POTOMAC, MD—Oak Contracting of Towson, Md., was selected by Montgomery County Schools in February as construction manager for the $40-million Herbert Hoover Middle School project. The school will remain occupied during the modernization and the project is being phased. The design phase is expected to continue through early 2011, at which time it will go out to bid. Related Links: More Stimulus Ahead JBG to Develop $200 Million National Cancer Institute Whiting Turner to Build $107-Million Law Center Gilbane Manages Eisenhower Memorial Project Branch & Associates Breaks Ground on Liberty Stadium Tishman, AECOM Win CM contract for DHS Headquarters Turner
More than a year after the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was passed, significant amounts of work are still hitting the street in the Mid-Atlantic region. All states met the federally-imposed March 2, 2010 deadline to obligate all ARRA highway funds, however some states have been faster to award contracts. Pennsylvania was one of the first in the nation to obligate its funds and the vast majority of projects are underway. Meanwhile, Virginia was the last state to begin awarding projects and now has a significant number of projects to award. As of the Feb. 17 anniversary of the signing
BALTIMORE, MD—The University of Baltimore is planning to build the $107-million John and Frances Angelos Law Center. The 12-story, 190,000-sq-ft building, containing both offices, classrooms and law clinics, will serve 1,100 students. It was designed by Ayers/Saint/Gross of Baltimore and Behnisch Arzchitekten of Stuttgart, Germany. Whiting Turner Contractors of Baltimore holds the construction management contract and will break ground in June. It will be built on a triangular lot at the corner of Charles Street and Mount Royal Avenue. Completion is scheduled for July 2012. Whiting Turner will build the $107-million 12-story, 190,000-sq-ft John and Frances Angelos Law Center at
WASHINGTON, DC—Turner Construction of Arlington, Va., was awarded a $73-million contract by the General Services Administration in January for the renovation of Federal Office Building 8 in Washington, D.C. The 547,000-sq-ft 1960s-era laboratory building will be transformed to Class A office space. Upon completion in October 2012, the project will seek LEED Gold certification. The renovation, designed by Boggs & Partners of Annapolis, Md., will add natural daylighting, employ the use of energy and water-efficient fixtures and low-VOC materials. The renovation will feature the addition of two atriums, glass curtain walls on each end of the building and projected window
WASHINGTON, DC—CH2M HILL was awarded two new task orders in the Mid-Atlantic on its five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for transit program management oversight on Federal Transit Administration projects. The firm’s first task order supports FTA headquarters in Washington, D.C., and involves performing transit reviews of various project planning and studies. The second task order supports FTA Region 3, Philadelphia, and involves program management services for the Hampton Roads transit light rail project in Norfolk, Va. Related Links: More Stimulus Ahead JBG to Develop $200 Million National Cancer Institute Whiting Turner to Build $107-Million Law Center Gilbane Manages Eisenhower Memorial
Firms looking to boost sagging bottom lines and gain more-robust public-sector construction markets generated a record attendance of more than 550 at this year�s federal and military workload briefings, sponsored by the Society of American Military Engineers on March 18 in Alexandria, Va. Traditional pockets of �milcon� work�such as in base closure and housing�are winding down, officials said. But overseas expansion and new initiatives in energy conservation and facility �quality of life� upgrades are boosting work for the short term, just as new conference attendees were boosting their profiles. Photo: Bruce Buckley / ENR DOD service chiefs outline milcon budgets
While President Obama signed the health-care reform legislation into law at a jubilant White House ceremony on March 23, grim-faced Republicans geared up for a battle in the Senate over a "reconciliation" package that amends the bill just signed into law. Riding with that reconciliation measure is the fate of a provision that has divided the construction industry. That provision, sponsored by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), was in the Senate-passed version of the bill and thus is now law. It requires construction companies with more than five full-time employees and a payroll of $250,000 or more to offer health-care coverage
The District of Columbia kicked off 2010 with a healthy uptick in the value of new construction contracts, according to McGraw-Hill Construction, publisher of Mid-Atlantic Construction. A surge in the nonresidential sector helped the region’s overall total for January contracts to improve significantly, compared to the same period of a year ago. The District’s nonresidential sector totaled more than $89 million in January contracts, or 86% ahead of the $48 million reported a year ago. January’s residential contracts totaled nearly $6.2 million, ahead of the $2.3 million of a year ago. McGraw-Hill Construction reported that no new nonbuilding contracts moved
The value of new Delaware construction contracts signed in January for future construction increased dramatically compared to the same period of a year ago, McGraw-Hill Construction reported. According to the company, publisher of Mid-Atlantic Construction, approximately $235.7 million in new contracts moved forward during the month, or about five times the year-ago total of about $47.9 million. All three sectors showed significant increases. The nonresidential sector contributed the most to the state’s overall improvement. This category soared from the $29.4 million of a year ago to total nearly $182.8 million for the most recent month. January’s residential contracts also showed
The state of Maryland experienced extreme ups and downs during January in the three construction categories reported by McGraw-Hill Construction, publisher of Mid-Atlantic Construction. Robust gains in the residential and nonbuilding sectors overcame a huge drop in nonresidential contracts for an overall increase of 9% during the month, compared to last January. The value of new nonresidential construction contracts signed during January for future construction decreased by 69%, for an estimated value of roughly $69.4 million, down from last January’s nearly $224-million total. The value of new January residential contracts nearly doubled compared to the same period of a year