This reflects the people who make Pվ��Ƶ what it is. In the field, in the office, and everywhere in between. Thank you for making Pվ��Ƶ the kind of place people are proud to be a part of.

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This honor recognizes contractors who demonstrate an exceptional commitment to safety and consistently exceed industry standards. Award recipients must meet at least four rigorous criteria, including maintaining a Total Incident Rate (TIR) and Experience Modification Rate (EMR) well below industry benchmarks.

This recognition reflects the daily commitment of our entire team to ensure every project is executed safely. Thank you to our crews, field leaders, and safety professionals for making this achievement possible.

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Award of Merit, K-12 Education: Isaac R. Montanez Elementary & Middle School

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This 220,000-square-foot facility processes up to half a million packages per day during the peak holiday season. Designed to achieve zero emissions within five years, the project is recognized as the greenest distribution facility in the western region, supporting an electric fleet of 180 vehicles.

Key Sustainability Highlights:

• Proprietary overhead electric fleet charging infrastructure, carefully coordinated and energized through phased implementation.
• High-performance building envelope and advanced emissions detection system.
• Deep-wick ground improvement solution and 3.2 acres of on-site bio-retention.
• Reuse of casting slab material for foundation construction.
• Low-carbon concrete used in slab-on-grade applications.
• Pervious asphalt and bioswales to promote groundwater replenishment.

These achievements reflect Pվ��Ƶ’s continued leadership in innovative, sustainable construction and its commitment to reducing environmental impact through cutting-edge building technologies.

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Pվ��Ƶ is proud to be delivering this important project through a collaborative design-build partnership with Kitchell and DLR Group. Here’s to the start of a project that will strengthen emergency services and make a lasting impact for years to come.

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The-state-of-the-art campus located on 6 donated acres near the Lafayette Reservoir will be dedicated to providing support for individuals, families and communities affected by cancer through no-cost, comprehensive supportive care programs. The 13,209 SF facility will include counseling rooms, demonstration kitchen, arts room, movement studio, library and cafe, well treatment rooms, healing garden and outdoor areas.

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Our design-build team members celebrated the event alongside Alameda County General Pվ��Ƶ Agency, Alameda County Fire Department, 6D PMCM and Kitchell as construction begins on the new cutting-edge facility designed to elevate Alameda County firefighter and first responder training.

Featuring an 8,000 SF classroom building for advanced instruction, a 5,500 SF 5-story training tower for live-fire training, multiple roof simulation props for targeted training exercises, as well as confined space and rescue training areas to replicate complex emergency scenarios, this new facility will provide a realistic, safe, and effective training environment for Alameda County emergency personnel.

The groundbreaking ceremony was not just a celebration of progress but also a heartfelt expression of gratitude toward everyone who made this vision possible. Many thanks to all those in attendance, especially dignitary speakers:

– Scott Haggerty, President, Alameda County Board of Supervisors

– Eric Moore, Deputy Fire Chief, Alameda County Fire Department

– David Haubert, Supervisor, Alameda County

– William McDonald, Fire Chief, Alameda County

– Kimberly Gasaway, Director, General Pվ��Ƶ Agency, Alameda County

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The 46,500 SF facility will serve as LBNL’s welcome center with a cafeteria, health clinic, conference center and transit hub for staff and scientists.

Built into a steep hillside, phase one of the project included demolition of existing buildings, site and utility modifications as well as a robust foundation and retaining wall system.

Footage courtesy of Berkeley Lab, a national laboratory supported by the US Department of Energy through the Office of Science.

© The Regents of the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Collaboration at the Heart of the Project

Stanislaus Regional Water Authority (SRWA) desired a collaborative process while using the BVDB model. This was communicated early by the SRWA team and reinforced through early engagement with the design-build community, distributing draft procurement and contract documents for review and input, and establishing and encouraging two-way communication. This level of collaboration continued throughout the project. When issues arose, particularly during the pandemic, the entire team came together to do what was best for the project. The best solution for the project was always put first by all parties.

