For 15 years now, ENR Southeast’s annual Best Projects contest has been recognizing construction and design excellence performed on contracts from across the region.
The North Carolina Dept. of Labor is proposing a fine of more than $150,000 for one of the contractors involved in a March 23 scaffolding collapse on the 11-story Charter Square building project in Raleigh that killed three workers.
Charlotte's eight-year-old LYNX Blue Line, which attracts more than 15,500 daily riders and has spurred $1.45 billion in development within a half-mile of its 9.6-mile corridor, is frequently touted as a model for cities interested in developing light rail transit systems.
Since the Great Recession finished laying waste to much of the Southeast construction industry, an increasingly robust rebound has taken hold across the region as most market sectors generate more work than many specialty contractors can chase.
Specialty contractors around the four-state Southeast region are finding an increasing number of project opportunities. They are also dealing with mounting workforce-related challenges that increasingly look like they are here to stay.
The members of the building team charged with landing what appears to be a winged flying saucer at Florida Polytechnic University's new campus would have had enough on their plate if they were all huddled in the same place, scratching their heads over design architect Santiago Calatrava's futuristic forms.
A subsidiary of China Construction America (CCA), as well as the Bahamian government, are taking separate steps aimed at preventing the developer of a stalled, nearly complete resort project from attaining protection from creditors via bankruptcy.
In St. Augustine, Fla., the self-declared Nation's Oldest City, preserving the past is a way of life. But on the northern edge of town, just off U.S. Highway 1, design-builder The Austin Co. is quickly updating some military history for service in the 21st century.
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