Pan-Pacific Plumbing & Mechanical has played a vital role in projects for some of California’s most prestigious college campuses including University of California at Los Angeles, University of Southern California, University of California at Irvine, SOKA University of America and University of California at Berkeley.
Contractor: Tutor-Saliba
Year of Completion: 2005
USC’s $50-million Ronald Tutor Hall — a six-story, 103,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art instructional and research complex on the south side of the engineering quad creates a vibrant new courtyard and student center for the Viterbi School of Engineering.
The building houses laboratories, including nanotechnology laboratories, student lounge areas and offices. In addition to Class 1,000 and Class 10,000 clean rooms, the laboratories offer researchers all of the scientific accouterments necessary to perform nanoscale experiments: a flat slab gravity system to minimize vibrations, wet benches, dry benches, sinks and storage areas for chemicals and maximum ceiling lighting.
Contractor: Obayashi
Year of Completion: 2000
De Neve Student Housing is a seven-building complex surrounding an open courtyard. Four free-standing buildings are each five stories while the Common Area and two tallest buildings are attached. The common area houses a large professional kitchen and student lounge. Pan-Pacific was the common denominator in the ever-changing sea of subcontractors on this complex and sprawling project. Our performance was dramatically improved by our adaptation of prefabrication of the plumbing systems.
Contractor: PCL
Year of Completion: 2006
Rieber Terrace is one of three buildings constituting Rieber Plaza. This nine-story, 631-bed residential tower was designed to alleviate the demand for housing for the growing population of UCLA. Faced with a demanding schedule and tight budget, PCL turned to Pan-Pacific for their ingenuity, problem-solving techniques and proven value engineering to help complete the project on time and within budget.
Contractor: Turner
Year of Completion: 2009
Delivery Method: Design-Build
North Campus housing provides more than 1,000 apartment-style units specifically for single undergraduate transfer students on approximately five acres. The project, a complex of three- and four-story buildings with one 14-story tower, cost $126 million to build. In addition to the new beds, there is a café, retail space and bookstore within the facilities.
As a Design-Build project, Pan-Pacific was able to lead the way through coordination which gave us the opportunity to prefabricate the majority of the systems to be installed. The job required meticulous 3D/BIM coordination to meet the demands of the Owner-provided prefabricated wall systems in the low-rise buildings. In the high-rise building, additional innovative, leading-edge technologies were suggested and implemented by our design team as value engineering.
Contractor: Hensel Phelps Construction Company
Year of Completion: 2010
Delivery Method: Design-Build
This LEED-Gold Certified five-story building encompasses four levels of 48,000 square feet including pathology labs and classroom areas with the first floor housing an electron microscope. The fifth floor is 12,000 square feet of administrative and office spaces.
Pan-Pacific has the ability to design facilities that conserve our valuable natural resources. An example of our capabilities is demonstrated in the implementation of LEED as a team member with the Owners, Architects, Construction Managers and General Contractors to deliver facilities which have a nominal impact on our environment. The UCI Clinical Laboratory is an example of a Design-Build facility where we have successfully implemented water and electrical conservation by utilizing hydrogenating faucets, low-consumption fixtures, high efficiency pumps and heaters that aid in reducing both the ecological footprint and long-term utility consumption rates experienced by the Owner. Pan-Pacific is driven to exceed customer’s expectations, which is why we have been and will continue to be successful on complex and fast-paced projects.
Much of the coordination and design of this state-of-the-art laboratory was accomplished using “big room” and 3D/BIM collaboration. These activities, encompassing many of the positive aspects of IPD, helped make this project one of the “foremost success stories” according to Rod Hammett, Project Manager for HP.
