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Buried Bridges Elevate Fort Lauderdale Runway
05/06/13 By Scott Judy and Aileen Cho
Contractors and engineers are facing tricky site conditions as they race to build Fort Lauderdale airport’s elevated, sloping runway.

Rendering courtesy of Tutor Perini/Baker Construction Joint Venture

Top Southeast Starts Reflect a Rejuvenated Residential Market
03/11/13 By Scott Judy
High-profile condo projects returned to the Top Starts ranking in full force, signaling another boom period for Miami

Image courtesy of Hensel Phelps Construction

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05/20/13	PortMiami TBM Completes Final Tunnel Bore By Scott Judy Tunnel crews with Bouygues Civil Works Florida completed the last leg of mining for the second of two, twin 4,200-ft-long tunnels for the $1-billion PortMiami tunnel project.
03/05/13	At Cape Canaveral, a Powerful Launch By Scott Judy FPL has rebuilt its Cape Canaveral plant to use natural gas and, with the help of the world’s most efficient turbines, generate more power with fewer emissions.
02/06/13	VA Issues 'Show Cause' Notice to Brasfield & Gorrie By Scott Judy The Dept. of Veterans Affairs has now issued a Show Cause notice to contractor Brasfield & Gorrie.
01/14/13	University of Florida Creates a High-Tech Community at its Doorstep By Jim Parsons The university is following in the footsteps of other schools by masterminding a mixed-use village for high-tech companies.
11/05/12	Atlanta Humane Society Renovates Mansell Campus Conditions outside its control left the contractor just four months to convert an existing auto dealership into an animal adoption facility.
11/05/12	Blue Ridge Dam Rehab Improves Safety, Eliminates Drawdowns A dam penstock damaged 80 years ago got a permanent fix in this Georgia civil project.
11/05/12	Boeing 787 Project Flies High Over Industrial The largest single private capital investment in South Carolina’s history was completed on schedule and under budget.
11/05/12	Builders Eyed Details On Alabama Federal Building and Courthouse A $48.6-million federal building and courthouse is the latest addition to downtown Tuscaloosa, Ala.
11/05/12	Builders Piece Together Legoland Florida at Record Pace PCL Construction Services built Legoland Florida faster than any other Legoland park in the world.
11/05/12	Builders Use Energetic Approach for Oak Ridge National Lab's Chemical, Material Sciences Building McCarthy Building Cos. and Cannon Design broke new ground when the team used BIM and CM at-risk for the first time on a DOE project.
11/05/12	Casa Verde Pushes Limits of Residential Sustainability The Florida single-family residence earned LEED-Platinum certification, among numerous other sustainability ratings.
11/05/12	Cumberland Park Revives Nashville's Riverfront At the time of the flooding, the project team was still in the stage of producing construction documents.
11/05/12	Duke Institute Escalates War on Cancer Duke University Health System’s new Cancer Institute showcases the owner’s commitment to improving its health-care services.
11/05/12	ENR Southeast Recognizes Best Projects of 2012 By Scott Judy For the 12th year, ENR Southeast has recognized the region’s best construction and design efforts.
11/05/12	Estiatorio Milos Raises Bar for Restaurants For this project in Miami Beach, contractors converted a dilapidated warehouse into an upscale Greek restaurant.
11/05/12	Fort Benning Gateway Honors U.S. Army Men and Women Four large statues and pillars were installed over a major freeway interchange with no traffic stoppage.
11/05/12	Freedom Tower's Restoration Revives Immigration Icon The historic restoration of Miami’s Freedom Tower marked the iconic structure’s first-ever top-to-bottom exterior renovation.
11/05/12	General Funding Office Building To meet the owner’s demand for faster completion, the general contractor resequenced the building’s erection plan.
11/05/12	Georgia Tech Lab Pushes Carbon Neutrality The newest lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology will study carbon neutral technologies, while also being carbon neutral.
11/05/12	Jacksonville Humane Society Animal Hospital Rises From Ashes This small animal clinic and adoption center replaces a Florida facility destroyed by fire.
