History of Interactive Resources

This new 123,000 sf facility was planned and customized for cannabis growing, packaging and distribution. The project is expected to open late 2018 and will feature three 27,000 sf and one 41,000 sf tenant spaces. The facility was designed from the ground up to accommodate the cannabis industry; no more haphazard retrofits or hazardous or semi-legal conditions. Experienced cannabis professionals..Read More

The Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) selected Interactive Resources to provide comprehensive architectural and engineering services for the weatherization of its General Offices in Oakland, which suffered from water leaks and related damages, and for the replacement of a metal roof at the Mack Facility in Hayward.  For the weatherization of the General Office facility, we prepared construction documents..Read More

As part of a campus-wide utility infrastructure modernization project at the College of the Redwoods, Interactive Resources is providing an upgrade of student shops and lab areas, support offices, classrooms and restrooms in the Applied Technology Building. The scope of work includes design and construction documents for the modification of interior wall systems, the exterior building envelope, and ceilings; new..Read More

Interactive Resources is currently under contract with the County of Mendocino for On-Call Architectural Services. As part of this contract, the firm is providing forensic architecture and engineering services for the replacement of existing roofs and HVAC equipment at the Sheriff’s, Administration and Public Health/Mental Health Facilities in Ukiah, California. An initial assessment was provided for each facility that evaluated..Read More

Woodrow Wilson Elementary School is one of several schools identified by the West Contra Costa Unified School District that was in need of critical upgrades as outlined in the master plan for the district’s $1.6 billion construction bond fund. Interactive was selected to provide bridging design documents for the complete modernization of the facility. The firm provided architectural design, master planning,..Read More

Alten Construction recently moved into its newly renovated headquarters within the Kaiser Shipyards Historic District of Richmond’s Marina Bay neighborhood. Interactive Resources was the architect and structural engineer of record for the project, overseeing design, permitting, and construction support for the full restoration of this historic early industrial-modern factory. We worked with Alten Construction as part of the design-build team...Read More

The Frank Hagel Federal building in Richmond, California serves as the regional headquarters for the major tenant, the Social Security Administration. The building is a six-story federal facility structure with a below-grade basement. Interactive Resources was retained by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to provide architectural and structural engineering services for the auditorium partition replacement project. The existing partition..Read More

Founded in 1974, the Early Childhood Mental Health Program (ECMHP) in Richmond, California offers a comprehensive therapeutic nursery program, child and family therapy, parental support groups, and other services to at-risk children and their families. In 2015, the ECMHP staff and Board of Directors selected Interactive Resources to undertake a significant tenant improvement project at their outdated facilities. Working closely..Read More

A leading bio-pharmaceutical manufacturer engaged Interactive Resources to explore design concepts for an onsite food service facility within the corporate campus in Hercules, California. After meeting with the client to discuss various design concepts, our firm provided schematic design and construction documents for the new Venture Café and kitchen. The café offers healthy dining and a convenient, comfortable environment to..Read More

Interactive Resources was retained by one of our longtime clients, Cushman & Wakefield to provide architectural design and engineering services for a local utility company’s Customer Service Office located on the ground floor of a mixed-use complex at 994 4th Street in San Rafael, California. The tenant improvement work included the design of a lobby, teller station with one fixed ADA station,..Read More

Interactive Resources provided structural engineering services for our client, SunLink on this large scale ground mount solar array located in Mineral County, Nevada. Our services included reviewing the racking design for a large single-axis tracker (SAT) ground mount solar array using embedded poles for support. We reviewed the driven pole engineering and geotechnical report, and array layout plans and details..Read More

The First United Methodist Church, built in 1917, was significantly damaged in the 2014 Napa earthquake. Interactive Resources was selected to join the design-build team led by Pullman SST, Inc. and provide historic architectural design services for both exterior and interior repairs. Working in conjunction with Kwan Henmi Architects, Interactive Resources prepared existing conditions documentation, design development, construction documents, specification..Read More

This tenant improvement project for a local utility company’s Customer Service Center located at 1220 Andersen Drive in San Rafael, California was separated into four phases. Our client desired a new open floor plan based on functional and operational requirements. Interactive Resources worked with the property manager, Cushman & Wakefield and our client to remodel an existing space and to..Read More

The Bishop Ranch Business Center is located at 6121 Bollinger Canyon Road in San Ramon, California. Our client was contracted with a local utility company to upgrade the secure turnstile entrance system. Interactive Resources designed the security entrance turnstiles for the gas monitoring facility. We provided schematic design, which included 3D renderings for new accessible secure turnstiles at the East and..Read More

