After more than 10 years of preparation, construction is slated to begin on a state-of-the-art medical complex in Lancaster.

Los Angeles County officials joined City officials Monday for the ceremonial groundbreaking of the new High Desert Health System Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center (MACC). The complex will be constructed on a 15-acre site on Avenue I near 3^rd Street in east Lancaster.

The project is being constructed by Swinerton Builders Los Angeles. The project was first approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in 2002, according to Tony Bell, Communications Deputy for Supervisor Michael Antonovich.

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http://www.theavtimes.com/2012/01/30/groundbreaking-held-for-multi-service-ambulatory-care-center/

The future of renewable energy for the United States lies in California solar farms like the one just outside Elk Grove, Gov. Jerry Brown said Friday on a visit to the Eschinger Road location.

"We're going forward and we're going to build," said Brown, who along with U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar stopped by the site of a Recurrent Energy project near the intersection of Eschinger and Bruceville Roads.

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http://elkgrove.patch.com/articles/gov-touts-solar-energy-near-elk-grove#c

Five Crowns Marketing here held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday to unveil its new solar energy system, one of the largest on-site generators in the Imperial Valley.

The company recently completed a 2.2-megawatt solar facility, incorporating roof-top and on-ground generation to offset most of its cooling facility and processing plant’s energy needs. The photovoltaic panels, at the company’s Malan Street location, will create enough power to cover between 80 and 85 percent of the facilities’ energy requirements.

Swinerton Renewable Energy, the EPC Contractor, and RaboBank sponsored the event.

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http://www.ivpressonline.com/news/ivp-news-local-agriculture-company-cuts-ribbon-on-22-mw-solar-facility-20120113,0,3630937.story

At the blessing of the Andaz Wailea Hotel on Wednesday, on the site of the long-closed Renaissance Wailea Beach Resort, Bud Pikrone, executive director of the Wailea Community Association, said the revival of the property "will definitely help" the image of the resort. Swinerton Builders is the general contractor leading the construction.

"What everybody asks," he said, "is, is the Maui Onion coming back?"

No, the poolside restaurant is not returning. The developers said their boutique hotel - the seventh in a growing brand, and the first in a resort setting - will be different from any hotel visitors have seen before. That is despite the fact that it will take over the three guest wings of the original hotel, one of Wailea's first.

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http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/556472/In-Wailea--new-resort-concepts-promised.html?nav=10

The 18 companies represented on Tri-City Hospital Foundation’s Corporate Council gave $75,000 to support Tri-City Medical Center In 2011. The funds helped purchase biliblankets to treat newborns with jaundice, fetal monitors and the da Vinci Si HD robotic surgical system that performs minimally invasive surgeries.

The 2011 Corporate Council members include Balboa Ambulance, Inc.; Barney & Barney LLC; California Association for Health Services At Home; Cardinal Health; DJO Global; Jacobs; JB Consulting & Associates, Inc.; Landgraphics Enterprises, Inc.; North County Radiology Medical Group; NTD Architecture; Qualcomm; Redline
Surgical Corporation; San Diego Gas & Electric; Swinerton Incorporated; Tri-City Healthcare District; Vanir Construction; Vista Knoll Specialized Care;  and West Development, Inc.

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http://carlsbad.patch.com/announcements/tri-citys-corporate-council-gives-75000-in-2011-to-hospital-foundation

Site work is under way on a new $40 million, 326-unit mid-rise luxury apartment complex in downtown Orlando.

Atlanta-based real estate investment and service firm Pollack Shores, which earlier this year sought city of Orlando approval for the project, plans to kick off its construction work on Steel House on Dec. 6.

The project, which includes the four-story apartment complex plus a 500-space parking garage, features amenities such as interior private courtyards with a swimming pool, fountain, sculpture garden, fitness center and business center, said Michael Blair, development director for Pollack Shores. The project also will have a four-story glass element on the corner of North Orange Avenue and Colonial Drive topped off by a fourth-floor club lounge room that will look south toward downtown, he said.

The general contracting is being handled by a partnership between Atlanta-based Cambridge Builders & Contractors LLC and San Francisco-based Swinerton Inc.   

To read more, click the link below for the story featured in the Orlando Business Journal:

http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2011/11/28/atlanta-developer-starts-orlando-project.html

Check out this great spread of Swinerton's Trinity Place project in San Francisco. This multi-phased residential project is one of many Swinerton is building in the downtown San Francisco area.

