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With the April 2016 completion of the $2.3-billion Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF), more than a half-century’s worth of radioactive liquid produced as part of the manufacture of nuclear materials at the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Savannah River site can now be processed for safe, environmentally sound disposal.

Skanska provided preconstruction and construction management at-risk services for this $164-million campus for UNC Hospitals on a greenfield site in Hillsborough, N.C.

The Emory University Hospital Perioperative Expansion was a 70,000-sq-ft, multiphased demolition and renovation of the perioperative services department.

This six-story, brick-and-glass, LEED Gold-accredited complex maintains a commanding presence on 35 acres near the Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Covering 430,000 sq ft—including 295,000 sq ft of supporting clinical use—the Charlotte VA facility provides outpatient primary and mental care, laboratories, operating rooms, kidney dialysis units and radiation and imaging technologies.

The $81-million replacement hospital for the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians was conceived as a symbol of pride and inspiration, epitomizing the beauty of the Cherokee culture and the Great Smoky Mountains and helping to support the physical, mental and spiritual health of the Cherokee people it serves.

PCL Civil Constructors made extensive preparations as Hurricane Matthew approached to secure the jobsite and equipment of its project to replace the Herbert C. Bonner Bridge on the coast of North Carolina. And yet, as the storm pulled away, two 140-ft-long barges were found beached, almost 30 miles away. An NCDOT engineer provides details.

Reconstructing a 1.3-mile stretch of State Road A1A in Flagler Beach, Fla., could cost $35 million and take one year to complete.

In settling environmentalists' 2014 lawsuit, the utility will remove five million tons of ash from unlined pits along the Yadkin River.

This year, ENR Southeast’s Legacy Award goes to Miller Gorrie, chairman of general-contracting firm Brasfield & Gorrie.