Gains in housing and infrastructure barely overcame a 55% decline in nonresidential construction contracts for a 2% overall increase in new South Carolina projects for October, according to McGraw-Hill Construction. In all, the company estimated that approximately $540.7 million in new construction contracts moved ahead during the month. Photo courtesy Dept. of Energy's Savannah River Site Aerial photo of Mixed-Oxide Fuel Fabrication project at Savannah River Site, near Aiken, S.C. Related Links: Residential Contracts Continue to Fuel Florida Rebound Southeast 2013: Rebound to Continue The nonresidential category’s dramatic decline represented just $63.25 million in new contracts. On the positive side,
Steep declines in the value of new nonresidential and infrastructure construction projects caused the overall value of new Georgia contracts to drop 67% in October, according to McGraw-Hill Construction. The company estimated Georgia construction contracts totaled roughly $865.3 million for the month. Image courtesy Roger B. Kennedy Inc. Roger B. Kennedy of Orlando is building a $13-million student housing facility at the University of Georgia in Athens. Related Links: Residential Contracts Continue to Fuel Florida Rebound Southeast 2013: Rebound to Continue Nonresidential contracts tallied approximately $365.7 million during October, or 50% lower than the same period of a year ago.
An aging hospital in Fort Hood, Texas, is being honorably discharged. The 47-year-old Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center was initially designed to support 17,000 troops; today, it serves 45,414 active personnel and 125,000 family members and retirees. The 70-year-old, 340-sq-mile military base midway between Austin and Waco is the state's largest single site employer. Related Links: Engineering News Record Despite several upgrades, including a $49-million expansion that doubled its size in 1984, the medical center has been unable to keep pace with Fort Hood's growing health care demands. Each day, Darnall delivers seven babies, fills 4,500 prescriptions and has
Featuring the world's largest drainage pump station and the largest navigable floodgate in the U.S., the $1-billion Gulf Intracoastal Waterway West Closure Complex is a critical part of the Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System that will provide the New Orleans area with 100-year-event flood protection.
Woodward Design+Build completed the Marine Corps Support Facility in July 2011. This was the first phase and anchor project for a first-of-its-kind government cam- pus in New Orleans.
Robins & Morton completed the 623,260-sq-ft University Medical Center of El Paso, the only nonprofit, community-owned hospital in the area, in June 2012.
The University of Texas at Austin School of Law turned to Satterfield & Pontikes Construction to complete the five-phase renovation project for the 35-year-old Jesse H. Jones Hall.
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas is a 180,000-sq-ft, 170-ft tall building that features a precast concrete facade made up of more than 700 unique gray precast concrete panels that cover the museum's tower, atrium and plinth.
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