A construction worker was killed in the early morning hours of May 3 when a vehicle crashed into a work zone on Interstate 40 in Wake County, North Carolina.
Semiconductor company, which produces technology used in electric vehicles, 5G networks and renewable energy and storage, is building a new plant in its home state and a research facility with North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
Workplaces are changing, and in the case of medical genetic testing company Invitae, that meant taking 125,000 sq ft of a former outlet mall built in 1981 and transforming it into an advanced, high-performance laboratory and office space.
As soon as BE&K completed a 90,000-sq-ft campus for flu vaccine manufacturer Seqirus, it turned its sights to expanding Seqirus’ existing warehouse space by 48,000 square feet, including 12,000 square feet of pharmaceutical-grade vaccine cold storage—the largest in the country.
With ample public work and an influx of people and jobs, the industry is faring well in Raleigh, even as subcontractors struggle to keep up with the volume.
BE&K Building Group led an interior upfit that transformed a 30-year-old, one-story shell space into a cutting-edge BSL-2 laboratory and biomanufacturing suite.