The State Dept. has awarded BL Harbert International LLC, Birmingham, Ala., a $153.5-million design-build contract to renovate the U.S. embassy in Amman, Jordan.
The State Dept.’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, or OBO, said it also has selected Skidmore, Owings & Merrill as design architect for a new U.S. embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Ennead Architects to design an embassy project in Ankara, Turkey. Both firms are headquartered in New York City.