The Southeast's Top Projects

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1.) Project Title: Duval County Courthouse
Cost: $211,000,000
Location: Jacksonville, Fla.
Owner: Duval County
Contractor: Skanska Dynamic Partners (joint venture between Skanska USA Building, SL Construction, Hernandez Enterprises and QC Management)
Architect: Cannon Design
Start Date: May 2003
Completion Date: March 2007

Description: As the single-biggest piece of the Better Jacksonville Plan, this project was scheduled to be the last vertical structure delivered as part of that $2.2 billion civic improvement effort. Since that time, the Duval County Courthouse has been delayed by initial over-budget cost estimates and resulting value engineering.

Project architect Cannon Design took an unusual and ultimately successful step to meet the owner's stated goals for the project - designing a traditional, neoclassical building.

"The judges and then-Mayor John Delaney made it very clear from the first day that they were interested in a traditional design," said Joseph Calvarese, managing principal in Cannon Design's Jacksonville office. "They felt classical architecture was more in keeping with the image people had of a courthouse, and they were concerned that it project a dignified image to the public."

This attention to the client's wishes obviously proved successful.

"The greatest accomplishment for us will be having fulfilled the vision the city has for this facility," Calvarese added. "I think we really captured what they had in their minds."

Delaney's comments at the May 2003 groundbreaking reflected that sentiment as well.

"This signature building will reflect the dignity and the importance of the judicial system in our community," he said.

When completed - now scheduled for March 2007 - the new facility will house 33 courtrooms within a 1.1-million-sq.-ft. complex. It will rise seven stories and will occupy the clerk of courts, three floors of courtrooms and two levels of judges' chambers.

2.) Project Title: Georgia Aquarium
Cost: $200,000,000
Location: Atlanta
Owner: The Georgia Aquarium Inc.
Contractor: Brasfield & Gorrie LLC
Architect: Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates
Start Date: May 2003
Completion Date: 2005

Description: The Georgia Aquarium, located in downtown Atlanta, has been touted to be the largest aquarium of its kind in the nation. This 430,000-sq.-ft. facility will cover 6 acres of land, contain 8 acres of floor space and will hold more than 5 million gallons of fresh and saltwater that will recirculate through the facility's treatment system approximately every 60 to 80 minutes. The aquarium's systems are reportedly designed to use less water than the average office building.

Visitors will be able to view over 50,000 aquatic animals from approximately 500 species when the aquarium opens in 2005.

An 1,800-car parking deck, food court and school programs and facilities will also be included.

3.) Project Title: Hines 3 Expansion, Hines Energy Complex
Cost: $198,000,000
Location: Bartow, Fla.
Owner: Progress Energy
Contractor: Progress Energy
Engineer: Progress Energy
Start Date: December 2003
Completion Date: December 2005

Description: Hines 3, as the project is referred to, will add 516 MW to Progress Energy's existing Hines Energy Complex in Bartow, Fla. The expansion will add the capacity via the installation of a natural gas-fired combined-cycle unit. A combined-cycle unit consists of two combustion turbine (CT) generators and a system for recovering exhaust heat from the CTs to produce steam, which generates more electricity by sending the steam through a steam turbine. Progress Energy estimates that, with using the same amount of fuel, this process generates roughly 50 percent more electricity.

4.) Project Title: NorthLake Mall
Cost: $175,000,000
Location: Charlotte, N.C.
Owner: Taubman Centers Inc.
Contractor: Skanska USA Building
Architect: LS3P Architects
Start Date: October 2003
Completion Date: September 2005

Description: Being developed by Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based Taubman Centers Inc., this 1.2-million-sq.-ft., two-level regional mall is located on a 120-acre site in Charlotte. In project publicity information, developer Taubman indicated it expected the project to generate approximately 2,500 jobs over the span of construction, and roughly 2,000 permanent jobs once the mall opens in 2005. Northlake Mall will feature four anchor department stores, including a 190,000-sq.-ft. Dillards; a 180,000-sq.-ft. Belk; a 165,000-sq.-ft. Hecht's; and a 76,000-sq.-ft. Dick's Sporting Goods.

