Grilling food on the jobsite, linking to first responder phone networks, transporting crews by boat and housing workers in mobile trailers at a nearby airport are all ways Ryan Hamrick’s team worked around extraordinary obstacles to restore access to Florida’s Sanibel Island after its only link to the mainland was cut off when Hurricane Ian made landfall there last Sept. 30.
The CSX Florida Improvement Plan Bridges Project replaced three railroad swing bridges with upgrades to bridge operation systems, mechanical systems and machinery.
The six-story, 300,000-sq-ft AdventHealth Tampa Taneja Center for Surgery will offer the region the latest in medical capabilities in a flexible space able to adapt to the area’s future needs.
For design-builders HNTB Corp. and Hensel Phelps to successfully deliver Tampa International Airport’s $326-million Blue Express Curbsides project—a first-of-its-kind facility for the U.S.—engineers and contractors would need to weave their work over, under, through and around buildings and other infrastructure comprising the tight, jam-packed jobsite located at TIA’s southern front door.
Tasked with rebuilding a historic Tampa elementary school that was nearly destroyed in 2017 by the one-two punch of Hurricane Irma and ensuing fire, contractor JE Dunn Construction Co. and architect Fleishman Garcia began a painstaking effort to revive the early 1900s-era brick building into a modern facility.
The joint-venture of Archer Western and Traylor Bros. is being challenged by the bay's geology as they construct the 3-mile-long bridge's substructure.