Hanley Wood Exhibitions has unveiled a game for mobile devices to build awareness of its World of Concrete brand and drive engagement with concrete industry professionals. The game, titled “Rig Racin,"” is now available in the Apple App Store for iOS devices and Google Play for Android devices. Game players can steer mixer trucks through three action-packed, challenging game-play environments. Players must deliver their cement load on time to receive in-game rewards and to advance to more challenging levels throughout the game. The better the player, the more in-game cash the player can earn to purchase new themes for various … Read more

ATLANTA, Ga. — Brasfield & Gorrie recently celebrated the topping out of a new multipurpose building at Marist School in Atlanta, Ga. Construction of the new facility, which includes a gymnasium and academic space, marks the first phase of an expansion and renovation project at Marist School totaling $21 million in construction costs. “This milestone event signifies the end of the building's structural construction phase and marks continued progress toward its completion next summer,” said Brasfield & Gorrie Regional Vice President Dave Naeger. The three-story, 55,000-square-foot multipurpose structure replaces the former gymnasium, and it will include new faculty offices and … Read more

Throughout 2013, the Design Build Institute of America has been conducting a national research effort on design-build procurement. The goal of the study is to evaluate the resource expenditure and efficiency impact of single-step as compared to two-step design-build procurement. Arizona State University is collecting and analyzing project data for this study. The preliminary results are promising and show sizeable differences between the procurement cost and schedule of single-step and two-step design-build. These early results help quantify the inefficiency of single-step procurement that the industry has been discussing for years. However, since the results are preliminary, they cannot be used … Read more