The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded Grunley Construction Co. of Rockville, Md., the $57-million Phase 1B Adaptive Reuse contract as part of the consolidation of the Dept. of Homeland Security at the St. Elizabeths Hospital site in Washington, D.C.
A year ago, signs of the construction market’s collapse were as clear as a crisp autumn day – backlogs were drying up, revenues were swept away, sputtering projects went dormant, and new work was nowhere on the bare landscape.
The construction of a new $10-billion nuclear reactor in Maryland seem to be dead after Constellation Energy told the Dept. of Energy that it is no longer interested in negotiating a federal loan guarantee to support the project.
In an announcement that could jump-start offshore wind development along the Atlantic seaboard, Google and investment firms Good Energies, New York, and Marubeni Corp., Tokyo, said Oct. 12 that they are backing the development of a 350-mile underwater high-voltage DC transmission line from of Northern New Jersey to Norfolk, Va.
BE&K Building Group, a subsidiary of KBR, is working as construction manager for the initial phase of DuPont’s planned expansion of its suburban campus in Wilmington, Del.
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., nbj Architecture, and WDG Architecture were selected as the design-build team for the West Grace Street Student Housing and Laurel Parking Deck projects at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. The West Grace Student Housing community will have 122 dwelling units with 459 beds, totaling 162,000 sq ft. The 212-space, 98,675-sq-ft parking deck will feature 6,360 sq ft of retail space. The project will be designed to meet LEED-NC Silver standards.
The Baltimore district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded Forrester Construction Co. of Rockville, Md., a $25-million contract to build the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command Headquarters and Dental Clinic at Fort Belvoir. Construction will include the administrative building, standby generator, and building information systems. The architect is HDR Architecture of Alexandria, Va. Completion is scheduled for September 2011.
Cianbro Construction’s Baltimore office has been awarded a $17.2-million contract to repair a 1.5-mi. section of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal near Hagerstown, Md., that is now used primarily for hiking and biking within the C&O Canal National Historic Park. The project—funded via ARRA funds—includes tree removal, jet grouting, drilled pier installation, caisson drilling, and placement of precast deck and face panels. A large portion of the work must take place from barges anchored offshore on the Potomac River.
The Naval Facilities Engineering Command has awarded a $40.5-million design-build contract to the joint venture Walbridge-Brasfield & Gorrie for construction of the Main Exchange replacement at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. The project entails design and construction of a two-story main exchange and an elevated parking deck. The project is expected to be completed by June 2012.