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JAMA team members Adena Nik and Project Manager Larry Pitkin have been teaching entry-level engineering classes this Spring, designed to introduce UCLA students to SAP2000. SAP2000, a structural analysis software, is widely used throughout the engineering industry but many universities lack hands on training with the program. Adena and Larry sought to help bridge the gap between UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and the workplace in order to help students advance in their career. In the future, Adena and Larry hope to utilize similar techniques to teach new JAMA employees and interns.

On Saturday April 8th, twelve employees and friends from John A. Martin & Associates participated in the Fight for Air Climb at the AON Center in downtown Los Angeles. Climbing 63 floors with 1391 steps, these brave souls stepped up to make a positive impact in the lives of those affected by lung disease. JAMA raised over $1500 to benefit the mission of the American Lung Association. Congratulations!

Los Angeles Laker Shaquille O’Neal was honored with a 1,200-pound bronze statue outside the Staples Center last Friday. JAMA staff members Matthew Timmers and James Lee provided structural engineering for the 9’ tall structure suspended 10’ above the ground, engineering the backboard that supports Shaq as well as the anchorage into the existing Staples Center structure which was reviewed for additional loads.

JAMA Engineers are hard at work on Schematic Design for the HATCH project, a flexible, multi-tenant lab and office space for emerging bioscience and tech companies. The project, designed in collaboration with BAM Architecture Studio, includes the adaptive reuse and conversion of an 80-year old, 22,000 square foot wooden bow truss factory and warehouse north of Downtown Los Angeles in the newly created Bioscience Corridor. The future workspace will provide multi-tenant offices, conference rooms, shared amenities, and parking to create a work and community environment for smaller companies to grow beyond start-ups. Individual tenant spaces will offer a combination of wet lab (fixed lab benches with sinks) and dry lab (scientist workstations and offices) facilities with access to a shared auditorium for presentations and seminars.

The 44,000 square foot Campus Center at Cuesta College’s North County Campus in Paso Robles is finalizing framing! The two-story structure will include admin offices, admissions and records, student services, a health center, transfer and counseling, financial aid, food services, a bookstore and class- and conference rooms. In the upcoming month, the Concrete Contractor will begin installation at the second floor. The Structural Steel Contractor will install the exterior stairs and trellis and the Fire Sprinkler Contractor will begin with installation of the main line. The project is currently on schedule with construction anticipated to be complete in late fall 2017, move-in in the winter, and opening in the spring, 2018.

Construction is gaining momentum at the Village at Totem Lake, a mixed-use, design-build project in Kirkland, Washington. JAMA is providing structural engineering for this effort, which is expected to be have Phase I complete later this year. The original Totem Lake Mall was built in 1973, and has experienced varying states of vacancy and neglect. The renovation and expansion, for brands like Whole Foods, includes five separate structures, each with unique steel framed canopies. JAMA is utilizing the ConXtech steel moment frame system on Building B, a 2-story, 120,000 square foot space – the first use of the system in the state of Washington.

The 165,000 square foot Health Sciences Innovation Building (formerly referred to as the Simulation, Inter-Professional Health, Education & Research or SIPHER building) is out of the ground! This healthcare / higher-education facility built on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson is a joint effort between JAMA and Martin, White, Griffis Structural Engineers in Tucson. In addition to flexible large, medium and small group/team learning areas the facility includes a state-of-the-art clinical skills and simulations center (black box simulation stage) for a broad spectrum of instruction and applications and fabrication labs to support a maker community. Stay tuned for more on the construction, which is expected to be complete in June, 2018.

The Kaiser Permanente Kraemer Radiation Oncology Center has been featured in the Healthcare Deign Showcase. The Magazine’s showcase offers a collection of the year’s best design and architecture in the healthcare industry. JAMA collaborated with CannonDesign on this award-winning, LEED Gold Certified project. Opened in the Fall of 2015, the 16,000 square foot, glass-enclosed facility focuses on a highly supportive cancer care environment. The challenge was to reduce stress for member patients and families, provide the best current technological infrastructure, AND offer an excellent place for physicians and staff to work.