In a press release announcing the project, Taubman Group Vice President Steve Kieras said: "Northlake Mall's retail environment celebrates the spirit and traditions of the Charlotte region. Welcoming interior features like comfortable seating areas with rocking chairs will complement the familiar materials and architectural character of the center. You'll know you're in Charlotte."

For more information, visit www.shopnorthlake.com

5.) Project Title: Charlotte Arena
Cost: $172,500,000
Location: Charlotte, N.C.
Owner: City of Charlotte/Charlotte Bobcats
Contractor: Hunt Construction Group
Architect: Ellerbe Becket
Start Date: July 2003
Completion Date: November 2005

Description: Indianapolis-based Hunt Construction Group is building this roughly 800,000-sq.-ft. home for the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats and the WNBA's Charlotte Sting in Charlotte's City Center, bordered by Trade, Fifth and Caldwell streets and the light-rail corridor. Configured for professional basketball, the facility will accommodate approximately 18,500, and more than 20,000 for college basketball events.

Kansas City, Mo.-based Ellerbe Becket designed the facility, which will measure approximately 470 ft. by 550 ft. It will be 150 ft. tall, with a 396-ft. clear span inside. The building is a circular shape, with a box truss roof structure.

Construction is scheduled for completion by November 2005.

For more information, visit http://www.nba.com/bobcats/charlotte_arena_quick_facts.html

6.) Project Title: South Terminal Expansion, Multi-Trade Contract, Miami International Airport

Cost: $168,900,000
Location: Miami International Airport
Owner: Miami-Dade Aviation Department
Contractor: Hensel Phelps Construction Co.
Architects: Borelli & Associates Architects, Planners, P.A./Mateu Carreño Rizo & Partners, A Joint Venture; and Rodriguez and Quiroga Architects Chartered
Start Date: August 2003
Completion Date: January 2006/July 2007

Description: Last year, Parsons-Odebrecht Joint Venture took the top spot in Southeast Construction's Top Project ranking with its $670 million contract for Miami International Airport's South Terminal project. The Multi-Trade Contract that Hensel Phelps Construction Co. of Orlando started on in 2003 was part of that South Terminal project and represents the largest chunk of that development awarded to date.

Hensel Phelps' $169 million contract covers the general construction of a new five-story, 1.2-million-sq.-ft. building and includes renovations in the adjacent existing building at the southern end of the Miami International Airport Terminal near the entrance to Concourse H.

The scope of work consists of the completion of the South Terminal Building, excluding foundations, underground utilities, structural steel, curtain wall and baggage handling systems, which were to be awarded as separate trade contracts. Hensel Phelps' responsibilities include all mechanical, electrical, communications, plumbing, HVAC, fire protection, elevators, escalators, power walks, concrete, roofing, interior finishes and new bus station.

7.) Project Title: 5th Runway I-285 Bridge Structures
Cost: $159,500,000
Location: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta
Owner: City of Atlanta Department of Procurement
Program Manager: International Aviation Consultants, a joint venture of Parsons Aviation, Rosser International, H.J. Russell, Turner Associates and URS Corp.
Contractor: Archer-Western Contractors Ltd.
Design Engineer: Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade and Douglas, Atlanta
Structural Engineer: Heath & Lineback Engineers, Marietta, Ga.
Start Date: Early 2003
Completion Date: February 2006

Description: This massive bridge structure will enable the new, 9,000-ft.-long 10/28 runway at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to cross over Interstate 285. The structure incorporates a main runway bridge that measures 1,200 ft. long and 486 ft. wide and a taxiway bridge that measures 450 ft. long and 450 ft. wide. It will span 10 lanes of traffic but still allow for the future widening of I-285 to 18 lanes. Archer-Western Contractors is constructing the facility through a design-build contract.