11/05/12	Lynch Replacement Elementary School Earns High Marks The general contractor for a prototype elementary school project found a way to build the replacement facility in record time.
11/05/12	Marlins Park Garages Project Impacts Local Community On this mixed-use project, the contractor achieved a 30% local participation rate, and came in roughly 10% under budget.
11/05/12	Marlins Park Named Southeast Project of the Year By Scott Judy Showcasing engineering savvy, nontraditional design and a strong lineup of construction achievements, Miami’s Marlins Park has been named ENR Southeast’s Project of the Year.
11/05/12	Medicago USA Vaccine Research Facility The design-build team of KBR Building Group and Clark Nexsen earned an Award of Merit for designing and constructing the 97,000-sq-ft research and production center in just 12 months.
11/05/12	Medical Center of Trinity Project Earns Safety Kudos Lend Lease’s management of the HCA medical center project in New Port Richey, Fla., resulted in no OSHA recordable incidents.
11/05/12	MIA's Elevated Rail Line is Tops in Transportation, Safety A rail project at Miami International Airport earned Best Projects honors as the Southeast’s top transportation project, and for exhibiting the best overall safety program and record.
11/05/12	Project Forward Moves Ahead This project used prefabrication of mechanical and electrical components.
11/05/12	St. Regis Bal Harbour Stakes High-Rise Residential's Return The project required the construction of three 27-story towers, but one of the biggest challenges was below the water table.
11/05/12	Sustainable Fellwood Lives Up to Name Sustainable Fellwood marks the redevelopment of a 27-acre public-housing site near Savannah, Ga.’s historic district.
11/05/12	Think Tank Office Space Breaks With Traditional The small office space project uses modern materials in a traditional Savannah, Ga., neighborhood.
11/05/12	University of North Florida Science and Humanities Building The project won an Award of Merit in the Higher Education/Research category.
11/05/12	Yellow River Treatment Plant Upgrade Consolidates Six Facilities This $245-million water reclamation upgrade saves a county near Atlanta more than $2.4 million in operating costs annually.
10/17/12	Duke Study: Crystal River Nuke Repairs Could Hit $3.4B By Housley Carr Fixing the damaged reinforced-concrete containment building at the long-idled Crystal River-3 nuclear unit in Florida will cost more than the $1.3 billion estimated by Progress Energy Florida and take longer than the utility's original 24- to 30-month estimate.
09/10/12	Digital Tools Help Maintain Library's Swift Pace By Scott Judy Builders emphasized digital collaboration tools to meet daunting schedule and design challenges on a high-tech library project at North Carolina State University.
08/22/12	Congress Seeks Elusive Answers About Troubled VA Project By Scott Judy Congress is seeking answers about the troubled VA hospital project in Orlando. But the question of whether the contractor will remain on the job remains.
08/16/12	$1B Atlanta Intermodal Project Wins Federal Acceleration By Scott Judy A $1-billion intermodal center being developed in Atlanta via a public-private partnership received a boost from the White House recently that could help accelerate the project by as much as a year, officials say.
07/02/12	Tampa's Elevated Connector Tests the Team By Scott Judy Private-sector financing, spaghetti-like flyovers and subsurface surprises are ramping up tension at the $412-million highway that links Interstate 4 and the Selmon Expressway.
05/23/12	Rare 'Turbine' Design for Charlotte's I-85/485 Interchange By Jim Parsons, with Aileen Cho North Carolina's sprawling upgrade of the Interstate 85/485 interchange near Charlotte, N.C., is proving that a bigger design can actually deliver significant cost savings.
05/07/12	Georgia Tech Builds Carbon-Neutral Lab to Study Carbon Neutrality By Scott Judy Unlike most laboratories, Georgia Tech’s is designed as both an energy miser and a prototype for net-zero energy-use research facilities.
04/02/12	Bahamas Resort to Utilize Seawater-Sourced Cooling By Jim Parsons The $100-million, 12,000-ton system, developed by Ocean Thermal Energy Corp., will service the 3.5-million-sq-ft resort’s chilled-water needs with 40º F seawater drawn from a depth of more than 3,600 ft in the open Atlantic Ocean.
