Being inside Sustainability Base, a $2-million, 50,000-sq-ft steel-frame building going up at Mountain View's NASA Ames Research Center at Moffet Federal Airfield, may well be the closet you'll ever come to visiting the moon.

To achieve its objective of a platinum LEED-certified building, NASA Ames hired the Santa Clara office of Swinerton Builders as general contractor and AECOM of Los Angeles as architect of record, along with San Francisco-based William McDonough & Associates as design architect. The project is scheduled for completion in early 2011

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http://california.construction.com/california_construction_news/2010/0325_NASA_SustainabilityBase.asp

The Waikiki Shopping Plaza's new five-story, 30,000-square-foot addition will be move in ready later this year and open for business in early 2011.

The space, on the mauka corner of Kalakaua and Royal Hawaiian avenues, previously was a standalone building that was home to a Bank of Hawaii branch. It was demolished last year to build the addition, which will connect to the existing Waikiki Shopping Plaza.

Currently known as 2230 Kalakaua, the addition was designed by Honolulu-based MGA Architecture; Swinerton Builders is the general contractor.

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'Urban nature' will define Waikiki retail complex

Background: Joined Swinerton in 1984 after business school. He started as an engineer in the San Francisco office and became division manager of the Los Angeles office in 1990. He opened Swinerton’s San Diego office in 1994 and helped grow the company into one of the top 10 commercial builders in the U.S. with 1,100 workers. The company grew from $200 million to $2 billion.

For  the rest of Jeff's profile in the San Francisco Business Times, click the link below or the pdf:

http://tinyurl.com/ycye7nh

JPL's environmentally friendly Flight Projects Center received a "Green Building Award" at the fourth annual Green California Leadership Awards, held during this week's Green California Summit.

Swinerton Builders was the general contractor on the LEED Gold project.

To view the multiple articles on the award and JPL click any link below:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-092

http://elitestv.com/pub/2010/03/jpl-wins-green-building-award

Linda Rizzoli could be considered Canada College's resident bat woman. Bats could soon also be flying around near where she works at the campus Facilities Maintenance Center after the college built a house for the winged mammals up a 10-foot pole.

Rizzoli spearheaded the project to install the bat house to help the newly built maintenance center earn a high rating for using environmentally friendly design elements from the U.S. Green Building Council. Swineton Mangement & Construction is providing Construction Management Services at the college.

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San Antonio's green energy initiative recently boosted the requirements for new homes and commercial buildings. Now the city is following suit with its own projects.

The city has five projects in design: a library, two fire stations, the city's emergency call center and the new public safety headquarters which will aim for silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program.

Lyda Swinerton Builders is the General Contractor on the Parman Branch Library in Stone Oak.

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http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/local/Greener_SA_taking_root.html

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $23.4 million contract to build a new Airman Training Center dining room and classroom facility at Lackland Air Force Base.

The contract is going to Lyda Swinerton Builders in San Antonio. The Fort Worth District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is overseeing the contract. The Airman Training Center should be completed by Oct. 2, 2011.

Lyda Swinerton is a commercial general contractor that specializes in industrial, office buildings, hotels, retail centers, corporate facilities and hospital construction.

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PV Powered, a dealer in grid-tied PV inverters in the residential, commercial and utility markets, has stated that their PowerVault DC-to-medium voltage inverter platform will be deployed in multiple 5MW projects in Southern Oregon. The project is to be managed by Obsidian Finance and Swinerton Inc.will handle the engineering procurement and construction.

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PowerVault Solution to be Deployed in Multiple 5MW Projects in Southern Oregon

“Swinerton Green is excited to work with PV Powered inverters on the Obsidian Projects,” said George Hershman, vice president and division manger of Swinerton’s Renewable Energy Group. “Their commitment to long-term reliability and customer service mirror our core values. We expect this to be a very successful project for all stakeholders, the local community, and the environment.”

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PV Powered Inverters Selected for 5-MW Oregon Solar PV Project ...

Construction companies are making due by broadening into sectors they never focused on previously. Swinerton has scooped up an increasing number of healthcare jobs as well as Indian casinos and solar power jobs, according to president Jeffrey Hoopes. Swinerton is doing a $115 million utility plant for Washington Hospital in Fremont and is in the early stages of a new patient tower.

Medical is really interesting market right now,” said Hoopes.

As far as Indian gaming, Swinerton is working on a 250,000-square-foot casino and hotel in Sierra foothills town of Jackson. It is also working on pre-construction for a $200 million expansion of Cache Creek Casino in Sonoma County. And it is working on three other potential casino projects north of San Francisco that have not yet been made public.

