Balfour Beatty Completes Expansion, Renovation of The Alfond Inn Hotel 

Balfour Beatty has completed the $36-million expansion and renovation of The Alfond Inn at Rollins on behalf of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. The hotel’s five-story, 81,000-square-foot addition is a vital development to the Winter Park area’s social venue spaces, which complements the Alfond Inn. The building expansion adjacent to the existing luxury hotel includes 71 new guest rooms, a communal café in the lobby, a spa with an amenity deck, a second swimming pool and an additional 2,400-square-foot meeting, boardroom and event space. The hotel’s new wing features a four-story atrium and leverages natural light to provide continuity … Read more

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AdventHealth Breaks Ground on New Health Plaza

A ground breaking ceremony was held for the new Freytag Health Plaza at AdventHealth Palm Coast on Oct. 26 in Palm Coast, Florida.   The two-story, 30,000-square-foot standalone facility will serve as a vital hub for comprehensive cancer treatment, including radiation oncology and medical oncology and will offer advanced therapies, personalized cancer care and resources for patients and their families.   It will also house multiple primary care physician offices and provide adult rehabilitation services, including outpatient physical, occupational and speech language pathology for orthopedic, hand, neurological and lymphedema specialties.    Construction is expected to be complete by the end … Read more

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Gilbane Wins Top Honors at P3 Awards Recognizing Work in Public-Private Partnerships

Gilbane has earned top honors at the P3 Awards in two 2023 award categories. Gilbane Development Company and Gilbane Building Company together won the ESG of the Year Award and Best Education and Higher Education Project Award for the Eastern Michigan University “Welcome Home EMU” Initiative. In addition, the William H. Gray III 30th Street Station Redevelopment Project earned Best Social Infrastructure Project of the Year and Gilbane Building Company is a member of the Plenary Infrastructure Philadelphia consortium modernizing and renovating that project. The 2023 P3 Award recognition for Gilbane included:     Environment, Social and Governance of the Year For … Read more

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Balfour Beatty, HMC Architects Celebrate Completion of Sierra College’s New Instructional Building

Balfour Beatty, as part of the progressive design-build team with HMC Architects, celebrates the completion of Sierra Joint Community College District’s new instructional building, Building Q, in Rocklin, California. Building Q is a three-story classroom facility that replaces and consolidates campus square footage from several smaller inefficient buildings to one larger efficient building with modern and comfortable classrooms and gathering spaces. With 85,000 square feet of classrooms, teaching laboratories, art studios, student collaborative spaces and office spaces, the building reimagines the future of higher educational learning spaces harvesting endless opportunities for future generations. The building is funded by the community … Read more

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Milestone Achieved on Luxury High-Rise in Utah

Construction crews have placed the final beam atop the 41-floor Astra Tower luxury high-rise, marking the completion of structural steel work on Utah’s new tallest building. The downtown Salt Lake City tower has been steadily rising since the first above-grade concrete was poured in early 2023, rising a full level every seven days, on average. Astra Tower now stands over 450 feet tall and re-defines Salt Lake’s urban skyline. Now that the structural steel work is done, the focus of the Astra Tower project has turned to utilities systems and interior and exterior finishes. When the tower is fully completed … Read more

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