Construction Notebook

Design is under way for a new 49,000-square-foot building in Clairemont at San Diego Mesa College at 7250 Mesa College Drive, San Diego.

Architects|Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker of San Diego was commissioned by the San Diego Community College District to provide full architectural services for the $16.3 million project.

Construction for the project is slated to begin in April, with completion scheduled for August 2009.

The scope of work for the architect includes programming, schematic design, design development, construction documents, bidding and negotiation, construction administration and record drawings.

The three-story building is organized around a two-story atrium lobby and will incorporate a variety of uses including a computer lab, classrooms, a clinical dental lab, a physical therapy lab, a medical lab, and faculty and staff offices.

The structure, located outside of the main campus boundary and adjacent to the main campus entry, will serve as a prominent landmark for the college.

Paul Schroeder is the principal-in-charge for the architect, with project architect Doug Paterson, associates Kerry Ringle and Alison Morita, and Javier Nava as the technical staff.

Construction manager Richard Burkhart is providing oversight for the San Diego Community College District

Project engineering consultants include Hope Engineering for structural, RBF Consulting for civil, and TKG Consulting Engineers Inc. for mechanical, electrical and plumbing.

Wimmer Yamada & Caughey is the landscape architect and Churchill Engineering Inc. is the code consultant. URS Corp. (NYSE: URS) is the construction manager for the owner.

Roel Construction has construction under way on the Agua Caliente Hotel on Bob Hope Drive in Rancho Mirage.

The 552,000-square-foot project will consist of a 16-story, 340-room hotel next to the existing casino with meeting rooms, pre-function convention space, complete spa, and back of house areas. Completion is scheduled for the spring of 2008.

Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians is the owner, represented by Rob Donnels. VOA Associates is the architect along with Pearson Architects Inc. Consultants to the design team are Lochsa Engineering and Surveying, Jehn Engineering and MSA Engineering Consultants.

The Roel team includes Bill Carter as project director, Chris Heese and Jano Montoya as senior project managers; Jason Albrecht and Ben Pia Jr., as project managers; Todd Berg and Dan Partridge as assistant managers; Abe Foglio and Paula Montore as engineers; Maynard Zillmer as general superintendent; Fidel Olvera, John Small, Matt Kaiser, Tony Morris, Phil Lemoine, Craig White, Mark Jemison, Ron Benson, Lance Scott and James Archer as superintendents; Sherman Gaines as regional safety director; Brandon Line as contract administrator; and Heather Burak and Bonnie Jenkins as coordinators.

Subcontractors for the $170 million project include Al Miller & Sons Roofing Co., Angelus Waterproofing, Anning-Johnson Company, Architectural Accent, Benmark Custom Painting, Bergelectric, Brewer Crane and Rigging, CA Comfort Systems, Cal-Flex Engineering, Caspers Concrete Cutting, Cattrac Construction, CMC Fontana Steel, Cochran Communications Construction, Condon-Johnson & Associates, and Contemporary Heating & Air Conditioning.

Others are Contractors Termite Control, Cove Electric, Del's Flooring Contractors, Door Service Co., Earth Support Systems, Earth Systems Southwest, Equity Cabinet Company, James Fedor Masonry, GM Interiors, Glass Factory, Guy Evans Door & Hardware, Guy Yocom Construction, Hendrickson Construction, J. Colavin & Sons, Johnson Barnes & Finch, KHS&S, Magik Glass & Door, Marble Granite Tiles, Otis Elevator, Pacific Rim Mechanical, Pacific Stair, Paramount Tile, Inc., Penhall Co. and Platinum Landscape.

Still more subs are Raymond Interior Systems, RBF Consulting, Rossin Steel, Safway Services, Shade Structures, Sierra Woodworking, SJ Grigolla Construction, Spartan Concrete & Asphalt Cutting, SSW Mechanical Construction, Stripeline Co., System Electric, Temp Power Systems, The Curb Cutter, Tidwell Concrete, Togo Construction, Tractel, TRL Systems, Vertex Coatings, Western Fire Protection, Whites Steel, Whitmore Steel and Williams Mechanical.

General contractor Reno Contracting has topped steel framing on the six-story, 150,677-square-foot Scripps Health medical office building at 15004 Innovative Drive within Innovation Corporate Center, an eight-building, 616,000-square-foot office campus in Carmel Mountain Ranch.

San Diego-based Pacific Cornerstone Architects designed the $53 million building. Kilroy Realty, LP, is the project owner, with Vice President of Commercial Development Randy Jackson handling project management.

The building will include 100,000 square feet of out-patient medical clinic space, with the remaining 50,677 square feet accommodating professional office use by medical, dental and related health practitioners.

Pacific Cornerstone also designed an adjacent, six-level, 205,000-square-foot parking structure that will accommodate 600 vehicles.

Scripps Health, a non-profit, community-based health care delivery network based in San Diego, is expected to take occupancy of the medical building.

Tim Schulze is principal-in-charge for Pacific Cornerstone, with Randy Chumley as project manager. Engineering consultants include Hope Engineering for structural, Michael Wall Engineering for electrical, and Walsh Engineers for mechanical and plumbing. Architectural Landscapes is the landscape architect.

The project marks the seventh building that Pacific Cornerstone has designed within Innovation Corporate Center, bringing the total amount of space designed by the firm there to 461,528 square feet.