JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Brasfield & Gorrie has completed construction of Infinity Hall, a new residence hall located at The University of Florida's Innovation Square in Gainesville, Florida. The new living-learning center has opened to students for the fall semester.   With a capacity to accommodate more than 300 residents, the facility's four floors of residence suites include eight single rooms, 16 single-suite rooms, 48 double-suite rooms and 20 four-person-suite rooms. The facility also includes team meeting rooms, an entertainment room, flexible spaces to support The University of Florida's entrepreneurship programs, a resident apartment and a maintenance shop.   Privately developed … Read more

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — On Aug. 18, Knutson Construction participated in a groundbreaking event for the Career Technical Education Center at Heintz in Rochester, Minnesota. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and Rochester Community and Technical College selected Knutson to provide construction management services for the 22,350-square-foot, $6.5-million CTECH and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math facility addition at the University Center Rochester campus. Designed by HGA Architects, the new CTECH/STEM 19,000-square-foot building will be adjacent to the Heintz Center and is scheduled to be complete by July 2016. Knutson also recently completed a STEM Center renovation within the existing Heintz Center building. … Read more

Brasfield & Gorrie installed the first major steel piece for a new structural test stand for the liquid hydrogen tank of the NASA Space Launch System's massive core stage on Aug. 31 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.   Crews welded the steel to the foundation of a structure that will rise to 215 feet—or about 23 stories—when completed in the summer of 2016, adding another distinctive feature to Marshall's skyline.   The installation is part of a construction project led by general contractor Brasfield & Gorrie. The project includes construction of two large stands that will … Read more