New Buildings – Plant Construction Company, L.P.

Meals on Wheels of SF

Lauren Wesson — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:44:08 +0000

Plant is about to begin preconstruction on a new facility for Meals on Wheels of SF. Meals on Wheels, now delivering over 1.6 million meals per year, has outgrown their existing facility on Fairfax Avenue, a few blocks from Plant HQ, and has purchased a piece of property on Jerrold Street, also just a few blocks away. The new 60,000 square foot facility on 2 levels, will contain a new commercial high production kitchen, cold storage, warehouse, loading dock, logistics and office space. Challenges on the project will be the bay mud soil underlying the site, establishing workable easements with neighbors and the construction of the complicated and extensive kitchen. Upon completion of the new building, we will begin the renovation of the 20,000 square foot existing facility on Fairfax ave, which will include interiors work, new elevators and stairways and other improvements. The new building is expected to be a 13 month project, with the existing building being completed 7 months later. Meals on Wheels is an amazing organization, providing a much needed service to our community, and we are excited to be associated with such a good cause.

City Center Bishop Ranch

Lauren Wesson — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 23:38:19 +0000

City Center Bishop Ranch is a 300,000-square-foot shopping, dining and entertainment experience, opening fall 2018 in San Ramon. Designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano Building Workshop, City Center will feature THE LOT, a 42,000-square-foot luxury cinema, an array of fashion and lifestyle retailers as well as sit-down and casual dining options. The 14.5-acre site will include a three-level parking deck, surface and valet parking, landscaping, pedestrian pathways and a one acre open-air Piazza with water features, seating, event/entertainment staging and other amenities designed to provide a place where the community can gather and connect. The project is seeking LEED Gold.
For more information visit: citycenterbishopranch.com

Emeryville Public Market

Lauren Wesson — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 22:33:29 +0000

Plant is performing a four and a half year long complete redevelopment of a 10 acre industrial site located in Emeryville, CA. The area once housed the large Pabco Manufacturing Plant, making roofing and fiberboard products and various paint facilities. The work consists of construction of two new approx. 145,000sf post tensioned concrete parking structures built over ground floor retail space, a steel structured restaurant building and ten blocks of completely new utility infrastructure and streetscape and a new 1.25 acre park and playground. The project is located in a very heavily trafficked part of Emeryville and directly adjacent to residential apartment blocks, a flourishing food court and operating businesses. To perform the infrastructure and street work we constructed a temporary bypass-road to reroute traffic around the site. The work also involves tight coordination with other general contractors on site, one performing the work of a residential apartment building in Parcel A to the north and the other building out the grocery store on the ground floor of our first parking structure. The first parking structure and the first phase of the streets will be completed in the 3rd quarter of 2017. The remainder of the street Work will finish at the end of 2017. The second parking structure work and city park work will begin in the 4th quarter of 2017.

Market Street Place / 6X6

Lauren Wesson — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 22:59:38 +0000

New construction of a 375,000 square foot urban retail center with two levels of below-grade parking and six stories of restaurants and shops above ground. The building, designed by Gensler, features 29,000 square feet of glass frontage on Market Street, the central atrium section of which is cable-supported for maximum transparency; while the interior offers tall ceilings and large floor plates of up to 40,000 square feet. The developer, Cypress Equities, envisions a mix of retail, restaurant and entertainment tenants in the space.

Woodside Priory School

Joel Boardman — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:14:35 +0000

Woodside Priory is a private college prep school located in Portola Valley, California. This project involved new construction of a building to house orchestral, theatrical, and choral performances while also hosting occasional art exhibits, receptions, and assemblies. The building features a 10,000 sq ft green roof planted with sedum and equipped with a drip irrigation system. The scope of Plant’s work included the installation of state-of-the-art sound and lighting systems, retractable seating, and ancillary rooms such as an orchestra room, choir room, theatre room and soundproof practice rooms. The project was awarded the Pacific Coast Builder’s Association, “Gold Nugget” Award of Merit in the Best Sustainable Commercial/Industrial category and the American Society of Landscape Architects, Northern California Chapter, Merit Award for Sustainability.

White Hill Middle School

Joel Boardman — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:12:00 +0000

New construction of two multi-level classroom buildings in the center of a bustling middle school campus in Fairfax, California. Designed to facilitate a rich and collaborative 21st-century learning environment, the buildings include music rooms, includes interior finishes, including acoustical treatments in the music rooms and casework and furnishings in the classrooms and learning centers. Exterior landscaping and hardscaping connects campus spaces together with a shaded amphitheater, which makes White Hill the first school to install polished, pervious concrete as a green alternative to traditional surfaces. The building was designed using CHPS and LEED for Schools guidelines and is a Net Zero Energy Ready Classroom Building.

USF Dorraine Zief Law Library

Joel Boardman — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 23:55:57 +0000

New construction of a state-of-the-art law library for the University of San Francisco’s School of Law. Built on a tight hillside in an urban setting, and with the surrounding school buildings remaining in operation throughout construction, the project required sensitive and detailed planning from demolition and site preparation through construction. The three-story, 60,000 sq ft library houses classrooms, lecture halls, seminar and conference rooms, a moot court room, student lounge, clinics, faculty and administrative offices, student service facilities, and underground parking. (The scope of work included drilling concrete piers and building a concrete substructure and superstructure. Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing subcontractors were hired on a design-build basis during the preconstruction phase in order to accelerate the schedule and solidify budget costs.

Urban School

Joel Boardman — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 23:53:36 +0000

New construction of a 4-story, 18,000 sq ft classroom building to expand this private high school in San Francisco. The building contains faculty offices, classrooms, two chemistry labs, and a student center enclosed by an exterior that is clad with glass and English greenstone. Upon completion of the new building expansion, Plant remodeled 9,000 sq ft of space in the existing school building to increase the size of the library, rearrange offices, and construct a new music studio.

Trinity School

Joel Boardman — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 23:42:47 +0000

The Trinity School is a coeducational elementary school serving children from kindergarten through fifth grade. Plant constructed a new classroom building addition to the school and remodeled existing classrooms, the library, and offices. The addition’s elegant modern design is a departure from the wood shingle sided buildings and church which dominate the architectural character of this compact campus, and provides a lively hub for student activities with amphitheater-style stairs connecting a covered breezeway to a green play space below. The building’s green design features include high performance windows, a white reflective roof, and radiant heat floors.

T. Gary Rogers Boathouse

Joel Boardman — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 23:18:11 +0000

For more than a century, the home of the University of California Crew team was at the Oakland Estuary, located between Alameda Island and the City of Oakland. When the men’s and women’s Crew teams required an expanded training and storage facility, Plant undertook the challenge of moving the original building to a new property three times the size of the original site. Once relocated to its new home, Plant renovated the 1924 Ky Ebright Boathouse, restoring the front half of the original building and constructing a 5,300 sq ft addition for boat storage. The scope also included the construction of a new dock, ramp, and a 40-foot wide pile-supported public access pathway along the waterfront.