September 30, 2014

The 2014 ENR Results are in…

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Nibbi is honored to have been named to the 2014 Engineering News Record (ENR) Top 400 Contractors list as well as the Top 100 Green Buildings Contractors list.

Moving up 9 spots from 305 in 2013, Nibbi is ranked at number 296 on the Top 400 List. Nibbi returns to the Top 100 Green Buildings Contractors in 2014 at number 55, with over 95% of our total revenue generated from Green projects.

We strive to provide progressive preconstruction and construction solutions to our Bay Area clients, to ensure we continue to get the job done right.

September 12, 2014

Mike Feuz Joins Nibbi Brothers

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Nibbi Brothers General Contractors is pleased to announce the addition of Mike Feuz to our team. Mike has joined Nibbi as a Project Executive and brings with him invaluable experience in construction management, contract negotiation, scheduling, budgeting and a creative approach to value engineering. He will be a direct point of contact for clients on multiple projects providing continuity and consistency throughout the client experience; and ultimately responsible for client satisfaction, as well as project success. His responsibilities include managing the project from preconstruction through closeout, working with the on-site project team and maintaining a consistent point of contact with our clients.

Mike is a 33 year veteran of the construction industry. He spent two years in the Architecture Program at the University of California, Berkeley and later received his B.F.A. from Northern Arizona University. Mike started his career as an apprentice carpenter in 1981 and grew in experience and ability. He has taken on roles such as Carpenter, Foreman, Superintendent, Project Manager, Field Operations Manager and Vice President of Construction. In 2007 he assumed the role of President and CEO of Otto Construction, one of the most respected General Contractors in the Sacramento region of Northern California. Mike took an active role running daily operations of the company, ensuring projects were managed effectively.

Nibbi Brothers is a builder of technically complex urban projects whose singular objective is getting the job done right. It’s a philosophy that guides every action on every Nibbi project. By relentlessly focusing on the right goals, the right people and the right approach, we help our clients find the best solutions to their project needs. These values are found in our newest team member, Mike, and it is with great pleasure we welcome him to our team.

March 18, 2014

St. Anthony Foundation Dining Room / Mercy Senior Housing Tops Out

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With the topping out of their new building on 121 Golden Gate Ave., the St. Anthony Foundation and Mercy Housing move closer to moving millions of people into better lives. When complete in September 2014, the new facility will house the venerable St. Anthony’s Dining Room (which has been temporarily housed at St. Anthony’s social services building at 150 Golden Gate Ave.), as well as 91 new units of permanently affordable senior housing. 

The topping off ceremony and party took place on March 14 and was attending by the Nibbi Brothers General Contractors project team and representatives of St. Anthony Foundation and Mercy Housing.

March 14, 2014

Nibbi Breaks Ground on Dr. George W. Davis Senior Housing and Senior Center

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“A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou

The Dr. George W. Davis Senior Housing and Senior Center broke ground on March 1, 2014 at the site on 1751 Carroll Ave., in the Bayview. Named after the late Dr. George W. Davis, a prominent gerontologist and Bayview Hunters Point community leader for more than three decades, the project will house and provide services for the district’s underserved elderly population.

Nibbi and the Baines Group, who are partnering on the project, attended the event; as did local dignitaries, including former Mayor Willie L. Brown, US. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Mayor Ed Lee.

“We are here today because of a great soul: Dr. George W. Davis, who is bringing us together to break ground for 120 units of senior housing and a brand new senior center for Bayview Hunters Point,” said Cathy Davis, exectuve director of Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services and wife of the late Dr. Davis, who passed in 2010. “It was his vision that caught the attention of the hundreds of people who made this day possible,” she continued. Through the relationships he built, those of us who carry on his work have been able to implement his plan for the seniors of Bayview to age in place in their community.”

