Rudolph and Sletten Named Construction Manager for the Donald and Maureen Green Music Center at Sonoma State University
ROHNERT PARK, CA (December 14, 2006)-- Rudolph and Sletten, Inc. General Contractors announced today that it has been chosen as the Construction Manager at Risk for the Donald and Maureen Green Music Center at Sonoma State University. The center is a $59 million public/private partnership and is acoustically designed to become one of the most sought-after music and arts venues in the world. The 101,250 square foot project is slated for completion in September 2008.
The Green Music Center will be the new home of the Santa Rosa Symphony and the summertime Green Music Festival, as well as hundreds of guest artists.
“The Green Music Center will be one of the centerpieces for music and the arts in Northern California and in the world,” said project executive Robert Stokes of Rudolph and Sletten’s Roseville office, which is overseeing the construction. “The concert hall is being built by a team of experts utilizing the latest technology. The result will be a world class facility that the community can be proud of for years to come.”
The Center’s concert hall seats 1,400 and is designed to replicate the acoustics and intimate setting of two of the greatest concert halls in the world: Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood in Massachusetts (summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra) and the historic Grosser Musikvereinsaal in Vienna. The rear wall of the Concert Hall, like that of Ozawa Hall, slides open to an outdoor lawn accommodating up to 10,000 additional guests.
Accompanying the concert hall is a 250-seat recital hall with soaring walls and the acoustics of a 17th century European cathedral, suited especially for choral music, recitals and chamber music. The center also includes two large rehearsal halls, practice rooms and ensemble rooms, a restaurant, hospitality center, three departmental suites, faculty offices and two instructional classrooms.
Rudolph and Sletten is charged with self-performing the structural concrete on the project. One of the biggest challenges is the construction of the concert hall’s cast-in-place concrete shell, reaching heights of more than 70 feet.
Rudolph and Sletten was selected for the project because of its acknowledged expertise in building state-of-the-art and technologically complex facilities within the arts, including the Community School of Music and the Arts (CSMA) in Mountain View; the historic Fox Theatre in San Jose, new home to Opera San Jose; the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University; and COPIA, the Center for Food, Wine and the Arts in Napa.
Project Team
Construction Manager at Risk: Rudolph and Sletten, Inc., Redwood City
Concert Hall Design Architect: William Rawn and Associates, Boston
Acoustician: Kirkegaard Associates, Chicago
Executive Architect: BAR Architects, San Francisco
Theater Consultant: Auerbach, Pollock Friedlander, San Francisco
Concert Hall Executive Architects: A.C. Martin Partners, Sacramento and Los Angeles
About Rudolph and Sletten
Rudolph and Sletten General Contractors, Inc. is one of the leading general contracting firms on the West Coast. Rudolph and Sletten is a wholly owned independent subsidiary of Perini Corporation (NYSE:PCR), the country’s fifteenth largest construction services company. As a pace setter in the construction industry, Rudolph and Sletten has provided quality-oriented general contracting and construction management services for four decades. Rudolph and Sletten’s expert professionals manage each job comprehensively, from site selection and preconstruction services through project completion. With its corporate headquarters in Redwood City, the company also has regional offices in Roseville, Irvine, and San Diego, California.
Rudolph and Sletten’s building expertise includes virtually all types of projects with an emphasis on those markets where their technical expertise and quality excel: biotechnology and pharmaceutical research and manufacturing; electronics; nanotechnology; health care; and high-tech research. Other areas of expertise include corporate campuses and office buildings, hotels and entertainment, educational institutions, housing, and retail facilities. Rudolph and Sletten’s current clients include Hewlett-Packard, Genentech, Kaiser, Stanford University, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Chiron, eBay, and the University of California.
Perini Corporation offers general contracting, pre-construction planning and comprehensive project management services, including the planning and scheduling of the manpower, equipment, materials, and subcontractors required for a project. Perini also offers self-performed construction services including site work, concrete forming and placement and steel erection. They are known for their hospitality and gaming industry projects, sports and entertainment, educational, transportation, healthcare, biotech, pharmaceutical and high-tech facilities, as well as large and complex civil construction projects and construction management services to U.S. military and government agencies.
