UC Los Angeles Selects General Contractor for $27M Botany Building Renovations

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UC Los Angeles, California, has selected BNBuilders to provide extensive renovations to the campus’ Botany Building. The $27-million project, designed by CO Architects, comes on the heels of BNBuilders’ recent $6-million renovations to UC Los Angeles’ Agoura Road medical suites and the $23.8-million Geffen Academy renovation in the campus’ Kinross Building. The general contractor will complete a renovation to UC Los Angeles’ four-level, 37,351-square-foot Botany Building and adjacent Herbarium. The work will include removing all existing interior partitions; mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems and hazardous materials; and installing new MEP and life safety systems, new roof, entrance, accessibility upgrades, seismic upgrades, … Read more

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Ed White Elevated to President at TDIndustries

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Ed White has been promoted to president at TDIndustries. In his new role, he will have oversight of Arizona, as well as three North Texas-based business units. He will also join TD’s Executive Leadership Team. White holds many business licenses including air conditioning, refrigeration, electrical, process piping and solar. He is a long-standing board member and past president for the Arizona Builders Alliance (a joint chapter for the Associated General Contractors of America and Associated Builders and Contractors) and has served on the American Society for Health Care Engineering, Design-Build Institute of America, as well as the advisory council for … Read more

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$3.6M Tenant Improvements Complete for County of Orange Probation Department

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Expanding its portfolio of work in the Los Angeles/Orange County area, BNBuilders recently completed tenant improvements for the County of Orange Probation Department, located in Laguna Hills, California. The $3.6-million project is one of the firm’s recent and upcoming projects in the region. For the County of Orange, BNBuilders completed tenant improvements to an existing 13,286-square-foot, one-story building on a 50,041-square-foot lot. The general contractor performed both design/preconstruction and construction services for the project. Preconstruction services included reviewing the construction documents and advising on alternatives for cost and time savings, ways to gain efficiencies and procurement of materials and subcontractors. The … Read more

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Transforming Desert Landscape into Health Future Center

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Coming together under the Arizona sun, DPR Construction recently joined Arizona State University, leaders from Mayo Clinic and community leaders to celebrate the groundbreaking of ASU’s Health Future Center. With completion scheduled for October 2020, this greenfield project represents another step toward the future of healthcare in Phoenix. HFC will be a 150,000-square-foot, three-story ground-up medical learning facility adjacent to the Mayo Clinic. The new facility will provide the surrounding communities with new technology including a med-tech innovation accelerator, biomedical engineering and informatics research labs and an education zone. In addition, it will provide a new, innovative nursing program model … Read more

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McCarthy Adds 26-Year Industry Veteran to its Northern Pacific Region as Project Director

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McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. has added Ann Poppen as project director for its Northern Pacific Region. Drawing on more than 26 years of experience in design, planning, preconstruction design phase services and project execution, Poppen will directly oversee projects from development through occupancy. She serves as part of the Sacramento Business Unit in the company’s Roseville, California office. As project director, Poppen will lead project teams and is working on the planning phases of the firm’s newest high-rise project, Stanislaus County’s New Modesto Courthouse, with construction set to begin in early 2020. She is responsible for overseeing a collaborative integrated … Read more

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