Related Links: Non-Residential Market Continues to Suffer in 2010 Stimulus Dollars Drive Megaprojects in the Mid-Atlantic Clark Starts $229 Million Medical Research Project at Aberdeen Forrester Keeps Active in K-12 Clark Breaks Ground on Virginia Tech Research Facility Bozzuto Moves Ahead on $40 Million Mixed-Use Development Daniel J. Keating Lands Three Eastern Penn Projects J.J. DeLuca Starts Four Pa. Projects Holder Starts $56 Million School HAMPTON, VA—Heery International of Washington, D.C., was awarded its second U.S. Air Force Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC), for the complete renovation of Langley Air Force Base’s Hospital to an outpatient clinic. Located in
Related Links: Non-Residential Market Continues to Suffer in 2010 Stimulus Dollars Drive Megaprojects in the Mid-Atlantic Clark Starts $229 Million Medical Research Project at Aberdeen Forrester Keeps Active in K-12 Heery Lands $44 Million MATOC Clark Breaks Ground on Virginia Tech Research Facility Bozzuto Moves Ahead on $40 Million Mixed-Use Development Daniel J. Keating Lands Three Eastern Penn Projects J.J. DeLuca Starts Four Pa. Projects SALISBURY, MD—Holder Construction of Atlanta broke ground on the new $56 million Perdue School of Business at Salisbury University in September. The 112,800-sq-ft facility will house a 200-seat auditorium, laboratories, 20 classrooms and a student
After years of gaining strength, the health-care sector took a dramatic pause this year as credit tightened, the economy softened and national debate over health-care reform created uncertainty on the horizon. Skanska USA Building is working on the $53-million Carilion Clinic, which features an imaging department with MRIs and CT scanners, diagnostics, nuclear medicine and 208 patient/exam rooms. Clark Construction Group and Balfour Beatty Construction are working on the $641.4-million Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Nationally, McGraw-Hill Construction research shows that health-care project starts dropped 36% from 110 million sq ft of new construction in 2008 to 70 million
New York State Dept. of Transportation officials swiftly are preparing design concepts for a new crossing to replace the Crown Point Bridge, abruptly closed in October due to unexpectedly high levels of pier deterioration. Meanwhile, contractors are racing to build temporary vehicular ferry-terminal facilities at Lake Champlain between New York and Vermont as a stopgap measure. Photo: AP/Wideworld New York-Vermont crossing was shut down abruptly on Oct. 16 after inspectors found unexpectedly severe pier deterioration, possibly due to ice pressure. + Image NYSDOT, in conjunction with the Vermont Agency of Transportation, on Oct. 16 shut down the 80-year-old, 2,184-ft-long steel
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is in the beginning stages of a $72 million plan to expand the Syracuse VA Medical Center Spinal Cord Injury/Disease Center in Syracuse, New York which will include the addition of more than 160,000 sq ft to the medical center as well as extensive renovations to the existing facilities. Image: Clark Construction Group, LLC The $72 million plan to expand the Syracuse VA Medical Center Spinal Cord Injury/Disease Center will include the addition of more than 160,000 sq ft as well as extensive renovations to the existing facilities. The centerpiece of the project, the
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Board of Commissioners recently authorized more that $340 million worth of contracts to help replace antiquated mechanical train controls on the 101-year-old system with state-of-the-art, computerized signals. The overall signal project which consists of replacing the signals throughout the PATH line’s 43 track miles and 13 stations, while the new communications equipment will also be installed inside 130 of the new PATH railcars that have an operating engineer’s cab is expected to cost $580 million and is a major part of the Port Authority’s $3.3 billion plan to modernize the entire
The 76-story Beekman Tower topped out today in Lower Manhattan, just months after developer Forest City Ratner stopped work on the site and threatened to cap the structure at 40 stories because of high project costs. Photo: Staff The 1.1-million-sq-ft Beekman Tower is one of the earliest success stories of New York City's Recovery PLA. The Frank Gehry-designed residential high-rise is a major victory for New York City’s Construction Industry Partnership (CIP), which, in May, agreed on a project labor agreement designed to keep troubled projects moving during the recession. Beekman Tower, helmed by construction manager Kriesler Borg Florman, Scarsdale,
New York City-based Structure Tone is banking on a boost to its institutional and base-building capabilities in acquiring L.F. Driscoll Co., a major construction-management-at-risk firm in metropolitan Philadelphia. The deal, announced Nov. 16, allows Structure Tone to leverage Driscoll's experience in healthcare, higher education and high-rise base building. Photo: L.F. Driscoll Co. Philadelphia contractor built city's landmark Comcast Center Financial details of the deal, which combines two major construction contractors and two of the nation’s largest privately-held CM-at-risk firms, were not disclosed. Structure Tone ranks 6th on ENR’s list of the Top 50 CM-at-risk firms; Driscoll ranks 37th. Structure Tone
Dia Art Foundation is having a homecoming. On November 6 the nonprofit organization announced it will construct an exhibition space at 545 West 22nd Street, just steps from a facility it shuttered five years ago. Currently Dia�s staff and board are writing a program for the new building. Its director, Philippe Vergne, says architect selection should take place within several months. The site of Dia�s future home in Chelsea. Dia was established in 1974 to support large-scale, site-specific art, such as installations by Donald Judd and John Chamberlain in Marfa, Texas, and Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field in New
After nearly three years of deliberation and modifications, a project by Foster + Partners at 980 Madison Ave on New York’s Upper East Side has received approval from the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. For 980 Madison Avenue, the developer initially wanted to add a pair of intersecting towers to the building. In May 2008, a revamped scheme was proposed that featured a five-story addition with a screen made of bronze-colored rods. The scheme that finally was approved is smaller and lighter. “Although it's taken a long time, we believe we've found a positive way to embrace the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s comments that
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