Meanwhile, Swinerton was hired to do $100 million in solar facility construction in the past two weeks, including a utility-grade 15 megawatt plant in southern Oregon.

To read the rest of the in-depth interview with President Jeff Hoopes from the printed edition click the pdf or to view the online article click the link below:

Bay Area projects ready to go - San Francisco Business Times:

The Obsidian Finance Group, a hybrid investment and advisory firm based in Portland, Ore., will manage the project under a 20-year power purchase agreement with a large Pacific Northwest utility. Engineering, procurement and construction are being handled by Swinerton Inc.'s management and consulting office.

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PV Powered PowerVault Platform Selected For Ore. Solar Projects

Inverter manufacturer, PV Powered announced today that its PowerVault DC-to-medium voltage turnkey inverter platform has been selected for use in the Northwest’s largest utility-scale project to date. 

Engineering procurement and construction are being handled by Swinerton Inc.’s Management and Consulting office out of San Diego.

“Swinerton Green is excited to work with PV Powered inverters on the Obsidian Projects,” said George W. Hershman, Vice President & Division Manger of Swinerton Inc.’s Renewable Energy Group. “Their commitment to long-term reliability and customer service mirror our core values. We expect this to be a very successful project for all stakeholders, the local community, and the environment.”

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http://www.solarbuzz.com/News/NewsNAPR1897.htm

PV Powered, Inc., the innovation leader in solar inverter reliability, performance, and serviceability, announces that its PowerVault DC-to-medium voltage turnkey inverter platform has been selected for use in the Northwest’s largest utility-scale project to date. The first project will begin installation in April with additional 5MW projects to follow in 2010. The project is being developed in Lake County, Oregon, near Christmas Valley by the Obsidian Finance Group of Portland, Ore. Obsidian Finance will manage the project under a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with a large Pacific Northwest utility. Engineering procurement and construction are being handled by Swinerton Inc.’s Management and Consulting office out of San Diego.

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http://pvpowered.com/.docs/record_id/10084/pg/10759

Alamo resident, Olympic skating legend and Dancing with the Stars champion Kristi Yamaguchi and her Always Dream Foundation recently opened the Always Dream Foundation Play Park in the Central Park area of Fremont. The state-of-the-art park is designed to be accessible to children of all abilities.

Swinerton provided Construction Management services for the new park, pro bono.

To view a photo gallery of the event courtesy of Diablo Magazine click the link below:

Downtown San Diego’s Bank of America Tower located at 450 B Street was awarded The Office Building of the Year (TOBY) Award under the Renovated Building category in late December 2009.  The prestigious TOBY competition is held in conjunction with Building Owner’s Management Association (BOMA) International (www.boma.org).  The TOBY Award is bestowed as the highest mark of excellence for office building management.

Swinerton Builders (www.swinerton.com) of San Diego, California was the General Contractor for the project.

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Bank of America Tower at 450 B Street Receives TOBY Award

From its not-so-distant groundbreaking in May 2009, completion of the Always Dream Foundation's PlayPark was celebrated in Fremont's Central Park, with the official ribbon cutting on January 16. Kristi Yamaguchi, an Olympic gold medalist in ice-skating, who grew up in Fremont, helped to do the honors with Mayor Bob Wasserman. Joining the festivities were City Councilmembers, sponsors, donors, Swinerton Builders, Fremont Bank, and Parks and Recreation Director, Annabell Holland.

Many donors, groups and sponsors helped to support the PlayPark project. In particular, those thanked included Always Dream Foundation President, Jim Adler, Swinerton Builders for providing construction management services on a pro bono basis and Fremont Bank for a generous $100,000 grant.

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http://www.tricityvoice.com/articlefiledisplay.php?issue=2010-01-20&file=story1.txt

Fun became a little more accessible Saturday, with the opening of the Always Dream Park in Fremont's Central Park. The new playground is not just any park, though. It is the culmination of years of effort to provide all children, disabled or not, the opportunity to play together. The park was dreamed up by Olympic champion Kristi Yamaguchi and her Always Dream Foundation. Construction Management of the PlarPark was provided pro bono from Swinerton Builders.

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http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_14208516?IADID=Search-www.insidebayarea.com-www.insidebayarea.com

Visitors to the Gaia Napa ValleyHotel and Spa won’t find the Gideon Bible in the nightstanddrawer. instead, on the bureau will be a copy of “AnInconvenient Truth,” former Vice President Al Gore's book about global warming.

