The West Village Open Space Project will create an agricultural buffer between the West Village residential area and the nearby teaching and research fields. This buffer will help manage stormwater and support native wildlife on the west campus. The project includes the construction of a meandering gravel walking path, installation of irrigation infrastructure, soil relocation, fencing, and the planting of approximately 4.75 acres of native landscapes in partnership with the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden.
In order to support growing Campus Recreation programs and their participants, lighting has been added to Russell Field to expand the time the field space can be used.
In order to keep campus safe for the entire campus community and beyond, security infrastructure is being added, including the installation of new security cameras, call boxes and outdoor lighting.
The UC Davis Wolfskill Experimental Orchards is a valuable research resource utilized by the Department of Plant Sciences for plant breeding, germplasm evaluation, and horticultural and physiological studies. To support the research orchard, a new irrigation well has been constructed to replace an aging well and provide a reliable water supply for the site.
Earlier this month, the Chancellor and the Chancellor’s Committee on Campus Planning and Design, or CCCPD, endorsed moving forward with a $55.5 million investment of campus funds for the next phase of the Big Shift – a heating infrastructure overhaul that represents a crucial step in reducing the university’s fossil fuel usage.
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?"
With the exciting completion of the Teaching and Learning Complex and the Diane Bryant Engineering Student Design Center coming soon, DCM will be hard at work this summer improving surrounding bike and pedestrian paths to ensure everyone can traverse and the district comfortably.
A new central plant for the California Natural Primate Research Center will be constructed to replace the existing heating and cooling system with a more energy-efficient hot water system. In order to run the new plant with a lower carbon footprint, while also reducing operating costs, a solar/thermal collector panel field will be installed.
This summer, Design and Construction Management (DCM) is breaking ground on a project to improve the Hutchison Drive/Highway 113 interchange with new bike lanes, sidewalks, traffic lights and ramps.
