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The Southeast’s Top Design Firms 11/01/2010 2009 was a year many working in the Southeast’s construction and design industry would rather forget. While contractors of all types certainly suffered, many architects and other designers felt the pain just as intensely, as the number of business opportunities fell away with the receding markets. Photo courtesy tvsdesign |
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A Health-Care Comeback? 11/01/2010 Health care remains one of the region’s stronger markets, with new projects starting up now that some of the uncertainty surrounding national health-care reform has abated. Image Courtesy Perkins+Will |
| 11/01/10 | Full-Scale Virtual Design Simulator technology has enabled Rex Healthcare physicians and administrators to virtually “walk through” the Raleigh, N.C., health system’s $200-million campus regeneration project—while it... |
| 11/01/10 | Duke Energy Center Certified Platinum A commitment to energy efficiency and sustainability drove Wachovia Bank in Charlotte, N.C., to build the Southeast’s first LEED-Platinum Core and Shell building. |
| 11/01/10 | Georgia Report ‘Hotlanta’ has cooled off, but government and industrial work has picked up in other parts of the state. |
| 09/01/10 | Top Specialty Contractors Plainly, 2009 was not a good year for Southeast contractors and designers. And judging from the data collected from Southeast Construction’s annual Top Specialty Contractors survey, for the ranking... |
| 09/01/10 | South Florida Report: Another Dry Season A few public projects are keeping at least some South Florida contractors busy at a time when construction activity remains slow in an overbuilt condominium and office tower market. |
| 09/01/10 | The Southeast’s Top Design-Build Contractors Southeast Construction presents its third annual Top Design-Build Contractors ranking. Derived from information obtained during the Top Contractors survey conducted earlier this year, it documents the... |
| 09/01/10 | Warning: Post-ARRA Depression Ahead The more than $5-billion infusion of federal stimulus dollars jump-started many transportation projects in the Southeast, but with those lettings winding down and some projects finishing, state transportation... |
| 07/01/10 | Flying High: Charlotte-based BE&K Building Group is the “Contractor of the Year” It’s no secret: 2009 was another bad year for many contractors working in the four-state Southeast region. |
| 07/01/10 | Building a Concrete Solution Despite the ongoing construction slump, there is always demand for a more efficient and cost-effective building solution. |
| 07/01/10 | University Report Card: Higher-Ed Market Falls Behind At a time when demand remains strong for new and upgraded facilities at colleges and universities, institutions are delaying projects because funding is difficult to obtain. Still, some projects are moving... |
| 07/01/10 | Top Project Starts Nationally and regionally, 2009 was a pretty dismal year, economically. Construction felt the downturn especially, with an industry unemployment rate that peaked at 22.7% last December. |
| 05/01/10 | Orlando Report: The Roller Coaster Ride Continues On the other side of Interstate 4 from downtown Orlando, the new $480-million home for the Orlando Magic is quickly heading toward an October tip-off, a symbolic sign of construction life. |
| 05/01/10 | Carolinas Report: Braced for a Tough 2010? New faces are nothing new in the Carolinas, which have long been among the nation’s fastest-growing states. |
| 05/01/10 | Championship Run The Orlando Magic weren’t able to top Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers in last year’s Finals of the National Basketball Association playoffs. |
| 05/01/10 | The Big Lane Closure As the result of a rare closure of interstate highway, a 15-mi rehabilitation of Interstate 385 near Laurens, S.C., is on track to be completed in just eight months—and for two-thirds of its original estimated cost. |
| 05/01/10 | The Southeast’s Top Contractors Southeast Construction presents its 10th annual Top Contractors ranking. Unfortunately, there’s hardly cause for celebration. |
| 05/01/10 | GSA Goes Green The U.S. General Services Administration received nearly $5.6 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to modernize federal facilities and convert them into high-performance... |
| 05/01/10 | Performing Arts Center Set for Fall Groundbreaking The stagnant economy has forced Orlando city leaders and community arts supporters to revise original plans for a $450-million Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts (DPAC), the second component of... |
| 03/01/10 | Public Works: Industry’s Salvation Transportation, Military and Civic Projects are Saving the Day for Some Southeast Firms |
| 03/01/10 | Miami Report: Public Projects are Metro’s Saving Grace Miami construction starts have slowed dramatically, and contractors are attempting to stay busy working on publicly funded projects. |
| 03/01/10 | Owner of the Year: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers USACE districts across the Southeast Construction region are busy delivering a long list of military and civil projects. |
| 03/01/10 | Military Construction In the Southeast, This Market is One of Few Marching Forward |
| 02/09/10 | Above and Beyond: Raising Crane Safety Awareness Hanging more than 200 ft over a jobsite in downtown Kansas City, Mo., James Hague doesn’t seem to notice the tiny people and equipment below his feet. |
| 01/01/10 | 2010 Southeast Construction Outlook The new year will likely bring considerably more pain to contractors and designers working in the Southeast Construction region, especially as firms focused on a still-declining commercial sector work... |
| 01/01/10 | Southeast Industry Outlook Contractors are normally an optimistic breed. But with 2009 firmly cemented as the fourth straight year of declining prospects, they seem to finally be feeling a little down. |
| 02/09/10 | Game Changer Just as the proverbial “hot stove league” helps baseball fans get through cold winter days, the Florida Marlins’ new 37,000-seat ballpark is providing Miami’s construction industry a respite from the chill of... |
| 01/01/10 | National Outlook 2010 When the School District of Palm Beach County and Florida Atlantic University teamed up to place an elementary school on the edge of the college’s 150-acre natural pine habitat and build a new... |