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http://digital.construction-today.com/nxtbooks/phoenix/ct_20111011/index.php#/82

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

Swinerton Builders has gotten the green light to start work on a long-stalled 749-unit apartment complex at 10th and Market Streets.

The $200 million apartment project, being developed by Crescent Heights, is a central piece of the city’s plan to bring new activity and investment into the city’s Mid-Market neighborhood. The development, originally for-sale condos, was shelved before the recession started in 2008; it was redesigned as apartments last year.

“We got the notice to proceed today,” said Jeffrey Hoopes, president of Swinerton. “Tomorrow we will be moving trailers in and putting up fencing.”

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http://bit.ly/vEdeAq

The NASA Sustainability Base, a two-story, 50,000-sq.ft. office building, named in honor of the Tranquility Base of the Apollo 11 moon landing, is designed to incorporate some of the agency’s most advanced intelligent control technologies originally developed to support NASA’s human and robotic space exploration missions. The structure is using a geothermal system, a roof-mounted photovoltaic system, solar thermal system, and an upgraded version of the water purification system that is currently on the Space Station.

The building is designed to achieve U.S. Green Building Council LEED Platinum new construction certification and will have zero-net energy consumption and use 90% less potable water than conventionally built buildings of equivalent size.

To read the entire story featured in Contractormag.com, click the link below:

http://contractormag.com/green-contracting/Nasa-mechanical-systems-1234/index.html

Swinerton Builders may be 123 years old, but it’s anything but standing still.

For proof, look no further than Moffett Field, where the general contractor is finishing work on the futuristic NASA Ames Research Center Sustainability Base office and research project.

The 50,000-square-foot, $29 million project is set to become one of the world’s greenest structures thanks to technologies first developed for space exploration.

“We’re very proud of what we accomplished there, and the building is absolutely beautiful,” said John Elwood, vice president and Silicon Valley division manager.

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http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/print-edition/2011/09/23/Swinerton-Builders-transparency-key.html

Swinerton Builders practices what it preaches.

The 123-year-old general contractor is currently finishing work on a project that is set to become one of the world’s greenest structures — the futuristic NASA Ames Research Center Sustainability Base office and research project.

Closer to home, Swinerton is incorporating the same practices to its new office space on 2880 Lakeside Drive in Santa Clara.

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http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/2011/09/swinerton-moves-into-new-green-digs.html

Hilton Hawaiian Village® Waikiki Beach Resort’s iconic Rainbow Tower has begun its historic makeover:  a transformation of the tower’s interior, including more than 800 guest rooms.

The $45 million project began on Monday, April 11 with the top three floors:  29, 30 and 31.  Each room will receive a total makeover, which includes all furnishings, carpet, wall covering, bathrooms, tubs, fixtures, drapery and artwork.  The tower’s signature suites, the Duke Kahanamoku Suite and the Niumalu Suite on the 30th and 31st floors, respectively, will each receive more than $1 million in upgrades.  For the work, Pacific Asia Design Group was chosen as the architect and interior designer; and general contractor is Swinerton Builders.  The entire tower is expected to be completed in mid-December, and the first rooms finished in mid-June.

To read the entire story, click the link below:

http://www.breakingtravelnews.com/news/article/hilton-hawaiian-village-waikiki-beach-resort-begins-rainbow-tower-upgrades/

The plans for a new Child Study Center in Larkspur were on display last week as College of Marin moved forward with its new facility.

Funded by Measure C, a $249.5 million bond measure passed in 2004, the center will be located at the college’s Larkspur annex on Magnolia Avenue. The Aug. 30 forum let residents take a look at the design plans and renderings by construction manager Swinerton Management & Consulting.

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http://marinscope.com/articles/2011/09/07/twin_cities_times/news/doc4e67d62683c18658759916.txt

by Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice Staff

NASA Ames Research Center is putting the finishing touches on a new flagship building that may be the greenest in the federal government, thanks to a bit of technology developed for space flight.

The "Sustainability Base" located just inside the main gate at Moffett Field is a crescent-shaped pair of buildings wrapped in an external skeleton of I-beams. It will be occupied once the building's various space-age systems undergo testing over the next few months.

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http://mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=4676

The U.S. Senate last week approved a Federal Aviation Administration stopgap bill that keeps the agency funded through Sept. 16, prompting a return of contractors to construction sites in Oakland and Palm Springs.

