Balfour Beatty to Deliver Healthcare Facilities in Midlands

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Balfour Beatty has been awarded England’s £267-million Midland Metropolitan Hospital contract on behalf of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. Having been appointed to deliver the early works contract in 2018, Balfour Beatty will now progress with the main construction works to the 80,000-square-meter hospital, including the completion of the external façade and all associated mechanical, electrical and plumbing services, delivered by Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick. The 670-bed Midland Metropolitan Hospital will offer maternity, children’s and inpatient adult facilities to a half million people. Located in Smethwick, the hospital will remain the closest acute hospital to the center of Birmingham […]

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Bechtel, Enka Partner to Build ‘5G Motorway’ in Serbia

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A joint venture between Bechtel and Enka has won a contract tendered by the government of Serbia for a 112-kilometer motorway. The dual carriageway will link the central Serbian towns of Pojate and Preljina, and will connect to the north-south motorway running between Hungary and North Macedonia. It will also link with trans-European corridors X and XI, which connect Austria with Greece and Italy with Romania. Bechtel describes the development as “5G ready,” since a telecom corridor will be dug underneath the side of the road to allow for future 5G fiber and tower installations. The Bechtel and Enka team […]

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2019 Design-Build Project/Team Award Winners Announced

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From university buildings to office transformations, this year’s 2019 Design-Build Project/Team Award winners are the best Design-Build projects in the nation and demonstrate how Design-Build Done Right continues to deliver project innovation and savings to communities from coast to coast. This year’s winners were announced at the 2019 Design-Build Awards Dinner during the Design-Build Conference & Expo. Design-Build Project of the Year Sharp Chula Vista Ocean View Tower Design-Build National Awards of Excellence Excellence Award winners are the best in their category or excelled in one of the key components vital to Design-Build success including design, process and teaming. DBIA […]

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Public-Private Partnership Delivers New Boston Sports Institute

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The new Boston Sports Institute, a 130,000-square-foot professional sports grade facility in MetroWest Boston, Massachusetts, has recently been completed by Dacon. BSI encompasses two NHL hockey rinks for skating, sled and ice hockey; a suspended track, indoor turf field, therapy pool and competitive repurposed pool from the 2012 Olympic trials. Most notably, it was in this pool that Ryan Lochte qualified for the Summer Olympics 200-meter backstroke and 400-meter medley. BSI fills a unique gap in the MetroWest landscape – despite a high density of Boston-based universities, academic institutions and wealthy suburbs, it is the only facility in the region […]

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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 […]

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