As a replacement for two existing elementary schools with 90-year-old infrastructure, this new facility will tie two communities together while modernizing the learning environment.

Built on a greenfield site in Columbia, Mo., the 315,000-sq-ft Swift Prepared Foods facility produces a variety of dried meats, including salami, pepperoni, prosciutto, pancetta and coppa.

Designing the 323,000-sq-ft building to efficiently serve the hospital's program was one of the project's big challenges, says the design team.

Faced with the constraints of an extremely narrow site, the Electric Park Garden Bar addition team found ways to leverage prefabrication to reduce downtime for subcontractors and keep the project on track.

Touted by University of Missouri officials as the most ambitious project in its 180-year history, the $221-million Roy Blunt NextGen Precision Health Building is designed to enable researchers to expedite delivery of innovations from the lab to clinical treatment.

The Missouri Dept. of Transportation’s draft 2023-2027 State Transportation Improvement Program includes an average of $1.5 billion each year for road and bridge projects.

Dodge data on projected 2022 construction starts in Kansas City

Still hampered by pandemic-related uncertainly, Midwest construction starts fell in 2021 even as signs of a return to normalcy bolstered markets near the end of the year.