03/30/12	Apple Gets Boost From Sun for iCloud Data Center By Jack Buehrer With its newest data center in North Carolina, Apple is hoping to get a boost from the sun to power its rapidly growing cloud services.
03/12/12	Building Critical Biomass By Pam Radtke Russell One of the nation’s largest biomass plants is pushing the limits of industry adoption and public acceptance.
03/12/12	Markets Stay Static for Southeast's Major Projects By Scott Judy Power, health care and public construction projects again dominated ENR Southeast's annual Top Starts ranking.
02/06/12	Is a Revival on the Horizon for Historic Miami Marine Stadium? By David Sokol The Miami City Commission is deliberating whether to give a nonprofit group the green light to rehabilitate Miami Marine Stadium, an abandoned Modernist landmark designed in 1963 by then 27-year-old Cuban-American architect Hilario Candela.
01/24/12	ENR Southeast Announces 'Top Starts' Call for Entries By Scott Judy The March 12, 2012, issue of ENR Southeast magazine will feature a ranking of the region’s Top Project Starts in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas that broke ground in 2011.
01/09/12	Marlins' Retractable Roof Braces Itself for Storms By Debra Wood Hurricane-mode openings between retractable panels reduce sail effect, save on steel at nation’s first movable roof designed to resist 146-mph winds
11/07/11	Atlanta Airport Gateway Marriott, Atlanta The Atlanta Airport Gateway Marriott was recognized in the Multi-Family/Residential category.
11/07/11	Balfour Beatty Construction Carolinas Headquarters, Charlotte, N.C. Balfour Beatty’s renovation of a former film studio into its own office space received recognition in ENR Southeast’s Best Projects competition.
11/07/11	BRAC 133, Alexandria, Va. The project won an “Award of Merit” in the Government/Public Building category of the annual competition.
11/07/11	Bread for the City, Washington, D.C. By Debra Wood The $3.7-million, 12,227-sq-ft Bread for the City expansion project in Washington, D.C., delivered additional space to a nonprofit organization providing food, medical care, legal advice and comprehensive social services to low-income residents.
11/07/11	Bridge of Lions Historic Restoration By Scott Judy The restoration also brings the bridge up to current engineering standards.
11/07/11	Bridgewater Office Fitout, Fairfax, Va. By Debra Wood Balfour Beatty Construction’s fit-out of its regional headquarters in Virginia wins Best Office award.
11/07/11	Cape Coral Facilities and Utilities Expansion Program By Debra Wood Cape Coral Facilities and Utilities Expansion Program recognized as Best Civil/Public Works project.
11/07/11	Cullman Regional Medical Center Emergency Department Expansion, Cullman, Ala. Health-care specialist Robins & Morton of Birmingham, Ala., built the project, recognized in the Small Projects category.
11/07/11	Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Fla. By Scott Judy New 66,400-sq-ft facility is as flamboyant as the Spanish artist Salvador Dali himself.
11/07/11	ENR Southeast Recognizes the Region's Best By Scott Judy This year's judges recognized 35 projects from the states of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
11/07/11	Florida International University School of International and Public Affairs, Miami The LEED Gold school in Miami features an auditorium that is cantilevered 40 ft outward.
11/07/11	Georgia Health Sciences University, College of Dental Medicine, Augusta, Ga. By Scott Judy The 267,000-sq-ft facility delivers state-of-the-art technology for dental education.
11/07/11	Gunther Volkswagen, Buford, Ga. Choate Construction’s Gunther Volkswagen project wins Award of Merit in the Retail/Mixed-Use Development category of ENR Southeast’s Best Projects competition.
11/07/11	Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital, Hollywood, Fla. By Scott Judy The project, which incorporates a design that is intended to influence patient behavior, was designed to meet LEED-Gold standards.
11/07/11	JW Marriott Marquis Miami, Miami By Scott Judy The project features a JW Marriott Marquis and a three-story Hotel Beaux Arts.
