Peppa Pig Theme Park Earns DBIA Award

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Peppa Pig Theme Park, the first standalone theme park in the world dedicated solely to the cartoon pig and her friends, has earned a 2022 Design-Build Institute of America Florida Region Merit Award in the civic/assembly category. Located in Winter Haven, Florida, near LEGOLAND Florida, the theme park adds to Barton Malow’s theme park construction portfolio. It offers an immersive experience via rides, attractions and play spaces. The children’s amusement park is also autism center certified and aligned with the proper components for maintaining an autism-friendly environment. Barton Malow and The Lunz Group worked together to design and construct this … Read more

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Sixth and Guadalupe Mixed-Use Tower Tops Out in Austin

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Standing taller than any building in Austin, Texas, Sixth and Guadalupe has topped out at its final height of 865 feet. This milestone has been two and a half years of a steady vertical climb and was met successfully. Sixth and Guadalupe is owned and managed by Kairoi Residential, Lincoln Property Company and DivcoWest. Construction is led by JE Dunn Construction and designed by Gensler. The project is a 2.2-million-square-foot, 66-story tower that stacks 14 levels of parking, 19 levels of Class A office space and 32 levels of high-end residential on an entire city block in one of downtown Austin’s … Read more

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USGBC Announces Updates to LEED v4

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The U.S. Green Building Council announced updates to the primary version of the LEED green building certification program, LEED v4, to more directly address carbon emissions and climate change. With the change, building design and construction and Interior design and construction projects will be able to demonstrate improvement in energy performance with LEED v4.1’s metric of energy cost or greenhouse gas emissions in addition to LEED v4’s original source energy metric. For the last nine years, LEED v4 has been the primary and balloted version of LEED green building certification. However, its guidelines on reducing energy demand focused first on … Read more

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MCA Announces Details, Registration for 2023 Winter Meeting

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The Metal Construction Association’s registration for its upcoming annual winter meeting is now open. The event will take place in-person Jan. 22-25 at the Hyatt Regency in Clearwater Beach Resort and Spa in Florida. The meeting is open to members and non-members. The event will cover an array of topics pertinent to the use of metal in the building envelope, plus several opportunities to network with industry leaders. The keynote speaker is Dr. Chris Kuehl. Dr. Kuehl is the managing director of Armada Corporation and serves as the company’s chief economist and is also the economic analyst for the Fabricators … Read more

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Construction Spending Ticks Up, Driven by Nonresidential Construction

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Total construction spending increased by .2% for the month of September and by 10.9% for the year as nonresidential construction activity now outpaces residential construction, according to an analysis the Associated General Contractors of America released of federal spending data. Association officials noted that gains in public sector transportation construction have lagged other fast-growing segments as officials grapple with Buy America and other new regulatory requirements. Construction spending, not adjusted for inflation, totaled $1.811 trillion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate in September, .2% above the August rate and 10.9% above the September 2021 rate. Spending on private residential construction … Read more

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