Turner Secures Contract to Build Westchester Medical Center Patient Care Tower

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Turner Construction Company has secured a contract to build a $186-million patient care tower on Westchester Medical Center’s Valhalla, New York campus. Construction is set to begin at the end of 2023 and will result in the addition of 128 hospital beds to serve patients needing trauma care, neurosciences, cardiology and general surgery. The additional beds will increase patient care capacity and enhance training for medical residents and students. The project will also boost the local economy, providing 770 construction jobs and 127 full-time jobs in the completed facility. The five-story tower will enable the hospital to enhance care and … Read more

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Emory University Biomedical Research Building Project Completes in Atlanta, Georgia

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Emory University’s new HSRB II, built by JE Dunn Construction, is a preeminent eight-story biomedical research building that is home to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center and the School of Medicine and will facilitate the discovery of new ways to improve human health worldwide. This facility has both wet and dry laboratories, an imaging facility, BSL 2 and 3 labs, Cyclotron, Hot Cell, MRI, PET/CT, faculty offices, collaborative spaces for researchers, support and conferencing spaces, as well as connections to the auditorium and café at HSRBI. At the center of the building’s design is a six-story central atrium that includes … Read more

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Construction Team Selected for New Roper Hospital Medical Campus in South Carolina

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Roper St. Francis Healthcare will be relocating Roper Hospital from its Charleston, South Carolina peninsula location to North Charleston, giving patients easier access to care that’s closer to where they live and work. The estimated $1B project will be one of the largest healthcare projects on the East Coast. The joint venture team of Barton Malow Builders and Edifice General Contractors has been selected as construction manager for the new Roper Hospital Medical Campus, which originally opened its doors in 1856. E4H Environments for Health Architecture and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill are providing master planning, architecture and design services. Project … Read more

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Purdue University to Launch Lab with Focus on Construction Management Technology

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Purdue University and Trimble are establishing a Trimble Technology Lab at Purdue focused on teaching and research for construction management technology in West Lafayette, Indiana. The lab is hosted by the School of Construction Management Technology within the Purdue Polytechnic Institute and will bring Trimble’s construction technologies into a dedicated learning environment for Purdue students to learn and innovate. The lab is expected to open in early 2024 and will be part of the institute’s evolving footprint at Dudley and Lambertus Halls. The connected buildings, which opened in April, house a mix of polytechnic and engineering labs, makerspaces and classrooms with the goal of fostering an atmosphere of collaboration … Read more

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Groundbreaking Held for Additions & Renovations to Joseph Arthur Middle School

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Central School District #104 held a groundbreaking ceremony Sept. 14, to kick off the additions and renovations project at its Joseph Arthur Middle School in Breese, Illinois. Poettker Construction is serving as the construction manager and Cordogan Clark the designer for 26,900 square feet of building expansions and 10,900 square feet of light renovations to the district’s middle school campus. The facility expansion encompasses three new additions: a new ICC-rated competition gymnasium, which will also serve as the campus’s first ever storm shelter; a new full-service commercial kitchen and serving spaces to replace the existing outdated and undersized cafeteria; and … Read more

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