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Interactive Resources, Inc. Awarded On-Call Architecture and Engineering Contract by Solano County
Solano County Capital Projects Management Division recently selected Interactive Resources for an on-call contract to provide architectural, engineering and related professional technical support services. Our firm has nearly 50 years of experience with public-agency on-call contracts for federal, state and local agencies throughout California. Our approach to the County of Solano’s on-call architectural and engineering projects will center on collaboration between our in-house design team, consultants, County staff and all project stakeholders. We pride ourselves on achieving high quality, award-winning design and projects that exceed our client’s expectations. Good design is what drives us. We look forward to working with Solano County! Read More
Sonoma County, Department of Emergency Management, Community Emergency Resilience Sites
The County of Sonoma requires the construction of three Community Emergency Resilience Sites (CERS) at separate locations to support long-term disaster resilience. The operational support facilities will support dynamic community-level disaster response for the Sonoma Operational Area and serve as energy resilient community coordinating centers. As part of Interactive Resources’ on-call services contract, the County retained us to provide architectural and engineering design services concept design for the three sites for Phase 1. Read More
A Parklet for Park Place
Kaleidoscope High Line Parklet Concept
Parklets are a growing trend in urban placemaking—public parking spaces that are converted to areas to congregate, dine and relax. This trend has been accelerated by public health guidelines during the pandemic, which in many cities mandate outdoor or take-out dining only. The City of Richmond is one of many local governments working with its business to increase their service capacity via official parklet programs. Read More
Loma Prieta 30 Years Later
Candlestick Park in the forefront of this aerial of San Francisco, California, taken by Carol M. Highsmith
October 17, 1989, I was in my Point Richmond office talking to a client in a high rise in San Francisco. All of a sudden, he yelled, “holy shit,” and I heard crashing in the background (It was his bookcases falling over). The phone went dead. A few seconds later, it hit our building, and we all spilled out into the street.
Later, we climbed to the top of Nicholl Knob where we could see the Marina District of San Francisco burning and the collapsed section of the Bay Bridge. I thought it looked like 1906 all over again.
I was in the office at daylight the next morning when I got the call from the head of the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department. “How soon can you get your engineers over here?” he asked. Read More
Later, we climbed to the top of Nicholl Knob where we could see the Marina District of San Francisco burning and the collapsed section of the Bay Bridge. I thought it looked like 1906 all over again.
I was in the office at daylight the next morning when I got the call from the head of the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department. “How soon can you get your engineers over here?” he asked. Read More
City of San Carlos Youth Center Gets a Makeover
© 2018. Eric Rorer
After an extensive remodel by Interactive Resources, The City of San Carlos' Youth Center has reopened its doors for service to the community. The Youth Center serves more than one hundred San Carlos middle-schoolers, and is home to a wide variety of after-school activities including music programs, sports, gymnastics, summer camp, special events and facility rentals. Read More
Delta Diablo Plant Operations & Treatment Plant Roof Replacement, Antioch, California
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Interactive Resources is very happy to announce a recent award from the Delta Diablo (Delta Diablo Sanitation District) for the Plant Operations Center and Treatment Plant roof replacement. Edward Anisman, is the project manager at Interactive Resources who will be leading this roof replacement effort. Read More
The Renovation of Contra Costa County’s 50 Douglas
50 Douglas houses Contra Costa County's County Probation Department, the District Attorney's Family Support Office. Read More