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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.

With a long teaching, employee, and project history with the University of Southern California, JAMA was pleased to donate to the University’s Student Chapter of EERI (Earthquake Engineering Research Institute) in support of their 2017 Seismic Design Competition entry. Entries from dozens of national and international engineering schools included a high-rise designed in collaboration with other student architects and building disciplines. The eventual balsa wood model will subjected to three ground motion accelerations, representing different return period earthquakes. The team whose building best survives, wins. Go Trojans!

The multi-year renovation of LAX’s Terminal 7 is moving along, with two completed spaces unveiled in the beginning of December: A new, 20,000 sf United Club location with extra seating, powered workstations, modern furniture and an outdoor terrace that offers stunning views of the airport, downtown Los Angeles and the Hollywood Hills. A new, state-of-the-art security checkpoint, featuring automatic bin return, parallel lanes for travelers and their luggage, and an improved layout that makes TSA screening more efficient.

Each month JAMA hosts an internal, themed event to informally celebrate the birthdays that will take place in the upcoming 30 days. The firm has enjoyed events inspired by holidays and significant occasions, including the Olympics in Brazil, the start of the Fall Football season, and a host of holidays. For December, our committee offered attendees the opportunity to build gingerbread houses and decorate the company’s Christmas tree with their families. Some amazing gingerbread engineering took place in the office with children of all ages, spouses and our own employees. Pictured: Principal Shane Fitzgerald, Project Manager Kimberly Pacheco, and Connor Carden working on what would become the Top Gingerbread House of the evening!

When the Arden Project broke ground in 2015, the Marlborough School announced the commencement of a “visionary campus expansion project nearly 50 years in the making”. The project, which officially opened this Fall, includes a series of state-of-the-art recreational and communal spaces conceived not only as a significant campus expansion (nearly 1 acre of usable space), but as an important extension of the school’s commitment to preparing students for the future. Congratulations to the team for this remarkable project which includes a multi-purpose field, an aquatic center, wellness and fitness facility, and central garden.