| 12/01/09 | Pine Jog Elementary School and FAU/Pine Jog Environmental Education Center When the School District of Palm Beach County and Florida Atlantic University teamed up to place an elementary school on the edge of the college’s 150-acre natural pine habitat and build a new... |
| 12/01/09 | Dames Point Terminal The new $250-million, 158-acre Dames Point Container Terminal will more than double the capacity of the Jacksonville Port Authority. |
| 12/01/09 | Southeast Construction’s Best Of 2009 Awards Southeast Construction presents its ninth annual Best Of awards, in honor of the “best” construction and design efforts in the four-state region completed between Sept. 1, 2008, and Sept. 1, 2009. |
| 12/01/09 | Intelligent Compaction is on a Roll Nationwide research is firming up the case for “intelligent” compaction, a construction method three decades in the making that could save billions of dollars a year in potholed roads, cracked bridges,... |
| 11/01/09 | Seeking More Green from Green In building its own $3-million, LEED gold-certified headquarters in Sarasota, Fla., general contractor Willis A. Smith Construction sought to make a statement, both to its employees and prospective clients. |
| 11/01/09 | LEED to Become More Stringent Though green-building experts and construction lawyers laud the good intentions of the U.S. Green Building Council about its popular Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green-building... |
| 11/01/09 | Sustainability Report: Successes, Concerns Arise as Green Design, Construction Goes Mainstream There’s no doubt about it. The movement to build “green” is becoming mainstream. Private owners are calling for green buildings with greater frequency, and some public entities are beginning to mandate it. |
| 11/01/09 | Gold Honors The University of South Carolina’s $40-million Honors Residence Hall in Columbia extends the school’s commitment to the environment and sustainability, while integrating classrooms and study areas into... |
| 11/01/09 | A Stimulating Project: Work Begins on $1.8-Billion Interstate 595 Express-lane Project Concessionaire I-595 Express has begun working on the largest project in the history of the Florida Dept. of Transportation, the $1.796-billion Interstate-595 Corridor Improvement Project in Broward County. |
| 11/01/09 | Triangle Expressway Breaks Ground Raleigh-Durham Roadbuilders, a joint venture between Archer Western Contractors and Granite Construction, won the largest contract in this massive project. |
| 11/01/09 | A Strong Pulse in Florida? In South Florida, Memorial Health System is moving forward with a new children’s hospital, while in Central Florida, the long-discussed Nemours Children’s Hospital project is finally getting started. |
| 10/01/09 | Top Design Firms The downturn in the Southeast's construction economy is definitely hitting some design firms in the four-state region as well, a fact that is apparently reflected in this year's Southeast Construction Top Design... |
| 10/01/09 | Miami Offices Grab Limelight Almost nowhere did the condominium market go boom quite like it did in South Florida, and Miami in particular. Thousands of units were under construction at any one time for a period of years, with glitzy... |
| 10/01/09 | Charlotte Office Towers Continue to Reach Skyward Three years after breaking ground, Charlotte, N.C., office towers built by Bank of America and Wachovia, which is owned by Wells Fargo & Co., remain on time despite turmoil in the banking industry. |
| 10/01/09 | Florida's Gulf Coast Report From the Everglades to the Panhandle, construction activity along Florida's Gulf Coast is suffering a major recession-induced headache, with little private investment available to keep contractors working. |
| 09/01/09 | South Florida Report: All Dried Up New construction starts have slowed in Palm Beach and Broward counties, but a couple of big projects about to begin in South Florida have contractors hopeful for better times ahead. |
| 09/01/09 | The Southeast's Top Design-Builders Suffolk Construction Co. in West Palm Beach is weathering South Florida's harsh brand of economic turmoil by branching out into new markets and embracing technology to streamline operations. |
| 09/01/09 | Retooling to Survive and Thrive Suffolk Construction Co. in West Palm Beach is weathering South Florida's harsh brand of economic turmoil by branching out into new markets and embracing technology to streamline operations. |
| 09/01/09 | Lights On for Zachry Zachry of San Antonio, Texas, topped Southeast Construction's design-build contractor list with $378 million in project revenue in 2008, and since then the company has added to its portfolio. |
| 09/01/09 | Just in Time The State Transportation Board in Georgia plans to use up to half of its $932 million in stimulus funding for maintenance projects, such as resurfacing and interstate rehabilitation. |
| 09/01/09 | Intelligent Compaction is on a Roll Nationwide research is firming up the case for “intelligent” compaction, a construction method three decades in the making that could save billions of dollars a year in potholed roads, cracked bridges,... |
| 08/01/09 | The Southeast's Top Specialty Contractors The depth of this year's Top Specialty Contractors survey is on par with our record level of last year, with 200 ranked firms. However, the amount of 2008 revenue represented in this year's ranking is... |
| 08/01/09 | 2009 Midyear Outlook: Worse Than Expected However, because so few projects are moving forward on the commercial side, the real concern is 2010. Meanwhile, contractors who are able to land some stimulus projects might end up as the lucky ones. |
| 08/01/09 | Southeast Bidding Frenzy Competition for projects in the four-state Southeast Construction region has been at an intense level throughout 2009, as an increasing number of building contractors find themselves chasing a declining... |
| 08/01/09 | Tampa Report: No Recovery in the Private Market, but Public Sector Offers Hope One source describes the Tampa Bay region's private construction market as "basically nonexistent," but there are signs of life in the public sectors, especially higher education and transportation. |
| 08/01/09 | Tampa Bay Water OKs Big Repair Bill for Cracking Reservoir The board of Tampa Bay Water has approved an estimated $125-million repair program for the agency's four-year-old, 15.5-billion-gallon C.W. "Bill" Young Regional Reservoir. |
| 08/01/09 | Building a 'Frame for Art' Skanska broke ground in April on the $52-million project, which includes construction of the $27-million, 66,000-sq-ft Tampa Museum of Art; a central energy plant and the adjacent Curtis Hixon Waterfront... |
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