With just eight months to construct the facility and thereby maintain the owner’s production schedule, Balfour Beatty Construction held nearly constant meetings with the owner, architect, engineer and subcontractors to ensure the facility was completed within the time line.
Northern Arizona University’s $55-million Science and Health Building replacement facility in Flagstaff features laboratories, classrooms, faculty offices, lecture halls and a pedestrian bridge.
While overall employment in the southwest saw little growth in May, the construction industries in Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada joined 13 other states that all posted month-over-month and year-over-year employment gains in the sector.
Replacing a structurally deficient bridge in a remote corner of the north central Arizona wilderness challenged engineers and crews who used the older bridge to help build the new structure, employed close-proximity blasting and custom-crafted access for cranes and other heavy machinery.
Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico joined 28 other states and Washington, D.C. that all experienced construction job losses or stagnation between March and April.
