When the 800 students of Frank W. Ballou High School in southeast Washington, D.C., come back to classes in January after the holiday break, they won't return to the time-worn, heavily used 54-year-old brick building they left in mid-December.
Related Links: ENR MidAtlantic The term "express" has a dual meaning on the 95 Express project in northern Virginia. For the more than 200,000 vehicles that travel the 29-mile stretch of Interstate 95 south of the Capital Beltway every day, the project, to be completed in early 2015, aims to relieve congestion and speed traffic flow. For engineers and construction crews, the goal is to expedite delivery of the $1-billion project built right in the middle of a heavily traveled artery.The project will convert 20 miles of the highway's existing 40-year-old, dedicated high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes south of the Beltway
Related Links: ENR MidAtlantic KLINEWilliam Kline, vice president and studio leader for SmithGroupJJR's health studio in Washington, D.C., has been named to the firm's board of directors. He is serving as managing principal for two major hospital projects for Holy Cross Health in Maryland.Bryan Carlisle has been promoted to chief executive officer of Maxim Crane Works, a Bridgeville, Pa.-based rental and sales company with 35 branches across the U.S. Carlisle had been the company's chief operating officer. He replaces Art Innamorato as CEO.Heery International has promoted Richard "Skip" Parks to vice president in Baltimore. He continues as area manager.Garrett
Several contractors in the mid-Atlantic region continue to report a gradual rise in revenue, but most firms in the area have not yet seen business strengthen to where it was before the recession.
Rendering courtesy of Hickok Cole Hickok Cole designed the new Reston Station project in Reston, Va., which broke ground last year. The 1.5-million-sq-ft mixed-use, transit-oriented development is located directly above the new Reston Station-Wiehle Ave. stop on the Metrorail system. Related Links: ENR MidAtlantic Top Design Firms ENR MidAtlantic Top Design Firms By Market Sector ENR MidAtlantic Prospects have clearly brightened for design firms in the mid-Atlantic region. As the economic recovery continued, several locally based firms saw business improve last year, including Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson; KCI Technologies; Whitman, Requardt & Associates; and Pennoni Associates, which is ENR MidAtlantic's
Related Links: ENR MidAtlantic Charged with developing a "living laboratory" to demonstrate energy-saving solutions in existing buildings and sustainable strategies in new facilities, the team behind the Consortium for Building Energy Innovation project at the Philadelphia Navy Yard faced a formidable challenge to bring together a wide variety of high-performance building systems.But creating the collaborative environment to achieve the project's objectives proved to be just as challenging. With completion scheduled for late summer, the CBEI team's approach is expected to yield a project with expanded scope that also exceeds targeted energy goals and stays on budget.The project originated in 2011,
McGraw-Hill Construction Analytics Total Picture A Sharp Pullback in Commercial Work Should Lead to a Decline in Total Construction Starts Non-residential construction starts nearly doubled in 2013, but they will retreat by more than 40% this year. Related Links: ENR MidAtlantic City Grill LIEBELTom LiebelPrincipal Marks, Thomas ArchitectsLiebel, who is AIA Baltimore's 2014 president, says he sees a growing interest in pushing development beyond the traditionally active neighborhoods."We see a renewed enthusiasm for moving into midtown and other neighborhoods that have been considered transitional areas in the past," he says.Liebel also says he sees particular interest in multifamily residential projects
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