More information on the project is available from Design-Build magazine's "Hartsfield Runway Spans Interstate" story (http://designbuild.construction.com/December2003/0312-Atlantacvr.asp) or Southeast Construction (http://www.southeast.construction.com/features/archive/0404_Feature6.asp)

8.) Project Title: Manatee Power Plant Unit #3 Expansion
Cost: $150,000,000
Location: Parrish, Fla.
Owner: Florida Power & Light
Contractor: Zachry Construction Corp.
Engineer: Zachry, in partnership with Black & Veatch
Start Date: 2003
Completion Date: 2005

Description: This project consists of the construction of the gas/diesel-fired combined-cycle power plant Unit #3 at Florida Power & Light's Manatee Power Plant near Parrish, Fla.

The unit will add an additional 1,100 MW to the existing plant and is being built simultaneously with Florida Power & Light's Martin Power Plant expansion.

The Manatee combined-cycle units are also capable of conversion to a gasification combined-cycle system in the event that future technical and economic conditions justify the addition of a coal gasification plant.

Project Title: Martin Power Plant Unit #8 Expansion
Cost: $150,000,000
Location: Indiantown, Fla.
Owner: Florida Power & Light
Contractor: Zachry Construction Corp.
Engineer: Zachry, in partnership with Black & Veatch
Start Date: 2003
Completion Date: 2005

Description: This project consists of construction to add 1,100 MW to the existing Martin Power Plant. The previous additions of Units 3 and 4 were also built by San Antonio-based Zachry Construction Corp. with Black & Veatch in 1994.

The Martin combined-cycle units are capable of conversion to a gasification combined-cycle system in the event that future technical and economic conditions justify the addition of a coal gasification plant.

Zachry mobilized for this project in June 2003 and has a scheduled completion for May 2005.

Photos courtesy Zachry Construction Corp.

10.) Project Title: Lee Roy Selmon Expressway New Elevated Express Lanes
Cost: $143,500,000
Location: Tampa, Fla.
Owner: Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority-THCEA
Contractor: PCL Civil Constructors Inc.
Engineer: Figg Engineering Group
Start Date: January 2003
Completion Date: July 2005

Description: Until a sinkhole swallowed up one of the pier pilings and sent two spans crashing down, PCL Civil Constructors was moving along ahead of schedule on its $143.5 million reversible-lanes bridge contract for the Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway project in Tampa. After the collapse in mid-April, construction was halted and testing was to be performed to determine a possible solution.

The Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway is the project owner.

PCL's contract included the erection of approximately 6 mi. of three-lane, precast concrete segmental bridges extending across a 12-mi. stretch from Brandon to downtown Tampa. In all, PCL's contract includes three bridges, one measuring 4,000 ft., another 7,000 ft. and one 17,000 ft.

Using two separate custom-built under-slung truss systems, PCL was erecting about 64 precast segments per week, equivalent to roughly 600 ft. of bridge or about four of the 142-ft.-long spans.

But as Southeast Construction stated in its May coverage of the project, it was still far too early to celebrate. When the collapse occurred and work was halted, roughly two-thirds of the erection work remained.

11.) Project Title: One Miami
Cost: $122,000,000
Location: Miami
Owner: Related Group of Florida
Contractor: John Moriarty & Associates
Architect: Arquitectonica
Start Date: November 2003
Completion Date: 2005

Description: Related Group of Florida, the developer for One Miami, is touting this urban mixed-use project as "a tribute to Miami's urban lifestyle and its bright future at the crossroads of the Americas." A pair of 40-plus-story residential towers containing 896 units will eventually rise at the site's location at Biscayne Bay and the north side of the Miami River.

The project was designed by Miami-based Arquitectonica, with Toronto and New York-based interior-design firm Yabu Pushelberg creating the project's contemporary look for both One Miami's residences and its common areas. Residences are priced from $200,000 to over $700,000.

One Miami will also feature a public riverwalk filled with art, landscaping and seating areas.

Other components of this phased project include a four-story building containing 24,000 sq. ft. of office space, 13,000 sq. ft. of restaurant and retail and a 4,000-sq.-ft. café/deli area. The project will also include a 10-story parking garage that will accommodate 1,185 vehicles.

