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The site of the new Student Housing East dorms — three structurally separate buildings — and the adjoining but freestanding tower and pedestrian bridge had previously been a surface parking lot on the northeastern side of the campus, near the Interstate 710 freeway. ...
Prefabricated facade systems address some of construction’s most pressing issues: productivity, cost certainty, schedule compliance, as well as building durability and sustainability. However, achieving these benefits relies on selecting a high-quality prefabrication partner and product, and engaging them early. It takes careful, thorough coordination to orchestrate the complex process of fabrication and assembly. ...
Today’s buildings must be built to last longer, operate efficiently, and minimize harm to the environment. And the building envelope, the first line of defense against the elements, is front and center. That makes designing for it, an already difficult task, even more challenging. An FMI survey [1] found that ...
Clark Pacific sponsored Sultana High In Hesperia, CA about 20 miles from the Adelanto plant. Blake and I met with their pre-build team to answer questions and provide some background about Clark Pacific. Led by their instructor Kurt Chapman, the six-student team made up of various grades then assembled structure. ...
A tight project timeline proves the value of BIM as Clark Pacific implements an innovative prefabricated construction technique. In September 2020, Stanford University in Palo Alto, California opened its newest and largest on-campus housing development to date. This new development, Escondido Village, features housing for over 2,400 graduate students. In ...
The high-profile project, designed with the help of several well-known architecture firms, shows that factory-built structures can meet lofty design standards. Construction has been underway at the Mission Rock development in San Francisco since last year, and prefabrication is playing a major part in the project's creation. The 28-acre mixed-use ...
Our world is changing rapidly. Industries across sectors are constantly evolving as they shift to meet the growing consumer demands. However, although it is the largest industry in the world, Construction remains the last major industry to change. ...
Sac State’s Parking Structure 5 (PS5) is a six-story example of modern construction innovation, from its cooling white interior and technical amenities, to the dozens of green aluminum “leaves” that pay homage to the University’s urban forest. It also is a sustainability masterpiece, and earned recognition as such. Parksmart, the ...
Congratulations to Will Swearingen and Grant Guerrieri for making the Sacramento Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 list. While these may be uncertain times, Grant and Will have continued to push our technology and manufacturing innovations further for better prefabricated solutions adding more value for our customers. Grant GuerrieriSenior Project ManagerWilliam ...
Whether it’s the Notre Dame or the Empire State, construction of large, monumental buildings has been around for thousands of years. Some structures, such as the Pyramids of Giza, seem to be impressive feats of technology for the period in which they were built. It is quite a wonder how the ...
Part of Clark Pacific’s mission has been to “Build Different, Achieve More”. With this motto in mind, we find that our employees are upholding and expanding on our core values every day. One of those employees is Thad Saunders, a member of Clark Pacific for over 20 years. Thad received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from ...
Our industry is one of the largest in the world, with around $10 trillion spent on construction related goods and services each year. Yet many of us are still wondering, what is holding back the transformation of the construction industry? Despite the technology, processes and innovation available today, the construction ...
Value is important when you invest money in anything, but it’s especially important in design and construction. In most cases, owners do not realize the value from their projects. Industry benchmarks show that 61 percent of typical projects are behind schedule, while 49 percent are over budget. The reason? It ...
How do you increase speed to market and/ or improve the return on investment of your capital projects? The Lean Construction Institute sponsored two separate research studies, conducted by Dodge Data & Analytics and the University of Minnesota, to explore how and why projects excel. Empirical evidence now shows that projects ...
For more than 50 years, Clark Pacific has helped shape the vibrant urban landscape of the West Coast. The award-winning design-build manufacturer of architectural and structural precast concrete has completed over 2,500 large structural projects spanning high-profile commercial, residential, parking structures and stadiums, including the new 49ers stadium in Santa ...
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is gaining attention and popularity by encouraging in-depth team collaboration, which leads to fast delivery, ease of budgeting, and high-quality design and construction. This approach was used by an 11-member team that entered into an IPD Agreement with a stated goal of delivering the Sutter Medical ...
Even as the first of the millennial generation transforms the modern office, their younger siblings are attending college as never before. Fall college enrollment in the United States touched seven successive new highs from 2003 through 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Education. While growth is expected to slow ...
The culture of innovation indelibly linked to the San Francisco Bay Area does not stop with information technology. The region’s building contractors, architects and engineers routinely challenge competitors with cutting-edge software, novel collaboration techniques and new project-delivery processes. The collective goal is to create new and better ways to build ...
