TORRANCE, Calif. — Construction is one step closer to completion on the new $450-million Torrance Memorial Medical Center Patient Tower. The project reached a major milestone when construction workers placed the final piece of structural steel on the 398,350-square-foot facility. McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., is serving as general contractor for the project that began construction in February 2010. During the steel erection phase, iron workers from Herrick Steel placed 5,820 pieces of structural steel within three months in order to build the frame for the new tower. The project team recently celebrated the topping out of structural steel during a … Read more

OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 28, 2012 — DPR Construction recently topped out of the $300-million Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Patient Care Pavilion, signifying completion of structural erection of the 250,000-square-foot ground-up project. DPR is the general contractor for the new facility that broke ground in 2010 and is scheduled to open in 2014. “Today marks the celebration of a traditional construction milestone for what has been anything but a traditional project,” said Jay Widdifield, project manager for DPR Construction. “The patient care pavilion is being built on a 1.5-acre site in the middle of the current Oakland urban hospital campus, … Read more