Valley View Casino, along with Swinerton Builders, recently celebrated the topping off of its hotel project, an iportant milestone in the construction of the casino's luxury boutique hotel scheduled to open in early 2011.

The Pearl City Gateway Manana project is a redevelopment of a 13.5-acre site along Kuala Street, which formerly housed military warehouses. Following demolition of the existing structures and mass grading of the site, Swinerton Builders-Hawaii, the general contractor for the new work, performed on-site improvements, off-site improvements, the phase l and phase ll buildings, and tenant improvements for PETCO and Babies ‘R’ Us.

George Ehara, vice president and division manager of Swinerton
Builders-Hawaii, reports that work was begun on June 23, 2008 and
“was substantially complete exactly one year later.”

On Thursday, the City Council unanimously awarded a multi-million contract to Lyda Swinerton Builders, Inc. for the construction of the Parman Public Library at 20735 Wilderness Oak.  The $4,336,774 contract will be funded by a 2007 bond and certificates of obligation.

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Pala Casino Spa & Resort put the finishing touches on its $100 million expansion and renovation this week with the completion of state-of-the art upgrades to its hotel rooms and suites. In November, Swinerton Builders, a California construction firm, received a Build San Diego Award from the San Diego Chapter of Associated General Contractors in the Building Construction – Private Work category for the Pala expansion and renovation.

While the building was designed to a silver LEED standard, the quality of construction and operation ultimately warranted a higher rating, said officials with the Santa Fe Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Cameron Swinerton was the General Contractor on the project. The Swinerton Family of Companies has extensive LEED experience including:

• Over 325 LEED Accredited Professionals
• 72 LEED Projects valued at over 1$1.7-billion

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Winning the Outstanding Engineering Design Award from California Construction was  the Mary Ave Bicycle Footbridge project, which also took home an award of merit in the transportation/facilities category. Swinerton Management & Consulting was the CM on the bridge, which is located in in the city of Cupertino.

Earlier this year Swinerton Builders held a golf tournament to raise money for their Foundation. For them, giving back to the community not only comes from good service and building new community projects, but supporting causes near to their heart.

We are so grateful that they chose the PVH Cancer Center as the golf tournaments 2009 recipient. This money will help make the vision of the Center become a reality! Everyone at Swinerton Builders are true heroes in our community.

To enjoy short video clip by Swinerton Builders Edmond Thompson and Kevin Ott who will share with you why they put the golf tourney together and how they ENGAGE in life.

http://pvhsfoundation.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/swinerton-builders-donates-to-pvh-cancer-center/

Pacific Ridge, a private college-preparatory school in Carlsbad, is aiming to build one of the most energy-efficient and environmentally friendly campuses in the country. The high school building was designed by Carrier Johnson, a prominent architecture firm in San Diego, and construction is being managed by Swinerton Incorporated, based in San Francisco.

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Swinerton Builders has named Scott Schriefer as Operations Manager overseeing the Building Group. He was previously an Operations Manager for HMH Builders, as well as having medical, office building and pre-construction experience on large projects. Also, Gary W. Moura was chosen as operations manager for the Special Projects Group. He was previously a project executive for the Special Projects Group.

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BD+C ranked Swinerton #10 in their Top Healthcare Contractors ranking.

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http://www.bdcnetwork.com/info/CA6459863.html?nid=2073

An incumbent looking at his final term and two planning commissioners who raised the most money were voted onto the Redwood City Council changing the seven-member panels make up for the first time in five years. 

Councilman Jeff Ira, a certified public accountant, led the race from the beginning, finishing the evening with 27 percent or 3,935 votes. Jeff Gee, Planning Commission chair and vice president of Swinerton Management, followed with 3,579 votes or 24.5 percent.

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From high efficiency chillers to fan wall technology, energy efficiency was a key driver at JPL. The Flight Projects Center is a Savings by Design participant and Energy Star Challenge for Architects award recipient (2007). The General Contractor for the project was Swinerton Builders.

The six-story center will house missions in the busy design and development phases, when engineers and scientists from around the world must work together closely. The 190,000-square-foot building includes a 400-seat auditorium, basement, conference rooms and private, yet flexible work stations.

