McCarthy to Build Southwest Airlines’ New Facility

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DALLAS, Texas – McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. recently won the award to build Southwest Airlines’ new office and training facility on the company’s corporate campus in Dallas, Texas. The new building, called “Wings”, consists of a 414,000-square-foot office building and an attached 367,000-square-foot flight training center which will house 18 flight simulator bays, associated offices and ancillary areas. The training portion of the structure will be constructed out of a special hardened building that can withstand 210 mile winds as it must remain operational every day of the year in all weather conditions. Also included in the project is a … Read more

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Knutson Awarded Whitewater State Park Minneiska Campground Project

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ROCHESTER, Minn. — Knutson Construction has been awarded the contract to expand the existing Whitewater campground, located in Altura, Minnesota. The project is estimated at $7.2 million with an anticipated completion date of July 2017. The project consists of expanding the existing 2,700-acre park with a majority of the work consisting of site clearing, excavation, erosion control, bituminous and concrete pavement, water distribution system, septic system, electrical work, landscaping and site preparation. New buildings will be constructed throughout the campground, which include two sanitation buildings, three picnic shelters, four camper cabins and a photovoltaic system. Knutson will be working with … Read more

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Academic Building at Trinity Washington University Dedicated

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – JLL recently celebrated the dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Trinity Washington University’s Payden Academic Center in Washington, D.C. JLL served as the project manager for the $38-million, 80,000-square foot, LEED-certified building that features state-of-the-art nursing and science labs, classrooms

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Gilbane Building Company Installs First-of-its-Kind in the Region Proton Accelerator

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Gilbane Building Company is building the Proton Therapy center at Baptist Health South Florida for the Miami Cancer Institute in Miami, Florida. Being introduced as ‘Pete’, a 220 ton breakthrough in cancer care, the equipment traveled nearly 4,700 miles on its transatlantic journey from Belgium. The highly anticipated Proteus PLUS three-gantry room configuration includes next generation pencil beam scanning capability, is the only one of its kind in the region. The 70,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility, which includes support spaces for treatment and research, is only one of a handful of proton therapy centers in the country and the first in South … Read more

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Tishman Construction to Manage Construction of One Vanderbilt

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Tishman Construction, a unit of AECOM, will manage construction of One Vanderbilt, a world-class commercial office development in Manhattan. Tishman will construct One Vanderbilt for New York City’s largest commercial property owner, SL Green Realty Corp. The 1,401-foot-tall skyscraper is designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and located in the heart of New York’s East Midtown business district. One Vanderbilt will stand directly adjacent to Grand Central Terminal, which is one of the busiest rail stations in the world. The 58-story building will include 1.6 million square feet of Class A commercial space, a public transit hall … Read more

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