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"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being." - Goethe

Custom Components Company Announces New Project Award - UCSD Biomed – San Diego, CA

Custom Components Company announces the award of a new project in San Diego, CA, UCSD Biomed.  The new $105 million project is a 196,000 sq. ft., five-story Health Sciences Biomedical Research Facility on a 3.3 acre site within the School of Medicine campus at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla.  The building’s exterior incorporates a combination of concrete, curtain wall, metal panels and terra cotta cladding.  The facility will encompass wet labs, open lab space, lab support and administrative support space on five stories above ground with core lab space and support, mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems located in the basement.  Design features include computer-controlled exterior solar shading systems on the east, west and south facades, extensive reuse of water for landscape irrigation, as well as urinal and toilet flushing, and build-out of the mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems to ensure optimum energy efficiency.  The project, which is targeting LEED Platinum certification is scheduled for completion in August 2013.

UCSD Biomed is designed by ZGF Architects, and the general contractor is McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.

Custom Components Company is supplying and installing custom design glass railing, stainless steel illuminated and non-illuminated handrail, aluminum beam and rafter cladding and aluminum sunshades and roof trellis to Benson Industries (Portland, OR).



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We're Talking Tool Safety!

As you have seen in the past , we are a staunch advocate of construction site safety, and have offered several videos in that regard.  Let's carry that a little bit further now and talk specifically about the proper use of power tools on the work site.  Or why don't we just show you?

RACO Is Gone. We Have Frames and Doors!

The AL Tech™ division of Custom Components Company is fully prepared and positioned to supply the needs of the marketplace created by the closing of RACO Interior Products.  We offer the building and design professional an extensive line of high quality standard and custom aluminum frames, doors and office fronts.  Click here for a larger version of the above announcement

Click on the link below to view complete specs and details:

http://www.arcat.com/details/customco/prod0985.html

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Custom Components Company Announces New Project Award - SCRM Sanford Consortium - San Diego, CA

Custom Components Company announces the award of a new project in San Diego, CA, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine (SCRM).  The new $104 million project is a 144,000 sq. ft. facility and laboratory for stem cell research and is being built adjacent to the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) campus in Torrey Pines, California.  The facility includes innovative architectural elements and mechanical systems that not only drive collaboration and scientific productivity, but also improve the building’s functional and operating economy.  The site totals 7.5 acres and is owned by the University of California and is designated for academic use by the University’s overall development plan.  The SCRM facility will achieve the principal functional purpose by incorporating design features such as horizontally and vertically open laboratories, and strategically placed informal and formal meeting and education spaces, all intended to maximize face-to-face interactions among SCRM resident and non-resident scientists.  Movable features on a traditional model will add functionality to a building designed to serve more rapid team science in a field with constantly changing technologies. It will also include state-of-the-art cyber-linked education and conference facilities.

SCRM’s project team includes the San Diego based architectural firm Lankford and Associates.  The general contractor is Hensel Phelps Construction Company.  Completion of the project is targeted for the November of 2011.

Custom Components Company is currently installing custom design 700 Series railing, which incorporates ½” clear tempered glass and stainless steel components.

Custom Components Company Completes Makena Medical Center Project - Escondido, CA

Custom Components Company recently completed a project to supply custom stainless steel glass railing and handrails for the newly constructed Makena Medical Center in Escondido, CA.

The project is a three story medical office facility featuring state-of-the-art technology in a sustainable, earth-conscious and LEED certified design. The offices are custom designed to the doctor’s particular needs.  It is the only authorized off-campus medical office building in the Escondido Research and Technology Center. Just three parcels from the hospital campus, Makena Medical Center gives physicians the time to make rounds at the hospital and be less than ¼ mile from a full day patient schedule. MMC is the culmination of a partnership between Makena Medical Buildings, LLC, Medical Real Estate Development and J. Reese Construction, Inc.  J. Reese partnered with tenured McArdle & Associates Architects to provide an innovative design-build project.

Custom Components Company supplied custom stainless steel point mounted glass railing and handrail.  Rossin Steel, Inc. of Escondido handled the installation.





1050B Wins Another Award!

1050 B Apartments is a LEED Gold certified 100% affordable high rise apartment building in San Diego, CA. It was recently announced as a Merit Award Winner of the Affirmed Housing Group's 48th Annual PCBC Golden Nugget Awards.  Custom Components supplied glass railing and custom sunshade and trellis structures for the $90 million project.  

Rockefeller Center

How many buildings are there in the landmark Rockefeller Center complex in New York?  Answer:  19

Quote Of The Week

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." - Vince Lombardi