SAN DIEGO — San Diego-based Barnhart Inc. has been awarded $35.7 million in military construction contracts within the last 45 days. The company was selected for the design/build of an $8.84 million fire crash rescue station at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., which is scheduled for completion by December 2010. Additionally, the company received an $8.65 million contract for the design/build of a Special Operations Force combat crew training facility in Naval Base Coronado. Barnhart also received a $10.9 million contract to design/build two child development centers at Naval Base Coronado, which is slated for completion in January 2011. Finally, the company was selected for a $7.27 million contract for the repair and renovation of an existing four-story bachelor enlisted quarters, which currently serves as billeting for the School of Infantry at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. The project is expected to be completed by spring 2010.
LA JOLLA, CALIF. — McCarthy Building Cos. has been selected for the construction management of a 150,000-square-foot, four-story Health Sciences Biomedical Research Facility at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla. Designed by ZGFArchitects, the facility will feature wet labs, open lab space, meeting rooms and support space above ground, with core lab space and support mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems in the basement. The building is striving to achieve at least LEED Gold certification upon completion. Construction is scheduled to begin in fall 2010.
DALLAS — Corgan Associates has been selected to design the new Reading Room for The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, a museum devoted to the assassination of President Kennedy. The Reading Room will be located within the Dallas County Administration Building (formerly the Texas School Book Depository) at 411 Elm St. Corgan will renovate former administrative space and the southeast corner meeting space, as well as create a Media Room that the museum will share with Dallas County employees. The museum is scheduled to open in November.
QUINCY, MASS. — The Boston office of NorthMarq Capital has secured $5 million in mortgage financing for Bay Pointe Marina, a 271-slip marina located in Quincy. The facility features on-site winter boat storage, an indoor repair facility, an at-dock gas stations and a new marina clubhouse. The marina also contains Inn at Bay Pointe, a restaurant with banquet facilities and outdoor decking. Debbie Orloff arranged the loan on behalf of the owners of NorthMarq through The Bank of New England.
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — McCarthy Building Cos., along with the city of Sacramento, the Sacramento Public Library, Sacramento City Unified School District and Regent Development, is developing a Sacramento Public Library facility located in the Pocket-Greenhaven neighborhood of Sacramento. The 15,000-square-foot library branch will feature a 100-seat community room, a teen room, two group study rooms, a preschooler ready-to-read room, a quiet reading room and a room for more than 50,000 books and digital materials. Completion is slated for summer 2010. McCarthy is serving as general contractor; Regent Development is the project’s developer; and WLC Architects is the architect of record.
PASADENA, TEXAS — Cadence McShane Construction Co. has completed Kruse Replacement Elementary School, a 99,000-square-foot elementary school located in the 400 block of Park Lane in Pasadena. The school features 44 classrooms, 17 science laboratories, a gymnasium with a stage, a library, a cafeteria and administrative offices. Cadence McShane also completed the landscaping for the property and constructed a 136-space parking lot. The project architect was Dansby & Miller Architects. The school was constructed on behalf of the Pasadena Independent School District, which operates 34 elementary schools, eight middle schools, 10 intermediate schools, five high schools and four alternative education schools.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Construction is advancing for the new Science & Academic Building at Tarrant County College’s Southeast Campus, located in Arlington. The three-story building totals 120,000 square feet. Once complete in late 2010, it will house the school’s Life Science and Computer Science programs. It will feature a 150- to 200-student lecture hall, general purpose classrooms, teaching science laboratories, a common prep area, student gathering areas and a three-story atrium. The project is also applying for LEED-Gold certification and is part of the college’s master plan for a new science and technology corridor on the campus. The project architect is Plano, Texas-based SHW Group and the general contractor is the Dallas office of Turner Construction Co.
PLANO, TEXAS — Plano Independent School District has awarded Cadence McShane Construction Co. a 75,715-square-foot addition and renovation assignment at Vines High School in Plano. The project includes 50,000 square feet of state-of-the-art updates to the school as well as a 25,715-square-foot, two-story addition for the school’s new science wing. Construction will begin in late July with completion scheduled for November 2010. Corgan Associates, Inc., is providing architectural services. Vines High School is located on a 17-acre site at 15th Street and Highedge Drive.
PRINCETON, N.J. — KSS Architects has completed one aspect of continuing expansion at the Research and Collections Preservation Consortium (ReCAP) at Princeton University. Prior to the expansion, the facility consisted of four 15,000-square-foot refrigerated modules that held 7.5 million library items. The expansion has added a fifth module that increased the total area to 85,000 square feet and total capacity to 10 million items. The expansion included adding 5,000 solar panels to the roofs of both the new and existing modules to control the temperature in the buildings. The ReCAP partners expect the facility to eventually comprise of 11 modules, and KSS is currently designing the next phase of ReCAP, which is known as Module 8.
HOUSTON — Rice University has received $11.1 million in federal stimulus funding for the Brockman Hall of Physics, a new research facility that is currently under construction at the school’s Houston campus. The building will total 110,000 square feet, and it will provide space for research and education in fundamental and applied physics. Faculty from the Department of Physics & Astronomy and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering will occupy the facility, which is slated for a spring 2011 completion and will be applying for LEED-Silver certification. The funding was awarded by the National Institute of Standards & Technology. Philadelphia-based KieranTimberlake Associates has serving as project architect, with Gilbane Building Co. providing general contracting services.