The City of Healdsburg selected Interactive Resources to provide a facilities condition assessment to review and evaluate nine active use facilities as part of the City’s long term strategic plan development. These buildings included: the city hall, police station, fire station, community development center, water treatment facility, wastewater treatment facility, Magnolia lift station, senior center, and the corporation yard. The..Read More

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) oversees the Federal Building at 300 North Los Angles Street in Los Angeles, California. Building tenants include U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Los Angeles Immigration Court, the U.S. Attorney, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), as well as several credit unions and other public services. GSA envisioned the build..Read More

Interactive Resources was retained by the Solon Corporation, a provider of large commercial and utility-scale photovoltaic system solutions, to review the SOLQuick Ballast Design Report for the combination ballasted and anchored arrays at Ramal Winery located at 27000 Ramal Road in Sonoma, California. Our  survey consisted of an independent engineering review of the findings in the report. Our analysis of..Read More

The Hawthorne Federal Building is a 55,000 sf six-story building located at 15000 Aviation Boulevard in Lawndale, California and the Federal Aviation Administration’s West Coast Headquarters is the major tenant agency. The building was originally designed by Cesar Pelli and Anthony Lumsden of Daniel Mann Johnson & Mendenhall (DMJM). The existing built-up roofing system was prone to unrepairable leaks and..Read More

The Nystrom Elementary School modernization is part of The City of Richmond’s Nystrom United Revitalization Effort (NURVE). Interactive Resources was the architect and structural engineer-of-record for the modernization and expansion of the school, originally constructed in 1943. A complete modernization of a new 13,000 sf state-of-the-art multipurpose building, designed to double as a community center for the surrounding neighborhood. The..Read More

Interactive Resources is currently serving as the historic architect for the Crockett Community Services District on the rehabilitation of Crockett’s Memorial Hall. Our historical services for the District have included preparing the Historic Resource Evaluation, the National Register Nomination, and the schematic design drawings and cost estimate for the rehabilitation. The building was found eligible for the National Register of..Read More

The Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse is the justice center located in Las Vegas, Nevada, and major tenants are the U.S. District Court, U.S. Marshals Service, and U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). The project included a complete interior remodel, designed by Interactive Resources to two, 4th floor federal district courtrooms, two jury deliberation suites, new prisoner cellblock, new elevator stop,..Read More

The first large-scale building that showcased what we now call sustainable architecture was a State Office Building in Sacramento named after Gregory Bateson. Constructed in 1978, the Bateson Building was designed by former state architects Sim van der Ryn and Peter Calthorpe. The Bateson Building is a four story structure, with a concrete slab on grade at the ground floor,..Read More

Interactive Resources was retained by the General Services Administration to determine the most advantageous way to implement energy efficient designs and retrofits to the existing infrastructure at the Bruce R. Thompson U.S. Courthouse in Reno and Carson City Federal Building in Carson City Nevada. The energy efficient studies evaluated numerous options and calculated the potential energy savings, the estimated construction..Read More

Contra Costa College’s Administration and Applied Arts Building is a two story, 55,000+ sf multi-use structure on the district’s main San Pablo campus. Interactive Resources was selected to provide architectural design and engineering services for its renovation, funded under Measure A. Our scope of work was comprehensive, from design development, creation of construction documents, and management of DSA approval, to..Read More

Alhouse Deaton Management, the owners of the building at the office complex in San Bruno, California desired a new look for the exterior of this two 3-story office building complex, and retained the services of Interactive Resources to prepare construction documents for a complete façade rehabilitation. The project included concrete repair and a new silicone-based coating in order to lighten the..Read More

The City of Novato City Hall was originally built in 1896 and was Novato’s first Presbyterian Church. The church was built in the Victorian Gothic style of architecture and served as Novato’s City Hall from 1963 to 2005. The City retained Interactive Resources to prepare a historic resource evaluation for three properties, and to serve as lead historic architect in..Read More

The National Historic Landmark at 50 United Nations Plaza in San Francisco is a Beaux Arts building and a contributing resource to the larger San Francisco Civic Center Historic District. The original architect, Arthur Brown, Jr. also designed the San Francisco City Hall, Opera House and Coit Tower. The overall vision for this project was to create energy-efficient office space..Read More

Named after Hawaii’s first representative to U.S. Congress, the nine-story Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole (PJKK) Federal Building and adjacent five-story U.S. Courthouse are home to the U.S. District Court, U.S Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Attorneys, Social Security Administration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Marshals. A single Program Development Study (PDS) performed by Interactive Resources..Read More

