Gilbane Awarded Design-Build of Rountree Rehab Facility

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Gilbane Building Company has been selected by Santa Cruz County for the Design-Build of the Rountree Rehabilitation & Re-Entry facility expansion. This expansion will provide approximately 29,300 square feet of new housing and a program which includes 64 minimum security beds, a dayroom, a visitation area, administrative facilities, an intake/release area and facility support space. Renovations to the existing structure will provide an educational/vocational program area, an interview and counseling room, group rooms, indoor recreation, administrative support space, an officer workstation, video visitation stations, restrooms and a new laundry facility. This important project represents the embodiment of the sheriff department’s … Read more

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Skanska Builds New Pensacola Bay Bridge

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Skanska has signed a contract with the Florida Department of Transportation to construct the Pensacola Bay Bridge in Florida. The contract is worth $399 million. The Design-Build contract is to replace the existing bridge over Pensacola Bay with two new, three-lane bridges, connecting the cities of Pensacola and Gulf Breeze. Each new bridge will have a length of just over three miles. The total project length is 3.7 miles, including the roadway approaches on each end of the bridges. Construction is scheduled to begin in the third quarter 2016 and the project is slated for completion in August 2020.

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Gramercy District Development is Underway

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22 Capital Partners has chosen the project team for its more than $500-million development “Gramercy District,” a smart city project located just outside of Washington, D.C. The firm has put together a team capable of implementing the vision of a marriage between technology and real estate development to create a smart city of the future. Tishman Construction unit of AECOM will team up with TRINITY Group Construction. DVA Architects will design the Gramercy District campus. This smart city will include a combination of outdoor plazas and public spaces where consumers can seamlessly interact with all of the businesses. Greystar Corporation … Read more

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Western Specialty Contractors Completes Historic Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary Project

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ST. LOUIS, Mo. – When the main cell house building at the historic Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco, California, was constructed in 1910-1912, prison workers mixed salt water from the surrounding San Francisco Bay and brick rubble in the concrete support beams. Coupled with the island’s extreme weather conditions, the large, cast-in-place concrete support beams in the original citadel and basement shower room areas that support the main cellblock structures began to deteriorate and fail, posing major structural damage to the historic building. The citadel was part of the original structure and dates back to the Civil War era. … Read more

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Demolition Begins On Site of Future Emory Sports Medicine Complex

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BROOKHAVEN, Ga. – Earlier this week, the Atlanta Hawks Basketball Club and Emory Healthcare began demolition on the future site of the Emory Sports Medicine Complex, their 90,000-square foot state-of-the-art training and sports medicine center. Due to the hazard of filming on the construction area, footage was compiled and can be seen and downloaded here: https://ESMC_Demolition_B-Roll The privately funded complex is being designed by HOK. Construction and management firm H.J. Russell & Company, in association with Legends Project Development, are serving as the project management team for the project and Brasfield & Gorrie General Contractors was recently selected to serve … Read more

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