Historic Renovations Transform New Animal Care and Control Facility in San Francisco

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The Clark Construction team has seismically retrofitted and renovated a 116-year-old historic structure to house the new San Francisco Animal Care and Control Facility in California. The modern, 65,000-square-foot multilevel facility is a transformative veterinarian care center featuring an animal hospital with specialty clinical and emergency room space, medical laboratory, X-ray and infirmary isolation functions. The project consisted of two adjacent buildings, the Burke Warehouse and the 1419 Bryan Street Building, constructed in 1893. The building, which survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent citywide fire, retains its historic brick façade and industrial wood windows. Clark achieved the complexities … Read more

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The Spiral at 66 Hudson Boulevard in New York City Tops Out

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The final beam was raised more than 1,000 feet to celebrate the official topping out of The Spiral at 66 Hudson Boulevard, a commercial skyscraper in Hudson Yards that will represent the future of connected workspace for industry leaders in New York City. Built by Turner Construction Company, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and developed by Tishman Speyer, The Spiral occupies a full block and will yield 2.85 million square feet of office space. Pfizer, the biopharmaceutical company that recently co-developed the first Covid-19 vaccine, will move its global headquarters to 746,000 square feet across 14 floors of the 65-story … Read more

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Innovative Solutions Unveil 85-Foot-Tall River Ceiling at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

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Innovative solutions recently unveiled the 85-foot-tall river ceiling at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for its North Satellite Modernization Project, located in Washington. The Hensel Phelps’ Pacific Northwest team was tasked with building the towering ceiling. During the early planning stages, it was determined that a scaffold would be the best way to build it. The challenge: suspending a scaffold above the main passenger corridor currently serving 10 operational gates for Alaska Airlines, while simultaneously completing work above. Through innovative thinking and careful planning, the team decided temporary steel beams spanning across a 46-foot gap between roof trusses would carry a scaffold … Read more

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Construction on University of Alabama at Birmingham Stadium Celebrates Women at Work

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Construction on Protective Stadium is progressing on schedule, slated for completion in time for the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s fall 2021 football season. With oversight by the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex, this highly complex construction project calls on the expertise of architects, engineers, designers, project managers, suppliers and trade professionals of many disciplines. As the construction industry recently marked Women in Construction Week March 7-13, the BJCC spotlighted the women working on the Protective Stadium project. According to the National Association of Women in Construction, the focus of Women in Construction Week is to highlight women as a viable component … Read more

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Completion of Multi-Level Parking Garage Signifies Milestone in $65M Downtown Tucson Improvement Project

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Construction of a new multi-level parking structure on the east side of the Tucson Convention Center located in Tucson, Arizona, was recently completed—a significant milestone in the $65-million downtown improvement project. Sundt Construction, Inc. and its partner, Concord General Contracting, completed the structure a week ahead of the expected completion. Swaim Associates served as the architect on the project. The new vertical-precast concrete parking structure adds 392 parking spaces for the convention center, on what used to be a single lot.; the project also included site improvements. Inside the TCC, the joint-venture is wrapping up renovating and expanding the main … Read more

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