STORRS, Conn. — The University of Connecticut has chosen KBE Building Corp. to design and build a new $79-million, multi-story residence and science, technology, engineering and math building at its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut. KBE will serve as design-builder and constructor for the 210,000-square-foot building, which will contain a STEM educational component and 727 student beds, including 23 that are compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The new building will be located west of Sherman Field and adjacent to the existing Hale and Ellsworth dormitories. The project is the first project awarded under the University’s Next Gen building […]

MT. VERNON, IOWA — The Tilt-Up Concrete Association has announced the winners for the 2014 Alphonse Engelman Safety Awards. The TCA created the awards program in order to recognize the contractors in the industry committed to maintaining safe working environments on their jobsites. In 2007, this program was renamed “The Alphonse Engelman Safety Awards Program” in honor of past TCA president and champion of tilt-up construction safety, Al Engelman. Engelman helped introduce this industry awards program that now bears his name. The Alphonse Engelman Safety Awards program was developed to enhance the TCA's overall mission to improve the industry through […]

EAST MEADOW, N.Y. — Stalco Construction and Ehasz Giacalone Architects have completed a $700,000 renovation and upgrade of The Peter W. Addiego Health Sciences Library at the Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, New York. According to Stalco Construction President Alan Nahmias, “The renovated two-story, 12,000-square-foot library features an improved layout, energy-efficient building systems and new interior finishes.   In addition to providing print, digital and online reference materials, the space serves as a meeting and lecture facility.” Located within a low-rise section of NUMC’s Dynamic Care Building, the Health Sciences Library is one of the largest on Long […]

SOCIETY HILL, S.C. — Roughly 140 of PPM’s, a subsidiary of EMCOR Group, Inc.,  construction workers at various jobsites are wearing EMCOR Pink Hard Hats throughout October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, as a “Call to Action” supporting breast cancer screening and awareness during EMCOR’s “Protect Yourself. Get Screened Today.” campaign. PPM-branded Pink Hard Hats will be seen by thousands of people as its employees work at scores of job locations throughout the state and beyond. PPM employees are joined by thousands of other EMCOR employees coast-to-coast who are also wearing Pink Hard Hats during the month at hundreds of work […]