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MARKET SPOTLIGHT: SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION


Blach Construction completed a new Career Technical Education (CTE) Center at San Benito High School in summer of 2017, one of numerous school facility projects Blach has built over the years. Designed to support vocational instruction, the facility houses a state-of- the-art metal shop, wood shop, auto shop and agriculture shop. (Photo courtesy Blach Construction)


by ongoing worker shortages, rising material costs and concerns over increasing state and local regulations. Longtime AGC member contractor


Blach Construction, which derives approximately 60 percent of its total work volume from the K-12 and higher education markets, has seen the opportunity and challenges firsthand, according to President Dan Rogers. “Te Northern California construction market is probably at an all-time high,” he said. “Tere is lots of competition, and the labor shortage is a real thing across the board. It has put a lot of pressure on pricing. Since 2013 we have seen dramatic cost escalation, really unprecedented. We are seeing almost every project in education being extraordinarily challenged from a budget standpoint.” Tim Albiani, a project director/


project executive who has overseen an array of education projects for McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. since 2011, said the workforce shortage is a big factor in the institutional market. “Tere just aren’t enough skilled labor to support the subcontractors” to


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meet project demand, he noted. “Everyone needs facilities to work


and be educated in, but across the board we are running out of people to build them,” Albiani added. “Te labor shortage is going to continue to be an industrywide problem; there needs to be more focus on construction being seen as a desirable livelihood. I’d like to see a lot more two-year programs getting more people out of school and into the trades.”


AGC Contractors Delivering Solutions


In response to the cost, schedule


and workforce challenges facing school construction projects, Blach Construction in concert with Quattrocchi Kwok Architects (QKA) and Gregory P. Luth & Associates Structural Engineers developed a patent-pending, flexible alternative building system solution known as Folia. Designed to stabilize cost, dramatically shorten project delivery time and reduce owner risk on projects, the system has been rolled out on a number of Northern California school


campuses over the past year or two. (See sidebar on page 13 for more on Folia.) McCarthy is another AGC


contractor among many others – including Sundt Construction, Balfour Beatty US, C.W. Driver Cos., Swinerton and Hensel Phelps, to name just a few – that have brought an array of innovative delivery approaches and a depth of experience to this market sector. McCarthy has deep roots in


the K-12 and higher education school construction markets, both in California and nationwide. Just a sampling of its current or recent education facility projects that are


noteworthy include:  Betty Irene Moore Hall at UC Davis, an innovative, architec- turally distinctive facility for the university’s School of Nursing.


 An ongoing expansion and renovation of Sacramento State’s University Union, part of a $250 million building boom underway at Sac State.


 El Camino Fundamental High Associated General Contractors of California 11


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