The high-profile project, designed with the help of several well-known architecture firms, shows that factory-built structures can meet lofty design standards. Construction has been underway at the Mission Rock development in San Francisco since last year, and prefabrication is playing a major part in the ...
Our world is changing rapidly. Industries across sectors are constantly evolving as they shift to meet the growing consumer demands. However, although it is the largest industry in the world, Construction remains the last major industry to change. ...
Sac State’s Parking Structure 5 (PS5) is a six-story example of modern construction innovation, from its cooling white interior and technical amenities, to the dozens of green aluminum “leaves” that pay homage to the University’s urban forest. ...
Congratulations to Will Swearingen and Grant Guerrieri for making the Sacramento Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 list. While these may be uncertain times, Grant and Will have continued to push our technology and manufacturing innovations further for better prefabricated solutions adding more value for our ...
Whether it’s the Notre Dame or the Empire State, construction of large, monumental buildings has been around for thousands of years. Some structures, such as the Pyramids of Giza, seem to be impressive feats of technology for the period in which they were built. ...
Part of Clark Pacific’s mission has been to “Build Different, Achieve More”. With this motto in mind, we find that our employees are upholding and expanding on our core values every day. One of those employees is Thad Saunders, a member of Clark Pacific for ...
Our industry is one of the largest in the world, with around $10 trillion spent on construction related goods and services each year. Yet many of us are still wondering, what is holding back the transformation of the construction industry? ...
Value is important when you invest money in anything, but it’s especially important in design and construction. In most cases, owners do not realize the value from their projects. ...
How do you increase speed to market and/ or improve the return on investment of your capital projects? The Lean Construction Institute sponsored two separate research studies, conducted by Dodge Data & Analytics and the University of Minnesota, to explore how and why projects excel. ...
For more than 50 years, Clark Pacific has helped shape the vibrant urban landscape of the West Coast. The award-winning design-build manufacturer of architectural and structural precast concrete has completed over 2,500 large structural projects spanning high-profile commercial, residential, parking structures and stadiums, including the ...
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is gaining attention and popularity by encouraging in-depth team collaboration, which leads to fast delivery, ease of budgeting, and high-quality design and construction. This approach was used by an 11-member team that entered into an IPD Agreement with a stated goal ...
Even as the first of the millennial generation transforms the modern office, their younger siblings are attending college as never before. Fall college enrollment in the United States touched seven successive new highs from 2003 through 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Education. While ...
The culture of innovation indelibly linked to the San Francisco Bay Area does not stop with information technology. The region’s building contractors, architects and engineers routinely challenge competitors with cutting-edge software, novel collaboration techniques and new project-delivery processes. The collective goal is to create new ...
Everywhere you go across metropolitan America, the automobile is ubiquitous. In suburbia, half of the developed land is devoted to car parking. In dense cities like San Francisco, streets consume 25 percent of the city’s land area – more than all of its parks. In ...
Below is an excerpt of an article originally published in its entirety in the summer 2015 issue of Ascent Magazine, written by Craig A. Shutt. "Designers find integrating materials—masonry, insulation, windows, electrical, plumbing, and more—into precast concrete panels early in the process results in efficiency ...
While work outside Woodland on precast concrete sections of the future downtown arena might have been the big topic this week, plenty of other progress is being made at the main construction site. According to an update sent Tuesday by the Sacramento Kings, this week ...
The precast concrete walls forming the bowl of the new downtown Sacramento arena are a couple months away from the project site. But they're already in production. Representatives from the Sacramento Kings and Clark Pacific gave media a first-hand look Monday at the assembly process ...
West Sacramento-based Clark Pacific said Monday it will be the primary precast concrete contractor for the new downtown Sacramento Kings arena. Under the contract, the company will pour concrete to build the upper and lower bowls of the arena, luxury suites, exit and entrance walls ...
West Sacramento-based Clark Pacific will keep its engineers busy with two high-profile construction projects in San Diego. The firm will be doing precast concrete for both a new central courthouse in that city and a parking garage and car-rental building at the San Diego International ...
The San Diego International Airport Rental Car Center (ConRac) project is one of the most high profile buildings that has been added to the San Diego skyline in a number of years. For quite some time the Airport Authority has wanted to construct a central ...
