Amazon’s 2.1-million-sq-ft Metropolitan Park office development near the nation’s capital could become a model for other large-scale sustainable projects. The building team is tracking a 15% reduction in embodied carbon in the project's 200,000 cu yd of concrete and the two 22-story buildings are on course to qualify as net-zero operational carbon.
Completion of a privately financed 10-mile extension of Virginia’s I-95 express lanes will be pushed past the originally scheduled October 2022 completion deadline as the state’s toll road operator and contractor work to resolve responsibility for addressing geologic conditions that have slowed progress on the $565 million project.
Delay in approval of a federal loan may force Maryland to revise its finance strategy for Nice/Middleton bridge project that has been under construction for more than a year
NIST’s 1960s-era radiation physics laboratory has been augmented with a four-story, 75,000-sq-ft wing containing nearly 40 specialized and purpose-built laboratory modules with 2,500 sq ft of Class 10,000 clean room space.
The $92-million, eight-year project used cutting-edge wastewater treatment technology and facilities within a constrained footprint, all while maintaining plant operations within strict discharge quality standards throughout construction.
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