The project is being designed by David Baker + Partners, with whom Nibbi has worked on multiple projects (including the award-winning Armstrong Place Senior Housing project, also in the Bayview District). The new 64,369-sq.-ft. complex will consist of four buildings with 121 one- and two-bedroom affordable senior rental units. Amenities will include common areas and property management offices, as well as sitting, dining and exercise rooms. The project also will provide residents with a 13,500-sq.-ft. at-grade senior center that will house support services, two conference rooms, a kitchen, lounges and staff offices. The project is pursuing LEED Gold.

McCormack Baron Salazar (MBS)  is the owner of the project. Nibbi and Baines Group are also partnered MBS’ Alice Griffith project.

January 23, 2014

Nibbi Concrete Wins Kaiser Excellence in Safety Award

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Nibbi Concrete, which recently completed a $15.7 million project for the new Kaiser Oakland Hospital Project, yesterday received an “Excellence in Safety Award” from Kaiser Permanente / Zurich / McCarthy Building Co.

The new Kaiser Oakland Hospital is a 13-story, 620,000-sq.-ft. structural steel building. Nibbi Concrete’s scope of work included all structural excavation, foundation work, concrete retaining walls, and all place and finish of structural concrete slabs for the hospital and hospital loading dock.

One of the unique aspects of the project was that Nibbi Concrete had to control the temperature of the concrete in the foundations to prevent cracking. The team accomplished this by injecting liquid nitrogen into the mix during placement, covering the pile caps and grade beams with thermal blankets, and monitoring the heat of the concrete both at the core and near the surface.

“This was a large and highly complex project with more than 78,000 man hours, yet we had zero lost-time injuries on the project,” says Site Safety Coordinator Erick Rodriguez. “That number doesn’t begin to describe the amount of work and complexity of the tasks our carpenters and laborers were faced with on this project. Overall, this was a job well done by the entire Concrete team, under some tough conditions.”

September 27, 2013

Nibbi Awarded New Family House @ Mission Bay

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Nibbi recently was awarded the new Family House @ Mission Bay, a project that has great meaning to us.

In fact, we are so excited about the project, we started a blog to chronicle the entire design, preconstruction and construction process. The blog is called Building Family House, and it can be found here. The architect is Leddy, Maytum, Stacy–with whom we’ve worked on multiple projects, including the award-winning Merritt Crossing in San Francisco, and Madison Apartments in Oakland, among others.

We invite you to check in frequently to learn about the project and its progress!

Quick Facts
1. Family House provides free temporary housing to families of seriously ill children receiving treatment at UCSF.
2. The new Family House @ Mission Bay will have the capacity to serve 80 families, as well as house staff.
3. Amenities include a common kitchen, dining and living spaces, underground parking with lifts, a gym, and adult activity room, a children’s play area and a meditation room.
4. Outdoor amenities include an activity space with a basketball court and barbeque facilities.
5. Families and children who had lived in Family House provided their input on the amenities that would be meaningful to future families.
6. The new building will consist of four stories of wood-frame construction over a concrete podium.

June 3, 2013

Nibbi Now Counts Four LEED Platinum Projects

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With the LEED Platinum certification of Merritt Crossing Apartments in Oakland, Nibbi’s LEED Platinum project count has been bumped up to four. Below are those four projects:

Merritt Crossing Apartments (Oakland) LEED Platinum Certified

St. Peter’s Place Apartments (San Francisco) LEED Platinum Certified

The Exploratorium (San Francisco) Pursuing LEED Platinum and “net-zero energy”

899 West Evelyn Office Building (Mountain View) Pursuing LEED Platinum

November 20, 2012

Boys & Girls Clubs of SF Mission Clubhouse Profiled on USGBC Website

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Want to read how Nibbi, Environmental Building Strategies and Tom Eliot Fisch Architecture achieved LEED Gold certification on Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco Mission Clubhouse? Click here to be taken to the U.S. Green Building Council project profile of the Mission Clubhouse, including an overview of the project, the team’s goals, motivations, strategies and outcomes, and the final LEED scorecard.

