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In early 2019, Athena Engineering, Inc., DMG Corporation, and M. Weber & Associates, combined their extensive experience to work together on a transformative project for the historic Wilshire Ebell Theatre. As the design-builder on the team, we had the honor of guiding the project to completion on this amazing, historic jewel in the heart of [...]

The Southern California Gas Company's Pico Rivera base is the headquarters for the utility's facilities, training, and various operational departments. Athena Engineering, Inc. was the holder of a 3-year Master Services Agreement with Southern California Gas and managed the replacement of two chiller's at the Pico Rivera base. The design-build chiller replacements involved the [...]

Athena Engineering, Inc. won this project on a best value design-build Request for Proposal in conjunction with the Judicial Council of California and Jacobs Engineering. Athena Engineering, Inc. provided a design-build solution for the entire facility’s HVAC building automation system. The system designed and provided, included: Schneider Electric StruxureWare utilizing LonWorks protocol network and [...]

The Airport Atrium building in Torrance, CA is a multi-story 97,000 square-foot Class A office building. This beautiful building includes a 4-story glass atrium with a feature fountain and large office spaces for tenant use. In 2015, Athena Engineering was contracted by the new owners of the building to perform on-site surveys for existing [...]

Montebello was the first city in Los Angeles County to build a library with funds raised by a bond issue ($30,000). The building was erected in July 1930 at 115 So. Taylor Avenue. It served the community for 36 years before the library's current building was dedicated on October 20th, 1966. Athena Engineering, Inc. [...]

The Bus Maintenance & Operations Facility was designed to optimize Los Angeles County Metro's bus transit service throughout the Central Los Angeles region. The new sustainable facility accommodates a fleet of 200 CNG (compressed natural gas) buses. The project entailed construction of a cast-in-place concrete parking structure housing the Metro [...]

Beverly Hospital is a general medical and surgical hospital in Montebello, CA, with 102 beds. In 2016, over 15,000 patients visited the hospital's emergency room. The hospital had a total of 7,180 admissions. Its physicians performed 1,204 inpatient and 2,952 outpatient surgeries. Athena Engineering, Inc. was engaged by the mechanical engineer, Ted Jacobs Engineering, [...]

Kaiser Permanente directly contracted with Athena Engineering for the mechanical system replacement on this Kaiser Medical Office Building, located in the City of Inglewood. The facility serves as a medical office for an after hour clinic, family medicine, internal medicine, laboratory, pediatrics, pharmacy, physical therapy and radiology/ diagnostic imaging. Athena Engineering was awarded and provided [...]

This design-build HVAC and controls project required simultaneous performance on ten bases located throughout Southern California – Santa Barbara, Pacoima, Simi Valley, Hollywood, Pasadena, Chino, Canoga Park, Pico Rivera, Monterey Park and Woodland Hills. Athena Engineering, Inc. served as the design-build General Contractor and self-performed the Mechanical HVAC and controls on this contract. The scope [...]

The Public Health Laboratory (PHL) is a biohazard laboratory that is commissioned to work on counter-terrorism research. The new 60,000 square foot location required a complete internal renovation to fit the required laboratories and office space.  The systems had to be redesigned and adapted to meet the CDC Biohazard Level 3 requirements immediately before the [...]

The Piper Spirit Office Complex project required Athena Engineering, Inc. to design and build two state of the art office buildings from the ground up. Both buildings are located on a 75,000 square foot lot (1.7 acres), and construction involved the coordination of several dozen trades. Athena Engineering served as the general contractor, mechanical HVAC, [...]

Athena Engineering, Inc. completed an addition of a new 294-cell housing building (173,000 square feet) with adjacent support functions for transport holding, administrative offices and other workspaces. A separate central plant building containing mechanical equipment to serve the housing building was also included. Our team was responsible for creating information modeling using leading-edge software. [...]

Athena Engineering, Inc. was responsible for the mechanical HVAC scope of work and building automation security, access and mechanical controls at this 35,600 square foot, ground-up Catholic educational facility located in Duarte, CA. The project included a multi-story new building with subterranean parking, a 40-classroom building, kitchen, playground and office space. Following completion of [...]

The El Monte Busway and Transit Center, owned and operated by Los Angeles Metro, is the largest bus facility west of Chicago and offers interstate, regional, and local bus services to an average of 40,000 passengers daily. The scope of this project doubled the size of the previous center with a two-level bus terminal. El Monte now [...]

This brand new 62,000 square foot high school for the Los Angeles Unified School District (formerly South Los Angeles High School #3) included a ground up, multi-story high school campus comprised of a gym, classrooms and administration buildings.  Athena Engineering, Inc. was responsible for the entire mechanical scope of work, including the HVAC and [...]

This project involved the new construction of a visual and performing arts high school in Los Angeles. The campus is within the Los Angeles Unified School District and consists of nine buildings and a central plant. Athena Engineering, Inc. was responsible for the installation of an Energy Management System consisting of Variable Air Volume [...]

This design-build building automation project consisted of the construction of a new central plant for the main cooling and heating media of the LACCD Southwest College campus. The project was a design/build that utilized thermal storage or ice tanks for cooling. The chilled water side of the project includes two air-cooled chillers that are primarily used [...]