TRANSPORTATION

BART - Oakland Airport Aerial Connector

The Oakland Airport Connector (an automated guideway system – direct cable pull) connects the existing Coliseum/Oakland Airport BART Station to the Oakland International Airport terminal. The 3.1-mile connector includes an elevated guideway, a cut-and-cover tunnel section, and an at-grade section. In addition to the guideway, the project contains two stations, and a maintenance and storage facility. The project spans multiple public jurisdictions, including the City of Oakland, Caltrans and the Port of Oakland.

CIVIC

San Jose Civic Center

The New Civic Center project consisted of 712,000 square feet of office in downtown San Jose. The building layout included an 18-story tower structural steel high-rise on the east side; a four story Council Chamber on the west side; a centrally located domed rotunda that reached the height equivalent of 10 stories; a large plaza opening onto Santa Clara Street framed by a curved wall; and one level of 400 underground parking spaces.

EDUCATION

Anna Head West Student Housing - UC Berkeley

As part of UC Berkeley’s 2020 Long Range Development Plan, the Anna Head West Student Housing Complex includes a sophomore residence hall and upper classmen apartments for 416 students under the name of ‘Maximino Martinez Commons’. This project involved the design and construction of a 6-story 135,000 GSF reinforced concrete and post tension slab super structure.

Signet provide special inspection and materials testing services for this project included soils/AC testing and observation, moisture density compaction curves, in-place density tests of soils by the nuclear method, concrete reinforced concrete, concrete, shotcrete, post tension concrete, grout, structural steel, reinforced steel, tensile and bend, fireproofing, floor flatness testing, proof-load and torque testing of anchor bolts.

PARKING STRUCTURES

VTA Berryessa & Milpitas Parking Structures

VTA will be constructing two new parking structures for the Berryessa and Milpitas stations. The parking structures will be 763,200 square feet with 7 stories of parking and approximately 1,200 parking spaces each.

COMMERCIAL ⎸TECHNOLOGY

National Ignition Facility - LLNL

The U.S. Department of Energy and Lawrence Livermore National Labs constructed this state-of-the-art research and development facility used for research in inertial confinement fusion. The facility is the size of a football stadium that houses 192 laser beamlines that run the length of the facility and direct their energy inside the target chamber upon a fusion capsule the size of a BB. The National Ignition Facility is the world’s largest laser and the world’s largest optical instrument with a powerful laser system equal to 1,000 times the electrical generating power of the United States.

ARTS ⎸SPORTS

Golden 1 Center Arena

The Golden 1 Center is the new home for the Sacramento Kings which is located in the heart of downtown Sacramento at the demolished Downtown Plaza Mall. Golden 1 Center is LEED Gold and was envisioned as an iconic multi-use Entertainment and Sports Center (ESC) that will be an interactive “smart” building with the best in innovation and technology. The building frame consists of structural steel/braced frame construction, seats approximately 18,000 people and have a total gross area of approximately 674,000 square feet. Special attention was given to the event floor with a single-ply waterproofing membrane, to secure a “bathtub type effect” at the mat slab. This was a fast track 2-year project working double shifts averaging 600 on-site workers to meet the NBA’s deadline to open October 2016.

HEALTHCARE

Kaiser New Oakland Medical Center

Kaiser’s Oakland Medical Center rebuild resulted in a new state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly, energy-efficient medical complex. From solar panels on the rooftops to water efficient landscaping and plumbing fixtures, sustainability was a key element in every aspect of the project. The hospital consists of 12 floors, 349 beds, 12 inpatient operating rooms, an emergency department, 8 labor and delivery rooms, and 100 single-occupancy rooms. The complex has a Specialty Medical Office building that consists of 4 floors, 99 provider offices, 6 outpatient operating rooms and 7 outpatient procedure rooms. Within the medical center grounds, there is a 1,219-stall parking garage for the employees and an energy-efficient Central Utility Plant.

POWER ⎸WATER

Russell City Energy Center

The Russell City Energy Center is a 619-megawatt combined-cycle electric generating facility that services western Alameda county and the San Francisco peninsula. The electricity generated from this facility is sold to Pacific Gas and Electric Company, and serves the needs of 600,000 households. The Energy Center uses natural gas for fuel, allowing for a greater than 90% reduction of emissions and is 40% more fuel efficient than older, fossil-fueled generating facilities in the Bay Area. As part of the emission controls, the facility uses 100% reclaimed water from the City of Hayward’s Water Pollution Control Facility for cooling and boiler makeup. This environmentally responsible process conserves water and prevents nearly four million gallons of wastewater per day from being discharged into the San Francisco Bay.