Gloria Drummond Patient Tower at Boca Raton Regional Hospital Reaches Construction Milestone

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The Gloria Drummond Patient Tower at Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Florida has topped out. Robins & Morton is the general contractor for the project and HKS is the architect. Once complete in 2025, the new nine-story patient tower will include all-private patient rooms, surgical suites and critical care units, leveraging the latest in healthcare technologies and design principles that foster healing environments. It will also house the Michelle and Michael Hagerty Center for Graduate Medical Education, more than doubling the hospital’s existing education space and helping recruit and retain top medical school graduates. The tower will encompass more than … Read more

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University of Nevada, Reno’s Mathewson Gateway Project Tops Out

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The University of Nevada, Reno Mathewson Gateway recently topped out. University representatives joined Clark Construction and project developer Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate at a ceremony celebrating the over 40,000 work hours that took place to reach this milestone. The five-story, 128,000-square-foot academic building will house the College of Business and provide various spaces tailored to best practices in modern business education. These include a 300-seat auditorium, advanced technology labs, optimized teaching and study spaces, a student commons, team meeting spaces and collaboration zones and faculty and administrative offices. The best-in-class campus also features a landscaped courtyard, outdoor plazas and … Read more

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Elisabeth-Selbert-Haus Tapped for German Parliament in Berlin

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New offices and an administrative building for the German Parliament will be built on one of Berlin’s most historic streets by the end of 2026 to replace the demolished building. The sustainable concept envisages the use of alternative energies, such as geothermal energy and photovoltaics. PORR was awarded the contract as general contractor for the project by the Institute for Federal Real Estate. The building is named after the politician and lawyer Elisabeth Selbert, who is known as one of the four “Mothers of the Basic Law.” She successfully campaigned for the inclusion of equal rights for men and women … Read more

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Publication Details State of American Registered Apprenticeship System in Construction

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Researchers from the Institute for Construction Employment Research have launched what will be an annual compendium on the performance of America’s skilled trade apprenticeship programs — the largest, privately financed system of higher education in the country. In “The State of Registered Apprenticeship Training in the Construction Trades, 2024 Edition,” the authors develop a comprehensive, first-of-its-kind national assessment of construction apprenticeship programs, detailing the number of registrations, completion and cancellation rates, demographic trends, program design, wage rates and more across 17 different skilled trades. Learn more at www.apprenticebook.com.

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UAB Medicine Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Tops Out

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The topping out of University of Alabama at Birmingham Medicine’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility was recently celebrated to signify the new downtown Birmingham building has reached its tallest point. The 11-story rehabilitation facility broke ground in May of 2022, and is expected to be completed by early 2025. Hoar Construction is the general contractor. Spanning 346,000 square feet, the new facility is located in close proximity to UAB’s existing Spain Rehabilitation Center. Once completed, the facility will include seven floors of hospital space atop four floors of parking deck. The building will connect to an existing pedestrian walkway and feature 136 … Read more

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