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Storm Drain Engineering

The City of West Sacramento is seeking an engineering consultant for a three-year term to provide storm drain master plans for the North Area and Southport, as well as on-call consulting.  The Southport area is the location of the Port of West Sacramento (formerly known as the Port of Sacramento) and the Sacramento Deep Water…

Biological Services

The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District is seeking a consultant to provide biological monitoring, analysis and administration relating to site acquisition and development. The RFP/RFQ is due July 21 at 12 noon.

Hunters Point Block 48

HPS Development Co. LP will be hiring an architect of record, along with mechanical, electrical, security, solar, signage and telecom consultants as part of the architect’s team, for the Block 48 housing project. Other consultants have already been retained by the developer. The scope includes 407 market-rate and below-market rate homes, built over parking, on…

Oakland Unified Seeks Developer

The Oakland Unified School District is soliciting development proposals for its 1025 2nd Avenue headquarters site. The former District Administration building and its Annex, now vacant and beyond repair, will be demolished, and the adjoining Dewey High School will be moved off site, in order for the District to provide a potential developer with a…

Moraga Road Improvements

The Town of Moraga is seeking a Civil Engineering firm to design roadway resurfacing and pedestrian and bike lane improvements along a stretch of Moraga Road between Moraga proper and Rheem. Proposals are due July 23, 2014 at 4pm.

SF’s Schlage Lock Site Development

Over 1,600 units of housing, as well as open space, retail and historic preservation are planned in San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley, along the Bayshore Freeway. The project, which occupies the former site of the Schlage Lock Company and part of a Southern Pacific Rail Yard, will be developed by San Francisco’s Universal Paragon Corp. Van…

Free Architecture Tour

Sidney can walk backwards for two miles while describing architecture and California history and fielding rapid-fire questions from potential Stanford University student applicants on this campus tour. Not the easiest job, but she does it with a smile. Docents cover the architectural styles of the old and new buildings, construction methods, campus lore, as well…

UCSC Remodel

The University of California Santa Cruz wishes to alter the existing Academic Resource Center with a small renovation and addition project, within the existing space. The award winning building, constructed in 1989 at the verge of the Great Meadow, was designed by Fernau and Hartman. SOQ due July 15 at 2pm.

SMUD HQ Renovation

The Sacramento Municipal Utilities District is seeking an A/E team to renovate their historic, modernist headquarters building on S Street. The original building was designed by Dreyfuss and Blackford and constructed circa 1960. The proposed construction budget, excluding soft costs, is $10,000,000. Qualifications due July 30, 2014 at 5pm. Preprop on July 9th at 2pm.…

VA Hospital Biomed

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital on Miranda Road in Palo Alto is looking for an A/E team to renovate and expand its biomedical waste and sterile processing facility in the basement of the main hospital, Building 100. Qualifications are due on August 7, 2014 at close of business, and there is a…

Airport Fire Station Relocation

San Francisco International Airport will be selecting a consultant to design the relocation of existing Fire House #3 and the South Field Checkpoint at another location within the South Field area. FH3 is a 6-bay, one story facility that may have to be redesigned as a two-story facility due to size restrictions at the proposed…