Project Type

Tenant Improvements

Interior tenant improvements in existing, often occupied buildings, from community health clinics to commercial office suites, including existing conditions documentation, permit-ready drawing packages, and coordination with building systems.

Hillcrest - FHC

4094 4TH AVE. SAN DIEGO, CA 92103

Healthcare · Tenant Improvement

FHCSD
Hillcrest - FHC

Project Description

T.I. - Physical Therapy Clinic expansion and upgrades (in-house FHCSD)

Role Responsibilities

  • Drawings for existing, demo, and proposed plans
  • Proposed Furniture & Equipment Plans
  • Schedules, Take-offs, Sections, Elevations, RCP, HVAC coordination

Project Phase(s)

Programming, SD, CDs

Software Used

Revit, AutoCAD, Bluebeam Revu, Teams

Mission Bay - FHC

4650 Mission Bay Drive, San Diego, CA 92109

Healthcare · Adaptive Reuse

FHCSD
Mission Bay - FHC

Project Description

Adaptive reuse of a two-story, approximately 21,000 sq ft former Home Savings of America bank building (built 1977, most recently a Chase branch) at the gateway to Pacific Beach into a Family Health Centers of San Diego community health center. The building is known for its Millard Sheets Studio exterior mosaics depicting San Diego history, interior artwork, and sea lion sculpture, which are being preserved in the conversion. Listed as endangered by Save Our Heritage Organisation in 2020 and recognized as saved in 2024 after FHCSD acquired it. Currently under construction.

Role Responsibilities

  • Conducted post-demolition site visits to document existing stairs, corridors, lobbies, and vestibules with field dimensions, photographs, and drawings
  • Coordinated with the design team and structural engineer to verify that proposed structural columns aligned with existing conditions

Project Phase(s)

Existing Conditions, Design Development (coordination)

Software Used

Revit, AutoCAD

The Irvine Company - Commercial Office Suite T.I.s

Multiple Irvine Company properties, San Diego, CA

Commercial Offices

Gensler
The Irvine Company - Commercial Office Suite T.I.s

Project Description

Interior tenant improvements for commercial office suites in an Irvine Company office building in San Diego. The permit-ready T.I. drawing package covered demolition and new floor plans, partition and door layouts, reflected ceiling plans, power and lighting layouts, interior elevations, finish schedules, millwork, and details, coordinated with the building's existing systems.

Role Responsibilities

  • Conducted site visits and documented existing conditions for each suite, including field measurements, as-built floor plans, and reflected ceiling plans
  • Produced existing, demolition, and proposed plans in Revit to Gensler studio standards, coordinating with the tenant, MEP consultants, and engineers to deliver complete permit sets for City of San Diego rapid review
  • Responded to RFIs and DSD plan check comments through permit issuance, then performed punch list walkthroughs during and after construction across multiple Irvine Company properties

Project Phase(s)

Existing Conditions, Construction Documents, Permitting, Construction Administration

Software Used

Revit, AutoCAD, Bluebeam Revu

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