For electric vehicle technology manufacturer Proterra’s facility to assemble large batteries, Harper General Contractors returned to a tilt-wall warehouse shell it constructed for the company in 2019 to make improvements including an enclosure for the battery production line, dedicated chiller, research and development labs, Class A employee spaces and more.
Harper General Contractors brought its ingenuity and creativity to bear in the $28.4-million effort to modernize the nearly 100-year-old RB Simms Water Treatment Facility in Chesnee, S.C.
Specialty contractors are seeing a market steering back toward normal following the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic, and while inflation and other storm clouds linger, 2022 was a sunny year in the Southeast for most.
Contractors grew revenue in 2022, buoyed by rising populations and favorable business climates amid labor and materials shortages and rising interest rates
Contractors working in the Southeast continued to enjoy rising revenue in a hot market in 2022. And even as some see the momentum of recent years starting to cool a bit, activity remains high.
Southeastern design firms stayed busy and grew revenue in 2022, and as they look to the future, they expect to maintain that momentum as people continue to move to Southeastern metro areas and federal dollars support infrastructure investment.
State and federal tax credits drew Japan-based Envision AESC's $810-million EV battery plant and lured Pomega Energy Storage of Turkey to site a $279-million utility-scale lithium-ion and storage module facility.