Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Richlen Construction General Contracting Team



TENANT IMPROVEMENT
Richlen Construction team, Senior Project Manager Randy Keller, Superintendent Frank Cabral, and Project Engineer Jaime Hunt are nearly completed with Experian new suite at 155 Grand Avenue in Oakland, CA. Huntsman Architects designed Experian's new 16,410 sq-ft., space with 14 Wall offices, two (2) large conference rooms, two (2) Huddle Rooms, open collaborative areas, and a 1,645 sq-ft., lunch room seating lounge.

Friday, November 30, 2012


Thank you for joining Richlen Construction at this year's Oakland Structures Breakfast!

  • Kenda Schachterle  – Project Manager with Richlen Construction
  • David Zeff – Partner with Pacific Real Estate Partners (PREP)
  • Reginald Paul – Commercial Property Manager with Woodmont Real Estate Services
  • Randy Keller = Project Manager with Richlen Construction
  • Roger Wilson =  Project Manager with Richlen Construction
  • Mark Horton – Principal, MHA

Terri Phillips-Mierkey
Marketing Director with Richlen Construction

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Join Richlen Construction for breakfast at this year's Oakland Structures event

Join Richlen Construction for breakfast at this year's Oakland Structures event on Friday, November 30th, 7:30am-10:00am at the Oakland Marriott City Center!

We believe this will be an exciting morning! Guest speakers include:     
  • *Mayor Jean Quan, City of Oakland
 
  • *Fred Blackwell, Assistant City Administrator, City of Oakland
 
  • *Dr. Bert Lubin, CEO, Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland
 
  • *Mitch Kapor, Founder, The Kapor Center
 
  • *Michael Ghielmetti, President, Signature Development Group
 
  • Partnering Association: Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
Hope to see you there!

Thursday, November 8, 2012

RICHLEN CONSTRUCTION WINS COMMERCIAL INTERIORS CONTRACTORS AWARD IN BUILDING LOBBY CATEGORY


Richlen Construction is very proud to announce that we have won 2012 best in "Building Lobby" for our main lobby remodel at 425 Market Street in San Francisco!

Congratulations to Richlen's project team: Trip Collaro, Roger Wilson, Brad Davis, Twyla Summers, & Dino Collaro. Thank you as well to the entire staff at Richlen for supporting this project.

We could not have delivered this project without collaboration and enthusiasm from the Owner Metropolitan Life and their property management, Cushman & Wakefield! Special thanks to the architectural team at Studio TMT, MEP Engineers from Ajmani & Pamidi, Structural Engineers from Holmes Culley, Security Vendor; Touchcom, Elevator Consultant; GVK, and the building’s Chief Engineer and Assistant from Able Engineering Services.

This lobby remodel took a high-level of coordination and detail phasing to reduce construction impact on tenants and building guest to keep fully-operational during the renovation. The real challenge was in transitioning to all the building systems from the existing main desks to new desks fitted out with a high-end security system, turnstiles, and revamped ID recognition.

Each team member rose to the challenge and delivered a beautifully executed lobby reposition.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

CONGRATULATIONS SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS!

Richlen Construction Congratulates the San Francisco Giants! 

See our Ad  on pages 104 & 117 in "Who's Who in the Commercial Real Estate Industry 2013 Membership Directory." 

Check out >>>Honest Buildings Network @ www.honestbuildings.com  it's a free site with loads of information about the Real Estate Industry. One can focus on cities such as San Francisco, Oakland, to San Jose or New York to Global Real Estate. Those of us at Richlen Construction use it as a tool to network, and keep informed on opportunities in Commercial Construction & building better Buildings.  

Richlen Construction is working with Property Managers, Brandywine Realty Trust on Demolition project at 155 Grand Ave., 3rd Floor, in Oakland. Our Project Manager is Randy Keller. 

Richlen Construction's Project Manager, Kenda Schachterle is heading up 388 Market Street, Suite 1568. The scope; Drywall Repair-Restoration. She is working closely with Building Owner Honorway Investment Corporation.




Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Richlen completes Haas Lobby!

Richlen Construction is wrapping up Haas Lobby at 101 Greenwich Street in San Francisco this week. This is our 8th main floor building lobby.

We are also concluding tenant improvements for Regus at 50 California Street, 15th and 16th Floors and Regus at 201 Mission Street on the 12th Floor.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Welcome to Richlen Construction's Blog. General Contractor San Francisco Richlen Construction celebrates 35 years in Commercial Building experience! We are one of the few family-owned Contractors San Francisco to meet this milestone!

We provide quality construction service out of our Fremont Street office in Downtown San Francisco, and our headquarters in historic Pacheco, California. Richlen commercial services include; tenant improvement, lobby remodel, seismic retrofits, MEP upgrades, new and old infrastructure, LEED, Abatement, Hardscape, Design-Build, and Capital Improvements. A large percentage of our projects are in high-rise buildings in San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose.

Our clients range from start-ups to large corporations; E*trade, Wells Fargo, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Hitachi Corporation, 888 Brannan Street Building Renovation, CB Richard Ellis, Shorenstein, Metropolitan Company of New York, GSA...we continue to work with National and International architectural firms, i.e., Gensler, SmithGroup, Huntsman, Studio TMT, IA, HOK.

Richlen’s longevity in commercial building benefits clientele and partners because we can bond projects. And we do qualify local subcontractors and vendors, and provide self performed work. Never once has Richlen failed to finalize a Contract Award. Richlen's build history surpasses ten thousand (10, 000) completed contractual agreements. Our best assets remain our untarnished decades of reputable industry services. Richlen Construction's successful record is due to how we regularly handle, review, draft and help negotiate clear, understandable contracts in order to minimize the likelihood of confusion or disagreements, which may result and lead to claims. Working first-hand during procurement with clients on budget estimates, bid estimates and control estimates, helps both the client and our project management to grasp the construction contingencies.

Work in Progress: 888 Brannan Street Building Renovation
Visit www.richlen.com for more photos and details!