June 2007

Desert aviation facility will house aviation unit

The Berger Foundation donated about a 20-acre parcel to the Riverside County Economic Development Agency to improve the Thermal (California) community and Eastern Coachella.  The site is adjacent the Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport.  Mead & Hunt is designing a public aviation education center and a facility to house the Riverside Sheriff Department’s Desert Aviation Unit.  The project includes aircraft aprons and taxiways, heliport pad, and hangars with space for offices and maintenance shops.  The education center and flight training center will support the needs of local community groups.

Mead & Hunt, named by CE News as one of the top 10 engineering companies to work for in the nation, provides professional services in architecture, historic preservation, transportation, infrastructure, and water resources engineering to clients throughout the US.  Mead & Hunt was recently recognized as one of the fastest rising architectural and engineering firm by the Zweig Letter Hot Firm list; the firm remains strong on the Engineering News Record’s Top 500 design firm list.  Mead & Hunt is an employee-owned corporation that employs more than 300 people in offices nationwide.