Awards & Accolades
Clark Pacific has succesfully completed many hundreds of projects over the years, working with owners and their design and project teams from across the country. We have been honored to also work on projects that due to their scope, place, stature, and exceptional elegance and beauty have won recognition, with precast concrete helping to contribute to their overall value.
Below is a sampling of projects Clark Pacific has contributed to that have been distinguished with national and industry awards over the years.
2011
PCI DESIGN AWARD: PARKING STRUCTURES (1000+ Cars)
Clark Pacific and Fentress Architects were awarded the 2011 PCI Design Award for Best Parking Structure. The nation’s first on-site integrated car rental and quick-turn-around (QTA) operations facility, this airport parking structure utilized double-tee precast design to shave more than five months off the construction schedule. Precast components included double tees, L beams, inverted-tee beams, transfer girders, rectangular collector beams, columns and spandrels. Precast concrete spandrels serve as car-impact shields as well as a base skin for metal mesh and artwork murals. Judges felt that precast was key to reducing first costs and construction time, handling seismic loads, providing a flexible design to enable post-applied architectural treatments, and allowing for easier construction on the congested site.
PCI DESIGN AWARD: MULTIFAMILY BUILDINGS
Clark Pacific and KMD were awarded the 2011 PCI Design Award for Best Multifamily Building. A kinetic, “pistoning” twin tower design, this luxury condo featured a “boomerang” floor plan configuration consisting of outstretched arms that captured a facing boulevard scenic corridor. Plan setbacks increased in depth towards the upper level penthouses and each floor incorporated some 48 corners. To handle the design, the team, consisting of KMD, Swinerton, Englekirk Partners, and Clark Pacific, had to create 5-ft-deep, cold-jointed corner column covers. Textured, architectural precast panels on the building’s tower achieved a random stone look to complement Eqyptian limestone on the lower level base. The stone-on-precast base featured unique joinery with overlapping stones, epoxied cornerstones, and 1-in. of recessed exposed precast backup on the horizontal stone joints. The building is capped with a fully-operational emergency helicopter pad and includes a four-level subterranean parking garage.
International Parking Institute: Award of Merit
The International Parking Institute (IPI) recognized Clark Pacific, TranSystems, Watry Design, and Hensel Phelps by awarding the team with a 2011 Awards of Merit for their work on the Mineta San Jose International Aiport CONRAC. As part of a comprehensive improvement program, Mineta San Jose International Airport launched a two-phase relocation of its rental car center and Terminal B parking, starting with a 3,000-car, six-level structure that housed a Customer Service Building. The consolidated rental car facility, or CONRAC, is characterized by a distinctive, 70-by-1,200-ft. art façade on the freeway-facing side, where 400,000 white plastic dots create a monumental image of waving hands. A 4,660-panel, 1.12-megawatt solar array on the structure's four-acre roof, one of the largest airport installations in the country, offsets about 20 percent of the structure's overall energy use. This project represents a genuine public/private partnership, with 94 percent funded by the rental car companies and the remainder by the airport.
2010
PCI DESIGN AWARD: BEST PUBLIC/INSTITUTIONAL BLDG
Clark Pacific and AC Martin Partners were awarded the 2010 PCI Design Award for Best Public/Institutional Building.The completed state office building, located just north of the state capital, is a shining example of the extent to which total precast solutions are able to bring cost efficiency to a project and deliver extraordinary results for the whole design team as well as the owner and end users. The total precast approach applies high-quality architectural finishes to exterior exposed precast structural frames. This cost-effective approach eliminated the need for fireproofing and a secondary facade system; sped up the construction schedule; and, through the additional application of the structurally resilient precast hybrid moment frame, helped deliver the wide-open and well-lit interior spaces that are the hallmarks of this showcase project.
PCI Design Award: BEST UNIVERSITY PROJECT
Clark Pacific and LPA, Inc. received this award for the College of Education at CSU San Bernardino. Located in the high desert, this school building matches its environmental context. Desert landscaping allows a natural site aquifer to cover all irrigation needs, and glass-fiber-reinforced concrete (GFRC) panels ensure low maintenance. Smooth-textured, integrally colored panels shape the concave entrance, and vertically fluted panels form the classrooms. Solar strategies include fin-protected openings, fritted glass, overhangs, and use of daylighting.
"Best of the Best Award" - Transportation
Fentress Architects, Hensel Phelps, along with specialty subcontractor Clark Pacific wins a "Best of the Best" Awards for the San Jose International Airport Terminal Area Improvement Program in San Jose, CA. The project provided major expansion and renovation of the airport’s existing facilities including terminal construction and renovation, parking and roadway improvements, a consolidated rental car garage, and other related upgrades.
Projects were judged on safety, innovation, contribution to the industry/community, aesthetic and functional quality of design, and construction craftsmanship.
"Best of the Best Award" - Government/Public Building
Clark Pacific and Fentress Architects were presented with ENR's "Best of the Best" Award in the Government/Public Building category for their work on the San Joaquin County Administration Building. This $92.7 million, 250,000 sf project in downtown Stockton comprises a six-level office building with one level of subterranean parking. The design-build project was completed ahead of schedule and under budget. The innovative design provides a modern, user friendly space that incorporates features of the historical context and regional landmarks of the city and county.
2009
"BEST OF THE BEST" AWARD
Clark Construction, McCarthy, and Hunt, along with specialty subcontractor Clark Pacific win two national "Best of the Best" Awards for the LAC-USC Hospital project. The 600-bed, 1.5 million square-foot facility includes an outpatient clinic building, eight-story inpatient tower, five-story diagnostic and treatment building, and a central energy plant. This precast building is built to withstand natural disasters and other emergency situations, the diagnostic and treatment building rests on a seismic base-isolation system to allow for movement.