Palm Springs International Airport’s Executive Director Tom Nolan said the construction site, as of Monday, was not fully staffed with nearly 60 workers, but Swinerton Builders, San Francisco, the general contractor, was back on site. The $13.9-million project includes a 150-foot tower and 7,200-square-foot base building. Completion is scheduled for early 2013.

Asked whether he believed that the airport’s tower project could once again be shut down if a new agreement isn’t made before Sept. 16, Nolan said he has no other option but to “take one day at a time.”

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http://bit.ly/nXp1Uf

Click the link below to see the video interview where Swinerton Project Manager Rich Garcia speaks about the recent construction shutdown of the Palm Springs Airport Air Traffic Control Tower due to FAA funding issues.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/inland_empire&id=8287613

When students return to Trace Elementary School on Aug. 15 they will finally be looking toward their future.

A year ago, they returned to burnt remains and rubble. That was all that was left after a July 5, 2010, arson fire destroyed the 25,000-square-foot building that housed the school library, 16 classrooms and some offices on Dana Avenue. It caused more than $10 million in damages and destroyed books, lesson plans, work sheets, décor and more that Trace teachers had spent years working on.

Throughout the 2010-2011 school year, chain link fences separated the charred area, while many students were forced into portable classrooms and the size of the playing fields was reduced. The fencing remains, but now students will be able to see their new 33,250-square-foot building rise during the coming school year.

On Aug. 1 foundation and slab work is expected to begin with framing scheduled to start on Sept. 12. Swinerton Builders is doing the construction and BFGC-IBI Group Architecture Planning did the design.

To read the entire story from Mercury News.com, click the link below:

http://www.mercurynews.com/rose-garden/ci_18572374?nclick_check=1

With just a month to go before construction ends on NASA’s Sustainability Base, workers are testing the state-of-the-art technology systems that last year earned the project the U.S. General Services Administration’s Real Property Award in the green innovation category.

Designed by William McDonough + Partners and currently under construction at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in Mountain View, the 50,000-square-foot office building features energy-producing and energy-efficient systems that comply with President Barack Obama’s executive order for zero-net energy consumption in federal buildings by 2030.

To read this entire story from the Los Altos Town Crier by Mary Beth Hislop, click the link below:

http://www.losaltosonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28328&Itemid=142

 From August 1 through August 5, 2011, San Diego Habitat for Humanity, in partnership with Swinerton Builders, will construct two homes – from the ground up – in five days.  This annual event is called the Home Builders Blitz – construction will take place 24 hours a day and will include nearly 500 volunteers building homes for two families in need in Oceanside.

To read more about this effort, click the link below:

http://www.swinertonbuildstomorrow.com/2011/two-homes-in-five-days/

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

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Recently completed Parman Library located in San Antonio was featured on the cover of the July issues of San Antonio Construction News! Swinerton Builders Texas was the general contractor on this  brand new state-of-the-art library.

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the 50,000-square-foot space-age building is located at NASA’s Ames Research Centre in Silicon Valley near San Jose, and it incorporates technology used by astronauts, in that it will capture used water from showers and sinks, and then treat it before sending it to urinals and toilets.

Meanwhile the grass on the lawn will be irrigated with water from a contaminated groundwater treatment plant instead of drinkable water. Native plants will be used to filter contaminants out of rainwater before it enters main water drain system.

The two story, two wing building will also consume 90 percent less drinkable water than conventional buildings of comparable size.

The building itself is in the final stages of construction and should be opened in mid July.

Swinerton Builders is the General Contractor for this green wonder.

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

http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/nasa-looks-to-earth-bound-future-with-sustainability-base-33976

KCM Group, Inc., project manager for the Sycuan Casino in El Cajon, California, has announced the completion of first phase renovations for the popular gaming, dining and entertainment destination. Part of a 200,000-square-foot renovation, this first of two phases involved constructing three new, smoke-free locations: San Diego-area’s largest poker room, an Off Track Betting room and an entire gaming wing for slots and table games. Additionally, Paipa’s Buffet restaurant, a key dining area, was relocated and transformed with a new kitchen and food stations.

Swinerton Builders has been instrumental to the success of the project as the general contractor. Subcontractors working with Swinerton include Neal Electric, California Comfort Systems, American Marble, J.F. Duncan Industries, Custom Seating and Upholstery, Component West, Casa Interiors Floor Coverings, Howard’s Rugs and South Bay Welding. The architect is Hnedak Bobo Group of Memphis, Tennessee and the interior designer is Cleo Design of Las Vegas, Nevada.

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 http://ow.ly/5zij3