Starting before project initiation and extending to grand openings and beyond, Reed Kawahara is instrumental in bringing high-impact projects like The Green at West Village, Orchard Park and Aggie Square to life in his role as Director of Public Private Partnerships within Real Estate Services at Design and Construction Management. A Public Private Partnership, or P3, is a collaborative agreement between a public institution like UC Davis and private developers or investors.
Julie Nola recently named the associate vice chancellor of Design and Construction Management and university architect for the Davis campus, following a comprehensive national search.
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Long before an exciting new building breaks ground or a renovation project launches on campus, Lorin Torbitt can be found “knee deep in a spreadsheet,” planning, analyzing, and reporting on potential future projects in her role as associate director of Capital Planning.
Eric O’Brien’s new position as director of Sustainability at UC Davis is just the latest chapter in his lifelong story of commitment to sustainability.
Following Jim Carroll's last day on July 12, Julie Nola has been named interim associate vice chancellor of Design and Construction Management and campus architect.
“A career in sustainability involves wearing a lot of hats,” according to Carla Fresquez, engagement program manager in UC Davis Sustainability, “including progressing UC Davis and the larger University of California sustainability goals surrounding decarbonization and climate resiliency.”
If you happen to glance up when you enter the large atrium in the Student Community Center, you’ll notice large skylights of different shades of blues and greens adding color to the space — part of Jenny Fortuna’s vibrant mark on campus. Fortuna works as a Interiors and Furniture Services project manager at Design and Construction Management, a position she came to after 13 years at UC Davis Design Services. Through her work in both units, Fortuna has been dedicated to bringing fun to projects she works on.
In the past two decades, philanthropic support has played a vital role in funding the construction of state-of-the-art facilities that support UC Davis’ objectives, including providing students with a world-class education and supporting impactful cutting-edge research.
Knowing the ins-and-outs of campus — like what exciting new facilities are on the horizon long before a grand opening — is one of the things Leslie Carbahal likes best in her role as director of Capital Planning at Design and Construction Management.
With over 20 new hires in the past year, Design and Construction Management is well equipped to deliver on all of the exciting and vital projects that support our community of students, faculty and staff.
Just for the fun of it, we wondered what would it take to renovate your house into a campus facility? Let’s suppose this facility is located on campus and you request that we renovate the living room into a classroom, the kitchen into a lab, and the bedroom into an office. Let’s take a walk through your house to see what we will need to do.
UC Davis Design and Construction management provides increasingly complex facilities under shortening timelines and proliferating code and regulatory requirements. Underpinning our efforts to meet these challenges, we continue to hear the same question echoed by our governing boards, administration and customers: “Why does is cost so much?"
Solving the “city-scale” infrastructure problems UC Davis faces is no easy task, but it’s just the kind of challenge Courtney Doss enjoys facing in her role as associate campus engineer at Design and Construction Management.
Project manager and architect Debra Smith has played an integral role in bringing to life numerous innovative and sustainably designed buildings on the UC Davis campus, including the recently constructed state-of-the-art Teaching and Learning Complex.
