PROJECT COST: $164.6 million Image Courtesy BE&K North County Resource Recovery Plant Refurbishment Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County, Fla., hired BE&K, a division of KBR, to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for the refurbishment of its North County waste-to-energy resource recovery facility. The North County Resource Recovery Plant, located in West Palm Beach, is a two-boiler waste-to-energy facility burning 1,800 tons per day of municipal solid waste, located on Jog Road in West Palm Beach, Fla. The steam produced from the combustion of the refuse is used to power
PROJECT COST: $137.4 million Image Courtesy The LPA Group Triangle Parkway Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The $137.4-million Triangle Parkway, running through Durham and Wake counties, is one of two projects making up the Triangle Expressway, North Carolina�s first modern toll road, employing all-electronic tolling. Design-build contractor S.T. Wooten Corp. of Wilson, N.C., began work on the 3.4-mi long, six-lane project in September 2009 and expects to complete it in July 2012. Scope of work includes building eight new bridges, seven box culverts and needed retaining walls; grading; installing storm drainage systems; completing water and sewer work; adding
PROJECT COST: $183 million Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The initial, $183-million phase of the Wallace Creek Regimental Complex at the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., will provide a new home for four battalions and is being built as part of the Marines� Grow the Force initiative. Caddell Yates Joint Venture, a partnership between Caddell Construction of Montgomery, Ala., and W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Co. of Philadelphia, Miss., received the design-build contract in September 2008 from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic District. The project, on an undeveloped parcel at the base, broke ground in February
PROJECT COST: $446 million Image Courtesy Mulkey Engineers & Consultants Western Wake Freeway Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts Raleigh-Durham Roadbuilders, a joint venture of Archer Western Contractors of Atlanta and Granite Construction Co. of Watsonville, Calif., was hired by the North Carolina Turnpike Authority to construct the $446-million Western Wake Freeway, a section of the $1-billion Triangle Expressway. The lead designer on the project is the LPA Group of Raleigh, N.C. Mulkey Engineers & Consultants of Cary, N.C., is providing CEI services. Financing for the project will be provided by a combination of toll revenue bonds, state appropriation
PROJECT COST: $114 million Photo Courtesy White Construction Blackwater River Correctional Facility Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The $114-million Blackwater River Correctional Facility in Santa Rosa County in Florida�s Panhandle broke ground in March 2009 and is expected to become operational later this year. The Geo Group of Boca Raton, Fla., under contract with the Florida Dept. of Management Services, designed, built and will operate for $30 million annually the 400,000-sq-ft, 2,000-bed correctional facility, which will house medium- and close-custody adult male inmates. The state has guaranteed a minimum occupancy of 90%. The prison is expected to employ
PROJECT COST: $360 million Image Courtesy BE&K Building Group Duke Medicine Pavilion and Clinical Cancer Center Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts Duke Medicine of Durham, N.C., awarded BE&K Building Group of Charlotte, N.C., a contract to provide preconstruction and construction services for the 630,000-sq-ft Duke Medicine Pavilion, a major hospital addition, the 267,000 sq-ft Clinical Cancer Center as well as associated enabling projects. The project�s construction is valued at approximately $360 million. Duke Medicine integrates the Duke University Health System, the Duke University School of Medicine and the Duke University School of Nursing. The pavilion is an expansion
PROJECT COST: $479 million Cane Island Power Park Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The addition of the fourth, $479-million power-generating unit at the Cane Island Power Park near Intercession City in Osceola County, Fla., will produce 300 megawatts of electricity for the Florida Municipal Power Agency of Orlando, which provides power to approximately 2 million citizens throughout the state. Officials estimate that FMPA customers� demand for power will increase more than 38% during the next 20 years. The new unit will provide enough electricity to serve 60,000 homes. Engineering, procurement and construction contractor Zachry Industrial of San Antonio,
PROJECT COST: $120 million Image Courtesy Turner Construction Co. Harrah�s Cherokee Casino and Hotel Tower III Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts Despite the current state of the economy, there appears to be little slowdown in Cherokee, N.C., where the Eastern Band of Cherokees is investing $633 million in its hospitality and gaming properties. One of the biggest pieces of Harrah�s Cherokee Casino and Hotel�s expansion plans is the Hotel Tower III project, with a construction cost of $120 million. Turner Construction Co. of Charlotte, N.C., working as construction manager-at-risk, is overseeing the construction of the 21-story, 532-room luxury
PROJECT COST: $183 million Biomass Cogeneration Facility Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The U.S. Dept. of Energy estimates the $183-million Biomass Cogeneration Facility at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., will save about $35 million annually in energy, operations and maintenance costs while reducing air emissions. The plant, which replaces an existing 1950s-era coal and oil-fired plant, broke ground in November. The DOE contracted with Ameresco Federal Solutions, a privately owned energy services company based in Framingham, Mass., to finance, design, construct, operate, maintain and fuel the new biomass facility for 20 years. The contract is valued
PROJECT COST: $1.2 billion Photo: Image Courtesy RS&H Interstate 595 Corridor Improvements Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts Concessionaire I-595 Express is leading the largest public-private partnership�and the biggest contract overall�in the history of the Florida Dept. of Transportation: the Interstate-595 Corridor Improvement Project in Broward County. The concessionaire�s design-build-finance-operate-maintain contract totals nearly $1.8 billion, with design and construction costs estimated at $1.2 billion. The successful bidder for the concession was ACS Infrastructure Development, the U.S. subsidiary of Group ACS in Spain. ACS formed I-595 Express to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the 10.5-mi stretch of I-595 for
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