Balfour Beatty Completes Rex Road Elementary, Marking Two Decades of Building Wake County Schools

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Balfour Beatty announces the completion of Wake County Public School System’s new 133,000-square-foot Rex Road Elementary School campus in Holly Springs, North Carolina. Marking the 15th school Balfour Beatty has delivered for WCPSS, the nearly 20-year partnership has helped shape the educational landscape of Wake County, building learning spaces that support student success and rapid community growth. The new Rex Road Elementary School is designed to accommodate 800 students from kindergarten through fifth grade and features modern learning environments including classroom space, learning commons, a cafeteria, gymnasium and media center. The completion of the K-12 project comes at a pivotal […]

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Swinerton Partners with Palo Alto Unified School District on $41.7M Greene Middle School Transformation

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Swinerton Builders has been selected by the Palo Alto Unified School District to lead the $41.7-million Greene Middle School Transformation Project in California. This lease-leaseback initiative marks Swinerton’s first collaboration with PAUSD, which serves more than 8,000 students. Designed by LPA Design Studios, the project will modernize and expand Greene Middle School. Key components include: A new single-story, 16,054-square-foot Career Technical Education classroom building A new two-story, 23,360-square-foot food service and library building Modernization of 2,940 square feet of an existing single-story wing Comprehensive site improvements and an extension of the existing fire access lanes. Swinerton is working with the […]

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Helix Electric Installs Prefabricated Electrical Building at Water Treatment Plant in Northern California

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Helix Electric installed a prefabricated electrical building at the Orinda Water Treatment Plant. It will provide cleaner drinking water to more than 800,000 East Bay residents in both Contra Costa and Alameda counties in Northern California. The installation supports East Bay Municipal Utility District’s $267-million project to reduce disinfection byproducts in the water supply. Project partners include EBMUD and Flatiron Construction. The company used seven trucks to deliver the prefabricated building, executing a tightly coordinated sequence over 48 hours. The building plays a crucial role in supporting the project, which integrates new ultraviolet disinfection and chlorine contact basin technology, enhancing […]

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Swinerton Tops Out on $111M Multifamily Development in Charlotte

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Swinerton Builders announced the topping out of Cordo, an $111 million multifamily development in Charlotte’s Optimist Park and the construction firm’s fifth collaboration with Space Craft. Just blocks from Joinery and Oxbow, also developed by Space Craft and built by Swinerton, Cordo is designed to be a walkable, transit-friendly community for active families and young professionals. The hybrid-structure broke ground last fall and is expected to be ready for occupancy by summer 2027. Built on a 1.7-acre site in Charlotte’s Optimist Park community, Cordo totals seven floors with 1,200 square feet of street-level retail just steps from Cordelia Park, Optimist […]

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Turner Breaks Ground on Southern California Emergency Operations Center

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Turner Construction Company joined state leaders to celebrate the groundbreaking of California’s new Southern Regional Emergency Operations Center, a 60,000-square-foot facility designed to enhance coordination and response during major emergencies across Southern California. Commissioned by the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and delivered in partnership with the Department of General Services, the new center will serve as a strategic hub supporting response to earthquakes, wildfires, floods and other critical events. The facility will complement the State Operations Center in Mather, expanding the state’s emergency management network to better protect over 23 million residents in the region. Located on 15 […]

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