In the jobsite trailer for the $121-million renovation and expansion of the University of Virginia’s Alderman Library, Skanska project executive John Calvin points to copies of 1937 construction photos showing the 100,000-sq-ft horseshoe-shaped structure being carved into a hillside below the school’s historic Rotunda and Academical Village.
Construction will wrap at the end of September on a $35-million renovation and expansion of Second Line Stages, a film and TV production facility in the heart of New Orleans, and those involved say effective communication and collaboration played an important role in the speed of this design-build project.
The abandoned former Cook County Hospital building was a wreck. “The term ‘fully depreciated’ was an understatement,” says Kenneth Johnston, senior project manager with Walsh Construction.