The City of McFarland, touted as the “heartbeat of agriculture”, is nestled in the southern San Joaquin Valley of Kern County. Graced with almost year-round days of warm sunlight, the City thrives on an enterprise of cotton, sugar beets, potatoes, and roses. A citrus processing plant, almond hulling facility, and vineyards also stimulate the area’s economy. Amidst this abundant agrarian...

Cannon’s Public Infrastructure Director, Larry Kraemer, recently received the California Special Districts Association (CSDA) Santa Barbara Chapter award for Engineer of the Year. Bobbie Martin, General Manager of the Santa Ynez Community Services District, nominated Larry in recognition of his outstanding services as District Engineer. Qualities Bobbie used to introduce Mr. Kraemer included integrity, trustworthiness, honesty, and cost-consciousness. Cannon has...

Once again Cannon’s parking lot bustled with the efforts of employees and volunteers to provide Well Worth It campaign barbeque dinners to local supporters. The day was sunny and grill smoke billowed upwards as the sumptuous aroma of seasoned tri-tip and buttery grilled bread loaves wafted through the air. Paired with piping hot chorizo beans and fresh salad sides, everyone...

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...

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...