A team led by Edgemoor Infrastructure and Real Estate, Bethesda, Md., on Sept. 6 won the recommendation of the City Council selection committee of Kansas City as the developer and designer of a $1-billion, single-terminal redevelopment of Kansas City International Airport.
Our Best Project winners include a skyscraper built on top of an active rail line near the Chicago River, several innovative office buildings, the meticulous restoration of a state capitol building, multiple rail projects that brought service to underserved downtowns in large cities, one of the largest LEED-platinum corporate offices in the U.S., retrofits to aging coal-fired electrical plants that brought them into modern environmental compliance and some healthcare projects that put patients first.
A data center owner plans to use a site above the Arctic circle to take advantage of ambient chill for cooling and an abundance of locally produced hydroelectric power to neutralize carbon loading.
Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer Foxconn announced that it plans to build a flat panel LCD monitor production facility as large as 20 million sq ft at an undisclosed southeast Wisconsin location.
A $429-million highway job in Ohio to bypass the southern city of Portsmouth and speed driving time between Cincinnati and Columbus by late 2018 is the state’s largest road project and its first as a public-private partnership.
The Commerce Dept. announced July 21 that an investigation has found steel concrete reinforcing bar from Taiwan is being sold in the U.S. market at unfair, below-market prices.
ODOT’s largest project ever, and its first P3, are nearing completion as the state looks at a 35-year maintenance period for its P3 partner before the road is handed back.