12.) Project Title: Ballantyne Village
Cost: $120,000,000
Location: Charlotte, N.C.
Owner: Sheild Property Co.
Contractor: Sheild Property Co.
Architect: AI Design Group
Start Date: December 2003
Completion Date: 2005

Description: George Sheild, owner and president of Charlotte-based Sheild Property Co., has lofty plans for his phased Ballantyne Village project, located in Charlotte's Ballantyne area. Sheild said the project will feature approximately 600,000 sq. ft. of mixed-use space, including retail, class-A office space and 160,000 sq. ft. of residential, including an estimated 110 luxury condominium units.

A two-level parking garage is also included. Sitework began in December.

Sheild is calling it "the perfect fusion of style and refinement." Company publicity information stated: "Ballantyne Village combines the best of Ballantyne with a unique, bold, dynamic, and quality-driven vision. Ballantyne Village … combines art deco echoes with modern materials and technologies."

13.) Project Title: 1180 Peachtree
Cost: $120,000,000
Location: Atlanta
Owner: Hines
Contractor: Turner Construction Co.
Architect: Pickard Chilton Architects
Start Date: October 2003
Completion Date: 2006

Description: 1180 Peachtree will be a new 41-story office tower at Peachtree and 14th streets in midtown Atlanta. The 670,000-sq.-ft. building will be constructed alongside the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's planned Symphony Hall.

The law firm King & Spaulding LLP will be a major tenant, leasing 416,000 sq. ft. on a total of 17 floors in the building, including the top 14 floors. The building will be financed and owned by National Office Partners Limited Partnership, a partnership of the California Public Employees' Retirement System and Hines, the project developer.

14.) Project Title: The Beach Club
Cost: $118,000,000
Location: Hallandale Beach, Fla.
Owner: The Related Group
Contractor: John Moriarty & Associates of Florida
Architect: The Sieger Suarez Architectural Partnership
Start Date: 2003
Completion Date: Early 2005

Description: John Moriarty & Associates of Hollywood is building the latest massive, luxury high-rise oceanfront condo, the $118 million Beach Club in Hallandale Beach for developer The Related Group. As construction started, the developer reported the new building was already 85 percent sold.

The 43-story tower will feature 386 units, ranging in price from $400,000 to $800,000. For more information, visit www.beachclubstyle.com

15.) Project Title: Lake Sumter Landing, The Villages
Cost: $117,000,000
Location: Lake Sumter, Fla.
Owner: The Villages
Contractor: Hoar Construction LLC
Architect: Hoar; Farmer Baker Barris = architect of record
Start Date: January 2003
Completion Date: August 2004

Description: Hoar Construction's Lake Sumter Landing project builds the town center portion of a residential community situated on 62 acres in Florida's Sumter County. The project includes office, retail, theaters, restaurants and other entertainment venues. It also includes a wharf, canal, lighthouse in the lake and all associated hardscape and landscaping.

Starting with virgin pasture land adjacent to a lake, the scope of work included all mass excavation, roads, utilities, creation of a wharf, steam, canal, enlarging the lake and constructing a heavily themed rural Florida wharf settlement including rail spurs, lighthouse, landscaping, hardscape and town square. Building construction includes one- and two-story office space, retail space, public area shade structures, transportation depot and entertainment venues along with conveniences such as an eight-screen, stadium-seat movie theater and a 2,000-ton capacity central energy plant.

16.) Project Title: Greensboro Western Loop
Cost: $116,470,217
Location: Greensboro, N.C.
Owner: North Carolina Division of Highways
Contractor: Archer Western Contractors
Engineer: HNTB
Start Date: 2003
Completion Date: 2007

Description: This project is another section of the Greensboro Urban Loop around the city of Greensboro. Archer Western's contract consists of 3.2 million cu. meters of borrow excavation and almost 1.6 million cu. meters of unclassified excavation, as well as 16,800 lin. meters of drainage pipe, 373 drainage structures and 6,500 lin. meters of sewer and water reconstruction.

According to the contractor, one of the project's largest challenges will be managing the 40 environmentally sensitive locations designated by the Corps of Engineers that Archer Western will encounter.