11/07/11	Legg Mason/Four Seasons, Baltimore By Debra Wood The Legg Mason World Headquarters/Four Seasons hotel project in Baltimore wins Retail/Mixed-Use Development award from ENR Southeast
11/07/11	Merck Vaccine Bulk Manufacturing Facility By Scott Judy Merck’s new Vaccine Bulk Manufacturing Facility beat industry and Merck milestones for delivery.
11/07/11	Miami Airport Skytrain and Regional Commuter Facility, Miami The new facilities include a mile-long, rooftop Skytrain Automated People Mover system at the North Terminal.
11/07/11	NASA Langley Research Center Headquarters, Hampton, Va. By Scott Judy The office building project in Hampton, Va., attained LEED-Platinum status.
11/07/11	National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Campus East, Fort Belvoir, Va. By Scott Judy The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency project is the largest delivered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since the Pentagon in 1943.
11/07/11	New World Symphony Campus Expansion, Miami Beach Florida’s only Frank Gehry-designed project—the New World Symphony Campus expansion in Miami Beach—wins Award of Merit.
11/07/11	P3 Delivery Drives Construction Speed on Florida's I-595 Project By Debra Wood The $1.8-billion contract represents the first use of availability payments in the United States.
11/07/11	Palm Avenue Parking Garage, Sarasota, Fla. The Palm Avenue Parking Garage achieves a signature look for the City of Sarasota, Fla.
11/07/11	Pentagon Renovation Flies Under the Radar By Scott Judy The $1.6-billion project involved 4.5 million sq ft of renovation and lasted nearly 10 years.
11/07/11	Piedmont Park North Woods Expansion, Atlanta By Scott Judy Brasfield and Gorrie served as the general contractor for this multi-phase expansion to an Atlanta landmark, the 116-year-old Piedmont Park.
11/07/11	Rolls-Royce Crosspointe, Prince George Co., Va. Crosspointe is the first Rolls-Royce manufacturing campus built from the ground up in the U.S.
11/07/11	Sarasota County Technical Institute, Sarasota, Fla. After first being bid in September 2008, construction was put on hold due to funding issues. The project was re-bid and was built for $32 million, or $6 million below the original budget.
11/07/11	Stoddert Elementary School and Community Center, Washington, D.C. By Scott Judy The project was recognized for its fast-paced delivery and sustainability.
11/07/11	Suncoast High School, Riviera Beach, Fla. The project in Palm Beach County, Fla., included extensive site-decontamination efforts.
11/07/11	U.S. Southern Command Headquarters The $280-million project enables the Southern Command to consolidate the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and other federal agencies.
11/07/11	University of Georgia, Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall Expansion, Athens, Ga. By Debra Wood The hall complex serves as the everyday home of the University of Georgia Bulldogs.
11/07/11	University of Georgia, Stegeman Coliseum Renovation The renovation and expansion upgrades the fan experience.
11/07/11	University of Virginia Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center, Charlottesville, Va. The cancer center facility was designed to LEED-Silver status.
11/07/11	University of Virginia South Lawn Arts and Science Complex, Charlottesville, Va. The LEED Gold building fulfills Thomas Jefferson’s original intent for the Virginia campus.
11/07/11	Virginia Polytechnic State University Visitors and Undergraduate Admissions Center, Blacksburg, Va. The 50,000-sq-ft, Gothic-style, steel-framed structure features an exterior of Hokie stone and architectural precast.
11/07/11	Virginia Tech/Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute A fast-tracked approach shaved more than 10 months off of the design and construction schedule.
11/07/11	Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta The re-glazing of the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta is recognized in the Renovation/Restoration category of ENR Southeast’s Best Projects competition.
09/12/11	Speed Drives the Work On Boeing 'Dream' Plant By Scott Judy Teaser
07/04/11	Boring Down on Miami's Big Dig By Debra Wood A $1-billion public-private partnership expects to begin the nation’s largest “soft-ground” tunnel project this fall.
05/09/11	Getting Schooled in The Art of Net Zero By Scott Judy The builders of a super-green expansion and renovation of Clemson University's school of architecture, a project featuring geothermal wells, operable windows and daylighting, are finding that connecting with the environment is easier said than done, especially when Mother Nature intervenes.