PCI DESIGN AWARD: BEST STADIUM
Clark Pacific and Rossetti Architects win the 2009 Design Award for Best Stadium. The precast concrete panels were designed to create an elevation with a strong horizontal focus with the use of sharp lines to define the building. The design suggests an airplane wing taking flight from the flat landscape, which was accomplished with a series of raised and recessed reveals in the elevations, producing a dynamic sense of movement. As the light shifts throughout the day, they create a continuous adjustment in the appearance of the arena, reducing the sensation of a static object.
2008
PCI DESIGN AWARD: BEST LOW-RISE OFFICE BUILDING
Ware Malcomb and Clark Pacific win the 2008 Design Award for Best Low-Rise Office Building. The six-story building was erected on a 33,000 sf footprint, providing 200,000 sf of office space. The precast panels were colored and textured to create high visual interest while also serving functional needs. The owners were eager to gain access to the building after outgrowing their previous office space. The architectural precast allowed for greater ease in accelerating construction.
2007
PCI DESIGN AWARD: BEST MIXED-USE BUILDING
Clark Pacific and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP win the 2007 PCI Design Award for Best Mixed-Use Building for the St. Regis Museum Tower in San Francisco, CA. The project was honored for its rich, four-tone patterned "weave" using horizontal and vertical reveal elements with distinctly separate finishes within and across the punched-window panels. The skyscraper features 260 hotel rooms, 102 condominiums, 20,000 sq ft of cultural museum space and four levels of below-grade parking.
PCI DESIGN AWARD: BEST MULTIFAMILY BUILDING
Clark Pacific and LPA Sacramento Inc. win the 2007 PCI Design Award for Best Multifamily Building for 800 J Lofts in Sacramento, CA. The project incorporated the use of precast hybrid moment-frame system that not only saves lives during a seismic event but allows for immediate occupancy.
2006
INTERNATIONAL PARKING INSTITUTE: AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
International Parking Design and Clark Pacific took home International Parking Institute’s 2006 Award of Excellence for the Sacramento International Airport’s “Terminal A” Parking Structure. The project featured Architectural Precast by Clark Pacific and matched the finish on the airport terminals which had been previously produced at Clark Pacific's Sacramento plant.
2005
PCI DESIGN AWARD: BEST JUSTICE FACILITY/COURTHOUSE
Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners and Clark Pacific win the 2005 PCI Design Award for Best Justice Facility / Courthouse for the Fresno Courthouse and Federal Building in Fresno, CA. The project was judged by a panel of architects and representatives of the precast industry. The project prominently features a specialized multi-colored, multi-plane, multi-directional reveal finish that helps the building achieve a scaled rugged look, reflecting the character of nearby Yosemite National Park.
2004
ACI Northern California Chapter Construction Award: Architectural Category
2004 ACI Northern California Chapter Construction Award: Architectural Category
International Parking Design and Clark Pacific win the recognition of ACI Northern California Chapter with its 2004 Construction Award in the Architectural Category for Sacramento International Airport’s “Terminal A” Parking Structure.
2002
PCI DESIGN AWARD: BEST JUSTICE FACILITY/COURTHOUSE
Langdon Wilson and Clark Pacific win the 2002 PCI Design Award for Best Justice Facility / Courthouse for the Las Vegas Federal Courthouse. The project was judged on a national basis by an industry panel and was prominently featured in the Precast Concrete Institute's Ascent Magazine. The project was the first federal courthouse to be constructed after the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was destroyed in 1995. The precast was specially designed to afford the structure an inherent blast resistance capable of preserving life and the structural integrity.
2002 PCI DESIGN AWARD: BEST PUBLIC FACILITY
Tucker Sadler Noble Castro and Clark Pacific win the 2002 PCI Design Award for Best Public Facility for the San Diego Convention Center Expansion. The project was judged on a national basis by an industry panel and was featured in the Precast Concrete Institute's Ascent Magazine. The project featured incredibly detailed GFRC panels used to create a radiused pattern down the length of the structure. It is a landmark structure for San Diego and the precast industry.
2001
PCI DESIGN AWARDS: HONORABLE MENTION
Wuster, Bernardi & Emmons, Inc. and Clark Pacific win an Honorable Mention for the San Francisco Towers Retirement Housing project. The project was judged on a national basis by an industry panel and published in the Precast Concrete Institute's Ascent Magazine.
GSA DESIGN AWARD: ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Mehrdad Yazdani, CannonDworsky and Clark Pacific win a 2001GSA Design Award for Architecture for the Lloyd D. George Courthouse, Las Vegas. Judges for the award comended the buildings "urbanity and such elegant restraint in Las Vegas," and commented that the giant column is "a powerful totem that will no doubt become the courthouse's signature in a city of signs and symbols."
1999
PCI Design Award: BEST PUBLIC BUILDING
DMJM and Clark Pacific win a Design Award for the Ontario International Airport Project. The project was judged as the Best Public Building on a national basis by an industry panel and published in the Precast Concrete Institute's Ascent Magazine.
1993
PCI DESIGN AWARD - SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT
Williams & Paddon Architects and Planners, Inc. and Clark Pacific win a Design Award for the Sacramento Municipal Utility Distict's Customer Service Center project. The use of precast panels in two textures helped to create a dramatic entry for the complex while joining disparate structures.
PCI DESIGN AWARD: BEST PUBLIC BUILDING - SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT'S CUSTOMER SERVICE CENTER
Williams & Paddon Architects and Planners, Inc. and Clark Pacific win a Design Award for the Sacramento Municipal Utility Distict's (SMUD) Customer Service Center project. The project was judged as the Best Public Building on a national basis by an industry panel and published in the Precast Concrete Institute's Ascent Magazine.