New Olympic and Paralympic Museum Transforms Colorado Springs Skyline

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Set next to America The Beautiful Park, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the new Olympic and Paralympic Museum is a massive and unique building. “The building itself is just short of 65,000 square feet, and about 25,000 square feet of that is exhibit space,” said Brian Tominov, project manager, at GE Johnson Construction, general contractor on the project. The building has even been recognized worldwide as one of the most anticipated buildings of 2020 because of its design. “One of the more challenging parts of that geometry has been the diamond metal panels we see on the building. There’s 9,987 … Read more

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Joint-Venture Tops Out Acute Care Hospital Wing Expansion

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The topping out of Orohealth’s new hospital tower, located in Oroville, California, was recently celebrated. The project team includes joint-venture partners Sundt Construction, Inc. and Modern Building, Inc., with CannonDesign serving as architect of record. The 159,751-square-foot expansion will add a five-story wing to the existing hospital and connect at the first and second floors. The acute care hospital wing will expand the existing 132-bed facility to a new total of 228 beds. The project consists of an ambulatory care center on the first floor, women’s and infant center including labor, delivery and recovery on the second floor, a third-floor … Read more

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Skanska Rehabilitates Rail Transit Infrastructure in NE Region

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Skanska has signed a contract with Amtrak to rehabilitate and restore maintenance facilities for the Next Generation Acela 21 high-speed rail service in Washington, D.C.; Boston, Massachusetts and New York. The contract is worth about $40 million. The three maintenance facilities were initially built by the general contractor 20 years ago. The rehabilitation will include structural modifications and industrial equipment upgrades to accommodate the new trains being placed into service in 2021. Construction began in February 2020 and is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2021.

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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Holt Construction Collaborate to Build Temporary Hospital

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Together with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bergen County and FEMA, Holt Construction completed a temporary hospital in just two weeks at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus, New Jersey. The two fully equipped tents, the first of its kind for Army Corps temporary facility construction standards, will serve as a treatment facility for acute, non-COVID-related patients due to the influx of COVID-positive patients in the main building. The temporary hospital will serve an additional 100 patients total and is located in a large parking lot adjacent to BNBMC’s main building with a covered walkway linking the two … Read more

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Ground Broken on 2-Story Expansion Project for SPR Packaging

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Ground was recently broken on the SPR Office Building located in Rockwall, Texas. The project team includes MYCON General Contractors, Inc.; architect Pross Design Group and owner Alvaplast US Development, LLC. The SPR Office Building is a 24,000-square-foot, two-story expansion to the existing manufacturing warehouse. The project includes a formal lobby, offices and suites, architectural finished concrete features and preparation for the future locker room and bathroom. The scheduled completion date for the two-story office building is December 2020. MYCON is finishing the 79,373-square-foot North Warehouse on the same site.

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