Topping-Out Ceremony Marks Milestone for The Q Transformation

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A major construction milestone in The Q Transformation to update and modernize the 25-year–old publicly owned Quicken Loans Arena was celebrated with a special topping-out ceremony to hoist the project’s final steel beam into place atop of the arena, located in Cleveland, Ohio. General contractor on the project is Whiting Turner. The topping out culminates almost a year of structural steel work on the project, which began in February 2018. More than 4,750 pieces of steel, equivalent to 1,229 tons, have been installed to form the frame of the arena’s new north atrium and south entrance. The new street-facing exterior … Read more

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Construction of Second Underground Proton Therapy Vault at Siteman Cancer Center Affords Complexity, Challenges

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Kadean Construction has begun building a 48,000-cubic-foot, underground concrete vault to house a 120 ton cyclotron for Siteman Cancer Center’s second proton treatment facility in St. Louis, Missouri. The vault is being built beneath a parking garage on the Washington University Medical Campus, which also includes Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital, in the city’s Central West End. When completed in mid-to-late 2019, the 40-foot-deep vault will house the massive cyclotron, which will produce a focused beam of isolated protons for “pencil-beam scanning,” an advanced form of radiation therapy for patients treated at the S. Lee Kling Proton Therapy … Read more

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Children’s National Breaks Ground on One-of-a-Kind Pediatric Research and Innovation Hub

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Children’s National Health System recently marked the official start of construction on its pediatric research and innovation campus with a groundbreaking event. It will be distinct nationally as a freestanding research and innovation complex focused on pediatric medicine. Children’s National is renovating four existing buildings on a nearly 12-acre portion of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus located in Washington, D.C. This includes a research and innovation building, an outpatient care center, which will include comprehensive primary care services for the community and a conference theater. With 160,000 square feet of research and innovation space—and room for expansion—Children’s … Read more

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New Signal Butte Water Treatment Plant Meets Goal of Sustainable Water Supply into Future

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Sundt Construction, Inc. recently celebrated the completion of the city of Mesa, Arizona’s Signal Butte Water Treatment Plant. The $103.6-million water treatment plant treats Colorado River water supplied via the Central Arizona Project canal to drinking water standards. “Our team remained dedicated to deliver water prior to peak summer demands under a compressed schedule and worked very hard to accomplish this project in a safe and timely manner,” said Rob Infantino, Sundt’s project director. “The project was located in the middle of a large neighborhood, and our project team considered all of its surroundings when planning work activities.” The project … Read more

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Adolfson & Peterson Construction Earns Distinguished Building Award

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TEXO announced the 2018 Distinguished Building Award recipients and Adolfson & Peterson Construction was acknowledged for its work on USPI Southlake Medical Office Building located in Southlake, Texas. Developed by USPI and designed by E4H, the facility is home to Baylor Scott & White Southlake Family Medicine and Touchstone Medical Imaging, among others.The awards embody the skill, commitment and passion that TEXO members have for construction. Winning an award automatically qualifies projects for the state and national award competitions for both ABC and Associated General Contractors of America. AP was selected in the Health Care 2 ($10-30 million) Category and … Read more

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