2014 was a fantastic year for me. My architecture fraternity, Alpha Rho Chi, celebrated 100 years of existence, I became a California licensed architect, and I finished my first building, the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC), from start to finish with the VIP Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on Monday, Dec. 8 and the General Public Grand Opening on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014.
While it was awesome to hear from the VIPs and the public that they thought the building was amazingly beautiful, that ARTIC achieved the iconic status they were looking for, that the project came in on time and on budget, that CA high speed rail was breaking ground in the next few days, and how grateful the City of Anaheim was, I couldn’t help but think about all the work that went into ARTIC. And that it was after all a HUGE group effort. Having this photo published in ENR is something everyone involved with the project can be proud of.
(And since Academy Awards is coming up…) I would like to acknowledge and thank all of the people I had a pleasure working with on this project during construction, the collective team helped make this project come alive from paper to reality…
The City of Anaheim – Natalie Meeks, Jamie Lai, Rudy Emami, Kevin Miako, and Mark Vukojevic
Construction Manager – STV – Michael McAlpine
Group Delta – Inspector Bill Davis
Civil and our Prime – Parsons Brinkerhoff – Eric Anderson, Virginia Tanzmann, Sam Sims, Ann Kovara, Lauren Loetterle, Chris Poli, Jennifer Lopez, Grace Applebaum, Scott Harral, Joe Carbajal, George Hale
Design – HOK – Design Principal – Ernest Cirangle, Project Manager – Albert Kaneshiro, Project Architect – Kazem Toossi, Spec writer – Terry Mattison who has been with HOK for over 50 years, our wonderful interior designers Barbara Ostroff and Stephanie Kotowski, and to the person who taught me the most and worked with me on a daily basis on this project, Hector Ayala.
Structure -Thornton Tomasetti – Chuan Do, Ben John, Jun Jin
Enclosure and MEP – Buro Happold – Julian Parsley, Nicholas Strachan, Kurt Komraus, Sanjeev Tankha, Alan Doherty
Landscape – SWA – Pavel Petrov and David Gal
Signage – SPD – Will Ayers and Julius Bhang
Vertical Transportation – VTX – Tony DeFrancesco
Lighting – HLB- Teal Brogden and Michael Lindsey
Code consultants – RJA – Matt Donahue and Steven Dannaway
Acoustics – Newson Brown – Martin Newson and Michael Brown
Facade Access – Olympique – David Ortiz, Heather Reid and Amir Attia
Telecom and Security – Faith Group – Heidi Benaman, Dave Caputo, and Brian Dougan
General Contractors – Clark Construction – David Burrus, Tom Farrar, Kelly O’Brien, Laura Shinners, Ashlynn Stallworth, Adam Sullivan, Adam Dombrowski, Andrew Erdman, Stephan Shank, Rob Abergas, Jeremy Jenkins, Anthony Camillieri, Eric Queen, and all their subcontractors
(People in italics have since moved on from their companies)
And I probably forgot a whole bunch of people… So sorry about that.
Anyways, it has been about a month since ARTIC wound down for me. And while there are a few things left for me to do on the project, including submitting to USGBC where we are still anticipating LEED Platinum status, I feel like a pound puppy trying to readjust to a new home while looking forward to a new year and new challenges. So here’s to 2015!
BRING. IT. ON.
