With the goal to provide families with the opportunity to experience what they refer to as “Ranch Life,” Rancho Mission Viejo set out to create a robust community that would connect homeowners with the natural environment and landscape of California. As the Rancho Mission Viejo Company moves forward in executing their “Ranch Plan” to construct nearly 14,000 homes for future residents, Huitt-Zollars was chosen to assist in the process.
Huitt-Zollars was retained by The Irvine Company to prepare documents, legal descriptions, and exhibits to support the conversion of more than 20,000 acres of open space land to Orange County Parks. The Irvine Company manages what began in 1899 with the formation of The Irvine Ranch. This Ranch was initially 94,000 acres; now many of Orange County’s cities exist entirely on this land. The 20,000 acres donated to the County was the last of the undeveloped land.
Huitt-Zollars was responsible for the preliminary entitlement process and engineering design for the development of a 3.4 million square-foot import warehouse and regional distribution center for Target Corporation. This facility will serve the major portion of Target southern California. The design involves street, sewer, water, storm drain, traffic signals, street lighting and striping plans, grading, landscape architecture, and preparation of the master plan of drainage and all of the on-site and off-site topographic surveys, mapping, and construction staking.
Huitt-Zollars provided preliminary and final design, site analysis, hydrologic and hydraulic studies, wetland relocation, a regional drainage detention basin, and quantity estimates to transform 120 acres of undeveloped land into a new hub for industrial warehouse distribution. Site requirements for the total 200-acre master planned industrial center included 10,000 feet of storm drain; 12,000 feet of sewer; and 15,000 feet of water mains. The site plan changed many times without negatively impacting results. The strategically located industrial warehouse park contains 4 million feet of sto
Huitt-Zollars prepared preliminary engineering documents necessary for planning commission approval inclusive of preliminary grading, drainage and utility concepts, a pre-construction ALTA survey and boundary surveys. Located on the south end of The Irvine Spectrum Business Park, the 3.75-acre site consists of four separate buildings totaling over 45,000 SF. Following planning commission approval, Huitt-Zollars prepared final construction documents: plans for rough and precise grading, public street plans, on-site utilities plans, off-site public utility connection plans, erosion control
Huitt-Zollars provided off-site infrastructure and improvement plans for a 97-acre industrial park located in San Bernardino County. The scope of work included infrastructure and site development for six industrial warehouse buildings that ranged in size from 30,000 SF to 575,000 SF. This included coordination efforts with County of San Bernardino Flood Control District, City of Ontario, Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA), and Southern California Edison (SCE).
Huitt-Zollars prepared due diligence, entitlement, and final construction documents for the 39.5-acre, 8-building project. Located strategically near the intersection of I-15 and the 91 Freeway, Corona Crossroads has great access to the Inland Empire freeway system, offering over 817,000 SF of new office and light industrial space to the Inland Empire. The project features dock-high and grade-level loading areas, large fenced-in yard areas, and 60-foot concrete truck aprons.
Huitt-Zollars provided civil engineering, survey, and design services for this 200-acre industrial warehouse business park; a unique drainage solution was necessary to make the project buildable. The collaborative drainage solution benefits the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, the land developer and the community. Off-Site design included approximately 4 miles of new roadways and existing roadway widening, extension of two main line storm drains, extension of new sewer mains, and new water mains to service the project sites.
Huitt-Zollars, as Engineer of Record, was responsible for the civil design and MEP design support of the new bus maintenance and operations facility. The team was also involved in programming and preliminary engineering of the new facility. It was the first to be built by Metro in over 20 years and is located in downtown Los Angeles on an 8.25-acre site. It was Metro's intent to, at a minimum, attain a "Silver" project status as defined in the LEED Rating System by the U.S. Green Building Council. The design utilized state of the art, creative, and sustainable solutions.