Concrete Industry Makes Fifteen Awards for Paving

Fifteen concrete-paving projects built in 1985 have been recognized in the Concrete Industry’s 12th annual Paving Awards Program.

The awards were hosted jointly by the Southern California Ready Mixed Concrete Assn. and the Portland Cement Assn.’s Pacific Southwest Region.

Concrete Industry Awards for Engineering Excellence in design and construction were made for three streets, six parking areas, three decorative concrete projects and three special projects.

Winners include:

--Fair Oaks Avenue Reconstruction Project, South Pasadena; owner, city of South Pasadena; contractor, Dyno Construction, Inc., South El Monte; contract administrator for the city, George G. Boghossian & Associates, Inc., Glendale.

--Cerritos Towne Center Arterial Street Improvements, Cerritos; owner, city of Cerritos; designed by PRC Engineering, Orange; contractor, Silveri & Ruiz Construction Co., Garden Grove.

--Street in Villa del Cerro development, Orange; owner-builder, Jack Mann, Tustin; designed by R & M Interiors, Tustin; subcontractor, Sullivan Concrete Textures, Costa Mesa.

--Parking area at Southland Corp. Distribution Center, San Bernardino; owner, Southland Corp., Atlanta, Ga.; joint-venture contractors, Edward F. Gould Inc., Riverside, and A. R. Austin Engineering Contractor, San Bernardino.

--Parking area at Los Al U-Store and Lock, Los Alamitos; owner, Don M. Temple, Long Beach; designed by Tait & Associates Inc., Anaheim; contractor, Stromberg & Son Inc., Long Beach; subcontractor, Darel D. Porter Concrete Inc., Long Beach.

--Parking area at Robertson Business Park, Culver City; owner, Ruben Urcis, Culver City; designed by Marvin Taff, AIA, Beverly Hills; engineers Thompson & LaBrie, Pasadena; contractor, ABCO Contruction Co., Torrance; subcontractor, Lemay General Engineering, Camarillo.

--Parking area at The Storage Safe Torrance, Torrance; owner, Deauville Management Co., Los Angeles; designed by Psomas & Associates, Santa Monica; contractor, G. S. Hedley Builders Inc., Newport Beach; subcontractor, David A. Lujan Inc., Orange.

--Parking area at In-N-Out Burger, Lakewood; owner, Rick Snyder, Baldwin Park; contractor, Duane A. Hinton Concrete & General Contractor, Hesperia.

--Parking area at Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market, Los Angeles; owner, Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market; designed by Wheeler & Gray Consulting Engineers, Los Angeles; general contractor, Birtcher Construction, Laguna Niguel; subcontractors, Griffith Company, Long Beach, and A. R. Austin Engineering Contractor, San Bernardino; special awards for development of project, Los Angeles Mayor’s City Economic Development Office and City of Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency.

--Alley Reconstruction Program, Glendale; owner, city of Glendale; contractor, Nobest Incorporated, Westminister.

--West Los Angeles Bikeway, Phase III, Unit A, Pacific Palisades; owner and designer, city of Los Angeles Department of Public Works; contractor, Dyno Construction Inc., South El Monte.

--Hollywood Way Grade Separation, Burbank; owner, city of Burbank; designed and construction supervision by Los Angeles County Department of Public Works; contractor, Kasler Corp., San Bernardino.

--Decorative paving at Catalina Landing, Long Beach; owner, Catalina Landing Associates, Altadena; contractor, Pankow Associates, Altadena; designed by Hope Consulting Group, San Diego.

--Entry and parking area at College Park, Oxnard; owner, County of Ventura; designed by Boyle Engineering Corp., Ventura; landscape design by Iwanaga Seidel Associates, Santa Ana; contractor, Valley Crest Landscape Inc., Van Nuys; subcontractor, Shea Brothers Inc., Vista.

--Decorative paving at The Glen at Corporate Pointe, Culver City; owner, Amberdon Corporate Pointe Ltd., Culver City; designed by the Nadel Partnership, Santa Monica; landscape design by Fong and Associates Inc., Costa Mesa; subcontractor, Markel Cement Contracting, Inc., Costa Mesa.