NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Bridgestone Americas, Inc., a subsidiary of Bridgestone Corporation, celebrated the groundbreaking for its new 30-story, more than $200-million headquarters to be located in the SoBro area of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. When completed in mid-to-late 2017, the new facility will house more than 1,700 employees — 1,100 in Nashville and 600 new jobs from three out-of-state business units being relocated to the city. Bridgestone has outgrown its current leased headquarters facility on Marriott Drive near Nashville International Airport. With its lease expiring in late 2017, the company launched an extensive search for a new headquarters location to support … Read more

In Miami, Florida, Skanska recently executed one of the world's most unusual concrete pours: creating a martini glass-shaped, 500,000-gallon seawater aquarium tank through a non-stop 25-hour, 1,200-cubic-yard placement. The stakes were very high for this aspect of Skanska's new $101-million Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science project: The tank can"t have any cracks large enough to let water pass through, which essentially means no cracks at all, and certainly not any construction joints. When the science museum opens as expected in summer 2016, visitors will be able to walk below the suspended, conical tank and view sharks and other … Read more