CRRC MA Corp. committed in 2015 to build the 204,000-sq-ft assembly facility for Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s next-gen rail cars, although the China-owned firm had yet to land contracts with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.

Technology and mobile connectivity have gone a long way toward fixing problems with the traditional design and construction process, but only a business model with volume production can reduce risk and deliver results that can truly offset unexpected events. 

Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Texas coast just weeks after the building shell for Lonza Houston Inc.’s 265,000-sq-ft facility in Pearland was completed.

According to several sources close to the project, Rhode Island-based Gilbane Building Co. has been chosen as general contractor for the 22-million-sq-ft, $10-billion flat-screen-panel manufacturing campus to be built by Taiwanese electronics maker Foxconn in Mt. Pleasant, Wis. Gilbane.