Skanska Completes North Carolina Surgical Hospital in Chapel Hill

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UNC Health’s North Carolina Surgical Hospital has been completed. Rising seven-stories and spanning 375,000 square feet, Surgical Hospital is the largest addition to the Chapel Hill campus since it was built in 1952. Designed by Page and built by Skanska, the new surgical hospital offers 26 operating rooms, four of which are hybrid size operating rooms to accommodate additional equipment and technology for newly developed procedures, 59 pre- and post-operating rooms ,as well as two floors of ICU space with 80 beds. The building has a main reception area, as well as visitor waiting areas on each floor, an indoor … Read more

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Rosendin Begins Construction on UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital

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Rosendin, an electrical contractor, has begun work on the new UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital in San Francisco, California. The $4.3-billion project at the University of California, San Francisco’s flagship campus at Parnassus Heights is dubbed “the hospital of the future.” In August 2020, Rosendin was selected to be part of the project team that includes preconstruction and design-build work for a 15-story outpatient tower, led by general contractor Herrero Boldt Webcor, a tri-venture partnership between Herrero Builders, The Boldt Company and Webcor. A groundbreaking ceremony was held in April and demolition of the existing building is underway. When completed … Read more

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Howard S. Wright Selected to Deliver Vern Miller Civic Center Renovations

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Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty company, has been selected to deliver exterior and interior renovations to the Salem Civic Center/City Hall in Salem, Oregon to create a 21st century workplace for the mayor and city managers offices, city council chambers, municipal courts and planning and purchasing departments. Roughly $40 million in substantial renovations will be made to the 1970 Civic Center featuring a seismic retrofit and structural upgrades. Additionally, the project team will deliver a new parking garage and extensive interior renovations. Project partners include Hacker Architects and CBTWO Architects. The company has been contracted for design and preconstruction … Read more

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Adolfson & Peterson Construction Awarded Austin Independent School District Projects

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Adolfson & Peterson Construction was recently awarded the construction and renovation contract for Austin Independent School District’s Anderson and McCallum High Schools. Anderson High School, in Northwest Austin, Texas, was built in 1970. The renovation includes a 43,350-square-foot competition gym with an 1,800-seat capacity and locker rooms with coaches’ offices, training rooms, officials’ dressing rooms and laundry. Common spaces will feature a Hall of Honor and trophy cases, while the entry vestibule and front office will be reconfigured for security. This project is designed to accommodate the school’s 2,397 students. Opened in 1955, McCallum High School will expand its Science … Read more

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Joint Venture Celebrates Grand Opening of $2B Intuit Dome

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Turner Construction Company, joint-venture partner AECOM Hunt and the Los Angeles Clippers, celebrated the grand opening of the $2-billion Intuit Dome located in Los Angeles, California. The first event in the arena was a sold-out Bruno Mars concert. The 17,700-seat venue holds five basketball courts including the homecourt of the NBA’s Clippers, a practice facility and has an outdoor plaza for gathering. The arena has several unique features: the world’s largest Halo Board is a double-sided 4K scoreboard with an acre-sized screen, and the “Wall” is a 4,500-person cheering section available to Clippers fans to engage in the game as … Read more

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