Building Trades News

Sprinkler Fitters Local 709 are working Phase II of the New Horizons Office Campus at Playa Vista. Development in the Playa Vista territory – a tiny stretch of coveted property near the Pacific Ocean in West Los Angeles – has met with significant difficulties over the years, and labor leaders often complained that when there was work, too much of it went to non-union contractors. But Horizons is being built under a 100-percent union labor agreement.

In order to successfully complete a project, each craft is dependent on every other. While the work of waterproofers is often unseen because their finished product is covered by concrete or buried in planters, their efforts are no less vital to a building’s longevity.