Project Managers, Architects, NASA officials, and Lt. Governor John Garamendi break ground Tuesday on Sustainability Base, a new building at NASA Ames Research Center, which will showcase sustainable technologies.

NASA had contracted the architecture firms of famed "cradle to cradle" William McDonough and Swinerton Builders was hired to complete construction on the project.

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NASA 'Sustainability Base' to be net zero energy

NASA's new building has been named "Sustainability Base" in homage to the location of the first moon landing, called "Tranquility Base" by astronaut Neil Armstrong. Swinerton Inc. is under contract to construct the new building.

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A home building blitz is underway in Oceanside. San Diego Habitat for Humanity is building four homes in five days in an annual effort to make affordable housing a reality for local families.

Turner Construction, PCL Construction, Flatiron and Swinerton Builders are all donating manpower for the blitz.

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Habitat For Humanity To Build Four Homes In Five Days

NASA's new Sustainability Base will showcase the most advanced recycling and intelligent technologies originally developed to support its human and robotic space exploration missions, to make it the US government's highest performing building.

The ceremonial groundbreaking on the $24.5 million building is set for 25 August and construction is expected to be completed in November 2011.

The new building at the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, is designed by AECOM and William McDonough + Partners, with construction by Swinerton Inc.

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NASA to build Sustainability Base with space technologies, video

NASA is working to provide solutions to some of the Earth's biggest problems - including climate change. The organization will be holding a groundbreaking ceremony for its newest facility, Sustainability Base, on the site of the Ames Research Center in Sunnyvale, California.

The contract for the project was just awarded last week. San Francisco-based Swinerton Inc will be building NASA Sustainability Base.

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Construction crews at the College of Marin worked on several projects at the Kentfield and Indian Valley campuses this summer that will offer alternative sources of energy and reduce the school's energy-related costs. Swinerton Managment & Consulting is the CM on the for the projects.

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The recently completed $270 million California Teachers State Retirement Systems Headquarters in West Sacramento is going for LEED Gold certification.

One of NASA's most ambitious new projects isn't in space, but on the ground. The ceremonial groundbreaking on the $20.6 million building is set for Aug. 25, and construction is expected to be complete around November 2011. The building was designed by the AECOM and William McDonough + Partners architectural firms. Swinerton Inc. will carry out the construction.

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http://www.livescience.com/space/090805-tw-nasa-green-building.html

NASA has selected Swinerton Inc., San Francisco, to receive a construction contract to build a new sustainable facility at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

The building is designed to achieve a platinum rating under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design new construction standards for environmentally sustainable construction developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, Washington. In order to achieve sustainability, the building will have zero net energy consumption, use 90 percent less potable water than conventionally built buildings of equivalent size and reduce building maintenance costs.

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When it is completed in 2011, the Valley View Casino Hotel--an addition to the existing Valley View Casino in San Diego--will be the first four-diamond casino-hotel in the northern area of the city.

Such a prominent project required the building savvy of a reputable general contractor with experience in hospitality and high-rise projects. This is a mold Swinerton Builders fits to a "T".

Team builders Swinerton San Diego's dynamic approach earns it top ...

Ranked by Bay Area cash contributions.

Swinerton was among the best in the Top Green Design Firms, Building Team LEED APs and Green Contractors Ranked by Building Design & Construction Magazine. Over one-quarter of the Swinerton's staff is a LEED AP, the largest percentage among General Contractors.

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Swinerton Builders is putting the finishing touches on the HKS Architects-designed Riverpark Tower II project in downtown San Jose. The building has received pre-certified LEED gold status for core and shell, making it the first green building for lease in San Jose's central buiness district. Sustainable features include a roof with a Hydratech membrane topped with Dolomte rock, EnergyStar metal roofing and CFC-free HVAC equipment and lighting.

Lyda Swinerton, part of the Swinerton Family of Companies, is the contractor for two Eilan office buildings and an associated parking structure.

As the Premier Green Builder in the West, Swinerton was the General Contractor on several of the LEED projects in San Francisco, including their headquarters. 

Swinerton Builders has had much success with the use of Virtual Design & Construction. On the Valley View Casino, the Swinerton Builders team used VD&C to create a 3-D model of the hillside with foundations in place and a laid-back excavation where shoring had not been provided for, demonstrating just how extensive the excavations would need to be if constructed as orginally planned.

Twenty years after pouring the foundation for the second Riverpark Tower in downtown San Jose, Swinerton Builders finished the job on the twin tower using building materials stored for almost two decades in a Newark warehouse.

And because of Swinerton's thriftiness, Legacy Partners' Riverpark Tower II is on track to receive the coveted Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold award from the U.S. Green Building Council.

The inaugural class of a nine-month job-training pipeline program in Oakland that provides "green-collar" skills training and jobs to young adults with barriers to employment will graduate today.

The purpose of the partnership is to provide job training, environmental education and connections to green jobs to the inaugural class of 40 low-income East Bay residents, with more than half of the participants coming from Oakland. Swinerton is a participating business that will provide employment opportunities to the trainees.

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OAKLAND: FIRST CLASS OF GREEN JOBS TRAINING CORPS GRADUATES TODAY

More than 40 hammer-swinging, lumber-toting, drywall-nailing young people broke out the apple cider in Oakland on Monday to celebrate their graduation from one of the nation's first green-collar job training programs.

Kaiser Permanente and Highland Hospital are placing several graduates on their hospital construction projects, and other employers who have expressed interest include Sunlight & Power, Swinerton and Canyon Construction.

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Oakland Green Job Corps grads get to work

Swinerton Management & Consulting is the Construction Manager on the demolition of the 73-year-old smokestack on Concord.

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KTVU Channel 2 - June 16, 2009

Sometimes a concrete cylinder is more than a concrete cylinder. Sometimes, it symbolizes home. Such is the case with the Cowell smokestack, Concord's unofficial landmark that is being demolished today. Swinerton Management & Consulting is the Construction Manager on the project.

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