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...

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...

More than 150 people gathered under Nipomo’s new Highway 101 bridge Friday afternoon to celebrate what officials called “a momentous occasion.” Over the roar of traffic whizzing overhead, more than half a dozen local, county and state officials spoke about the commitment and cooperation required to bring the community its second freeway interchange. “This is a true milestone to bring...

You’ve seen it on TV: Energetic celebrities and hordes of local volunteers working together to build a house for a deserving family—all in two weeks! Now you have a chance to take part in the excitement and fanfare as the Loose Cannons together with the Home Builders Association take part in the upcoming Blitz Build to benefit Habitat for Humanity!...

Communities don’t often celebrate sewer plants, but few cities have as many reasons to cheer as Guadalupe does. The city has just completed a $4.75 million redesign and construction of a wastewater treatment plant that had given its operators and administrators years of headaches, and performed poorly enough to earn the city the attention of the Regional Water Quality Control Board....

Fundraising efforts pursued by Cannon’s Well Worth It Campaign are yielding big results. With more than $30,000 raised since December of 2010, the Campaign has funded five wells and a drilling rig. Having helped fund the rig at the end of 2011—along with more than 1,100 other campaigns—the $1.2m machine is able to drill 80 wells every year. With plans...