PROJECT SPOTLIGHT Otto Construction Team Delivers Major


School Modernization Project Flexible, Collaborative Approach Key to Completion On Time, Under Budget


By Carol Eaton


more than 25 years, Greer Elementary School had the opportunity for a fresh start when Otto Construction was contracted to create an entirely new campus on the original site. Working as part of a design-build


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team with Nacht & Lewis Archi- tects and other trusted partners, Otto delivered over 30,000 square feet of new ground-up facilities and 24,000 square feet of heavy modernization to the existing space. By using a custom modular


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level allowed in the department’s most recently published standard specifica- tions for materials such as recycled base and subbase, reclaimed asphalt


pavement and others. AB 1047 (Daly) - Road Repair and


Accountability Act of 2017: reporting internet website. Sponsored in part by AGC, this bill would require the Transportation Agency to oversee the development and implemen- tation of a comprehensive one-stop reporting interface available to the public through an internet website maintained by the agency. Te bill would require the interface to provide timely fiscal information regarding the development and implementation status of each transportation program


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s one of the first new schools to be modernized in the San Juan Unified School District in


A culture of accountability, collaboration, and quality craftsmanship by the various trade


partners were hallmarks of this project, which received a prestigious Constructor Award from AGC of California.


or project funded, at least in part, by revenues from the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017, otherwise known as SB 1.


OPPOSE SB 727 (Leyva) – Labor-related


liabilities: direct contractor. Tis bill would build upon the existing liability in AB 1701 (2017), which requires the direct contractor to cover their subcontractors’ unpaid wages, fringes and other benefits, and would extend those liabilities to include penalties and liquidated damages owed by the subcontractors. Additionally, this measure would allow the Labor Commissioner to seek relief against the direct contractor for subcontractors’ failure to obtain workers’ compensation insurance and would also make the contractor liable


classroom design, the team was able to meet a strictly phased construction schedule and maintain full opera- tions of the more than 500 student campus during nearly three years of construction. A culture of accountability,


collaboration, and quality crafts- manship by the various trade partners were hallmarks of this project, which received a prestigious Constructor Award from AGC of California in January 2021. Te AGC Constructor Awards honor the best of the best in California construction each year. Te project rotated the school’s


orientation 90 degrees on site. It included construction of three new


for subcontractors’ failure to cover unemployment insurance for their


employees. SB 606 (Gonzalez) – Workplace


safety: citations: employer retaliation.


Tis measure creates a new body of law for “egregious” employers, as defined, and would require Cal/OSHA to issue citations for each willful violation; each exposed employee would be considered a separate violation for purposes of fines and penalties. It would create a rebuttable presumption that the employers’ actions were retal- iatory if an employer takes an adverse action within 90 days. Also, it provides Cal/OSHA with the authority to issue a citation and seek a suspension or temporary restraining order for large employers when their policies directly violate labor and health and safety standards. 


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