On November 8, the Campfire has become the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history, leaving more than 40 people dead and thousands without a home and belongings in Chico and Paradise. Sierra View is contributing to the relief effort by sending a truck to deliver supplies and materials to the affected areas. If...
Less than a week after it began on November 8, the Campfire has become the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history, leaving more than 40 people dead and thousands without a home and belongings in Chico and Paradise. Sierra View is contributing to the relief effort by sending a truck to deliver supplies...
Current ProjectAmazing Facts What a week it was for us. We saw our hard work the past few months come together with the raising of the tilt-up concrete walls at Amazing Facts, Inc (Media Ministry). Fun Fact: Each panel weighs between 30,000 and 125,000 pounds. Read: Sierra View Raises Walls for Amazing Facts Ministries In Pre-ConstructionDelfino...
A major Sierra View project took shape in October with the raising of the walls for the Amazing Facts Ministries campus in Rocklin, California. Sierra View is the general contractor for the project, which includes a 90,000 square-foot sanctuary and a smaller office building on a 15-acre site outside Sacramento. The theatre-style sanctuary will include...
The Land Transport Authority (LTA) in Singapore is the first to use a “ground breaking” ground-freezing technology for the construction of the Thomson-East Coast Line of their mass transit system in Marina Bay. LTA is using this ground-freezing method to stabilize the earth before excavating tunnels by creating a stretch of ice walls. The ground...
As technology has advanced, green construction has gone from an ethical hard-fought decision to a fashionable, functional mainstream construction method with lots of design and material options. New technologies such as 3D printing allow contractors to quickly and efficiently build structures (for the time being, mostly small houses) out of sustainable materials like locally sourced...
In Pre-ConstructionWellQuest Facility WellQuest Living will be an independent, assisted, and memory care community set on a beautifully landscaped 7.2-acre site bordering the cities of Granite Bay and Roseville. The community provides a two-story residentially-designed facility totaling approximately 108,000 sq. ft. Construction is expected to begin November 2018 and be completed in December 2019. New...
Construction workers and contractors work in more dangerous working conditions than almost any other industry. But construction sites are getting safer every day with the emergence of new technologies. Exoskeletons are metal frameworks that fit around construction workers’ bodies to support their posture and lessen the strain on their bodies (unpowered exoskeletons) or to augment...
Suffolk Construction, a general contractor based out of Boston, Massachusetts, is currently developing two artificial intelligence tools that can predict and prevent accidents and delays in construction projects. The first tool looks at 700,000 images of job sites from Suffolk’s projects over the past 10 years, runs them through an image recognition software to identify...
ALICE, the artificial intelligence assistant from Stanford University’s tech startup, Alice Technologies, is a dynamic project managing/scheduling system for construction projects. First, an experienced human construction scheduler works with the project owner, supervisors, contractors, architects, and engineers to create a “rule set” for ALICE defining the scope and limitations (goals, time, resources, etc.) of the...
