Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has awarded a construction management-at-risk contract to the joint venture team of Holder, Manhattan, Moody, and Hunt to construct the 1.2 million-sq.-ft. Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. International Terminal.

The partners include Holder Construction Co. of Atlanta, Manhattan Construction Co. of Dallas and Houston, C.D. Moody Construction of Atlanta, and Hunt Construction Group of Indianapolis.

The team will manage all safety, diversity, construction phasing, scheduling, and cost estimating. Currently, the total value of work for which the team will be responsible is estimated at $746 million.

Bids for the project's terminal structure, paving, interior finishes, electrical and mechanical systems, parking decks and other components are estimated to total $650 million.

The city anticipates occupancy in the spring of 2008.

Honda to Build $100 Million Plant in Tallapoosa, Ga.

Honda recently announced plans to build a $100 million plant in Tallapoosa, 40 mi. west of Atlanta, to produce automatic transmissions. The Georgia plant news was part of a broader announcement by Honda to invest approximately $270 million in North American production facilities.

In Georgia, Honda will construct its 13th plant in North America, a 250,000-sq.-ft. facility that will begin assembly of automatic transmissions in fall 2006. At full capacity, the plant will produce 300,000 transmissions per year in support of production of Honda Odyssey minivans and Pilot SUVs at Honda's manufacturing plant in Lincoln, Ala., 60 mi. west of the Tallapoosa plant.

Nonbuilding Sector Leads 26 Percent Increase in Georgia Contracts

Due to significant gain in the nonbuilding construction category, the value of contracts for future construction in the state of Georgia increased by 26 percent in November, compared to the same period of a year ago, McGraw-Hill Construction reported. Overall, contracts for the month totaled approximately $1.8 billion, compared to last year's $1.5 billion pace.

Nonbuilding's total for November was roughly $402.7 million, compared to the $137.1 million for the same period a year ago. The biggest sector, residential, improved by 9 percent to total approximately $1 billion for the month, up from last year's $937.5 million figure. Nonresidential contracts also increased, by 8 percent from a year ago, to total nearly $422.5 million.

Year-to-date, Georgia activity is 17 percent ahead of 2003's pace, with about $21.7 billion in contracts reported. Residential is 23 percent ahead of the first 11 months of 2003, with approximately $13.5 billion in new contracts. Nonresidential is 8 percent ahead of a year ago, with roughly $5.4 billion reported to date. Also, with its November jump, the nonbuilding category is now 13 percent ahead, with nearly $2.9 billion in new contracts reported.

MACTEC Wins Georgia DNR Contract for UST Support

MACTEC has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division for underground storage tank technical support.

The firm will be providing a variety of services covering petroleum-contaminated sites eligible for the State Trust Fund and 'orphan' sites funded by the Environmental Protection Agency Leaking Underground Storage Tank grants.