The Hotel & Residences at LA Live!

Located in the heart of the entertainment capital of the world, the 26-acre the L.A. Live entertainment district is the leading special events center on the West Coast. The district’s focal-point is a 55-story hotel and condominium com­plex featuring 123 Ritz-Carlton luxury hotel rooms, 224 Ritz-Carlton Residences and 878 J.W. Marriott hotel rooms. Just steps away from the STAPLES Center and Nokia Theater, the project features ballroom and meeting space, a fitness center, a rooftop pool and bar, and Wolfgang Puck’s WP24 Restaurant.

The Hotel & Residences at LA Live received the Mixed-Use Design Concept Award from the 38th Annual L.A. Architectural Awards.

San Francisco Transbay Transit Center

W Hollywood Hotel & Residences

Located at the famous intersection of Hollywood and Vine Streets, the W Hollywood is a new 12-story, 305-room luxury hotel featuring the Drai’s Hollywood nightclub, the Delphine Eatery & Bar, and the Bliss Holly­wood spa. Hotel amenities include the Station Hollywood bar with a 35’ movie screen, a rooftop pool, meeting space, and 3 levels of subterranean parking. The W Hollywood Residences is a 16-story, 143-unit luxury condo-minium tower with a sky bridge to the hotel.

UCSD Rita Atkinson Student Housing

 The UC San Diego Rita Atkinson Health Services Graduate Student Housing complex is a design-build project located on an existing parking lot adjacent to the VA Hospital. Designed as a University-owned residential apartment building, it consists of 225 two-bedroom apartments, 1 three-bedroom apartment, and associated support spaces.

The complex is composed of two L-shaped wings, one of nine stories and the other of seven. When combined together, these two wings account for approximately 230,000 sq ft of program, mechanical and circulation areas.

California Memorial Stadium

The California Memorial Stadium project will provide extensive reconstruction and renovation work for U.C. Berkeley's historic 86 year old stadium. The work includes stadium, athletic field, seismic, life safety, and program upgrades; and the preservation of selected historic elements of the original structure.

Site preparation activity is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2010 with utilities work, reinforcement of the west wall and limited demolition of interior spaces. Major construction is slated to start at the end of the 2010 football season and will be on a 20-month schedule to finish in time for the 2012 campaign.

San Francisco General Hospital

The new San Francisco General Hospital will have 284 beds, 14 operating rooms, and provide the only Level-1 trauma care in the city. The 460,000 sq ft steel structure will consist of two levels below grade and eight levels above grade including a mechanical penthouse. The hospital will feature a 40,000 sq ft emergency room, a 20,000 sq ft radiology department, and units providing Intensive Care, Critical Care, Neonatal Intensive Care, and Forensic services. Other service areas will include Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Sterile Processing, Pharmacy, Laboratory, Pulmonary Function, Biomedical, Morgue and Autopsy.

Successfully integrating the site utilities was a significant challenge. The campus has been in continuous operation since 1872, so there were multiple existing buildings and many site unknowns. The collaborative use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) with the core subcontractors allowed the team to evaluate vari­ous alternatives for routing the active steam lines, I.T. conduits, 12 Kv electrical power, and sewer connections. This process allowed the utilities installation to continue ahead of schedule while saving over $1 Million.

Highland Reservoir

The Highland Reservoir is a 2.7 million gallon, partially-subterranean, pre-stressed concrete water tank. This project for the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) will help increase water supply and stabilize service pressure in the southwestern portion of the Colorados Pressure Zone which includes Lafayette.

40 feet in height, the structure is located in a residential area and nearly occupies the entire site. Due to the tight nature of the project site, Webcor used a mobile crane on a slab inside the tank, which had to be removed by a larger mobile crane once the 40-foot walls were complete.

The new tank will be connected to the Lafayette Water Treatment Plant.

Ironhouse Waste Water Treatment Plant

The Ironhouse Wastewater Treatment Plant is a new, 4.3 million gallon/day average dry weather flow wastewater treatment facility. The scope of work consists of the integration of the existing wastewater treatment facilities, the construction of an influent treatment pipeline from the existing wastewater treatment plant to the new wastewater treatment plant, the installation of a discharge pipeline, outfall, and diffuser off the north shore of Jersey Island for discharge of treated effluent into the San Joaquin River, and the extension of a 24-inch diameter pipeline on Jersey Island.

One Hawthorne

One Hawthorne is a 24-story, 165 unit high-end condominium building with three below-grade levels of valet parking utilizing space-saving car stackers. The project also includes two roof top terraces. 

The skin of the building is a combination of precast elements and curtainwall windows. The project is located at the corner of Howard and Hawthorne Streets in the SOMA district of San Francisco.

Due to the project site's limited footprint, Webcor suggested the use of a corkscrew ramp design instead of a car elevator system for the parking garage. This solution saved approximately $1million. 

Havens Elementary School

Havens Elementary School is a new, Mission-style edu­cational facility located in Piedmont California. The campus includes a one-story building for kindergarten and first grade classes, and a two-story building for grades two through six. The school also includes an administration building containing offices, a teachers’ lounge, a library and a multi-purpose room. The project site features architectural concrete, three rubberized playfields and a syn­thetic turf athletic field with an organic infill made of cork and coconut fiber.

This scope of work included the complete demolition of the existing facility and the relocation of portable classrooms to keep a portion of the school campus op­erational during the construction. The project utilized a lease-leaseback contract between the school district and Webcor.