Related Links: Value of New Florida Contracts Increased 10% in November Willis A. Smith to Expand Ringling Museum, Rebuild Booker High Martin Marietta to Build Aggregates Terminal at Port Manatee Miami’s Master Plan Named AIA “Urban Design of the Year” SIKON Construction to Build Distribution Center in Delray Beach FaverGray Awarded Four New Projects Miami-based Zyscovich Architects has begun design of a new building for Miami Dade College’s downtown Wolfson Campus. The approximately 110,000-sq-ft facility will house the campus student life office, classrooms, food court, wellness center, archival library and other academic support space. Zyscovich is designing the new structure
Related Links: Hardin Construction to Merge with Mathews Construction of Tampa UF Team Wins Regional Construction Management Competition DPR Construction’s Atlanta Office Donates $40,000 to Boys & Girls Clubs MasTec to Acquire Precision Pipeline Burnham Institute Certified LEED Gold Danis Building Construction Co. of Jacksonville, Fla., has expanded its reach into the Carolinas with the acquisition of R.N. Rouse & Co., a commercial construction company headquartered in Goldsboro, N.C. According to Danis, Rouse has 90 employees and an annual revenue of $75 million, with additional offices in Wilmington and Cary, N.C. The company serves health-care, industrial, institutional and corporate clients
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In response to slow domestic sales, Sweden-based Volvo Group’s construction equipment division is winding down its 400,000 sq-ft factory in Asheville, N.C. and shifting production to other plants around the world. Production of wheel loaders will move to Arvika, Sweden; excavators will move to Changwon, South Korea. The plant is scheduled to close on March 31, and the company will lay off 228 employees. Some will be offered relocation to its Shippensburg, Pa., plant, which will also produce motor grader cabs, formerly made in Asheville. The current U.S. market “didn’t justify” having two equipment plants, says Beatrice Cardon, vice president
Miami-Dade County public health officials are investigating whether an activated carbon filtration system at in Miami led to an outbreak of Legionnaires� Disease that killed one man in October and made two people ill in recent weeks. The county health department issued a health advisory on Dec. 11 to residents, guests and employees at the Epic Hotel & Residences, stating that water samples collected from the property’s plumbing system indicated levels of chlorine were insufficient to rid drinking water of bacteria. Samir Elmir, director of the county health department’s environmental health and engineering division, says the activated carbon filter system
Gregs G. Thomopulos, P.E., Chairman & CEO of Stanley Consultants of Houston, was elected president of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers for a two-year term. FIDIC represents globally the consulting engineering industry. Thomopulos has been on the organization’s executive committee for six years. His election marks the first time in 20 years that a U.S. citizen holds the position, which only three other Americans have held in FIDIC’s nearly 100-year history. Dynamic Lighting Solutions in Pearland announced Robert C. Horswood joined the company as utility sales representative, Eastern Division. He graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s
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Related Links: Stiles COO Palmer Inducted Into Construction Hall of Fame JJG Opens Second North Carolina Office in Cary Pirtle Construction Raises $41,500 for FIU The Water Environment Federation announced that the University of Florida and the University of Colorado-Boulder were the winners of the the eighth annual Student Design Competition, held as part of the association’s WEFTEC technical exhibition and conference in Orlando. The University of Florida’s project, “Green Infrastructure and LID Design for a Florida Constructed Environs Subject to Rainfall-Runoff Loadings,” won in the environmental design category. The University of Colorado-Boulder’s project, “Robert W. Hite Treatment Facility: South
North Carolina State University officials broke ground in late October on the James B. Hunt Jr. Library, an academic and research library. Related Links: Boeing Taps BE&K, Turner to Design-Build S.C. Dreamliner Plant Mild Declines in September Contract Values for N.C., S.C. Utility and University Team Up To Build Offshore Wind Turbines The university describes the Hunt Library as “a signature building that will serve as the intellectual and social heart” of its growing population on the Centennial Campus. The school reports its cost for the project at $127 million. The Hunt Library will contain an automated book-retrieval system–allowing space
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