PROJECT COST: $446 million Image Courtesy Mulkey Engineers & Consultants Western Wake Freeway Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts Raleigh-Durham Roadbuilders, a joint venture of Archer Western Contractors of Atlanta and Granite Construction Co. of Watsonville, Calif., was hired by the North Carolina Turnpike Authority to construct the $446-million Western Wake Freeway, a section of the $1-billion Triangle Expressway. The lead designer on the project is the LPA Group of Raleigh, N.C. Mulkey Engineers & Consultants of Cary, N.C., is providing CEI services. Financing for the project will be provided by a combination of toll revenue bonds, state appropriation
PROJECT COST: $114 million Photo Courtesy White Construction Blackwater River Correctional Facility Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The $114-million Blackwater River Correctional Facility in Santa Rosa County in Florida�s Panhandle broke ground in March 2009 and is expected to become operational later this year. The Geo Group of Boca Raton, Fla., under contract with the Florida Dept. of Management Services, designed, built and will operate for $30 million annually the 400,000-sq-ft, 2,000-bed correctional facility, which will house medium- and close-custody adult male inmates. The state has guaranteed a minimum occupancy of 90%. The prison is expected to employ
PROJECT COST: $360 million Image Courtesy BE&K Building Group Duke Medicine Pavilion and Clinical Cancer Center Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts Duke Medicine of Durham, N.C., awarded BE&K Building Group of Charlotte, N.C., a contract to provide preconstruction and construction services for the 630,000-sq-ft Duke Medicine Pavilion, a major hospital addition, the 267,000 sq-ft Clinical Cancer Center as well as associated enabling projects. The project�s construction is valued at approximately $360 million. Duke Medicine integrates the Duke University Health System, the Duke University School of Medicine and the Duke University School of Nursing. The pavilion is an expansion
PROJECT COST: $479 million Cane Island Power Park Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The addition of the fourth, $479-million power-generating unit at the Cane Island Power Park near Intercession City in Osceola County, Fla., will produce 300 megawatts of electricity for the Florida Municipal Power Agency of Orlando, which provides power to approximately 2 million citizens throughout the state. Officials estimate that FMPA customers� demand for power will increase more than 38% during the next 20 years. The new unit will provide enough electricity to serve 60,000 homes. Engineering, procurement and construction contractor Zachry Industrial of San Antonio,
PROJECT COST: $120 million Image Courtesy Turner Construction Co. Harrah�s Cherokee Casino and Hotel Tower III Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts Despite the current state of the economy, there appears to be little slowdown in Cherokee, N.C., where the Eastern Band of Cherokees is investing $633 million in its hospitality and gaming properties. One of the biggest pieces of Harrah�s Cherokee Casino and Hotel�s expansion plans is the Hotel Tower III project, with a construction cost of $120 million. Turner Construction Co. of Charlotte, N.C., working as construction manager-at-risk, is overseeing the construction of the 21-story, 532-room luxury
PROJECT COST: $183 million Biomass Cogeneration Facility Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The U.S. Dept. of Energy estimates the $183-million Biomass Cogeneration Facility at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., will save about $35 million annually in energy, operations and maintenance costs while reducing air emissions. The plant, which replaces an existing 1950s-era coal and oil-fired plant, broke ground in November. The DOE contracted with Ameresco Federal Solutions, a privately owned energy services company based in Framingham, Mass., to finance, design, construct, operate, maintain and fuel the new biomass facility for 20 years. The contract is valued
PROJECT COST: $1.2 billion Photo: Image Courtesy RS&H Interstate 595 Corridor Improvements Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts Concessionaire I-595 Express is leading the largest public-private partnership�and the biggest contract overall�in the history of the Florida Dept. of Transportation: the Interstate-595 Corridor Improvement Project in Broward County. The concessionaire�s design-build-finance-operate-maintain contract totals nearly $1.8 billion, with design and construction costs estimated at $1.2 billion. The successful bidder for the concession was ACS Infrastructure Development, the U.S. subsidiary of Group ACS in Spain. ACS formed I-595 Express to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the 10.5-mi stretch of I-595 for
PROJECT COST: $224 million Image Courtesy Turner Construction Co. Duval County Courthouse Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts It has been a long time coming, but the final piece of the city of Jacksonville�s Better Jacksonville Plan is finally becoming a reality. Turner Construction Co. of Orlando is leading the $224-million design-build construction of the Duval County Courthouse. Construction started in April 2009, with scheduled completion in May 2012. David Reaves, Turner vice president and operations manager, says the company topped out the seven-story, 800,000-sq-ft structure earlier this year. The facility will serve as a combined civil and criminal
America�s Building Trades Unions announced in May an agreement with Stone & Webster Construction, a subsidiary of The Shaw Group of Baton Rouge, La., to construct Units 3 and 4 at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Waynesboro under the Nuclear Power Construction Labor Agreement. Related Links: $110M South River Tunnel Project Cleaning Up Atlanta Water Georgia Contracts Surge in April; Still Down for 2010 YTD Georgia Power (a Southern Company), Oglethorpe Power, MEAG Power and Dalton Utilities are adding Units 3 and 4 at Plant Vogtle. Shaw is providing engineering and construction services for the two proposed nuclear power
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association�s Transportation Development Foundation recently recognized PBS&J of Orlando as the recipient of a 2010 Globe Award for its work on the State Road 408 Widening and Reconstruction Project in Orlando. Related Links: OSHA Recognizes NCCER Program to Certify Crane Operators SR 408, a 16-mi toll road traversing downtown Orlando, was experiencing traffic volumes exceeding design capacity. The Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority needed to add lanes while staying within the existing right-of-way. PBS&J used a context-sensitive design process to develop designs that highlight the best aesthetic features of the community and help the project
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