The developers and builders behind Miami’s biggest mixed-use complex, the nearly complete, $1-billion-plus Brickell City Centre, have designed and engineered the project’s unconventional signature feature to provide a light aesthetic and environmental touch.
Across the South, an estimated 72% of construction industry firms expect to increase staff levels in 2016, according to survey results recently published by Associated General Contractors of America.
For the second year of the Legacy Award program, ENR Southeast recognizes one of the Atlanta area’s most well-known and respected builders, Bill Pinto.
While major transportation projects along I-4 and at the airport promise to boost Orlando construction activity, Maze also sees a “resurgence” in the office market as well as in hospitality and theme-park contracts.
In early January, Georgia Power and the other owners of the Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion project announced an agreement with contractors Westinghouse and CB&I that “settles all claims currently in litigation.”
When Porsche-obsessed South Florida developer Gil Dezer told builders he wanted his 60-story condominium to have a car-elevator system so that residents could park their luxury vehicles inside their respective units, he was asking for something that had never been done.
Miami has been maintaining its construction news-making trend, with a string of construction-related headlines including celebrities, lawsuits, legal settlements and even speculation from South Florida’s "Condo King" about a potential housing bubble.
Although Florida’s energy-efficiency program, known as PACE, has existed since 2010, recent developments could make it a more viable option to help fund certain commercial capital improvement projects.