The project is designed to cross eight interior roadways, Interstate 85 and a Norfolk Southern Railway by way of 19 bridges, which together consist of approximately 33,519 sq. meters of reinforced deck slab, 767,000 Kg of rebar and 6,000 cu. meters of concrete. The project also includes the fabrication of six box culverts.

The roadway will consist of 254,000 sq. meters of lime-treated subbase, 394,200 sq. meters of concrete and 280,000 metric tons of asphalt.

17.) Project Title: BellaMaré Condominium
Cost: $115,000,000
Location: Williams Island, Fla.
Owner: WCI Communities
Contractor: Coastal Construction Services
Architect: Robert M. Swedroe
Start Date: Fall 2003
Completion Date: Spring 2005

Description: Coastal Construction Services of Miami is the general contractor for BellaMaré, the last residential tower on Williams Island. In addition to being the latest, it will also qualify as the greatest in some respects. At 1.3 million sq. ft., BellaMaré will be the largest condominium ever constructed by Coastal and the largest developed by Bonita Springs, Fla.-based developer WCI.

The design incorporates a two-story lobby, two-story social room with a kitchen and bar, movie theater with stadium seating, a fully equipped fitness center with locker and steam rooms, private breakfast club and lounge and executive boardroom.

Floor plans will range from 2,185 to 4,430 sq. ft.

18.) Project Title: Western Urban Loop
Cost: $102,000,000
Location: Greensboro, N.C.
Owner: North Carolina Department of Transportation
Contractor: APAC
Engineer: North Carolina Department of Transportation
Start Date: September 2003
Completion Date: July 2007

Description: Yet another section of North Carolina's emerging 41-mi. Greensboro Urban Loop project. Under this contract, Atlanta-based APAC will build a 4.3-mi. section from Interstate 40 to north of Bryan Boulevard.

19.) Project Title: Fuji Photo Film Manufacturing Plant Expansion
Cost: $100,000,000
Location: Greenwood, S.C.
Owner: Fuji Photo Film Co. Inc.
Contractor: Kajima International
Architect: Fuji Photo Film Co. Inc.
Start Date: March 2003
Completion Date: September 2004

Fuji Photo Film's $100 million expansion of its PS Plate factory in Greenwood, S.C., will enable it to expand production of computer-to-plate printing plates for the graphic arts industry. Company President Harry Watanabe said of the expansion project: "Use of digital CTP printing plates in the U.S. and Canada has grown tenfold in the past four years. This expansion will allow us to expand CTP production to meet the growing needs of our North American customers."

Kajima International - which has been working steadily at Fuji's Greenwood facility for the vast majority of the plant's operation since 1988 - is the contractor. Construction of this latest project was scheduled to conclude before the end of 2004.

"We're pleased to see one of our leading corporate citizens continue to bring new products and new expansions to our state," Gov. Mark Sanford said at the expansion announcement. "Fujifilm's $1.4 billion investment is definitely a nice shot in the arm for our economy."

Fuji Photo Film began manufacturing operations in South Carolina in 1988, when the company announced the construction of its first U.S. factory for the production of presensitized plates for the graphic arts market.

The Greenwood manufacturing complex currently has eight high-technology manufacturing plants, the Greenwood Research Laboratories and the largest Fujifilm distribution center in the world. The complex manufactures digital and conventional presensitized plates and film, 35mm color film and photographic paper, one-time-use recyclable cameras, computer data storage media, VHS-format videotape and medical imaging products.

20.) Project Title: Natural Gas Storage Tank and Process Piping Lines
Cost: $100,000,000
Location: Savannah, Ga.
Owner: Southern LNG
Contractor: Chicago Bridge & Iron Co.
Engineer: Chicago Bridge & Iron Co.
Start Date: June 2003
Completion Date: Spring 2006

Description: Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. of Pennsylvania is serving as the engineering-procurement-construction contractor for this $100 million project for Southern LNG near Savannah. This expansion will roughly double both the storage and send-out capacity of the existing LNG plant.

