McKim & Creed, an engineering, surveying and planning firm with offices throughout the Southeast, announced that it has acquired a 31-person AECOM survey operation based in Texas, formerly known as SURVCON. The Texas group will operate under the name SURVCON, a Division of McKim & Creed. The acquisition allows McKim & Creed and SURVCON to bring innovative Geomatics technologies to clients in the transportation, energy and institutional industries, according to a company announcement. SURVCON’s operations were established in Houston during 1974 and provide surveying and aerial mapping services from offices in Houston, Austin, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Georgetown, Texas.
A four-year-old biomass energy firm, backed in part by contractor investment, is succeeding where dozens of others have failed—in building one of the largest U.S. biomass plants that will turn waste wood into energy. While the $500-million project has had to deal with the low cost of competitive energy sources and a skeptical public, the accessibility of usable "fuel" in one of the country's most densely forested regions and the project's successful link with a local utility have allowed it to proceed where similar ventures have stalled. The project's developer, Boston-based American Renewables, is prevailing against a weak economy, low
North Carolina's Dept. of Transportation pushed forward to meet the needs of state construction industry stakeholders and residents alike in 2011, thus earning ENR Southeast's designation as "Owner of the Year."
The Southeast's largest projects last year continued to fall within the same few construction categories as they did in 2010, according to the latest Top Starts ranking by ENR Southeast. Energy, health-care and public-sector market categories again were dominant. Related Links: The Southeast's Top Starts Ranking Only five of the 25 projects ranked on the list came from other categories. One of those, a retirement facility, could be considered health care-related.The power market generated the top three spots on this year's Top Starts ranking, with projects from utilities FPL and Progress Energy and from a four-year-old firm called American Renewables
HALLR. Randall Hall was named president of Batson-Cook Co., Atlanta, effective Jan. 1, 2012. Hall most recently served as senior vice president and general manager of the West Point, Ga.-based contractor's Atlanta division, where he was responsible for the Duke Energy Center project in Charlotte, N.C. Prior to that, Hall had served as senior vice president and general manager of the firm's West Point division. Raymond Moody, who had served as Batson-Cook's president for the past 16 years, will continue with the firm as chief executive officer. Steve Kufrovich has been hired by Choate Construction Co. in Atlanta as
DFW International Airport revealed plans for a new $175-milion Terminal A Parking facility, March 1. The Terminal A Parking structure is a new component of the Terminal Renewal and Improvement Program (TRIP), the seven-year $1.9 billion program which will renew DFW’s four original terminals.The 3-million-sq-ft, five-level parking facility, designed by Jacobs, falls under the scope of the BARC joint venture, which consists of Balfour Beatty Construction, Azteca Enterprises, H.J. Russell & Company, and CARCON Industries. With BARC serving as construction manager-at-risk, a general contractor will be selected to build the parking facility. The winning bidder should be announced within the
The value of new Florida construction contracts increased in all three broad categories during January, resulting in a 44% overall gain and more than $1.8 billion in new work, according to the latest figures from McGraw-Hill Construction. Related Links: Georgia Contracts Stumble 7% to Start the Year In North Carolina, Residential the Only Bright Spot for January Value of South Carolina Contracts Dives in January The two building categories both experienced notable increases. The nonresidential sector recorded a 58% gain compared to last January, tallying roughly $655.3 million in new contracts. Residential totaled $697.7 million in new contracts for the
Two of Georgia’s three construction sectors experienced positive gains in new contracts during January, but a significant decline in nonresidential work pushed the state’s overall total to a 7% decline compared to a year ago. Related Links: Florida Sees 44% Overall Gain in New Contracts to Start 2012 In North Carolina, Residential the Only Bright Spot for January Value of South Carolina Contracts Dives in January According to McGraw-Hill Construction, publisher of ENR, new residential construction contracts totaled $272 million for January, a 13% gain over the same period of a year ago. The nonbuilding category, which includes infrastructure contracts,
The residential construction category was the only sector in North Carolina to record positive gains in January, compared to a year ago, according to recent data from McGraw-Hill Construction. Related Links: Florida Sees 44% Overall Gain in New Contracts to Start 2012 Georgia Contracts Stumble 7% to Start the Year Value of South Carolina Contracts Dives in January The company estimated that the state’s housing sector recorded more than $439.9 million in new construction contracts during the month, for a 12% gain over the same period of a year ago.The news wasn’t good for the other two construction sectors, however.
As was the case with its neighbor to the north, South Carolina’s contract activity was notably negative in January, with only the residential sector providing positive gains, according to the latest information from McGraw-Hill Construction. Related Links: Florida Sees 44% Overall Gain in New Contracts to Start 2012 Georgia Contracts Stumble 7% to Start the Year In North Carolina, Residential the Only Bright Spot for January On the positive side, the state’s residential construction category recorded nearly $248.6 million in new contracts during the month, for a 21% overall improvement compared to a year ago.But that wasn’t nearly enough to
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