Turner Construction is looking to end 2024 with the wind at its back.
Topping off a year when the country’s biggest contractor re-organized in order to prepare for growth stemming from $33 billion in backlog, New York City-based Turner unveiled a $158 million project win to construct an emergency operations center in Southern California.
The Southern Region Emergency Operations Center 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 California’s Department of General Services, the center is being built for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services to increase disaster response capabilities across Southern California, according to a Turner news release.
The project includes a 35,000-square-foot office building and a 20,000-square-foot support warehouse.
Other components comprise a helipad, outbuildings, landscaping and fencing, parking lots and a 100-foot microwave tower, as well as infrastructure improvements including utilities, stormwater, intersections and roadways.
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 constructed on the site of the former Fairview Developmental Center hospital for adults, originally encountered pushback from the local community over noise and traffic concerns. But after local officials visited a similar operations center in Northern California, they gave their nod to the project, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Turner’s design-build partner on the center is Mountain View, California-based DGA Architects.
“This project represents a significant step in enhancing the community’s resilience and readiness in times of need,” said Reed McMains, Turner’s vice president and general manager, in the release. “We are honored to partner with the Department of General Services and DGA Architects to deliver this critical emergency operations center.”
Turner anticipates construction will be complete in mid-2027.