November 5, 2012

Exploratorium @ Piers 15 & 17 Issued Temporary Certificate of Occupancy

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Nibbi President Bob Nibbi announced today that the Port of San Francisco issued our Exploratorium @ Piers 15 & 17 project a temporary certificate of occupancy (TCO) just three days after the original contract completion date of November 2, 2012. “This is a great achievement for our project team and is the result of a lot of hard work and continued focus on the schedule,” said Nibbi. Congratulations to the Exploratorium team!

November 2, 2012

Joseph P. Mazzola Training Center Wins CICA Award

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Nibbi’s Joseph P. Mazzola Training Center last night was recognized by CICA (Commercial Interiors Contractors Association) as 2012’s Best Bay Area Adaptive-Reuse Project.

The Mazzola Training Center–outfitted with training stations for the installation and maintenance of plumbing systems seen in all building types, including residential, commercial, mixed-use, clean rooms, laboratories, hospitals and data centers–provides members of U.A. Local 38 with the opportunity to build their careers through hands-on experience with the most advanced equipment currently used in the plumbing trade.

The project team (Nibbi, CAS Architects and Environmental Building Strategies) employed four key strategies on the project to improve constructability and maximize quality on this complex project:

1. the separation of the job into multiple phases to maximize funding opportunities and allow the owner to meet all building objectives
2. collaboration among the builder, designer, environmental consultant and the center’s teachers in the design and construction processes
3. the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) to coordinate the mechanical and plumbing systems
4. the pursuit and achievement of LEED Silver certification

“Adapting a previous building into a highly functional educational and training facility is a complex process,” says Jake Arlein, Director of Certification Services, Environmental Building Strategies, “yet the project team and owners pushed the standards even higher by pursuing LEED Silver certification. The result is a 75% reduction of pre-renovation lighting power density, a 25% reduction in Title 24 energy code requirements, and a 50% reduction of lighting energy consumed compared to buildings of similar size.”

Read more about the Joseph P. Mazzola Plumbers Union Training Center.

October 24, 2012

Armstrong Place Wins ULI 2012 Global Award for Excellence

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Armstrong Place Senior and Family Housing was listed this week as one of Urban Land Institute’s winners of its 2012 Global Awards for Excellence.

Fourteen developments were selected as winners of the competition, widely acknowledged as the land use industry’s most prestigious recognition program. Now in its 34th year, the competition is the centerpiece of ULI’s efforts to identify and promote best practices in all types of real estate development. Each of the winning projects, selected from nearly 200 entries throughout the world, has been successful in achieving a high standard of excellence in design, construction, economics, planning, and management.

According to jury chairman Randall K. Rowe, chairman of Green Courte Partners, LLC, Lake Forest, Ill., this year’s winners demonstrate ingenuity, innovation, and long-term thinking that can be embraced in other scenarios. “This year’s 14 ULI Global Award winners are from eight countries and represent a broad array of property types and uses. They are dramatic examples of the application of ULI best practices to real estate development and their enduring impact on diverse communities across the globe,” Rowe said.

Why Armstrong Place? With 370,200 square feet of higher density residential and 7,600 square feet of ground floor retail, Armstrong Place was descibed by ULI as “an important catalyst for the revitalization of the Third Street corridor in San Francisco. Read more about the award here.

 

September 21, 2012

Larry Nibbi Honored at 34th Annual Construction Industry Lunch-O-Ree, benefitting San Francisco Bay Area Council of Boy Scouts

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 Nibbi’s own Larry Nibbi (CEO) was presented the “Good Scout” award at the 34th Annual Construction Industry Lunch-O-Ree on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012.

Each year, a leader in the construction industry is given the award for significant contributions to the community.

This year, the event, which benefits the San Francisco Bay Area Council of Boy Scouts, raised nearly $400,000–in contributions.

Larry was introduced by his brother Sergio Nibbi (Chairman of the Board), with whom Larry led Nibbi Brothers General Contractors from 1973-1998. The keynote speaker was Larry’s friend and business partner San Francisco Giants President and CEO Larry Baer.

The video played to introduce Larry and outline the reasons he was selected for the award is posted on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TBwahKOVMDo