Hord Coplan Macht Inc. recently completed the $65-million Engineering, Aviation, Computer and Mathematical Science Building at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
Lane says the latest AIA Architecture Billings Index shows the South region, which includes Baltimore, is in the lead nationally with increasing demand for design activity.
The total value of the 25 contracts that make up this year’s ENR MidAtlantic Top Starts list—which includes projects that got underway in 2015—is down sharply, to $5.7 billion from $10.7 billion in last year’s ranking.
Faced with a looming 2017 deadline to reduce nutrients released into the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the City of Baltimore’s Dept. of Public Works is pushing to complete more than $500 million of improvements at its Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant.