A design-build team of Turner Construction Co., Kokosing Industrial and SSOE Group are building a sustainable battery materials manufacturing plant for Ascend Elements, Turner announced Dec. 6. The Westborough, Mass.-based battery maker says it will spend $310 million on the facility’s first phase, and may invest as much as $1 billion over additional phases.
The plan calls for construction of a 500,000-sq-ft plant dubbed “Apex 1” on a 140-acre site in Hopkinsville, Ky. Matthew Bierschbach, business leader at Toledo, Ohio-based SSOE and project manager, said in a statement that the Turner-Kokosing team would begin grading the site this month. In the meantime, SSOE is continuing to work with Ascend Elements on the design.