A topping out ceremony was recently held to celebrate the completion of the steel structure for the Portland Art Museum’s new Mark Rothko Pavilion. Opening fall 2025, the pavilion is the centerpiece of PAM’s major $111-million campus transformation that will renovate or add nearly 100,000 square feet to the museum and add new visitor amenities that address the needs of more diverse audiences. During the ceremony, the top roof beam was placed for the nearly 22,000 square-foot pavilion, which will provide a new transparent and welcoming front door to the museum. Guests were invited to commemorate the event and had … Read more
Balfour Beatty Breaks Ground on Sacramento International Airport’s New Pedestrian Walkway
Balfour Beatty has started construction activities to deliver Sacramento International Airport’s Pedestrian Walkway project as part of Sacramento Department of Airports’ SMForward program. Once complete, the new walkway will support traveler growth well into the future by connecting SMF’s Terminal B to Concourse B via a skybridge, providing the ability for passengers to walk or ride the airport’s existing automated people mover. The project is scheduled completion in 2025. Balfour Beatty is executing a Construction Manager At-Risk delivery method to construct the SMF Pedestrian Walkway, a first for a major project in Sacramento County, California. The project team will deliver … Read more
Utah Clean Energy Unveils Climate Innovation Center as Epicenter of Local Climate Action
Utah Clean Energy and the community at large recently celebrated the grand opening of the Climate Innovation Center, a high-performance building and a hub for climate action. The facility raises the bar for buildings in Utah and beyond, highlighting the opportunity to modernize homes and buildings to cut emissions and combat climate change. Located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, the Climate Innovation Center breathes new life into a once dilapidated 50-year-old building. The center showcases the potential of what homes and buildings can be — spaces that are not only comfortable and inviting, but also produce zero … Read more
Turner Construction Makes Progress in Reducing Carbon Footprint of Operations
Turner Construction Company is actively testing new to-market equipment and innovative processes to drive transformational change in construction operations and achieve commitments to reduce its environmental footprint. As part of its commitment to achieving Net Zero Emissions by 2040 across all reporting scopes, the company has taken significant steps, including implementing a pilot on the use of a wide range of low-emission equipment on a data center project, piloting the use of electric and hybrid heavy equipment on various projects, moving toward fully electrifying its fleet of vehicles by 2028 and using zero-carbon cement on a project. On the data … Read more
Sea Turtle Hospital Project Marries Innovation, Technology + Education
In advance of World Sea Turtle Day in June, DPR Construction and the University of Florida’s Whitney Research Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, located in St. Augustine, Florida, began working together to help protect these creatures by constructing the Sea Turtle Hospital, a purpose-built facility dedicated to the rehabilitation and conservation of endangered sea turtles. Overlooking the Matanzas Estuary, the new facility will expand the organization’s capabilities, including multiple laboratories, education areas and a sea turtle research center and hospital. The complex will provide critical care and innovative research opportunities, reinforcing Whitney Laboratory’s commitment to marine life preservation and environmental stewardship. … Read more