AECOM has been named the Official Venue Infrastructure Partner for the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Team USA. The infrastructure program for the games will rely on temporary venues and temporary overlays on existing permanent sites in order to accommodate 800-plus events and more than 15,000 Olympic and Paralympic athletes. AECOM will support the comprehensive delivery of the program for the games. AECOM’s role includes the architecture and engineering to deliver LA28 venues as well as the program management of their delivery, with its AECOM Hunt business overseeing the procurement process, cost estimating, scheduling and construction management of the required infrastructure.

California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) is slated to begin work on a $110-million, 70,000-sq-ft science and engineering building this summer. Designed by HGA with C.W. Driver Cos. as the general contractor, the building is slated for completion in fall 2027. The building will include teaching and research labs, classrooms, student support areas, staff offices, a café and outdoor gathering spaces. The new building will allow the university to consolidate its science and engineering classes at a single site and allow it to increase enrollment in those programs to 2,000 from about 200.

The Alaska Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities announced an estimated $900 million in planned highway and aviation construction projects for the 2025 season. Several major CM/GC projects scheduled for construction in 2025 include the Cooper Landing Bypass, the Richardson Highway MP 346 Flood Control Bridge Replacements, the Parks Highway MP 319–325 Reconstruction, the Kotzebue to Cape Blossom Road and the Wolf Point Slope Stability Improvements in Ketchikan. Rising project costs, supply chain shortages and federal funding release timeframes have complicated project deliveries. In an effort to reduce risk in the face of such challenges, the agency says it is increasingly utilizing the construction manager/general contractor (CM/GC) approach for high-risk or high-value projects.

The $20.3-million Gilman Springs Road Phase Six Safety Project in Eastern Moreno Valley, Calif., has reached substantial completion. The six-month project was awarded to Skanska by the County of Riverside Transportation Dept. The project began in August 2024. The work along State Route 60 (SR-60) and State Route 79 (SR-79) involved four miles of center median and shoulder widening, the creation of a one-mile northbound passing lane, improvements to the storm drains, installation of wildlife fencing, a wildlife animal crossing and the installation of six miles of raised center median with reflective channelizers to provide a physical division between the two traffic lanes.

The 13-mile-long Sites Reservoir will be located in a naturally occurring valley near Maxwell, Calif.
Photo courtesy Calif. Dept. of Water Resources

The Sites Reservoir Project in Northern California received $134 million in federal funding from the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act) in March. The investment brings the amount of federal contributions for the project to a total of $780.15 million. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has signed off on its basis of negotiation for a partnership agreement with the Sites Project Authority. The agreement will formalize the federal agency’s participation in the project. The planned reservoir, located 81 miles northwest of Sacramento, will provide an additional 1.5 million acre-ft of storage capacity to the California State Water Project. In 2018, the project was awarded $816 million in funding from California’s Proposition 1. The total cost of the project is estimated at $3.9 billion.

Work on Kedren Community Health Center’s $145-million Kedren Children’s Village in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles kicked off with a groundbreaking in April. When completed, the 103,000-sq-ft campus will be the first pediatric-focused behavioral health hospital in South Los Angeles. It will provide psychiatric inpatient, outpatient and urgent care, transitional housing units and primary care as a federally qualified health center. McCarthy Building Cos. and HOK are partnered in the design-build contract for the work. The project includes three main buildings—an inpatient psychiatric facility; outpatient services including primary, urgent care and pharmacy services; and a transitional housing development.

Officials with the Major League Baseball’s Athletics say construction on the $1.75-billion, 33,000-person capacity ballpark in Las Vegas will begin in June. In early April, the Clark County Commission approved land-use permits paving the way for construction to begin. Project contractor is a Mortenson-McCarthy joint venture. Architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group is the baseball stadium design lead with HNTB as sports/hospitality designer and Thornton-Tomasetti as structural engineer. The new stadium, which is being built on the one-time Las Vegas Strip location of the Tropicana casino-hotel, is slated to open in advance of the 2028 MLB season. The team will play at a Sacramento, Calif., minor league stadium until the new facility is ready.