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Swinerton Renewable Energy - 02/29/12
Enfinity America Corporation Expands Municipality Portfolio With Ten Solar Installations for the City of Reno
Leading solar energy development and finance company, Enfinity America Corporation, announced today the completion of ten solar installations for the City of Reno. The installations will generate over 1,800 megawatt-hours (MWh) annually – approximately 18% of the city's total electricity needs - and save the city between $1.6 and $3.0 million over the 20 year power purchase agreement (PPA) term. The solar installations are located at municipal facilities throughout the city.
The solar program came to fruition through close collaboration between Nevada Solar Works LLC (comprising Q&D Construction, CleanPath Renewables and Reliant Electric), the City of Reno and Enfinity. Construction services were provided by Swinerton Renewable Energy, a division of Swinerton Inc.
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Swinerton Builders Orange County - 02/27/12
Providence Holy Cross is SoCal's First LEED Silver Hospital
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center’s new four-story, 138-bed expansion was named Monday as the first LEED Silver hospital in Southern California, honored for its efforts to build an environmentally friendly project.
The U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program – Leadership in Energy Efficiency and Design – is the nation’s preeminent program for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings.
Swinerton Builders was the general contractor on the expansion, the Stahl Companies managed the project and HMC Architects designed the building.
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Swinerton Renewable Energy - 02/22/12
City of Reno Announces Completion of Nine Solar Installations
City of Reno is excited to announce the completion of nine solar installations which is anticipated to save the City's general fund $1.6 to $3 million over the next 20 years and means the City is now receiving 15% to 18% of its total power from solar.
In August 2010, Nevada Solar Works LLC., a partnership between Q&D Construction, CleanPath Renewables and Alternative Energy Solutions, won the contract to build the 1.3 megawatts of solar photovoltaic projects for the City of Reno. The solar installations were constructed by Swinerton Inc.
To read the entire story, click the link below: http://www.foxreno.com/news/news/local/city-reno-announces-completion-nine-solar-installa/nJc95/
Swinerton Builders San Francisco - 02/16/12
Insider's View of a Construction Milestone: Midnight Pour at Trinity Plaza
The concrete trucks lined up along Mission Street in San Francisco late Friday night like tanks readying for battle.
Just before midnight on Feb. 10, they sprung into action. One after another they rolled up to the construction site at 1188 Mission St., where Angelo Sangiacomo is building phase two of Trinity Place, a 1,700-unit Central Market apartment complex.
Don Bourne, operations manager for Swinerton, said the slab varies from three to eight feet thick, with the thickest foundation in the core of the building where the elevator shaft and stairways are. The mat slab is held down by a series of 100-foot buried piles that prevent static water pressure from “causing the slab to float like a boat on a lake,” said Bourne.
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Swinerton Builders San Diego - 02/13/12
CHINA TRADE WAR COULD AFFECT U.S. JOBS IN SOLAR SECTOR
By George Hershmann
A German-owned company with a facility in Oregon has filed a trade complaint with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission, demanding new tariffs of up to 150 percent on solar panels and cells imported from China. “Chinese manufacturing versus U.S. manufacturing” makes an easy sound bite. But it misses the mark. If punitive tariffs are imposed on imported solar panels and cells, the real losers will be the American construction workers who are building solar systems in this country. With unemployment at 8.5 percent throughout the workforce and 16 percent in construction, the solar industry is a bright star in a cloudy economy. The solar industry has been growing at a rate of 6.8 percent a year, while the entire economy, including the construction industry, has expanded by less than 1 percent annually.
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Swinerton Builders Los Angeles - 01/30/12
Groundbreaking held for Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center
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 3rd 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.
To read the entire story, click the link below: http://www.theavtimes.com/2012/01/30/groundbreaking-held-for-multi-service-ambulatory-care-center/
Swinerton Renewable Energy - 01/17/12
Gov. Touts Solar Energy Near Elk Grove
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.
To read more, click the link below: http://elkgrove.patch.com/articles/gov-touts-solar-energy-near-elk-grove#c
Swinerton Builders San Diego - 01/13/12
Local agriculture company cuts ribbon on 2.2 MW solar facility
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.
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Swinerton Builders Hawaii - 12/22/11
In Wailea New Resort Concepts Promised
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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Swinerton Incorporated - 12/14/11
Tri-City's Corporate Council Gives $75,000 in 2011 to Hospital Foundation
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
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Swinerton Builders - 11/28/11
Swinerton Partners With Cambridge Builders To Build $40 Million Downtown Apartment Complex
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
Swinerton Builders San Francisco - 11/23/11
Go To Market
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.
To read the story, click the link: http://digital.construction-today.com/nxtbooks/phoenix/ct_20111011/index.php#/82
Swinerton Builders Silicon Valley - 11/23/11
NASA Sustainability Base Wine CEIL Award
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.
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Swinerton Builders Northern California - 11/01/11
Biggest S.F. Apartment Project in Years Gets Go-Ahead
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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Swinerton Builders Silicon Valley - 10/04/11
NASA Sustainability Base Uses State-of-the-Art Technology for Mech. Systems
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 Silicon Valley - 09/23/11
Swinerton Builders: Transparency key to client relationships
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.
To read more, click the link below: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/print-edition/2011/09/23/Swinerton-Builders-transparency-key.html
Swinerton Builders Silicon Valley - 09/23/11
Swinerton Moves Into New ?Green? Digs
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.
To read more, click the link below: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/2011/09/swinerton-moves-into-new-green-digs.html 
Swinerton Builders Hawaii - 09/09/11
Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort begins Rainbow Tower upgrades
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.
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SMC Education - 09/07/11
Plans for Center Unveiled
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. http://marinscope.com/articles/2011/09/07/twin_cities_times/news/doc4e67d62683c18658759916.txt 
Swinerton Builders Silicon Valley - 09/06/11
Sustainability Base, NASA's new pride
by Daniel DeBolt
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.
Swinerton Builders Silicon Valley - 08/22/11
Sustainability Base Named One Of The Most Exciting Green Building Projects On The Horizon
NASA's Sustainability Base, part of the Ames Research Center in Moffett, Calif., might just be the federal government's most sustainable building when it is completed this summer. The $20.6 million, steel frame exoskeleton-equipped structure will have intelligent controls that predict and prepare for the next day's weather (and that can prepare the temperature of a conference room for, say, a meeting scheduled at 10 AM), a 6,000-gallon underground tank that collects rainwater for irrigation, solar panels, a Bloom Box fuel cell device, a geothermal system, and a water purifying system developed for the International Space Station, among other futuristic features. The building is aiming for LEED Platinum status.
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Swinerton Builders Orange County - 08/09/11
Californias Airport Projects Remobilize Following FAA Agreement
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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Swinerton Builders Orange County - 08/03/11
Palm Springs Airport Tower Construction Put On Hold
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
Swinerton Builders Silicon Valley - 07/28/11
Construction Begins at Trace Elementary in San Jose
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
Swinerton Builders Silicon Valley - 07/27/11
NASA incorporates space technology in new energy-efficient buildings
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 |
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