The Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, North Carolina will be upgraded by Skanska USA. Onsite construction is slated to begin in August and will be completed by April 2023. Skanska’s work at park includes renovations and upgrades to: the players’ locker rooms; coaches’ offices; facilities for female staff and athletes, umpires and team officials; a new batting tunnel; office and retail reconfigurations; and larger clubhouses for both home and visiting teams.
Gilbane Building Company announced that Matthew Thompson joined the team as Operations Manager for its Chicago office. Thompson has two decades of experience in the Midwest commercial construction industry and will bring his design, construction and development expertise to the company’s growing Chicagoland portfolio. Before joining Gilbane, Thompson spent 20 years managing projects and project teams across various sectors in the Midwest, including criminal justice, laboratory, multi-family housing, defense and historic preservation projects. He has a degree in civil engineering from Purdue University and graduated with distinction from Northwestern University’s MBA program. At Northwestern, Matt specialized in analytical consulting, management … Read more
Poettker Construction broke ground on buildings 4 and 7 for the Gateway 85 development initiative in Gastonia, North Carolina. NorthPoint Development selected the company as the general contractor for Phase II of the project, which includes the construction of two distribution center and warehouse buildings totaling over 945,000 square feet. Phase II of the campus includes Building 4, a 241,114-square-foot single rear load warehouse, and Building 7, a 705,234-square-foot cross dock warehouse. Building 4, located on 15 acres, will consist of 22 dock doors that can be expanded to 45. Building 7, located on 40 acres, will feature 70 dock … Read more
Stevens Construction started an interior renovation and outdoor amenities improvement to the amenity center at Somerset at the Plantation in Fort Myers, Florida. The company is providing a 12,650-square-foot interior renovation of the community amenity center, which will include a fitness facility, meeting rooms, bathrooms, offices, outdoor bar and event room. Additionally, the company is building four new pickleball courts, two new bocce ball courts, shade canopies and expanding the spa and renovating the sauna. The company provided six months of preconstruction services, which included assembling and coordinating the design team, providing constructability reviews, cost savings suggestions, which saved the client … Read more
The sixth edition of the National Center for Construction Education and Research’s Welding Level One curriculum is available for purchase. The updated content includes the latest in safety information, including standard welding procedure specification examples from the American Welding Society. The content also reflects technological changes to the craft, modern approaches and best practices. In addition, the trainee guide has a modernized page design that presents information concisely with improved readability to help all learners. With this latest revision, the center has also updated the online learning options available through the NCCERconnect platform. Instructors and students can use NCCERconnect for … Read more
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