Brasfield & Gorrie Breaks Ground on New UAB Collat School of Business Building

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Brasfield & Gorrie recently joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham and local Birmingham business leaders to break ground on a new building that will house the Collat School of Business and Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The four-story, 110,000-square-foot building will feature multidimensional learning spaces, including breakout rooms for team projects, engaging space for entrepreneurial projects, classrooms designed for team-based learning, a high-tech trading and finance lab, labs for behavioral research and sales presentations, a three-story atrium, career services space and study rooms. Construction was scheduled to begin on Dec. 19 and is expected to last … Read more

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Skanska USA Builds Alamo Colleges Administration Complex in San Antonio

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Skanska USA has signed a contract with Alamo Colleges to build its new District Support Operations Administration Complex in San Antonio, Texas. The contract is worth $45 million. The new facility will include approximately 52,000 square feet of class A office space, 500 parking spaces, office suites, a conference center, campus police headquarters and dispatch and a central utility plant. Construction will begin in January 2017 and is slated for completion in July 2018.

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The Korte Company Begins Work on $92.5M Design-Build USPS Project

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The 818,000-square-foot project is situated on a 47-acre site with three entrances onto the property and includes a 788,845-square-foot processing and distribution center with administration, maintenance and employee support areas and is located in Portland, Oregon. The distribution facility features areas specified for a Business Mail Entry Unit and United States Postal Inspection Services. The building consists of workroom, which houses fixed mechanization equipment and postal automation equipment, and a mail platform with a total of 92 dock positions. Also included in the overall scope of work is a 29,000-square-foot vehicle maintenance facility with 15 service bays, two body shops … Read more

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East End Crossing Receives Envision Platinum Sustainability Award

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INDIANAPOLIS, In. – The Ohio River Bridges East End Crossing—which will connect the east end of Louisville, Kentucky, with Southern Indiana—recently earned an Envision Platinum Award from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure for the project’s exceptional achievements in sustainable infrastructure design, construction and operations. The ORB EEC represents many Envision Award firsts, including the first project involving a highway, first river bridge, first bi-state project and first project with a roadway tunnel to receive an Envision Award. In addition, the $763-million public private partnership project—Indiana’s first for construction—is the largest P3 project in North America to be third-party certified by … Read more

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Brasfield & Gorrie Completes 1201 Demonbreun, Relocates Nashville Office to New Tower

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Brasfield & Gorrie recently opened the company’s relocated Nashville office in 1201 Demonbreun, a new office tower the firm recently constructed for Eakin Partners on the corner of 12th Avenue S. and Demonbreun Street in Nashville, Tennessee’s bustling Gulch neighborhood. With custom features and touches that create an industrial feel, Brasfield & Gorrie’s new 20,000-square-foot office features a partial-open concept with minimal private offices, shipping containers converted into meeting spaces, a breakroom and floor-to-ceiling windows with views of the Gulch and downtown Nashville. The move to 1201 Demonbreun follows the firm’s recent completion of the 15-story, 285,000-square-foot … Read more

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