Yearly: 2015

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Great Wolf Resort Accolades – Engineering News Record, American Concrete Institute & Tilt-Up Concrete Association

December 11, 20150

With four different types of concrete on this project: cast in place, slab on metal deck, tilt-up and shotcrete, the Great Wolf Resort Waterpark and Hotel in Garden Grove has won the following awards from the Engineering News Record and the American Concrete Institute. With two of the 40 tilt-up concrete panels weighing 12.5 tonnes and standing 84′ tall the Tilt-Up Association of America ranks these panels 9th in the Top 10 Tallest and Heaviest Panels in the United States. Click the links below to view the complete article and view rankings:

ENR Best Project Article: Specialty Contracting Category
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ACI Pankow Award: Outstanding Performance in Design & Engineering

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Tilt-Up Association of America Top 10 Tallest & Heaviest Panels
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Best Project Award ReceptionGreat Wolf Project Team at the ENR Awards Breakfast (from left): Ali Koofigar, Lynn Call, Joe Arciero, Chris Wills & Bryan Peugh

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Great Wolf Project Team at the ACI Pankow Awards Lunch (from left): Chris Wills, Joe Arciero, Lynn Call, Jade Earlabaugh (Holliday Rock – Readymix Supplier) Bryan Peugh, Ali Koofigar

ENR California’s Top Specialty Contractor for 2015

November 21, 20150

Largo Concrete was named Engineering News Record California’s Top Specialty Contractor of the Year for 2015! Regional editors make this selection based on company revenue, innovation, philanthropy and safety. Largo also Ranked 1st in Concrete in California! Click the links below for the complete articles:

Top Specialty Contractor Feature Article:
Largo Concrete Builds a Solid Commitment.

Top Specialty Contractors Ranking:
2015 California Ranking

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PVJOBS Contractor of the Year Award

September 24, 20150

PVJOBS Contractor of the Year Award goes to Largo Concrete! PVJOBS works to place at-risk youth, adults, veterans and students in career-track employment in the construction and other industries in the Greater Los Angeles Area. Largo hired over 100 individuals through this program for the Runway, Playa Villas, Fountainview Gonda and USC Village projects and many of them went on to become indentured into the Carpenter and Cement Mason Unions. For more information check out their website: http://www.pvjobs.org/

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Topping-Out at the 555 Fulton Apartments, San Francisco, CA

September 15, 20150

Largo Concrete topped out at the 555 Fulton Apartment Development in the Hayes Valley district of San Francisco earlier this week. The project features a total of 148 stalls across two levels of below grade parking and 139 residential units across 5 stories above grade. With the Junior One Bedroom units starting in the mid $500,000, amenities will include a dog park, community lounge, meeting space, bike work station, roof terrace and 29,000sf grocery store on the ground floor. Designed by Architects Ian Birchall & Associates with structural engineer Nishkian Menninger, general contractor Fulton Street Construction is expected to be complete in March of 2016.

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Albright Netflix Parking Structure Underway

July 1, 20150

Largo Concrete is currently working on the 4-level Albright Parking Structure in Los Gatos, CA. Working with general contractor Devcon, this 930-stall, long-span, cast-in-place concrete structure. Located on 21.6acre lot along Highway 85 and Winchester Blvd., the structure will be used by the new 500,000sf corporate center where Netflix has already signed a 10-year lease to occupy a quarter of the new space. The building utilizes a shear-wall structural design and covers nearly 300,000gsf. Working closely with designers Form 4 Architecture and DCI Engineers, Largo anticipates topping-out at the end of July 2015.

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Waldorf Astoria – Pouring Concrete on one the Busiest Intersections in the Country

June 3, 20150

Located on the Southwest corner of Wilshire Blvd. and Santa Monica Blvd. in Beverly Hills, the Waldorf Astoria is being built on one of the busiest intersections in the country. The new development features 314 parking stalls across 2-levels of below grade parking, with convention space, retail and dining on the lower levels of the 12-story tower. When complete, 42 of the total 170 new rooms will be considered suites and a pool, spa and lounge offer panoramic views from the roof deck.