03/07/11	Constructing for Cleaner Coal Capabilities Power giant Duke Energy is getting down and dirty as it spends more than $2 billion to upgrade its Cliffside Steam Station, in rural North Carolina, with advanced clean-coal technology. The builders attribute much of the job’s success to date to a collaborative team approach and a strategy that involves site preassembly of powerplant components.
03/07/11	Top Project Starts: Power and Life Are Driving Forces for Major Projects The Top Starts ranking of the Southeast’s largest projects under way is a yearly glimpse into the heart of a regional market.
01/05/11	Building Legoland, One Block at a Time Last year, an estimated 350 people representing specialty contractors flocked to a pre-bid meeting regarding construction of a 145-acre Legoland Florida theme park on the site of the former Cypress...
12/15/10	The Southeast's Best Projects of 2010 The Southeast’s construction and design industries may have taken a hit during the recent economic downturn, but construction and design excellence is still in abundant supply throughout the region,...
11/01/10	A Health-Care Comeback? By Debra Wood 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.
11/01/10	Duke Energy Center Certified Platinum By Debra Wood 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 By Debra Wood ‘Hotlanta’ has cooled off, but government and industrial work has picked up in other parts of the state.
09/01/10	South Florida Report: Another Dry Season By Debra Wood 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	Warning: Post-ARRA Depression Ahead By Debra Wood 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...
08/24/10	SLIDESHOW: Duke Energy Center, Charlotte, N.C., Earns LEED Platinum The $390-million Duke Energy Center in Charlotte, N.C., recently attained LEED Platinum status in the U.S. Green Building Council’s Core and Shell version 2.0 program.
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.
07/01/10	Interstate 595 Corridor Improvements Concessionaire I-595 Express is leading the largest public-private partnership—and the biggest contract overall—in the history of the Florida Dept. of Transportation.
07/01/10	SR 826/SR 836 Interchange Reconstruction The $559-million reconstruction of the interchange connecting State Road 826 (Palmetto Expressway) and SR 836 (Dolphin Expressway), one of the most heavily congested areas in Miami-Dade County,...
07/01/10	Florida Marlins Ballpark The new home for the Florida Marlins will be a baseball-only facility constructed on approximately 17 acres in the Little Havana section of Miami, at the former site of the Orange Bowl.
07/01/10	Cane Island Power Park The addition of the fourth, $479-million power-generating unit at the Cane Island Power Park near Intercession City in Osceola County, Fla., will produce 300 megawatts of electricity for the Florida...
07/01/10	Western Wake Freeway Raleigh-Durham Roadbuilders, a joint venture of Archer Western Contractors of Atlanta and Granite Construction Co. of Watsonville, Calif., was hired by the North Carolina Turnpike Authority to construct...
07/01/10	University Report Card: Higher-Ed Market Falls Behind By Debra Wood 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...
05/01/10	Performing Arts Center Set for Fall Groundbreaking By Debra Wood 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...
05/01/10	Orlando Report: The Roller Coaster Ride Continues By Debra Wood 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? By Jim Parsons New faces are nothing new in the Carolinas, which have long been among the nation’s fastest-growing states.
05/01/10	Championship Run By Scott Judy and Debra Wood 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 By Jim Parsons 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	GSA Goes Green By Debra Wood 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...
03/01/10	Finally Building the Duval Co. Courthouse By Scott Judy It’s been a long time coming, but the final piece of the city of Jacksonville’s Better Jacksonville Plan is finally becoming a reality.
03/01/10	Digging Deep: South Cobb Tunnel The Atlanta area is home to some of the biggest sewer and water projects in the four-state region, and the South Cobb Tunnel is one of the largest.
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 By Debra Wood Miami construction starts have slowed dramatically, and contractors are attempting to stay busy working on publicly funded projects.
02/09/10	Game Changer By Jim Parsons 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...
02/09/10	Above and Beyond: Raising Crane Safety Awareness By Tudor Van Hampton 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.

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