way up a mountain.

Located near Lake Tahoe, the 380,000 square foot project sits 7,000 feet above sea –level, where average annual snowfall tops 16 feet. 

The high-end resort features 170 guest rooms, 23 private residences, a 14,000sf conference center and a world-class spa.

The $226 million project was constructed as a joint venture between Swinerton Builders and Q&D. 

Green highlights include:
-20% locally-sourced materials
-50% reduction in landscape irrigation
-5% recycled content materials
-Green housekeeping program
-Monitoring system for thermal comfort and energy performance

More than 50 of the region's businesses were honored November 4th for their good works at the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's annual Corporate Philanthropy Awards event.

Swinerton Builders was honored for their efforts in connection with Olympic figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi's "Always Dream Foundation" in building a one-acre disabled-accessible play park at Fremont’s Central Park. The park features a wheelchair accessible slide and other equipment that is accessible to children of all ability levels to use together.

In total, Swinteron Builders spent two years, over $200,000 and 1,095 hours of donated time working on the project.

To read the feature story in the Silicon Valley Business Journal, click the link(s) below:

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2010/11/05/valleys-top-philanthropists-honored-at.html

http://bizjournals.com/sanjose/print-edition/2010/11/05/always-dream-play-park.html

Congratulations to the Ritz-Carlton Highlands, Lake Tahoe Team! Winning another great award for the challenging project, the Ritz was featured in Building Design+Construction Magazine who awarded the project the 2010 Building Team Silver Award.

Facing challenges such as high material costs, winter and mountain conditions, erosion control and even visits from furry neighbors, this Team pulled through to deliver a great end product.

This project was a joint venture between Q&D Construction and Swinerton Builders.

To read the full story in Building Design+Construction see the attached PDF

Congratulations are in order for the NASA Ames Research Center Sustainability Base! Winning two great awards in one week, Sustainability Base is living up to its reputation as the most sustainable and innovative building!

On Monday, September 20, 2010, Sustainability Base was honored with this year’s U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Real Property Award in the category of Green Innovation.

On Tuesday, September 21, 2010, Swinerton proudly accepted the Green Project of the Year Award for Sustainability Base from the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

Congratulations to all those involved in making Sustainability Base a wonderful and ever-evolving project.

Press Release for GSA Award:

http://media-newswire.com/release_1128108.html

Silicon Valley Business Journal Article (condensed):

http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2010/09/27/focus28.html

The 2009 Top Contractor rankings are in!

(*ranked by previous year's construction revenue)

Please see the attached PDF for Swinerton's complete ENR rankings.

Northwest Construction, a leading industry magazine published by McGraw-Hill Construction, is pleased to announce the winners of its Best of 2010 Awards. The annual competition recognizes construction and design excellence in the three-state region that includes Washington, Oregon and Alaska.

The winners will be profiled in detail in the December issue of Northwest Construction and on www.northwest.construction.com. In addition, project teams will be honored during an awards ceremony breakfast at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront on Thursday, December 9. To attend, visit www.construction.com/events/bestof2010/

Congratulations to the Neiman Marcus at the Bravern Team from our Bellvue office for winning the Retail Best of 2010 Award!!

To see all the winners in the Northwest, see the attached PDF

McGraw-Hill Construction publication honors state’s top construction, design projects

California Construction magazine is pleased to announce the winners of its Best of 2010 awards program. The statewide competition annually recognizes construction and design excellence in Northern and Southern California.

The winners will be featured in the December 2010 issue of California Construction and will be honored at an awards breakfast on Dec. 1 at the Renaissance Long Beach Hotel in Long Beach and Dec. 2 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis Hotel.

The winners will be entered in the National Best of 2010 competition and judged against winning entries from other regions. Those winners will then be profiled in Engineering News-Record as well as the 11 Regional Publications later in 2011.

Winners Include:

Northern California

Industrial Category Winner

Chevron Richmond Technology Center Building 24 - Swinerton Interiors

Multi-Family Residential/Hospitality Category Winner

Ritz-Carlton Highlands, Lake Tahoe - Swinerton Builders San Francisco

Southern California

Higher Education/Research Category Winner

University of California, San Diego Housing & Dining Services Administration Building - Swinerton Builders San Diego

Transportation Awards of Merit Winner

The Aerospace Crop. Pedestrian Bridge - Swinerton Management & Consulting Los Angeles

To see a complete list of winners, view the attached PDF.

Congratulations to the Swinerton Builders Hawaii Division for being named one of Building Industry Hawaii Top 25 Contractors! Coming in at number 21, Swinerton's own George Ehara explains how Swinerton pulled ahead in the tough economy:

George Ehara, vice president and division manager for Swinerton Builders Hawaii, points out, “In the first quarter of 2009, the economy basically fell off a cliff, yet we remained profitable in 2009 on a much smaller revenue base.”

We are an employee-owned company and many of our employees are shareholders. Our people understand that construction is our only focus and as a company that was founded in 1888, we are in it for the long run.

“We have been very fortunate to remain profitable in 2009,” Ehara emphasizes, “and things are looking even better in 2010. We have picked up almost $150 million in new work since the beginning of the year.

To read more about Swinerton in Building Industry Hawaii and view the full list of Top 25 Contractors in Hawaii, view the pdf and link below:

http://bit.ly/9bEHMh

Swinerton Builders San Diego's UCSD Housing & Dining Facility project wins American Institute of Architects' (AIA) Divine Detail Award. The project was honored June 19th at the AIA Design Awards 50th Anniversary in La Jolla, CA. This win would not have been possible without our friends at Studio E Architects and their divine design.

The AIA's Divine Detail Award "recognizes a specific, ingenious and graceful design detail that is worthy of recognition all by itself."

To read more about the AIA awards and view a complete list of winners, click the link below:

http://www.aiasandiego.org/2010-winners

This recent award was also featured in San Diego's Daily Transcript newspaper on June 28, 2010. To view the full article please see attached pdf.

Lyda Swinerton ranked 9^th overall in the medium-sized company division in the sixth annual San Antonio Business Journal “Best Places to Work Awards.” The awards highlight companies with the best workplaces in the San Antonio area.

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The construction market is a tricky thing, especially in the current economy. But a look inside California Construction Magazine's annual list of the Top Project Starts for 2010 reveals some exciting and interesting insight into work going on across the state.

Swinerton Builders Orange County is featured at #30 for their Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, Mission Hills project that includes a tower expansion and remodel of the main entrance and food service/dining areas.

To view the full list of Top Project Starts in 2010, visit the links below:

http://bit.ly/aNg9Qm

http://bit.ly/b4hmrD