Multi-Trade Prefab Shaves Time, Cost for Clinic

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The University of California, Davis had clear construction goals for its new on-campus health clinic requiring an innovative approach. The 4,000-square-foot clinic, site utilities and site improvements had to be finished in seven months in time for the university’s open enrollment scheduled for November 2020. The budget for the primary care clinic was fixed and perhaps at odds with the timeline. And, just as construction started, the nation was in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. For The Boldt Company and Design-Build partner Boulder Associates, the solution was a highly collaborative environment that made extensive use of prefabrication. This allowed […]

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Registration Open for Modular Building Institute-Sponsored Digital Expo

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Registration is open for the now-digital Offsite Construction Expo – Denver, sponsored by the Modular Building Institute. This two-day digital expo will run Sept. 16-17, closely following the format of previous in-person expos, and will feature educational presentations, digital booths from industry exhibitors and person-to-person communication over video and chat. This event will mark the sixth year that MBI has sponsored the Offsite Construction Expos. Attendees and exhibitors alike will benefit from the variety of modular vendors and component suppliers all in one virtual room. Past expo exhibitors have included offsite construction contractors, traditional contractors that have integrated offsite methods, […]

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Parish Episcopal School’s Noble Family Performing Arts Center Tops Out

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Later this month, the construction team and school will celebrate the topping out of the Noble Family Performing Arts Center at Parish Episcopal School’s Midway Campus in Dallas, Texas. The new performing arts center—part of a 55,000-square-foot campus expansion—will host student performances, community and milestone events, awards ceremonies and high-caliber speakers and cultural events. McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. broke ground on the project in November of 2019 and it is expected to be complete by spring of 2021. The Noble Family Performing Arts Center includes a 515-seat performance hall, 120-seat black box theater, rehearsal rooms, a film screening room and […]

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Prefabrication + the New Frontier

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Yesterday, today and the future of mitigating jobsite challenges By Kyle Davis The construction industry has a problem: skilled labor is at an all-time low. However, the part of the story that’s particularly alarming, but rarely surfaces, is it’s also not in a position to recover. In 2004, the Brookings Institute published a white paper titled “Toward a New Metropolis.” The conclusion 15 years ago was that half of what will exist in the built environment by 2030 didn’t exist yet. The construction industry uses 29% of the craft apprentices enrolled in apprenticeship programs, equating to just 144,000 apprentices and […]

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Balfour Beatty to Deliver Healthcare Facilities in Midlands

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Balfour Beatty has been awarded England’s £267-million Midland Metropolitan Hospital contract on behalf of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. Having been appointed to deliver the early works contract in 2018, Balfour Beatty will now progress with the main construction works to the 80,000-square-meter hospital, including the completion of the external façade and all associated mechanical, electrical and plumbing services, delivered by Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick. The 670-bed Midland Metropolitan Hospital will offer maternity, children’s and inpatient adult facilities to a half million people. Located in Smethwick, the hospital will remain the closest acute hospital to the center of Birmingham […]

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