Featured Projects | Institutional

Since the inception of Jensen Design & Survey, Inc in 1989, our project experience includes a wide range of institutional projects, including over 25 school sites in the Ventura County area. We have provided planning and engineering services for rehabilitation projects, expansion programs, and new construction. We realize the importance of funding programs and the potential constraints it imposes on improvement programs. With our experience, we are able to provide our clients with cost-effective planning and engineering to optimize their budget availability.

National Disaster Search Dog Foundation, Santa Paula, CA Jensen Design & Survey, Inc. is currently providing entitlement permitting, engineering, and survey services for a new National Training Center (NTC) in Santa Paula for the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation. The NTC will be the only facility of its kind in the nation and will be specifically designed for training first responder urban disaster search and rescue canine teams. Search Dog Foundation teams have responded to the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001, the La Conchita mudslides on January 10, 2005, the Metrolink train collision in Chatsworth on September 12, 2008, and the Haiti Earthquake on January 12, 2010. Their most recent deployment was to Christchurch, New Zealand in response to the February 2011 earthquake. The project will include the retrofit/remodel of existing structures and construction of new facilities. The NTC will include a welcome center, organization offices, a caretaker’s residence, accommodations for handlers, a training pavilion, and other accessory structures. A large portion of the site will be utilized for canine training using rubble piles and props such as barrels, ladders, tunnels and modular structures constructed like a movie set for easy alteration to avoid repetition memory in canine training. Search and rescue simulations will occur during the daytime and in the evening. All of these training areas mimic real life-saving conditions to which SDF canine disaster search teams are deployed.

California Lutheran University (CLU), South Campus Thousand Oaks, CA Jensen Design & Survey, Inc. assisted California Lutheran University with Master Site Plan preparation of their 80-acre North Athletic Field Expansion project. The site plan integrated athletic venues, parking, a gym, and event centers while retaining an existing onsite riparian corridor and managing other site constraints. Jensen Design & Survey, Inc. has a long term relationship with California Lutheran University and assists them with their expansion and improvement projects on an on-going basis. These past projects have consisted of an 80-acre sports complex with an Olympic size swimming pool, football stadium, 70,000 square foot event center, baseball field, two soccer fields, two dormitories, a preschool, radio station, maintenance facility, practice fields, and parking lots.

The Thacher School, Ojai, CA In addition to the Master Plan build-out of the campus. Jensen Design & Survey, Inc. provides on-going civil engineering and surveying services to The Thacher School, a 360-acre preparatory boarding school in Ojai. Projects have included engineering for an addition to the Visiting Faculty Residence, Lower School Dormitory, athletic fields, Hill Dormitory site, and Headmaster’s Residence. We also provide survey and mapping services throughout the campus, Conditional Use Permit processing, preliminary and final grading and drainage plans, construction oversight, staking, and as-built preparation.

Ventura County Medical Center, Ventura, CA In order to meet current seismic code requirements, the Ventura County Medical Center constructed a new five-story medical office building as part of their Campus Master Improvements. Jensen Design & Survey, Inc. was the Engineer of Record for this project which required the relocation of an 18 modular unit Family Care Center and associated utilities, installation of a mobile x-ray lab, grading and drainage for the project area, and parking lot improvements. Jensen Design & Survey, Inc. also provided engineering and construction surveying services.

California Lutheran University (CLU), North Campus Thousand Oaks, CA Jensen Design & Survey, Inc. assisted California Lutheran University with Master Site Plan preparation of their 80-acre North Athletic Field Expansion project. The site plan integrated athletic venues, parking, a gym, and event centers while retaining an existing onsite riparian corridor and managing other site constraints. Jensen Design & Survey, Inc. has a long term relationship with California Lutheran University and assists them with their expansion and improvement projects on an on-going basis. These past projects have consisted of an 80-acre sports complex with an Olympic size swimming pool, football stadium, 70,000 square foot event center, baseball field, two soccer fields, two dormitories, a preschool, radio station, maintenance facility, practice fields, and parking lots.

Community Memorial Hospital Cancer Center The need for a new hospital building at Community Memorial Hospital necessitated the relocation of several existing uses in structures adjacent to the existing hospital. One of those uses was a cancer clinic. This project resulted in the construction of a new, modern facility located at the corner of Brent Street and Loma Vista Road. An existing parking lot and vacant houses were converted to the new facility. The building opened in December 2010. The architect of record was Rasmussen and Associates, who are assisting CMH in their redevelopment plans for the main campus.

Community Memorial Replacement Hospital To meet the latest Federal requirements for hospital safety, Community Memorial Hospital (CMH) has chosen to construct a new hospital structure, rather than retrofit its existing building. A new 6 story building will be constructed south of the existing hospital. As part of this development, CMH has chosen to redevelop a large area bounded on three sides by existing streets. Construction of the new building will also involve development of a new city park, redevelopment of an existing retail center and parking lot, new city streets, and future development of ancillary use buildings and parking structure. The design/build team includes a large Hospital consultant from Missouri, as well as several local firms with long experience with CMH. The local team is responsible for design of improvements necessary to prepare the site for the new main hospital building, as well as oversight of the proposed main building design.

Newbury Park Library - Newbury Park, CA The landscape planting concept shall be diversified yet harmonious to the site specific location and coastal valley influence. The proposed landscape plant palette will add strength and character through a unified design approach, providing identity of community and place throughout the Newbury Park Library site. The Kaleidoscope of plant forms, colors and textures will ultimately create a sense of harmony, unifying the site.

Peace Lutheran Church - Camarillo, CA Working with Lauterbach and Associates, JDS provided engineering design services for parking lot reconstruction and new construction for the Peace Lutheran Church in Camarillo. Are services started at during the Planning phase, and continued through construction. The site was designed with future expansion for a senior housing development in mind.