DBIA Announces 2015 National Design-Build Project/Team Award Winners

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The Design-Build Institute of America recently announced its 20th annual Design-Build Project/Team Award Winners. Recognized for exemplary collaboration and integration in Design-Build project delivery, the award-winning projects were evaluated by a distinguished panel of industry experts. The following projects/teams are all winners of 2015 National Awards of Merit. One project in each of the ten categories will be named as a National Award of Excellence winner in an awards ceremony during DBIA's 2015 Design-Build Conference & Expo on Nov. 3 in Denver, Colorado. In addition, four National Awards of Excellence will be given for Design (one for architecture and one … Read more

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First Brick Laid on the Atlanta Braves" SunTrust Park Site

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American Builders 2017 recently laid the first brick at the Atlanta Braves" SunTrust Park, in Georgia, with the help of 83-year-old brick mason Eutis Morris. Morris worked on the brick and block at both Atlanta's original Fulton County Stadium and Turner Field.   Because of his special ties to Atlanta baseball, American Builders 2017 and the Atlanta Braves invited Morris to kick off the brick work on the new stadium in a private ceremony on Thursday, Aug 27. After Morris “buttered” and laid the first brick, additional bricks were laid by Atlanta Braves and SunTrust executives, Cobb County officials, American … Read more

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Equipment Leasing and Finance Association's Survey of Economic Activity: Monthly Leasing and Finance Index

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association's Monthly Leasing and Finance Index (MLFI-25), which reports economic activity from 25 companies representing a cross section of the $903-billion equipment finance sector, showed their overall new business volume for July was $8.2 billion, up 4 percent from new business volume in July 2014. Volume was down 14 percent from $9.5 billion in June. Year to date, cumulative new business volume increased 8 percent compared to 2014. Receivables over 30 days were 1.0 percent, down slightly from 1.1 percent the previous month and unchanged from the same period in 2014. Charge-offs … Read more

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Clark Returns to Sea-Tac for IAF Design-Build

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SEATTLE, Wash. — Clark is returning to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport ten years after completing the airport’s South Terminal Expansion. The Port of Seattle awarded the company a $420-million Design-Build contract for an International Arrivals Facility. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, San Francisco/New York and The Miller Hull Partnership, Seattle, are the project’s designers. Clark will lead the Design-Build team in delivering the three-story IAF on east side of Sea-Tac’s Concourse A. The scope of work also includes an elevated sterile corridor to serve international passengers, and an iconic bridge that will span approximately 900 linear feet from the new IAF to … Read more

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Mortenson Consolidates Six Woodward Manufacturing Plants into Single High-Tech Facility

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CHICAGO, Ill. — Mortenson Construction has turned an empty 334,700-square-foot warehouse into a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant for Woodward, Inc.'s aerospace components business in suburban Chicago, Illinois. The $90-million project, designed by Ghafari Associates, consolidated Woodward's engineering, R&D, production, testing and administrative operations from a half-dozen locations. In addition to the Niles Campus, Mortenson is the builder for Woodward's new Lincoln Campus in Fort Collins, Colorado that will include a state-of-the art Industrial Turbomachinery facility as well as its new headquarters. The new high-tech facility in Niles offers much greater efficiency and flexibility to meet the needs of customers for Woodward's … Read more

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