The North Carolina DOT’s design-build totals soon will increase to more than 110 projects, with a value of close to $6 billion. That includes the 2.7-mile Bonner Bridge replacement, delayed for four years by lawsuits.
What’s so special about a concrete piling? For North Carolina’s Outer Banks, it means quite a bit, especially when it’s the first of many to support a new bridge.
With wind turbine projects in 18 states, renewable energy developer Iberdrola has experienced a wide spectrum of site conditions, but those at its $400-million, 208-MW Amazon Wind Farm US East project are unlike anything the firm has ever encountered.
By a roughly two-to-one margin, North Carolina voters on March 15 approved a $2-billion bond package that will fund improvements to public buildings and civil infrastructure systems across the state.
Public owners, anticipating passage of the $2-billion NC Connect bond measure, are making preparations to move forward on planned projects, says Jill Wells Heath.
The North Carolina Dept. of Environmental Quality has proposed classifications for 32 coal-ash impoundments at 14 powerplant sites owned by Duke Energy.
In renovating an historic, nearly 90-year-old tobacco company building in downtown Durham, N.C., into a first-class research facility for the Duke University School of Medicine, LeChase Construction converted a former warehouse structure into Class A office and laboratory space for developer Longfellow Real Estate Partners and Health Care Property.
The state of North Carolina’s first major municipal design-build project, the McAlpine Creek Water Wastewater Management Facility, is Charlotte Water’s largest, with a treatment capacity of 64 million gallons per day (MGD).
In 2013, Herbalife began the design-build renovation of a 790,000-sq-ft existing structure in Winston-Salem, N.C., transforming it into the Herbalife Innovation and Manufacturing (HIM) facility.