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PACE Projects in Top 150 Resorts on the US Mainland
Eight of PACE’s amazing projects are featured as part of the Top 150 Resorts on the US Mainland published on the Conde Nast Traveler’s website, Read More…
Quarter 1 E-Newsletter Now Available!
Learn about what’s going on in our water laboratory, the sustainability of swimming pool systems, and the findings of our hydraulic physical model. All this and more at PaceCurrents!
Andy Komor Recognized as Rising Star by CE News
CE News recognizes 15 Rising Stars in Civil Engineering under 40, “who have shown exceptional technical capability, leadership ability, effective teaching or research, or public service benefiting the civil engineering profession, their employers, project owners, and society.” The editors at CE News were very impressed with Andy’s work in water quality, including his design for a mobile drinking water treatment system, formulated in response to the aftereffects of the tsunami in Japan. Read more…
The Orange County Register: Newport Resort Pool designed by PACE on ’15 most spectacular’ list
CNNGo wrote of the Pelican Hill pool: “Named after the Coliseum in Rome, this is the world’s largest circular pool with a diameter stretching 41.5 meters. Read more…
PACE was the engineer-of-record for award-winning public-private partnership wastewater recycling facility in Ventura County
The plant is the first design-build-operate-finance (DBOF) public/private partnership in the State of California, the seventh DBOF water/wastewater project in the USA, and the lowest energy-consuming membrane bioreactor (MBR) as of 2011.
Dateland celebrates groundbreaking of new water system
Three federal grants totaling more than $2.4 million will pay for a new Dateland Public Service Co. system to treat concentrations of arsenic and fluoride in its customers’ drinking water. Alan Stephens, state director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development, attended a groundbreaking ceremony Monday and presented the colonia grants. Read more…
OriginOil selects award-winning engineering firm for product rollout
PACE will fast-track market availability of Single Step Extraction systems. Los Angeles, CA — July 27, 2011 — OriginOil, Inc. (OOIL), the developer of a breakthrough technology to extract oil from algae and an emerging leader in the global algae oil services industry, today announced it has selected Pacific Advanced civil Engineering, Inc. (PACE) of Fountain Valley, California, to fast-track the rollout of its line of Single Step Extraction™ systems in response to immediate customer demand.
Idea of pumping oxygen into Osoyoos Lake to improve water quality discussed
On May 26, members of the Osoyoos Lake Water Quality Society, the Okanagan Basin Water Board, the Lake Osoyoos Association from Oroville, Wash., and representatives of the Town of Osoyoos met with representatives of the Southern California-based firm PACE, which specializes in advanced water engineering. Read more…
OC Firm Spotlight – The Wet and Wild Side of Water Engineering: PACE.
Imagine creating new technology for the world’s largest manmade surfable wave, understanding complex hydraulics in a flood control channel through experiments in an actual scaled model, and developing new water/air purification and recycling technologies for the Biosphere enclosed ecosystem experimentation station. Read more…
Plan would improve Main Lake water quality
As residents have heard over the last few years, Canyon Lake has been listed by the State Regional Water Quality Control Board as “impaired” due to an excess level (Total Maximum Daily Load or TMDL) of nutrients/bacteria. The Clean Water Act requires area water jurisdictions to improve the levels in Canyon Lake by 2020. Read more…