Flooding and other building damage from Superstorm Sandy in 2012 is a distant memory following capital improvements that included a 10-story addition, interior renovations, resilient power systems and a new 4-ft-high floodwall.
The Weitz Company, in a joint venture with Turner Construction, will lead construction of Phase 1A of the project to replace the existing terminal at Des Moines International Airport.
The new home of Drexel’s College of Medicine and the College of Nursing and Health Professionals totals 12 stories—with a MEP penthouse that spans two more levels—and totals 494,688 sq ft. Inside are 178,500 sq ft of classroom space, 98,700 sq ft of office/support space and 87,000 sq ft of lab/simulation space.
Located on Pittsburgh’s historic “Automobile Row,” where Model Ts were assembled, sold and serviced, the vacant Ford Motor plant was repurposed into a research facility.
Construction Inclusion Week, set for Oct. 16-20, has more than 5,000 contractor and other participants signed up this year; while leaders on Oct. 3 launched AEC Unites, a nonprofit focused on recruitment of Black professionals and sustained hiring of Black-owned companies.