They’ll also find the Gaia equipped with waterless urinals,solar lighting and recycled paper as it marches toward becoming California’s first hotel certified as “green,” or benevolentto the environment. Similar features are found 35 miles south at San Francisco’s Orchard Garden Hotel, which competes for customers with neighboring luxury hotels like the Ritz-Carlton and Fairmont.

Swinerton Inc., a San Francisco-based construction company,has worked on more than 20 buildings seeking certification. The 86-room Orchard Garden, completed last year, was its first hotel, said Grant French, a Swinerton Engineer.

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Go Green Toolshed » Blog Archive » Hotel places Gore's global ...

Pacific Ridge High School held a small, celebratory wall-raising gathering on Dec. 28 in the Carlsbad school’s parking lot, the best vantage point to see the enormous high school walls lifted up by cranes and made permanent. “The new school will be extremely energy-efficient, everything from the lighting to the ventilation,” Coit said. “It’s just paying attention to everything that uses energy, and how much we can manage it.”

Swinerton Builders is the General Contracor and Swineton Management & Consulting is providing LEED for Schools consulting services.

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Ware Malcomb Los Angeles is proud to announce that design and construction have been completed for the renovation of the Harman International campus located at 8500 Balboa Boulevard in Northridge, California. The project was initiated by Harman, a leading global provider of premium audio and infotainment solutions, to optimize efficiency across several business units based at the West Coast hub. Swinerton Builders of Los Angeles, California served as the General Contactor for the renovation project.

To view the entire electronic press release click the link below:

http://www.prlog.org/10490489-ware-malcomb-completes-renovation-of-harman-international-northridge-facility.html 

Dan Parman, a businessman who originally developed Stone Oak, is seeing the blossoming of another fruit of his labor in the fast-growing, master-planned San Antonio community. A standalone public library in his honor will go up at Wilderness Oak near Blanco Road.

Scheduled to open in 2011, the new SAPL branch will measure 17,000 square feet over a 10-acre tract that Parman's family foundation donated to the city to accommodate the library. Funds for the $7 million project, headed by contractors Lyda Swinerton and Marmon Mok, will come from the city's voter-approved 2007 bond package and certificates of obligation.

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http://www.mysanantonio.com/community/north_central/81271357.html

She's won Olympic gold, triumphed in television's most watched dance competition and now famed skater Kristi Yamaguchi is ready to unveil a playground in her hometown. Yamaguchi's Always Dream Foundation has been working for more than three years on the playground, which will be one of only a few in the Bay Area built to allow all children, including those with disabilities, to play side-by-side.

The struggling economy made it harder to raise money and persuade construction contractors to donate their work, Yamaguchi said. Swinerton Inc. provided construction management services free of charge.

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http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_14175404?source=rss

Photographed is a  wall going up at Pacific Ridge School in Carlsbad on Monday. The private school is constructing a 35,000-square-foot high school building that is expected to be complete sometime this summer at a cost of about $8.6 million. Swinerton Builders is the General Contractor. The new building was designed to use as little energy as possible and is seeking LEED certification.

To view the photo gallery of the wall going up click on the link below:

http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/carlsbad/article_1070a1da-42aa-5fca-8775-9be569e3d2dc.html?mode=image

(Photos by Bill Wechter - Staff Photographer)

On December 28, 2009, Swinerton Builders and the Downey Group raised the walls of Pacific Ridge School’s new energy-efficient high school building, a 32,500 square foot building that will accommodate up to 360 students. School staff and a handful of trustees and parents witnessed the spectacle of the huge walls tilting into their permanent places. Designed to utilize passive ventilation and effective energy-efficient day lighting, the high school building’s overall energy performance is projected to be approximately 40% less than that of a similar building designed to California Energy Code.

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Wall Raising & Field Dedication Mark Major Milestones in Pacific Ridge ...

After months of work and planning, a new high school building at Pacific Ridge School in Carlsbad is beginning to take shape. The new building was designed to use as little energy as possible. It has natural lighting for most of its classroom space, natural ventilation in many areas and solar panels. Swinerton Management & Consulting is the Construction Manager on the project.

"We're very, very efficient," said Frank Downey, who is managing the construction for the school. Downey said he expects the campus to get gold or maybe platinum accreditation from Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a certification program for energy efficient buildings.

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http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/carlsbad/article_1070a1da-42aa-5fca-8775-9be569e3d2dc.html