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
The $138-million Johns Creek Environmental Campus on the Chattahoochee River in Roswell, Ga., employs membrane-bioreactor technology to treat wastewater to levels suitable for reuse water distribution.
The $9.7-million Live Oak Public Library Southwest Branch building in Savannah contains story and activity rooms for children, a Friends of the Library store, youth rooms with interactive media, a library specifically for the blind, study rooms, two computer rooms and various adult collections areas. Photo Courtesy Choate Construction Co. Related Links: Best Of 2010 Choate Construction Co. began the project on a Savannah Mall outparcel in April 2008 and finished it in September 2009, two months ahead of schedule. The owner accepted 53 cost-saving alternatives suggested by Choate, which reduced the cost by $1.4 million and brought it within
The $185.5-million W Hotel and Residences in Miami Beach, a high-end, 816-unit condo-hotel project, features more than 20 unit types and layouts, each with different design challenges and coordination obstacles. Photo Courtesy KM/Plaza Photo Courtesy KM/Plaza Related Links: Best Of 2010 The project team delivered the job on time in June. The project is designed to mirror the vibrancy of the South Beach life where people go to see and be seen. Traditional boundaries of interior and exterior architecture are dissolved to engage the energy and light. Guest rooms are staggered in a herringbone design to provide guests with unsurpassed
The new $145-million Mobile Launch Platform at Kennedy Space Center will serve the next generation of manned space flight under the Constellation space exploration program. It will be used for assembly, testing and servicing areas at existing space center facilities; to transport the Ares I rocket to launch pad; and to provide ground support for launches. Photo Courtesy Hensel Phelps Construction Co. Related Links: Best Of 2010 The tower of the mobile launcher is 405 ft tall and weighs 6.8 million lbs. Constructing a mobile launch platform with a main support structure, including a base, tower and facility ground systems,
The $25.7-million BB&T Ballpark in Winston-Salem, N.C., incorporates major-league finishes in a minor-league setting, creating a model for baseball parks in the Southeast. Photo Courtesy Samet Corp. Photo Courtesy Samet Corp. Related Links: Best Of 2010 The 50,000-sq-ft ballpark includes 5,000 fixed seats and 1,500 seats available in picnic and grass berm areas, a press box, premium suites, a private club and restaurant, group sales seating areas, concessions, team store and commissary kitchen. There also are home and visitor locker rooms, clubhouse and training facilities, support spaces, team and administrative offices and a box office. Designed by CJMW Architecture and
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