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NASA Strikes Gold

With all its green features, the 190,000 square-foot building is expected to save about 500,000 gallons of water annually.  It also exceeds California Title 24 requirements by 25%. 

The general contractor was Swinerton Builders with construction management by Vanir Construction Management.  The team was able to divert 93% of waste generated during construction from the landfill.

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NASA's Gorgeous LEED Gold Building

“With the recent hibernation of residential and commercial construction, we've all been focusing on a lot of federal, state and local government projects — and most of them have been legislated to be green,” said Chris Day, vice president of San Francisco's Swinerton construction firm.

Previous projects by Swinerton, which has an office in San Diego, include the North Island Credit Union headquarters and Sunroad Centrum office tower in Kearny Mesa. Both buildings have LEED certifications from the U.S. Green Building Council, signifying their efficient use of energy, water and other resources.

Both of those projects were completed several years ago, when the real-estate market was still hot. Now most of Swinerton's biggest projects are government-funded, such as a $20.6 million NASA research center near Silicon Valley, which aims to be the greenest building in the federal system.

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Sustaining green tide in building a concern

Dubbed the NASA Sustainability Base, the 50,000 square foot facility is expected to achieve the highest level of energy and resource efficiency of any building in the federal government. Sustainability Base is expected to achieve a Platinum rating under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) system. The building is designed to consume near-zero net energy and use 90 percent less potable water than conventional buildings of equivalent size.

Construction for the $20.6 million project began in August 2009 and is scheduled for completion by the end of 2011. The Silicon Valley office of Swinerton Builders was selected in a competitive-bid process to build the new Sustainability Base.

In any sort of construction project, management is crucial. Clients want projects - commercial, industrial or residential - done on schedule and at budget. San Francisco headquartered Swinerton Builders is part of a family of companies with a long history of delivering just that: quality construction on time.

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Robertson Properties Group hosted residents, business owners and community leaders at a ceremonial blessing for its Pearl City Gateway shopping center to mark the completion of construction.

Robertson Properties Group acknowledged and thanked the work of its architect and engineering team Architects Hawaii and civil engineers Austin Tsutsumi and Associates along with Swinerton Builders, which served as general contractor.

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Ceremonial Blessing Marks End of Construction at Robertson ...

Swinerton Builders has begun construction on a $20-million, 50,000-square-foot, steel-frame Sustainability Base Building at the Ames Research Center at Moffet Field in Mountain View.

The Kaiser Santa Rose Hospital & Expasnion project is the largest construction project in the North Bay, when ranked by cost of construction, according to the San Francisco Business Times. The General Contractor on the project is HMH Builders, which is in the Swinerton Family of Companies.

Holy Cross Chief Executive Larry Bowe reported that the tower, which will house 101 patient beds along with a neonatal intensive care unit and women's pavilion, is 43 percent complete.

The construction has been backed by a steady stream of donations through the Hospital's "Care Can't Wait" campaign.

The Swinerton foundation, the charitable arm of Swinerton Builders, has donated $100,000 to the campaign, as has Professional Imaging Medical Group. To date, Holy Cross has raised over $4.3 million for the new patient tower.

Five years after Marin voters passed a $249.5 million bond measure to revamp the College of Marin's buildings, the first building to be spiffed up was opened to the public Thursday. Swinerton Mangement & Consulting is the Construction Manager on the campus.

University officials celebrated the $14.4 million overhaul of its Irwin P. Diamond Physical Education Center which included a new roof, floor and heating, cooling and lighting systems for the four-building gym complex. New solar panels will provide half the electricity at the center, while a solar thermal system will heat its pool.

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Affordable Housng Finance Magazine has named 990 Polk Street in San Francisco the overall winner of its 2009 Readers Choice Award. Swinerton Builders was the General Contractor on the $35 million project.

The Virtual Design & Construction Team for Swinerton Builders were utilized for the intricate and precise lightening design & installation at the new Neiman Marcus at the Bravern - with the end result saving the Client time and money.

Swineron Builders was in part chosen as the General Contractor by NASA due to its extensive LEED expertise which includes 69 LEED projects valued at over $1.6 billion and more than 325 LEED Accredited Professionals on staff (over 25% of its workforce).

With its extensive experience building condominium projects in downtown Denver, Swinerton Builders is the ideal contractor for the Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences project.