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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...
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...
Happy Holidays from Interactive Resources
Annual gift giving to those in need has been a holiday tradition at Interactive Resources for many years. This year, we worked with Verde Elementary School to fulfill the Christmas wish lists for five Richmond families. Presents were hand-delivered to the families by...
AIA East Bay Spotlights 7 Stars Holistic Healing Center
Are you curious about cannabis dispensaries, what they look like, and how they are designed? In collaboration with the AIA East Bay, we recently hosted a site tour of one of our dispensary projects, 7 Stars Holistic Healing Center. This project entailed the renovation...
Loma Prieta 30 Years Later
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...
UC Berkeley’s Women’s Faculty Club Gets a New Roof of its Own*
Interactive Resources has a long and successful practice of providing historic preservation services. We have designed and overseen the construction of hundreds of historic rehabilitation projects. One such recent project is for the University of California, Berkeley...
Case Study: BART Waterproofing Project Saves Tens of Millions of Gallons of Drinking Water Annually
By Thomas K. Butt, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C From 2011 to 2016, I was project manager for Interactive Resources on a project for BART to repair extensive leaks into the BART Powell Street Station that had plagued BART for decades and had stymied continuous previous repair...
Who was Frank J. Hagel?
Interactive Resources recently completed a six-year-long 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...
Envelope Study & Improvements for UC Berkeley’s University Hall
We recently completed a study for UC Berkeley’s University Hall. This seven-story tower and adjoining two-story annex at the west edge of campus, designed by the well-known west coast firm Welton Becet & Associates and constructed in 1959, originally housed the...
Next generation’s creativity on display at kids’ art show at Interactive Resources
Tomorrow, Saturday, June 1st, we play host to an open-house pop-up exhibit of kids' art from 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm. Artist and teacher Camille Zulpo's 23 students have transformed our front lobby and conference rooms into a colorful display of vibrant creativity. The...
Meet Marilou Sasai and Michael McCombe!
We're pleased to introduce two new team members: Michael McCombe and Marilou Sasai. Michael McCombe has more than 20 years of experience in CADD drafting and is working toward his architectural license. He is a designer/drafter who cares about exceptional results. At...
In the News: PowerPlant Park in Richmond
Our cannabis industry project PowerPlant Park is poised to bring hundreds of new jobs and millions of dollars in additional tax revenue for the City of Richmond, and the news media is taking notice. KPIX journalist Katie Nielsen interviewed our President Tom Butt and...