TETER volunteers at Animal Rescue of Fresno

TETER’s public sector team donated design, labor, and materials to Animal Rescue of Fresno (ARF), a Fresno no-kill shelter, to provide a safer place for their rescued animals. Partners and staff spent Saturday morning building a new animal shade structure, modifying an existing structure, bathing dogs, and painting a new mural.

Mindi Miller, Vice President of ARF expressed her gratitude to TETER:

“Thanks to all the hardworking employees at TETER for donating their time to help the dogs at ARF. The work TETER performed allowed us, on the very SAME DAY, to rescue eight dogs who needed us desperately. They were able to use the yard where the structure was corrected by TETER. There is no price we can put on saving dogs. From all of the volunteers and all of the dogs, thank you so much! There is no way we can show you the lift of encouragement your team gave our team by selecting us. ”

Sequoia Gateway Commerce Center, designed by TETER, is featured in The Business Journal

Published On September 17, 2018
Written By Gabriel Dillard

A South Valley commercial, mixed-use project is being proposed to provide services to motorists as well as a visitor’s center and tax revenue to Tulare County and Visalia.

The project is being proposed for the southeast corner of Caldwell Avenue and Highway 99 in Visalia.

A major part of this project will be the Valley Children’s Medical Group’s new Specialty Care Center that, once completed, will tend to about 30,000 South Valley patients each year over the next decade.

This project, The Sequoia Gateway Commerce Center, proposed by Sequoia Gateway LLC Partners Fred Ruiz and Bill Travis, will be built in phases over the next eight to 10 years. The pediatric Specialty Care Center clinic would be built first, with hotels, restaurants, retail stores, and a visitor’s center being built at full build out.

There are also plans for signals at the north and southbound highway ramps and other circulation improvements for a cost of $10.5 million.

Upon approval of an environmental impact report, construction is expected to begin on the 12-acre first phase in 2019 and new businesses and highway commercial uses might open as early as the beginning of 2020.

“We estimate that Sequoia Gateway will generate 2,300 jobs and over $17 million in tax revenue each year, to be distributed among schools, hospitals, County road maintenance, libraries and fire service,” said Stephen Peck, project planner and developer. “Analysis indicates that there is about $117 million in uncaptured highway commercial business. In its early stages, this project is expected to fill about 15 percent of that need.”

The Sequoia Gateway is located in unincorporated Tulare County, planners expect the project to be incorporated into the City of Visalia and a tax revenue sharing agreement between city and county is in the works.

Modern Custom Fabrication Grand Opening

TETER joined Fresno Mayor Lee Brand, Fresno Chamber of Commerce, Fresno County Economic Development Corporation and other local businesses in celebrating the grand opening of Modern Custom Fabrication’s new production plant and office.

TETER provided architectural design, structural engineering, and construction administration services for MCF’s new 92,000 SF steel vessel production plant and 4,000 SF office.

Robby Gottselig, Engineer-Of-Record of this project, attended the ribbon cutting ceremonies and was excited to see the completed project in-person.

“Being there after completion and interacting with the people who work at Modern Custom Fabrication was very fulfilling for me. The welders expressed how much of an improvement the new plant is compared to their old facility. Not only in the efficiency of the factory, but in the day-to-day experience of the employees. It feels good to know that what we designed improves the quality of life for many of our Fresno neighbors.”

 

C.O.S. Student Pavilion Featured in MCN Magazine

The new Student Pavilion at the College of the Sequoias was designed by TETER Partner and Architect Stan Canby and is featured in the EDUCATION PROJECT FOCUS section in the July 2018 edition of Metal Construction News.

“TETER LLP designed College of the Sequoias’ student pavilion on an existing open lawn area to become a centralized focal point on its Hanford Educational Center campus. The 43,000-square-foot pavilion and amphitheater are constructed with a steel structure, metal roofs and perforated metal wall panels.

TETER designed the open-air structure to meet multiple objectives. The student pavilion connects campus buildings, provides year-round, shaded shelter, establishes an entertainment space, encourages peer collaboration and allows for flexible teaching configurations.

Stan Canby, senior partner at TETER, says, “The spacious and open structure engages its visitors, providing a different visual sense of being from all angles. In addition, the pavilion serves as a campus hub for the exchange of ideas and collaboration between members of the school community, encouraging cross-pollination across the College of the Sequoias’ student body.”

The pavilion’s roofs are supported by a geometric pattern of triangulated steel pipe columns. The steel pipe columns give it visual drama and coordinate with the main campus entrance. Access to the pavilion is straight ahead when entering the campus core between two large campus buildings. The buildings are connected with an angled pipe brace structure supporting a flat roof. The braced pipe roof supports echo the pavilion’s pipe support system.

The pavilion’s exposed structural steel and the underside of the metal roof were painted with Sherwin-Williams Coil and Extrusion Coatings’ (formerly Valspar Corp.) High Reflective White paint.

Standing seam roof panels are attached to three roof planes. The largest two roof planes cover the main pavilion floor area. One slopes up and appears to overlap the other, which slopes downward in the opposite direction. An off-center intersection of the upper and lower roof planes creates a clerestory, which provides ventilation to the covered areas below.

The third roof plane is triangular, oblique and slanted. It extends over an elevated stage for events addressing an amphitheater audience. “The triangular roof plane intersects the two main roof planes in a skewed fashion, appearing as a visual anomaly of interest from all vantage points,” Canby says.

Golden State Steel fabricated the structural steel. Mid-State Steel Erectors Inc. installed the structural steel, metal roof and wall panels. The project utilized 5,959 square feet of AEP Span’s 16-inch-wide Span-Lok HP standing seam roof system in Zincalume Plus and Cool Colonial Red.

For the upper roof and its perimeter fascia, Mid-State Steel Erectors installed 2,643 square feet of panels in Dura Tech 5000 Zincalume Plus. For the lower roof and its perimeter fascia, the company installed 2,656 square feet of panels in Zincalume Plus.

For the oblique roof and its perimeter fascia at the stage, Mid-State Steel Erectors installed 660 square feet of Span-Lok HP panels in Dura Tech 5000 Cool Colonial Red with a clear coating.

For screenwalls, Mid-State Steel Erectors installed perforated metal panels on angled pipe bracing at the exterior column lines. It installed 200 square feet of Steelogic LLC’s US-06 metal wall panels in Red, which matches the stage roof’s Cool Colonial Red, and 175 square feet of US-06 panels in Blue, which matches an adjacent building. The panels are perforated with a 40 percent open area and the project was completed in September 2017.

One challenge was fitting the pavilion and amphitheater into the topography. The pavilion is at the lowest point of a 4-acre, lawn-covered pond basin. The floor level of the structure is 4 feet below surrounding buildings. “The solution was to design ADA ramps for access to the structure’s main floor level,” Canby says.

The amphitheater was created by integrating a 90-degree circular, stepped grass section into the sloped bank of the basin. “Concrete curbing was used to delineate the stepped levels to accommodate audience seating and orient focus towards the stage,” Canby says. “Access to audience seating was also ramped where steel pipe handrails and guardrails were provided for audience access safety.”