Tag Archive: historic renovation

Modern lead assessment techniques can look a bit like a scene from a sci-fi movie as white-suited technicians beam x-ray fluorescence from hand-held guns into the painted surfaces of long-vacant buildings. But this real-life process is a critical tool in helping developers and property owners assess the environmental costs of…

Built in 1943 during the height of WWII, Camp Parks Training Center in Dublin, Calif., lies just east of San Francisco. In its prime, this training center and air force base could house over 20,000 military personnel. Today, the base functions as a semi-active mobilization and training center to be…

Stop by the Omega Environmental Services table at the California State University Fullerton Vendor Expo from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 19th. Campuses across California are in the midst of a construction boom as aging structures are demolished or renovated to make way for state-of-the-art student unions,…

A booming Greater Los Angeles real estate market includes numerous redevelopment and retrofitting projects in which old buildings are updated or transformed into something new. The setting for Bisnow’s “Los Angeles State of the Market” on May 29 is a perfect example. The Trust Building, an 11-story office building in…