A new 80,000-square-foot medical office building for HCA Healthcare in North Charleston, South Carolina has topped out. The facility will include clinical offices for the hospital’s cardiology, neurology and orthopedics departments; a cardiac rehab center and hospital and clinical administrative spaces. The project is part of HCA’s plan to relocate non-institutional functions out of the main hospital and into adjacent lower cost spaces. The tilt-up concrete construction project is located in a seismic zone. The steel structure features prefabricated wall panels for the exterior enclosure. The building is designed to accommodate a future vertical expansion of 40,000 square feet by … Read more
Balfour Beatty Completes Expansion, Renovation of The Alfond Inn Hotel
Balfour Beatty has completed the $36-million expansion and renovation of The Alfond Inn at Rollins on behalf of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. The hotel’s five-story, 81,000-square-foot addition is a vital development to the Winter Park area’s social venue spaces, which complements the Alfond Inn. The building expansion adjacent to the existing luxury hotel includes 71 new guest rooms, a communal café in the lobby, a spa with an amenity deck, a second swimming pool and an additional 2,400-square-foot meeting, boardroom and event space. The hotel’s new wing features a four-story atrium and leverages natural light to provide continuity … Read more
Skanska Completes $38M Expansion, Renovation of Tampa Convention Center in Florida
Skanska USA has completed the largest renovation project in the history of the Tampa Convention Center in Downtown Tampa, Florida that will cater to locals and business and leisure travelers. The project scope included a series of capital improvements such as a 23,500-square-foot expansion to the facility and the addition of 18,000 square feet of new waterfront rooms that will provide flexible meeting and event space to better accommodate conferences and conventions coming to the Tampa Bay region. Skanska and Baker Barrios Architects, the project’s design partner, in conjunction with Convergence Design, provided master planning services for the major expansion … Read more