Due to its proximity to the prestigious Beverly Hilton, limited area on-site as well as the city’s stringent policies, our team took special steps and procedures regarding traffic for staging and concrete pumping purposes. We sand blasted, redesigned the lanes and set up extensive K-Rail along Santa Monica Blvd. This street is also known as Highway 2 which poses another challenge regarding overhead crane limitations. Fortunately, the City of Beverly Hills considers this small part of Highway 2 “Santa Monica Blvd.” as it passes through the city making the use of a tower crane possible along this stretch of property.

The mat foundation was completed in two pours: the first pour below the tower for the 8’ and 5’ thick areas of foundation totaled 7,120CY, and the second pour for the balance of the foundation at 3’ thick was another 4,800CY. A helix ramp connects the parking to street level and the typical elevated deck square footage in the tower is 14,366sf. Largo is working closely with general contractor Matt Construction, architects Gensler and structural engineer Nabih Youssef Assoc. to have concrete complete by March of 2016.

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Chumash Casino Hotel & Casino Expansion and Design-Build Parking Structure

May 28, 20150

Largo Concrete started work on a 12 story hotel tower, 3 story casino expansion and 7-level parking structure at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, CA. The new tower and casino total 354,663gsf and will add 217 rooms, 45,000sf of gaming floor, a food court and rooftop pool deck. This is the second hotel tower Largo has worked on for the Indian Gaming Community in the past 2 years having completed the hotel expansion at Harrah’s Rincon in Valley Center in 2013.

The parking structure addition is contracted under a Structural Design-Build project delivery format where Largo selected Culp & Tanner as the engineer. Once tied in to the existing structure an additional 480-stalls will be available to valet and self-parking users. Working closely with general contractor Tutor Perini Building Corp. and architect Delawie, Largo anticipates topping out the tower on 08/14/2015 and the parking structure on 09/01/2015 with the entire project scheduled to be complete in late 2016.

One of the major challenges was relocating 900CY of dirt over a creek to another location onsite, a feat that would have taken a 110 Ton Crane 9-days to complete. In order to enhance the schedule we rented an Acrow HS-20, 72,000lbs capacity, modular bridge and ran front-end-loaders across it to move the same amount of dirt in a single day!

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Chris Forster Receives the Sam Hobbs Award from the American Concrete Institute

February 2, 20150

As a testament to his 30 years of work in the concrete construction industry, and his contributions to the standards for concrete construction, the American Concrete Institute recently recognized Largo’s new Operations Manager, Chris Forster, with the Sam Hobbs Award.  The award was established in 1973, with the purpose of honoring Sam Hobbs, the founder of the ACI chapter system and significant contributor to the concrete industry. The award is made annually, if in the judgment of the Awards Committee there is a qualified recipient.

The purpose of the award is to recognize individual service to both the Southern California chapter of the ACI and the concrete industry overall.  Chris has been an active member of the ACI for 29 years, and his involvement has included positions on the ACI Activities Committee, Construction Liaison Committee and Committee 303-Architectural Cast-in-Place, along with serving as a past President of the Southern California chapter.

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Westfield Design-Build Parking Structure Wins ENR Top Projects Award of Merit!

January 6, 20150

Largo Concrete was recently awarded the ENR Top Projects “Award of Merit” for Specialty Contacting for the Westfield Century City Design-Build Parking Structure project. The structure will provide the retail facility an additional 561-stalls across five-levels of above grade and one-and-a-half levels of below grade parking. This two-bay wide, long-span parking structure utilizes a shear wall structural system and is designed with jump-ramps at the top and bottom to improve circulation. The cast-in-place spandrels on either side of the elevator core were poured with form-liners to create custom reveals in the façade.

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