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We Are Hiring! Interactive Resources Seeks Structural Engineer & Preservation Architect to Join Our Team
Interactive Resources is seeking new team members for two open positions; senior engineer and preservation architect. Since 1973, our firm has provided exceptional architectural design, structural engineering and planning services, with a focus on green building principles and strategies. “Interactive resources” refers to the collaborative and effective business environment our firm cultivates to support a highly productive and creative team. 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
San Francisco Federal Building – Federal Trade Commission Tenant Improvement
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Interactive Resources provided architectural design and engineering services for office and conference space remodels at the U.S. Federal Building in San Francisco. The tenant improvements are for the Federal Trade Commission, who will occupy space on the 3rd and 14th Floors. The project included space planning, interior demolition, design and construction of an open landscape office space and new private offices, new kitchen area, three conference areas, and minor structural work. Read More
Interactive Resources Expands its Design Team
Interactive Resources, Inc. has announced the addition of five new design professionals to its staff. “We are seeing a steady increase in demand for our architectural, engineering and investigative services, and have hired five new team members to join our firm,” said Andrew Butt, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Managing Principal of Interactive Resources. Read More
AC Transit Customer Service Center Remodel is Now Complete
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Interactive Resources has had the opportunity to work with the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) on various projects over the past decade. Recently, Interactive Resources remodeled the AC Transit Customer Service Center located on the main floor of the district’s General Office building at 1600 Franklin Street in Oakland, California. The Customer Service Center serves AC Transit riders with bus pass and clipper transactions for use on the public transportation system. Read More
Major Capital Improvements for the Northern California Carpenters Regional Council
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We are wrapping up a major capital improvements program for the Northern California Carpenters Regional Council (NCCRC) headquarters in Oakland, California. It’s great to see to see the finishing touches come together! The NCCRC union represents more than 38,000 carpenters, pile drivers, millwrights, cabinet makers, drywallers and workers in associated trades. Read More
2020 Annual “Adopted Families” Holiday Program at Interactive Resources
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Annual gift giving to those in need has been a holiday tradition at Interactive Resources for many years. This year, we worked with Richmond-based GRIP (Greater Richmond Interfaith Program), which provides emergency shelter and transitional housing for families with children, among other vital programs. Through donations of time and money from our staff, we were able to purchase and deliver gifts for the shelter’s 46 children residents, ranging in age from less than one to 17-years. Pastries for the GRIP’s 50 staff members and volunteers accompanied Santa’s delivery. Read More
Essential Architecture: GSA, DGS & USPS
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During this challenging time, we are grateful to be hard at work. Many of our clients are designated as essential, and we have two new on-call contracts to announce: with the General Services Administration (GSA) and with the Department of General Services (DGS), both government agencies that we have decades of experience working with, dating back to 1990. And we are in the fourth year of an on-call contract with the United State Postal Service, which we have worked with since the mid-1980s. We are grateful to be able to help these entities maintain the services we need. Read More
Who was Frank J. Hagel?
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Interactive Resources recently completed a six yearlong project for The Frank Hagel Federal Building in Richmond, California. The main tenant of this six-story structure is the Social Security Administration, and Interactive Resources was retained by the General Services Administration to investigate and report on ongoing water intrusion into the building’s basement from the plaza above. You can read about our feasibility study, final report, schematic design, construction documents and cost estimates here.
We thought it would be interesting to learn about the person whose name is on this building we’ve spent so much time studying. Surprisingly, just googling Frank Hagel doesn’t easily answer this question. Read More
We thought it would be interesting to learn about the person whose name is on this building we’ve spent so much time studying. Surprisingly, just googling Frank Hagel doesn’t easily answer this question. Read More
Meet Marilou Sasai and Michael McCombe!
We're pleased to introduce two new team members: Michael McCombe and Marilou Sasai. Michael is the newest addition to our design team, and Marilou is our accounting manager. Please join us in welcoming them! Read More
Alten Construction Office Remodel
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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
Applied Technology Services Facility, Common Area & Calibration Lab Remodel, Danville, California
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Interactive Resources recently completed several projects for a local utility company with facilities throughout Northern and Central California. The Applied Technology Services Facility in Danville is managed by the Applied Technology Services (ATS) group. You can recognize the building by its huge geodesic dome. ATS provides the utility with a myriad of specialized services, from evaluating the safety of protective clothing to inspecting gas pipelines with X-rays to discover invisible flaws. Read More
DGS, FMD Bay & Northern Area Architectural Retainer Services
We are happy to announce that State of California, Department of General Services (DGS), Facilities Management Division (FMD) selected Interactive Resources to provide architectural and engineering services for the Bay and Northern California regions. The FMD is comprised of the former Building and Property Management Branch and the Direct Construction Unit. FMD is tasked with ensuring the ongoing maintenance and management of several state-owned buildings. 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