Court ruling could cost California high speed rail project $15 billion, four years in...
A recent California Supreme Court ruling favoring environmentalists opposing the state’s reopening of an abandoned lumber train may cost the state’s $46 billion over-budget...
Massive $6.7 billion mixed use development on Santa Clara landfill clears environmental, regulatory hurdles
The Related Companies’ have proposed building a $6.7 billion mixed-use complex with as many as 1,680 housing units on a former Santa Clara landfill.
The...
Arsons vex residential construction projects in Oakland area
The fire that consumed an apartment and retail complex being built near downtown Oakland on July 7 wasn’t the first to rip through a...
Inmate construction training program shut down following reports of safety concerns, shoddy work
A program to train and employ Mendocino County inmates for construction projects, contracted by Northern California Construction Training Inc. (NCCT), has been shut down...
Bay Area CLC tours San Francisco’s new $1 billion Transbay Transit Center
The Bay Area Construction Leadership Council (CLC) of the Associated General Contractors of California recently toured San Francisco's new Transbay Transit Center.
The center will...
Cynthia Keefe to be regional director, health at HDR
HDR says it has appointed architect Cynthia Keeffe as a regional director for health in the San Francisco architecture studio, focusing on the west...
HITT opens Bay Area office
HITT Contracting Inc., one of the country’s largest general contractors, has says it has opened a new regional office in California’s Silicon Valley. The Bay...
13 workers injured in Oakland scaffolding collapse
Thirteen construction workers were hurt on Friday when scaffolding collapsed while they were pouring concrete at a building site in on May 28 in...
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WRNS Studio, FABRIC Mass Timber unveil design for California’s first regenerative mass timber facility
California Construction News staff writer
WRNS Studio and FABRIC Mass Timber have begun design work on California’s first regenerative mass timber manufacturing facility, a 200,000-square-foot...
Pacific Palisades rebuilding accelerates with first standard plan approvals
California Construction News staff writer
The first approvals under the City of Los Angeles’ Standard Plan Pilot Program for single-family homes in Pacific Palisades have...
Turner Construction breaks ground on California’s Southern Regional Emergency Operations Center
California Construction News staff writer
Turner Construction Company celebrated the groundbreaking of California’s new Southern Regional Emergency Operations Center last week, a 60,000-sq. ft. structure...