Kevin Landfried, project manager for CB&I, said the project was roughly 25 percent complete this spring, with foundations completed for the new tank. The double-wall, single-containment tank will provide roughly 160,000 cu. meters of storage and should be completed in August 2005.

It will measure approximately 260 ft. in diameter and rise to about 140 ft. in height, making it one of the largest LNG storage tanks in the country, Landfried said. Its inner ring will be constructed of 9 percent nickel steel. The outer ring will consist of carbon steel. Three feet of insulation will rest between the two rings.

21.) Project Title: McIntosh Power Plant, Savannah, Ga.
Cost: $99,000,000
Location: Rincon, Ga.
Owner: Southern Co.
Contractor: The Yates Cos.
Engineer: Southern Co.
Start Date: July 2003
Completion Date: June 2005

Description: Southern Power, the competitive wholesale generation subsidiary of Southern Co., is building two electric generating units in Effingham County, Ga., near the community of Rincon. Upon completion in June 2005, each unit will be capable of generating 620 MW.

The two McIntosh units will use natural-gas fueled, combined-cycle technology. Combined-cycle power plants produce high power outputs at high efficiencies and with low emissions.

Southern Power currently owns and operates more than 4,700 MW of competitive generation to serve the wholesale power market. That number will grow to 6,000 MW by mid-2005, when the two McIntosh units begin commercial operation.

22.)Project Title: Federal Correctional Institution
Cost: $96,498,472
Location: Butner, N.C.
Owner: Federal Bureau of Prisons, Washington, D.C.
Contractor: Hensel Phelps Construction Co.
Architect: Moseley Architects
Start Date: March 2003
Completion Date: October 2005

Description: Situated on 105 acres in Butner, N.C., this medium-security federal correctional institution will have a gross building area of approximately 484,376 sq. ft. and is designed to accommodate approximately 1,152 inmates. The "campus plan" arrangement will consist of 16 buildings along with related site development, utilities and an elevated water tank.

Hensel Phelps was one of only four contractors to land multiple projects on this year's "Top Projects" list.

23.)Project Title: Veracruz Condominium
Cost: $92,500,000
Location: Cape Marco, Fla.
Owner: WCI Communities
Contractor: Kraft Construction Co. Inc.
Architect: Curts Gaines Hall Architects
Start Date: Fall 2003
Completion Date: Fall 2005

Description: According to the general contractor, the Veracruz represents the sixth and final tower Kraft Construction Co. has built at Cape Marco and the company's 11th tower for developer WCI Communities of Bonita Springs, Fla.

The 25-story luxury condominium near Naples will measure roughly 850,000 sq. ft. Kraft officials expect the project to top off in August and obtain a certificate of occupancy by November 2005. The first elevated pour took place last November.

One of the building's unique features is a pool over a pool. This consists of a pool located at the third level that has clear acrylic lenses in its bottom, which allows swimmers to view the ground-level pool (known as the "grotto pool") below.

24.)Project Title: Lexington Medical Center
Cost: $90,000,000
Location: West Columbia, S.C.
Owner: Lexington Medical Center
Contractor: Turner Construction Co.
Architect: Perkins & Will
Start Date: 2003
Completion Date: November 2006

Description: Turner Construction Co. is serving as the prime contractor for this $90 million health-care project in West Columbia, S.C. Turner's contract includes the renovation of approximately 169,000 sq. ft. of existing space and the construction of an addition measuring roughly 273,000 sq. ft. to the existing hospital, including the construction of a 139,000-sq.-ft., 90-bed, six-story patient tower. The addition will feature a structural steel frame and an exterior skin built of masonry and precast concrete and metal panels.

This addition will nearly double the existing hospital space. When completed, the facility will offer 21 operating rooms, new patient staging and recovery areas, a clinical laboratory and an outpatient discharge area. The architect is Perkins & Will of Charlotte.