The Student Services Center at Contra Costa College provides a wide range of support services to the college’s diverse enrollment of approximately 8,000 students. The Center was envisioned to serve as a “one-stop” counseling, financial aid and career guidance resource and to provide a new gateway and heart for the campus. Designed by Interactive Resources, the Center features adaptive re-use..Read More

The Maritime Center is part of Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park and one of two surviving Richmond child care centers designed and built to serve women working in the WWII Richmond Kaiser Shipyards. Built in haste without a concrete foundation, the Maritime Center served as a pre-school and child care center continuously from 1943 until 2004,..Read More

Elizabeth Stewart Elementary School in Pinole was constructed in the 1960s and was in significant need of modernization and expansion as it entered the 21st century. Based on our track record of successfully completed school projects in the Bay Area, Interactive Resources was selected as architect and structural-engineer-of-record for the reconstruction/refurbishing plan of this K-8 facility. Our work included a..Read More

The Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District owns and operates three regional transportation assets in the San Francisco Bay area, including the Larkspur Ferry Terminal. The District retained Interactive Resources to remodel the District’s administrative offices at Larkspur Ferry Terminal. Architectural and structural engineering services were provide for the addition of a conference room, private offices, file room, HVAC upgrades, structural..Read More

The Stonestown Apartments property encompasses 697 multi-family housing units located in 14 buildings. The buildings consist of four 10-story towers and 10 two- and three-story garden apartments and flats located along Buckingham Way in San Francisco. The project area is bounded to the east by the Stonestown Galleria Mall and on the south by San Francisco State University. Our client,..Read More

Interactive Resources provided a Property Condition Assessment (PCA) of the Metropolitan luxury apartments, which occupy almost two entire blocks near the heart of downtown San Mateo, California. The purpose of the assessment was to determine the existing conditions of the buildings’ systems and general conformance to the plans and specifications including, but not limited to, structural, plumbing, heating and ventilating,..Read More

Nestled in the hillsides of the Napa Valley is Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars —one of California’s premier wine makers. The winery consists of an assortment of buildings, constructed at various times and in a variety of styles, scattered on a fifty-plus acres property. The main winery building, a crescent shaped structure with earth-toned stucco walls, battered flagstone base, and a..Read More

Located at the Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline in Point Richmond, California, the Ferry Point Pier was originally used as a passenger ferry and freight barge terminus and landing for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad system. Interactive Resources designed the rehabilitation of the pier and approaches, providing safe public access to this unique and historic asset. During World War II,..Read More

The Jolly Giant Commons multi-purpose facility serves the resident student community of California State University’s (CSU) Humboldt campus. The CSU system retained Interactive Resources to perform a seismic evaluation of the Commons and the bridges that link it to the surrounding residence halls. This 34,500 sf enclosed space includes a food service facility, housing and dining offices, maintenance shops, and..Read More

Candlestick Park was a former outdoor sports and entertainment stadium, home to the MLB’s San Francisco Giants from 1960 until 2000. In 1983, Interactive Resources was retained by the City and County of San Francisco to provide a comprehensive forensic investigation of the deterioration of structural and architectural components at Candlestick Park. Our study determined that the stadium was in..Read More

The Benicia Clock Tower is two-story, 20,000 sf unreinforced stone masonry structure originally constructed as a U.S. Army arsenal in 1857. It presently serves as a community assembly hall. The City of Benicia retained Interactive Resources to provide a structural engineering analysis of the historic tower and to design comprehensive plans and specifications for a complete seismic upgrade of the..Read More

Interactive Resources was the structural engineer of record and provided structural design for this new three-bay double-engine fire station and sheriff’s substation. The facility is a 9,600 sf, two-story concrete masonry building with a wood-framed floor and roof. The new buildings are part of the revitalization of Marin City.

Interactive Resources provided comprehensive architectural and engineering services for the design of a new 14,000 sf main post office in Benicia, California. The post office supports a full range of postal service functions, including a box lobby, service lobby, self-service postal center workroom, loading zone, and carrier platforms. Special consideration was given to develop a design to complement the architectural..Read More

Built in 1873 as an aid to mariners in the San Pablo/San Francisco Bays, the East Brother Light station is the oldest lighthouse still operating in its original configuration. When the beacon and fog signal were automated in 1969, the buildings, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, were boarded up and the island was deserted for a decade...Read More

First wind generator in California to cogenerate on the grid erected by Interactive Resources in Point Richmond. YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwy6xO57WF8

Interactive Resources was founded in 1973 by five individuals who shared a vision for a consulting firm that could provide comprehensive interdisciplinary services, from site acquisition through project planning design and construction. In addition, the firm would participate as an owner in real estate development projects. The name “Interactive Resources” was originally conceived to describe this goal of bringing together..Read More