Photo by Costea Photography Inc.

Be Well OC Irvine Campus

Irvine, Calif.

Award of Merit

Submitted by: Oltmans Construction Co. and DBaC Inc.

Owner: Mind OC

Lead Design Firm: Boulder Associates

General Contractor: Oltmans Construction Co.

Landscape Architect: LandLab

Construction Management: California Commercial Real Estate Services

General Contractor | Demolition | Grading | Tenant Improvement: DBaC Inc.

Demolition: GGG Demolition

Electrician: Gregg Electric

Grader: Salsbury Engineering Inc.

A Marine Corps air station originally built in the 1940s was torn down to make room for this four-building behavioral health campus, which features public, semi-secure and secure zones.

More than 215,000 sq ft of concrete slabs and footings were pulverized and reused as base material under the new building pads, and 31,500 cu yd of the resulting crushed rock was graded, placed and compacted, while 131,100 sq ft of roof timbers and 3-by-6 deck lumber were salvaged and trucked to Yuma, Ariz., in 40…