NGA Breaks Ground on New facility in North St. Louis

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency recently hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for its new campus in North St. Louis, Missouri, beginning a new chapter for the agency. The new NGA campus location puts it in the heart of a community of outstanding academic institutions and cutting-edge industry. It is scheduled to be open and fully operational by 2025. The new facility will include approximately 712,000 square feet of office space, parking garages, a visitor’s center, an inspection facility and control access points. Plans are for the facility to include wireless technologies – which, while standard in private industry, has been a challenge … Read more

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NCCER, BYF Congratulate 5th Annual I BUILT THIS! Video Contest Winners

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NCCER and Build Your Future have announced the winners of the fifth annual I BUILT THIS! video contest. Intended to help promote construction as an industry of choice, the contest showcases outstanding construction projects from the unique perspective of trainees, students and instructors. NCCER and BYF congratulate the winners for all five categories: Jordan Stambaugh and Gavin Rouse of Carroll County Career and Technology Center in Westminster, Maryland (group secondary); Moshe Udy and Curtis Choi of ABC Southern California in Anaheim (group postsecondary); Joey Arrington of Carroll County Career and Technology Center (individual secondary); Russ Jackson of Southern Air in … Read more

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Construction Complete on Silicon Valley’s Sunnyvale Hilton Garden Inn

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The Sunnyvale Hilton Garden Inn, located in California’s Silicon Valley, has recently been completed. The project team included Sundt Construction, Inc. and Architectural Dimensions. According to Jim Larrieu, vice president and Sacramento regional director for Sundt’s Building Group, the property “will equip guests with the amenities and workspace close to technology companies like Google, Apple and Facebook.” Sundt served as the construction manager at risk for the $47.2-million hotel project. The six-story, full-service hotel includes 238 guestrooms and provides a mixed-occupancy space with meeting rooms, bars and luxury lounges, a full-service kitchen, dining areas, outdoor patio spaces, a pool and … Read more

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Marcum Commercial Construction Q3 Index Reports Construction Industry Healthy Heading into 2020

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The Marcum Commercial Construction Index for the third quarter of 2019 finds the industry in overall good health as 2020 approaches, despite some causes for concern. Entitled The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, the report is produced by Marcum LLP’s Construction Services Group. The good On the positive side, Marcum’s third-quarter index points to increased public construction spending, growing backlogs, falling input prices, the ongoing U.S. economic expansion, a strong construction labor market and interest rate cuts as key factors sustaining the construction industry’s momentum. Highlights noted include: A 1.5% increase in public construction spending in September and a … Read more

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Blach Construction, Superintendent Awarded Safety Honors by AGC

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The Associated General Contractors of California Construction recognized Blach Construction during its recent Safety in Excellence Awards luncheon. The company received second place in the Building Division (under 400,000 worker hours) and veteran Superintendent Mike Harney was awarded the Individual Safety Effort of a Project Superintendent Award. In 2018, Blach received the third-place award in the same Building Division category. “Safety is not simply a category we check off for each of our projects – it permeates our culture and every aspect of what we do at Blach,” said Dan Rogers, Blach president. “We are the sum of our people … Read more

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