Student Housing Case Study: Stanford University Comstock Housing
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
Trends in Structured Parking
Everywhere you go across metropolitan America, the automobile is ubiquitous. In suburbia, half of the developed land is devoted to car parking. In dense cities like San Francisco, streets consume 25 percent of the city’s land area – more than all of its parks. In 2007, author and architecture professor
Prefabrication—Integrating Systems Boosts Efficiency
Below is an excerpt of an article originally published in its entirety in the summer 2015 issue of Ascent Magazine, written by Craig A. Shutt. “Designers find integrating materials—masonry, insulation, windows, electrical, plumbing, and more—into precast concrete panels early in the process results in efficiency and economy.” Designers long have integrated stone
Sixth concrete slab pour nearly done for downtown arena
While work outside Woodland on precast concrete sections of the future downtown arena might have been the big topic this week, plenty of other progress is being made at the main construction site. According to an update sent Tuesday by the Sacramento Kings, this week will mark completion of the
Miles from Sacramento, pieces of future arena coming together
The precast concrete walls forming the bowl of the new downtown Sacramento arena are a couple months away from the project site. But they’re already in production. Representatives from the Sacramento Kings and Clark Pacific gave media a first-hand look Monday at the assembly process for the panels, at Clark
Clark Pacific gets contract to handle concrete work for Sacramento Kings downtown arena
West Sacramento-based Clark Pacific said Monday it will be the primary precast concrete contractor for the new downtown Sacramento Kings arena. Under the contract, the company will pour concrete to build the upper and lower bowls of the arena, luxury suites, exit and entrance walls and more than 1,000 steps in
Clark Pacific lands two big projects in San Diego
West Sacramento-based Clark Pacific will keep its engineers busy with two high-profile construction projects in San Diego. The firm will be doing precast concrete for both a new central courthouse in that city and a parking garage and car-rental building at the San Diego International Airport. Though the actual concrete
San Diego International Airport Rental Car Center
The San Diego International Airport Rental Car Center (ConRac) project is one of the most high profile buildings that has been added to the San Diego skyline in a number of years. For quite some time the Airport Authority has wanted to construct a central hub for its rental car