Ground Broken on Bus Garage Reconstruction Design-Build Project

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The groundbreaking of Northern Bus Garage Reconstruction project, located in Washington, D.C., was recently celebrated by representatives from Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Federal Transit Administration, the District of Columbia and Clark Construction Group. Clark is serving as Design-Builder. Located on 14th Street Northwest, the new garage will house up to 150 zero-emission buses, aligning with Metro’s goal to transition to a zero-emission bus fleet. Once complete, the new Northern Bus Garage will be the first Metro facility to support a fully zero-emission bus fleet. The garage will have the infrastructure to accommodate an all-electric fleet. Originally built as a … Read more

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42-Story Mixed-Use Tower in Chicago Undergoes Extensive Curtainwall Restoration

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Restoration is underway on a curtainwall at Accenture Tower, a 1.46-million-square-foot, 42-story Class A office and retail property in Chicago, Illinois. The project team includes Western Specialty Contractors and KBS. The tower, completed in 1987 and formerly known as 500 West Madison, has twice earned The Outstanding Building of the Year Award Internationally by The Building Owner and Managers Association. The building, which features numerous top-tier amenities, contains 40 stories of office space and 80,000 square feet of retail space over two levels. Sitting above the Ogilvie Transportation Center, the sixth-busiest railway commuter station/terminal in North America, Accenture Tower has … Read more

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Houston Methodist Cypress ‘Hospital of the Future’ Tops Out

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The topping out of Houston Methodist’s new Cypress Hospital campus, located in the greater Houston, Texas area, was recently celebrated. McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. serves as construction manager at risk. The campus sits on 105 acres and consists of a seven-story hospital, two medical office buildings and a central utility plant, with a mixture of built-out space, as well as a shell for future growth. McCarthy broke ground on the hospital in February 2022, and construction is scheduled to achieve substantial completion by the end of 2024. McCarthy’s scope includes demolition of 11 existing buildings, totaling 600,000 square feet, before … Read more

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Resiliency Project Addressing Sea Level Rise, Storm Damage Advances in Lower Manhattan

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A project team comprised of a Turner Construction Company and E.E. Cruz joint venture, along with Arcadis, the Bjark Ingels Group, Scape Landscape Architecture and WSP was selected by the Battery Park City Authority for its North/West Resiliency Project in New York. The project aims to expand and enhance Battery Park City public spaces. It is the largest coastal resiliency project developed by BPCA and will address the impacts of sea level rise and the risk of storm damage. Under a Progressive Design-Build delivery model, the project team will engineer and build approximately 8,000 linear feet of flood and seepage … Read more

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Gilbane, Leftfield, Studio G Architects Tops Off Florence Roche Elementary School

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Officials from Groton Public Schools, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Town of Groton joined students, educators and representatives from Leftfield, Studio G Architects and Gilbane Building Company to celebrate the official topping off of the 110,000-square-foot Florence Roche Elementary School. Designed by Studio G, with Leftfield serving as owner’s project manager and Gilbane as construction manager, the new facility will address growing concerns regarding the state of the existing facility, originally constructed in the 1950s, and accommodate 645 students in grades kindergarten through four. The new school will support 21st-century learning and Universal Design for Learning. The two-story design … Read more

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