DeAngelis Diamond Construction of Naples was awarded the Pollywog Creek Commons, Phase I and II, in Labelle. The 64-unit apartment community will include a clubhouse, maintenance building and recreation shelter. Related Links: May Contracts: Nonbuilding Sector Soars Again Santiago Calatrava to Design USF Polytechnic Campus Morganti Completes Key West International Airport Terminal Conservancy of Southwest Florida Breaks Ground on $17M Campus Renovation Owen-Ames-Kimball Co. Wins FGCU Arts College Project Stellar Development Selected to Construct Manatee School for the Arts J.L. Wallace Building Affordable Housing in Immokalee Hawkins Constructing Emergency Services Complex in Clay Co. Edwards Lands Marion County School Projects
Ocala-based Edwards Construction Services was awarded two new projects with the School Board of Marion County. The projects include a construction management contract for 10 new classrooms at Romeo Elementary School and 12 classrooms at Evergreen Elementary School. Related Links: May Contracts: Nonbuilding Sector Soars Again Santiago Calatrava to Design USF Polytechnic Campus Morganti Completes Key West International Airport Terminal Conservancy of Southwest Florida Breaks Ground on $17M Campus Renovation Owen-Ames-Kimball Co. Wins FGCU Arts College Project Stellar Development Selected to Construct Manatee School for the Arts DeAngelis Diamond to Build Pollywog Creek Commons J.L. Wallace Building Affordable Housing in
The Georgia Concrete and Products Association was named the national award recipient among trade associations for environmental performance by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The group was nominated for the award by the Georgia Small Business Environmental Assistance Program of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division. Related Links: Value of Georgia’s May Contracts Slides 56% Cobb Co. Airport Project Named Project of the Year Griffin Tops Out Gwinnett Physicians Center Batson-Cook Completes National Infantry Museum The GC&PA represents ready-mixed concrete producers in Georgia, as well as manufacturers of cement-based products such as masonry block and paver products. Highlights of GC&PA’s environmental
May was another terrible month for new contracts in the state of Georgia, according to the latest information from McGraw-Hill Construction, publisher of Southeast Construction. The company reported that the overall value of new Georgia contracts signed in May for future construction fell 56% compared to the same period of a year ago. That was on par with the previous month, when new contracts slid 57%. The total value of new contracts for the month was $842.5 million, compared to last May’s total of more than $1.9 billion. Related Links: Cobb Co. Airport Project Named Project of the Year Griffin
Industry Briefs August 2009 Federal Court Consolidates Chinese Drywall Cases A Multi-District Litigation Panel is moving forward on plans for consolidating thousands of Chinese drywall lawsuits throughout the United States. On June 15, the MDL selected the Eastern District of Louisiana Federal United States District Court in New Orleans to oversee the cases. An estimated 100,000 cases from across the nation are expected to be consolidated for pretrial matters and discovery in the drywall litigation that has impacted homeowners throughout the country. Florida is expected to have 35,000 cases filed within the next year regarding this problem. “This is the
Here, the columnist discusses the wide-ranging impacts that can be felt by numerous parties once a developer of a condominium project starts to enter into bankruptcy. MORMAN Today’s distressed real estate market does not discriminate when it comes to claiming victims. A particularly onerous situation occurs when a condominium developer becomes insolvent and is unable to pay its bills. This causes a wave of financial impact that can adversely affect mortgage lenders, contractors and their subs, buyers under contract and unit owners. Often, the worst situation arises when a lender forecloses and the developer fails to file for bankruptcy. The
At the end of 2008, when the nation’s financial system seemed on the verge of a complete meltdown, the outlook for 2009 construction activity certainly was not a rosy picture. In the 2009 Outlook that Southeast Construction published in January, McGraw-Hill Construction economists Robert Murray and Jennifer Coskren used phrases like “clearly in retrenchment,” “this bodes particularly poorly” and “less than upbeat” to describe what awaited contractors in the then-coming year. Related Links: Tampa Report: No Recovery in the Private Market, but Public Sector Offers Hope BILL PINTO Even so, at the time, McGraw-Hill Construction predicted only a 6% decline,
The new Tampa Museum of Art and related improvements to adjoining parks and gardens is expected to breathe new life into downtown. “That is going to be a jewel,” says Frank Cardinal, senior vice president and account manager with Skanska USA Building in Tampa, which is working on the museum and related components. This rendering of the new Tampa Museum of Art shows how the architect, Stanley Saitowitz of San Francisco, raised the gallery areas and created the illusion that the building is "floating above the water." Related Links: Tampa Report: No Recovery in the Private Market, but Public Sector
Competition for projects in the four-state Southeast Construction region has been at an intense level throughout 2009, as an increasing number of building contractors find themselves chasing a declining number of new contracts, hoping to build a backlog during this historic downturn. Photo: Sam Barnes State transportation agencies across the four-state region report receiving bids that are often well below the initial engineering estimates, giving them more bang for their stimulus bucks. Related Links: 2009 Midyear Outlook: Worse Than Expected As the residential and commercial markets continue their declines, contractors operating in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina have
The board of Tampa Bay Water has approved an estimated $125-million repair program for the agency’s four-year-old, 15.5-billion-gallon C.W. “Bill” Young Regional Reservoir. The facility, which cost roughly $140 million to construct originally, has been experiencing significant cracking since late 2006. The authority is also moving ahead with a lawsuit against the three lead members of the original project team: HDR of Omaha, Neb., the designer; Barnard Construction of Bozeman, Mont., the contractor; and construction manager Construction Dynamics Group of Columbia, Md. Related Links: Tampa Report: No Recovery in the Private Market, but Public Sector Offers Hope Tampa Bay Water
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