IN THE NEWS

Avila Construction was recently mentioned in the Pacific Grove Cedar St. Times for our win on the Library renovation. Another great bid by Team Avila!

Another project in the news

This Monterey High School scoreboard project was a fun one for our MHS alumni- filled staff to complete!

An article about it can be found in the Monterey Herald here.

After a ~6 month trial period with select projects and employees, we are rolling out Bluebeam to the entire Project Management and Site Superintendent staff. What does this mean? We will be working more efficiently and powerfully, managing documents better, and delivering better as built documents to our clients.

The County of Monterey Government Team was our main group of testers. This team is managing hundreds (yes, really!)...

We are starting off these sort week in great spirits! Last week, two of Avila Cosntruction's projects were featured in the Monterey Herald Newspaper.  

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The Casa Boronda Agricultural Housing project, led by Project Manager Jeff Nohr and modeled largely after our hugely successful Tanimura & Antle Agricultural project "Spreckels Crossing", was unanimously approved by the Planning Commission. The project garnered wide support fro...

The new Tanimura & Antle 100-unit employee-only residential housing complex officially opened as the “Spreckels Crossing” on July 16th during the ribbon cutting ceremony in Spreckels.  C

rews worked efficiently to meet construction timelines and Tanimura & Antle employees moved in 10 months after permits were approved.  Each apartment includes a living room with furniture, a kitchen, pots and pans, dinnerware, a television, two...

The new state-of-the-art 26,000 square foot building was dedicated as the Sister Claire and Sister Christine Mathematics and Science Center on January 15, 2016.  The new learning center has three math classrooms, five science labs, 12 faculty offices, a 1,200 gallon aquarium, outdoor deck and common areas for students to study and interact.  Located outside the building, a large cistern filters storm water to irrigate nearby p...

Avila Construction is excited to have passed the first inspection of a passive house, which is currently under construction, with flying colors .  This inspection tested the leakage of airflow out of the house.  In the below picture, you can see the testing equipment placed in one of the doorways of the house.

As climate change becomes a greater issue world wide, and with energy costs rising, consumers are beginning to seek the most energy efficient technology when building homes.  Recently, Avila was awarded a project which entails the construction of a duplex style passive house.  According to the Passive House Institute of the US, this duplex will be the thirty fifth passive house in the US.  The passive house requires sophistica...