The two-story Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics’ new Quality Control Laboratory and Administration Building is located at the company’s newly developed 167-acre campus in Holly Springs, N.C. Photo Courtesy BE&K Building Group Photo Courtesy BE&K Building Group Related Links: Best Of 2010 The building is a part of the nation’s first ever cell culture-derived influenza vaccines manufacturing complex, which will enable domestic production of cell culture-derived influenza vaccines. Production is anticipated to begin in 2012. Influenza cell culture vaccine production increases flexibility and provides for faster start-up of vaccine manufacturing than the traditional egg-based vaccine production. General contractor BE&K Building Group
The new $125-million, multidisciplinary Parker H. Petit Science Center in the heart of downtown Atlanta augments laboratory and classroom space to accommodate an expanding and changing curriculum. It also enhances the east side “science zone” of Georgia State University’s urban campus. Photo Courtesy Mccarthy Building Cos. Photo Courtesy Mccarthy Building Cos. Related Links: Best Of 2010 In addition to basic science teaching and research labs for the College of Arts and Sciences and Health and Human Services, the new science center is home to GSU’s research and education programs in biology, chemistry, nursing, nutrition and physical and respiratory therapies. The
Willson Hospice House, a new $13-million, 34,000-sq-ft facility designed by Perkins+Will, serves terminally ill patients in Albany, Ga., and the 210-acre campus provides an ecological oasis for the local community. Photo Courtesy Perkins + Will Related Links: Best Of 2010 The 15,000-sq-ft administrative component houses 50 home-care staff who travel to patients in the surrounding 11 counties, as well as educational and meeting space for volunteers. The rest of the facility contains three six-bed units and associated support areas for inpatients grouped around a family living/dining room, chapel, music room, playroom for active children, family kitchenette and sunroom. Construction began
The Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in downtown Tampa has become a signature facility for the city. The $13.5-million project was designed by Thomas Balsley Associates and RS&H. Photo Courtesy RS&H Photo Courtesy RS&H Related Links: Best Of 2010 The city replaced what was once the setting for an outdated art museum and turned it into a vibrant civic space. The park also connects the area’s two newest museums, the arts district and entertainment destinations. The city hired RS&H as project manager and Skanska USA Building to construct the park and the two new museums—the Tampa Museum of Art and Glazer
The Darden Restaurant Support Center, a 496,000-sq-ft corporate office headquarters in Orlando, provides space for the company’s 1,300 employees. It includes a broadcast area, testing and demonstration kitchens, fitness center, clinic, cafeteria and kitchen, conference center, data center and four-level, 1,050-space parking deck. Photo Courtesy Hardin Construction Photo Courtesy Hardin Construction Related Links: Best Of 2010 The project was designed to allow Darden employees to develop stronger working relationships and deliver higher levels of support to nearly 1,800 restaurants across North America. For instance, employees can easily move between floors using multiple staircases, widened to allow for impromptu conversations without
The East Carolina University – Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium East End Zone Expansion increases the capacity of the Greenville, N.C., sports facility by 7,000 seats and adds ground-level concessions, restrooms and handicap seating areas. Photo Courtesy Mid-Atlantic Construction Related Links: Best Of 2010 The original, older portions of stadium were constructed using a combination of structural steel and precast materials. The new, more innovative structure was built using all cast-in-place and precast concrete, which is intended to offer long-term savings in maintenance costs for the university. Mid-Atlantic Construction started the $2.83-million structural concrete package in January 2010 and finished it in August
Duke University’s $21-million East Campus Steam Plant is in an architecturally significant, historic building that was one of the original campus structures designed by the architectural firm of Horace Trumbauer. Photo Courtesy Balfour Beatty Construction Photo Courtesy Balfour Beatty Construction Related Links: Best Of 2010 The building was constructed at a cost of $440,000 during the unsteady financial times of the late 1920s. It sat unheated after being decommissioned about 30 years ago. The steam plant includes architectural features and touches uncommon for an industrial building. Cornices, decorative brickwork and recessed brick medallions with brick around inset square concrete panels
The $51.5-million, 64-acre Carolina First Campus in Greenville, S.C., rose on a former textile mill site that had undergone site remediation for a number of years to clean up toxins left behind by the old fiber manufacturing facility. Photo Courtesy The Harper Corp. Photo Courtesy The Harper Corp. Related Links: Best Of 2010 Carolina First Bank’s master plan for the site was to create a people’s park from which buildings spring as if organically one with the environment. In the center lies the public building of Carolina First Bank, the University Center and meeting spaces of the campus. While the
Editor’s Note: This page has been updated based on clarifications provided by Regenesis Power. Florida Gulf Coast University’s 2-megawatt single axis tracking solar photovoltaic array, built by Regenesis Power, is the first sun-tracking solar photovoltaic system installed in Florida. Photo Courtesy Kraft Construction Co. Related Links: Best Of 2010 An anemometer is set up onsite, and if it senses a wind speed of more than 40 mph for more than 15 seconds, a message is sent to the central controller to tell the array to store itself flat. In a flat position, the wind profile is substantially reduced. Regenesis began
Rarely do contractors have to deal with beluga whales, dolphins and other sea creatures while blasting or building, but the team building the $88-million Georgia Aquarium Dolphin Expansion project in Atlanta had to take steps to ensure the animals’ safety. Photo Courtesy Brasfield & Gorrie Photo Courtesy Brasfield & Gorrie Related Links: Best Of 2010 That attention to animal husbandry helped the project earn the “Judges Award” in Southeast Construction magazine’s annual Best of 2010 project-excellence competition. “They were able to build it and develop it with constraints of existing animals,” says David Kimmel, president and chief operating officer of
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