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Crafts Demonstrate Skills at UCSF’s Institute for Regeneration Medicine |
DPR: Complexity of Project Required Use of Union Labor
By Paul Burton
Contributing Writer
DPR is developing and constructing the $123 million, 67,000-sq.-ft. Institute for Regeneration Medicine at the UC San Francisco Parnassus campus. DPR’s Project Manager Martin Vegas said there were currently about 150 construction trades workers on the all-union job, including carpenters, operating engineers, laborers, sheet metal workers, ironworkers, plumbers, sprinklerfitters, glaziers, roofers, cement masons, insulators and electrical workers. He said that, “The magnitude and complexity of the job dictated that we use union subcontractors.”
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Work Begins on $887 Million SF General Trauma Center |
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Work has begun on construction of the new San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center on Potrero Avenue between 22nd and 23rd Streets. The new building will be seven stories high, with two stories below ground. It will also incorporate environmentally sensitive design principles to bring it to a LEED certification level of Silver or better. It was designed by Fong and Chan Architects. The Department of Public Works retained Webcor Builders as the General Contractor.
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Trans Bay Cable Project Completed |
- Testing Begins on System that Will Supply Up to 10 Percent of City’s Electric Power
By Paul Burton, Contributing Writer
Construction crews have completed the San Francisco substation at 23rd and Illinois Streets that will receive electricity from the city of Pittsburg via a 53-mile-long high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line—the TransBay Cable.
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Senator Leno’s Candlestick Point Bill Signed into Law |
- SB 792 Will Transfer State Parkland to City for Development & Protect Candlestick Point
State Sen. Mark Leno’s bill to transfer a portion of the Candlestick Point State Recreation Area to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency for development was signed into law by Gov. Schwarzenegger Oct. 11. It passed the Senate and Assembly in September with only two votes against its passage: Tom Ammiano in the Assembly and Leland Yee in the State Senate.
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More Water System Improvement Projects Begin Construction |
- University Mound, San Andreas Pipeline Part of $4.3 Billion Hetch Hetchy Seismic Upgrade
By Paul Burton, Contributing Writer
Two more projects that are part of the seismic upgrade work for the Hetch Hetchy Water and Power system that are covered by a project labor agreement with the building trades are currently underway in the city. Organized Labor recently visited the projects at University Mound Reservoir next to McLaren Park and the San Andreas Pipeline project near Parkmerced.
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