The RSWS project created a drought-resilient, diverse and quality water supply to the surrounding community that also benefited agricultural areas nearby. The project provided environmental benefits to aquatic species in the upper reaches of the Tuolumne River. The team included Stanislaus Regional Water Authority (Owner), Jacobs (Design-Build Engineer), West Yost Associates (Owner Advisors) and key specialty contractors: Pվ��Ƶ, Mountain Cascade, and San Joaquin Electric.

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Las Positas College’s New Public Safety Complex (PSC) & Advanced Manufacturing and Transportation (AMT) Facility has received an Award of Merit in the Higher Education/Research category by Engineering News Record (ENR).  Pվ��Ƶ and Vanir led the delivery of this Lionakis-designed facility which provides Las Positas students with state-of-the-art learning environments and hands-on learning opportunities to succeed in high-demand fields such as fire technology, administration of justice, emergency medical services, advanced manufacturing, welding and auto technology.  The LEED Silver-designed buildings are co-located to allow for shared linkages between the career technical educations programs, classrooms, and training spaces. The PSC features a 2,400 SF, three-story fire training tower, EMS Simulation Lab and Situation Rooms, Fire Training with “Class A” burn areas, and Fire Training Apparatus. The AMT houses an automotive tech facility, welding lab, classrooms and advanced lab spaces.

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It’s something that’s happening across the Bay Area, but in this case, it involved converting empty offices into places for people to live.

For years, homeless advocates have talked about turning unused office space in San Francisco into housing.  In San Pablo, they’ve done it.

“I am so proud to be here as we celebrate the opening of what is a model project to really help solve homelessness in our community,” said Contra Costa Supervisor John Gioia.

On Saturday, officials celebrated the completion of El Portal Place, a 54-unit complex of permanent supportive housing for the homeless.  It will be operated by the county’s Health Department and will feature on-site case managers, mental health services, and even includes a small dog park so clients can keep their pets with them.

The county initially planned to demolish an old building they own next door for the project.

“And we originally thought, OK, we will look at funding to build micro-housing on our vacant site,” said Gioia.  “And then we started talking to Jerry Pվ��Ƶ and his team, because they owned a vacant office building on this site.”

Jerry Pվ��Ƶ founded Overaa Construction in the 1960s and he built a four-story call center for PacBell in 1971. When the need for long distance operators ended, the building became obsolete, as well.

But rather than knock it down, Pվ��Ƶ is offering it a new life.

“Well, this is a conversion from office to housing, right. And that’s pretty hard to do,” he said.  “Usually, they don’t have the right configuration, not in the right location. But this one happened to be in a good place.”

So, he handed the project over to his grandson, project manager Jared Gragg.

“There are both challenges and opportunities,” said Gragg. “A few of the challenges are meeting modern code, structural code, seismic code. We are pretty close to the Hayward Fault. Getting all new MEP — mechanical, plumbing, electrical — dividing the building into units.”

And they handed that whole thing down to construction supervisor Tony Britton.

“When I walked into this place, I was like, ‘Oh my God, what are we going to do here,'” said Britton. “It was just a massive building.”

Britton had to deal with problems that popped up on an everyday basis. The first had to do with opening up the center of a concrete building to allow light into the apartments.

“When I came up here, I was like, ‘Oh, wow. How we going to do this,'” Britton said.  “Because now we’ve got to take this floor out, along with that concrete. And as we demo’d the concrete out, I ran into another situation of, how are we going to get these beams down and get ’em out that door?”

It was one headache after another, and Britton said he had to act as a counselor for his crew to keep the vibe positive. It wasn’t easy, but now that it’s finished, he said the project means a lot to him.

He had created a new purpose for an old building and new hope for people living on the streets. He had advice for others who may want to do the same thing.

“You’re going to find things that you didn’t know was here,” said Britton said. “And you’re going to have to continue to move forward and be very creative. And think out of the box.”

That may also be what’s needed to solve homelessness. El Portal Place took only 2 ½ years to complete, an unheard-of timeline to create 54 new homes. Converting existing buildings is not the way construction is usually done and isn’t even the most efficient.

But it may be the quickest and that should matter to anyone who considers the housing shortage to be an emergency situation.

John Ramos, CBS News

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