25.)Project Title: Pelham Wastewater Treatment Plant
Cost: $88,522,000
Location: Greenville, S.C.
Owner: Western Carolina Regional Sewer Authority
Contractor: Pizzagalli Construction Co.
Engineer: Black & Veatch
Start Date: June 2003
Completion Date: June 2007

Description: Pizzagalli Construction Co. is the contractor for this tripling of the Pelham Wastewater Treatment Plant's capacity, from 7.5 million gallons per day to 22.5 mgd. The project includes construction of a new headworks structure, including holding basin, primary sludge pumping station and primary recycle pumping station. The project will add new primary clarifiers, new influent pumps, new final clarifiers, ultraviolet disinfection, deep-bed filtration and anaerobic digestion processes.

26.) Project Title: F. Wayne Hill Phase 2, Contract 4
Cost: $85,319,000
Location: Gwinnett County, Ga.
Owner: Gwinnett County, Ga.
Contractor: Western Summit Constructors
Engineer: A joint venture of Jordan Jones & Goulding, CH2M Hill and PPI
Start Date: 2003
Completion Date: January 2006

Description: The $400 million expansion of the F. Wayne Hill Water Resources Center, an advanced water reclamation facility in fast-growing Gwinnett County, Ga., will triple the plant's capacity by the middle of 2005. One of the latest contracts to be awarded was Western Summit Constructors' Contract #4.

Western Summit's contract includes installation of chemical clarifiers and membrane filters and the construction of a support building. There also will be the addition of five new diesel generators and relocation of two others.

The contractor indicated the 50-mgd membrane facility that was installed as part of Contract 4 is the largest of its kind in the United States. Western Summit is self performing more than 70 percent of the work on this jobsite and is expected to be completed in January 2006.

27.) Project Title: South Miami Hospital Expansion and Renovation
Cost: $80,000,000
Location: South Miami, Fla.
Owner: Baptist Health Systems of South Florida
Contractor: Turner Construction Co.
Architect: HLM Architects
Start Date: 2003
Completion Date: 2010

Description: Turner Construction Co. is providing preconstruction and construction management-at-risk services for a 17-phased expansion/renovation of the South Miami Hospital Campus. This project will include an expansion of the existing emergency room, a rehabilitation center, nursing stations and additional energy plants.

28.)Project Title: St. Regis Hotel
Cost: $80,000,000
Location: Fort Lauderdale
Owner: Castillo Grand LLC
Contractor: AMEC
Architect: Arquitectonica
Start Date: July 2003
Completion Date: March 2005

Description: The St. Regis Hotel and Residences is one of 13 worldwide and the first to have a condominium component. The 23-story tiered tower sits on an expansive podium containing a 22,000-sq.-ft. pool deck complete. The hotel will include 191 guest rooms and suites, 20 designer-furnished, private club units and 27 penthouse residences in the tower. Interior features include customized European wood kitchens, marble bathrooms and marble floors throughout. The private club units will each have their own balcony overlooking the Atlantic Ocean or the Intracoastal Waterway.

29.) Project Title: Bath Club
Cost: $75,200,000
Location: Miami Beach
Owner: Donahue Peebles
Contractor: Turner Construction Co.
Architect: Revuelta Vega Leon, Miami
Start Date: 2003
Completion Date: January 2005

Description: Turner Construction Co. is providing construction management-at-risk services for this 19-story, 460,000-sq.-ft. condominium containing 112 units. Also included will be six villas, 60 cabana units overlooking the ocean and a two-level parking deck containing 250 spaces. Renovation of the existing 19,500-sq.-ft. Bath Club is also included in the contract.

30.) Project Title: Arnold Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies
Cost: $75,000,000
Location: Orlando
Owner: Orlando Regional Healthcare
Contractor: The Robins & Morton Group
Architect: Jonathan Bailey Associates
Engineer: HLM
Start Date: 2003
Completion Date: Late 2005

Description: The Robins & Morton Group is constructing the new 400,000-sq.-ft. Arnold Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies at the Orlando Regional Healthcare campus. The new 13-story, 273-bed facility will provide expanded facilities and services including: 112 NICU beds; 30 labor-and-delivery rooms; and eight operating rooms. Nine of the 11 floors will be completed at opening, with two additional floors available to accommodate future growth