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The first of its kind in the nation, the 180,000-sq-ft, community-centered Institute of Innovation offers high school students the chance to take courses in supply chain logistics, computer applications development and hands-on energy courses.

When NASA’s advanced Space Launch System (SLS) routinely propels human explorers to deep-space destinations at some future date, the vehicle’s powerful rocket engines will trace part of their evolution to a pair of specially constructed propulsion unit test stand structures at the Marshall Space Flight Center.

Built on a 425-acre site in southern Georgia, EPC contractor McCarthy Building Cos. delivered a 72-MW solar facility three months ahead of the original schedule, using mostly local labor that was not experienced in solar work.

The three-story, 55,000-sq-ft expansion of the Hayes Barton United Methodist Church Family Life and Mission Center added 29 classrooms, 17 offices and 50 surface parking spaces.

After surviving repeated delays, funding shortfalls and mid-project construction team changes, the four-building, 250,000-sq-ft museum complex adjacent to Biscayne Bay offers an aesthetically distinct, technically intricate setting rivaling the wonders of science and nature displayed within.

While fast-tracked projects have become the norm, the $42-million design-build reconstruction of Biogen’s biopharmaceutical manufacturing plant carried extra implications for the project team.

The Merritt Island Airport, a public general-aviation airport surrounded by the Banana River Aquatic Preserve, needed a 185-ft extension to its lone 3,601-ft-long runway.

Built in 13 months, Clemson University’s $55-million Allen N. Reeves Football Complex features a locker room with 25,000 sq ft of weight-training space and 50-person lunge and hydrotherapy pools.

Southeast Project News from Dodge Data & Analytics

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Moss has promoted John Bowden to senior vice president. Bowden, with four decades of construction management experience, was previously vice president.