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Turner Construction wants to finish in 2024 with the wind at its back.
To end a year when the nation’s largest contractor reorganized In order to prepare for the resulting growth of the $33 billion portfolio, New York City-based Turner unveiled a winning $158 million project to build an operations center of ’emergency in Southern California.
The Emergency Operations Center of the Southern Region will be located on a 15-acre site within the Fairview Development Center in Costa Mesa, according to the project’s environmental assessment filed with the state.
Contracted by the California Department of General Services, the center is being built for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services for disaster relief. response capabilities in Southern Californiaaccording to a press release from Turner.
The project includes a 35,000-square-foot office building and a 20,000-square-foot support warehouse.
Other components include a helipad, outbuildings, landscaping and fencing, parking lots and a 100-foot microwave tower, as well as infrastructure improvements including utilities, stormwater, intersections and roads.
In addition, the facility will include energy infrastructure such as photovoltaic panels, battery energy storage and emergency generators and will be built to net zero energy standards.
The project, which will be built on the site of the former Fairview Developmental Center hospital for adults, it was originally met with rejection from the local community due to noise and traffic concerns. But after local officials visited a similar operations center in Northern California, they gave the project their nod, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Turner’s design and construction partner on the center is Mountain View, California-based DGA Architects.
“This project represents an important step in improving community resilience and preparedness in times of need,” Reed McMains, Turner’s vice president and general manager, said in the statement. “We are honored to partner with the Department of General Services and DGA Architects to deliver this critical emergency operations center.”
Turner expects construction to be complete by mid-2027.
