The south side of the 13th Street bridge is sporting a newly widened sidewalk, brick work, fencing and street lights. “The 13th Street Bridge portion on the south side of the 13th Street Bridge was recently completed,” says Ditas Esperanza, capital projects engineer for the city of Paso Robles. “Work on the north side is now underway and will look...

June 2013 – Cannon recently performed a laser scan as-built survey for the City of Banning Justice Center. This project served to verify the location of exterior and interior walls in reference to structural drawings. Laser scanning has quickly become the engineering industry’s best-suited technology for developing accurate, highly precise as-built information for use in retrofit and expansion in design-build...

May 14, 2013 – It was an early but rewarding morning at Cannon, which hosted a bike burrito breakfast in honor of National Bike Month. The event fed dedicated individuals biking to work, to school, or in support of the cause. Cannon welcomed bikers from all over the county, offering burritos from The Breakfast Buzz in San Luis Obispo to...

April 24, 2013 – The new Recreation Center at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly), has exceeded expectations by achieving LEED Gold certification. Cannon collaborated with Cannon Design, a full-service architecture, engineering, and interior design firm, to complete the expansion and renovation of the Recreation Center in July 2012. Cannon provided the civil and surveying for the...

ARROYO GRANDE, CA—The 27th annual Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Golf Tournament recently raised $13,000 to benefit energy education at Santa Maria Schools. Hosted by Cannon, a local Engineering firm, the tournament took place with a more-than-full turnout of 152 golfers on Friday, May 24, at Cypress Ridge Golf Course in Arroyo Grande. Tournament participants, all engineering professionals from the...

Section of road set for work in order to stop flooding and to improve access By Tonya Strickland — [email protected] If you travel 21st Street from Vine Street to Riverside Avenue in Paso Robles, you’ll soon be noticing some improvements. The city is redoing this section of 21st Street, which has a recurring flooding problem, to improve storm water run-off....

After two years of precision planning and collaborative effort, the facilities modernization and efficiency program for Pacific Coast Energy Company LP (PCEC) in Orcutt, CA was completed December 31, 2012. When PCEC began the facilities modernization and efficiency program for the Diatomite project on July 1, 2010, they could not have imagined such a success. The program focused on seven...

Since their first production in 2000, Bakersfield Relay for Life has raised awareness and funds to fight cancer. Once again, Cannon participated in this year’s event and the team rallied on May 4th. Bakersfield hosts the largest Relay in the world, and is recognized for record fundraising amounts and for having the largest number of event participants. Not only has...

Food for thought! Cannon will be holding our 3rd annual Well Worth It Drive Thru BBQ on July 31, 2013! With community participation since 2010, the Well Worth It Campaign has funded 7 wells in Africa, and we are pushing for two more this year.  Tickets are on sale now! For $40, you will receive a table-ready dinner that includes...

Cannon’s Jon Mungcal is a motorcycle enthusiast. Don’t believe me? Here’s some proof: Thunderhill Raceway in Northern California. Mounted on a custom 2005 SPEARS Racing bike SV650, Jon takes the hairpin turns on this 15-turn course like a pro. Take a minute to see what it really means to go extreme!...