July 6, 2016
Sundt crews poured 14,000 cubic yards of concrete on the San Diego State University South Campus Plaza project.
Sundt’s ability to self-perform concrete construction is providing client value in San Diego. Our crews have successfully completed two large concrete jobs in the area, most recently the San Diego State University South Campus Plaza.
“We can control safety, quality and schedule a lot better when we self-perform,” said Project Manager Mike Canter. “It provides an overall better team approach.”
In this case, that approach started with the San Diego International Airport Rental Car Center. The team placed 97,500 cubic yards of concrete on the 24-acre site in just 12 months, the equivalent of pouring about an acre a week. The center, the largest concrete building in the city, opened in January.
That project segued into South Campus Plaza, where concrete work began in February 2015 and lasted 14 months. While the concrete portion is complete, the rest of the project is scheduled to be finished by the end of the year.
South Plaza is a $143-million student housing and retail project. We are serving as design-build contractor for the project, which includes two residential buildings above ground-floor retail and an adjacent parking structure. The residence halls will house 608 beds in double-occupancy student rooms, 32 single-occupancy student rooms, three staff apartments and three visiting scholar studios. Designed to achieve LEED Silver certification from the United States Green Building Council, the project spans nearly 350,000 square feet.
Crews poured 14,000 cubic yards on the project, which included a six-story parking garage with a 20,000-square-foot footprint on a constrained site.
Sundt’s Mary Homan and Jamie Frye accept the 2015 Build San Diego Award for Sustainability for the company’s work on the San Diego State Student Union.
Sundt’s awards collection keeps growing in 2015.
We earned two more honors this week for projects in Arizona and California: a Design-Build Institute of America Award of Excellence for renovations of Old Main on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson and an Associated General Contractors of America Build San Diego Award for Sustainability for the San Diego State University Aztec Conrad Prebys Student Union.
Constructed in 1891, Old Main was the first building on University of Arizona campus. The work included stabilizing the historic building’s perimeter stone wall, resolving subterranean water infiltration, reinforcing the brick columns and chimneys, reconstructing the second floor porch, upgrading and leveling the second floor structure, replacing metal roof shingles and rebuilding the second floor interior for use as the office of the university president. Other features included safety upgrades, installation of a new mechanical system, and replacement of the plumbing, lighting and electrical systems. The building is the oldest in the state to receive LEED certification.
The SDSU facility is the first LEED Platinum certified student union in the California State University System, using 40 percent less energy and water than similar buildings. It serves as the university’s hub for meeting, socializing and studying. It features dining options, retail space, 14 meeting rooms and a fitness center.
The Learning Library Resource Center at San Diego Miramar College.
Sundt is pleased to announce that two education construction projects, The Learning Library Resource Center at San Diego Miramar College and combination school Puentes Middle School/Butler Elementary in El Paso, Texas, have recently earned LEED certification.
The U.S. Green Building Council’s “Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design” certification recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices for green building leadership. Environmentally friendly features of the Miramar LLRC include a light-colored exterior that helps reflect the sun’s heat to reduce cooling costs, drought-tolerant landscaping, water-saving technologies, the use of local and regional materials, low volatile organic compound-emitting indoor materials and a high-efficiency HVAC system contribute to reducing the building’s carbon footprint.
Entrance to the Puentes Butler combination elementary and middle school.
Puentes/Butler is El Paso’s first Gold-Certified combination school. The sustainability efforts that earned the school Gold, LEED’s second highest certification, include landscaping that incorporates low-water native plants, groves of trees to shade the earth and consume greenhouse gases, photovoltaic and wind power generators and energy efficient lighting that HVAC systems which contributed to the building achieving 23% energy cost savings.
These projects join Sundt’s continued work in LEED-certified educational facilities, with other notable projects including University of California, Davis Tercero Student Housing, San Diego State University’s Aztec Student Union, Arizona State University Interdisciplinary Science & Technology Building and University of California Merced – Social Science and Management Building.
The Kings County Courthouse is on track to be complete in December.
The 144,000-square-foot Kings County Courthouse project in Hanford, California has crossed the halfway point and is on track to be complete in December. Sundt’s team is currently installing the exterior skin and performing glazing and interior framing.
When complete, the facility will include 12 courtrooms, a jury assembly room and an underground tunnel connecting the courthouse to the nearby county jail. It will also house a self-help legal center, family court mediation rooms, courtroom holding rooms and attorney interview waiting rooms. A number of sustainable features are expected to help the courthouse construction project earn LEED Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Sundt’s latest LEED Platinum-certified project is Tercero 3, a student housing facility at the University of California, Davis.
Last week the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) released its annual list of the Top 10 States for LEED, the organization’s green building rating system. Click here to find out which states are leading the nation in reducing water and energy use, lowering carbon emissions, and saving money for owners and taxpayers.
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