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Georgia Tech Builds Carbon-Neutral Lab to Study Carbon Neutrality 05/07/12 Unlike most laboratories, Georgia Tech’s is designed as both an energy miser and a prototype for net-zero energy-use research facilities. Photo courtesy Gilbane Building Co. |
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Bahamas Resort to Utilize Seawater-Sourced Cooling 04/02/12 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. Image courtesy DCO Energy LLC |
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| 03/30/12 | Apple Gets Boost From Sun for iCloud Data Center 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 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 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? 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 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 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. 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 The restoration also brings the bridge up to current engineering standards. |
| 11/07/11 | Bridgewater Office Fitout, Fairfax, Va. 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 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. 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 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. 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. 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 The project features a JW Marriott Marquis and a three-story Hotel Beaux Arts. |
| 11/07/11 | Legg Mason/Four Seasons, Baltimore 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 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. The office building project in Hampton, Va., attained LEED-Platinum status. |
| 11/07/11 | National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Campus East, Fort Belvoir, Va. 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 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 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 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. 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. 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 Teaser |
| 07/04/11 | Boring Down on Miami's Big Dig 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 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? 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 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 | 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 | 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... |
| 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 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 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 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 | 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... |
| 03/01/10 | Finally Building the Duval Co. Courthouse 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 Miami construction starts have slowed dramatically, and contractors are attempting to stay busy working on publicly funded projects. |
| 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... |
| 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. |
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