Joint Venture to Deliver New Upscale Hotel Connected to Georgia World Congress Center

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A joint venture led by Skanska, along with SG Contracting, Inc., has been selected to build the world’s first newly constructed Signia by Hilton hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. Skanska and SG Contracting are providing preconstruction and construction management services for the more than $308-million project, which will be connected to and serve as the headquarters hotel for the Georgia World Congress Center. Located on the northwest corner of the Georgia World Congress Center Authority campus, the hotel will overlook Mercedes-Benz Stadium and connect to GWCC by way of walkway. The hotel, designed by Gensler, is set to open in early … Read more

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The Fertility Center of Las Vegas Breaks Ground on New Facility

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The Fertility Center of Las Vegas, and Design-Build general contractor SR Construction, broke ground on the brand-new Fertility Center of Las Vegas in southern Nevada. The project will consist of the ground-up construction of an 18,500-square-foot fertility clinic, development of the site including the installation of site utilities and traffic signals and other offsite improvements. The center, which will be a part of a nearly 4.5-acre commercial property, will also house an ambulatory surgery center and laboratory. Construction is expected to be complete by mid-2022. Additional project partners include PGAL Architects, Lochsa Engineering, John Jones Landscape Architecture, Wright Engineers and … Read more

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PORR, ORTNER to Deliver MCI Campus in Innsbruck

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The consortium PORR ORTNER will deliver the new campus of MCI | The Entrepreneurial School in Innsbruck, Austria by 2024 on behalf of the province of Tyrol. The consortium emerged as the winner of the award procedure, held as a “competitive dialogue.” The project has a contract volume of EUR 135m. As a Design-Build contractor under a partner model, the PORR ORTNER consortium assumes overall responsibility for the design and construction of the MCI Campus right through to its turnkey handover. In this future-oriented model for executing complex projects, all parties involved are integrated into the joint planning, costing and … Read more

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Clayco Launches Design + Engineering Subsidiary, Provides Turnkey Industrial Project Delivery

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Clayco has launched Clayco Design & Engineering, the company’s newest business. This addition will enhance Clayco’s integrated Design-Build service offering and diversify the organization’s capabilities in delivery methods of manufacturing, process, food and beverage plants. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Clayco Design & Engineering is led by David Mills, a former partner at The Design Group, a Barry Wehmiller company. As vice president, Mills is responsible for strategy and innovation, new business development and recruiting industry talent. Joe Crawford, formerly with the Process Technologies division of AECOM, is director of operations and is charged with delivering best in class results … Read more

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2020 Design-Build Conference & Expo Goes Virtual

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DBIA’s annual Design-Build Conference & Expo is going virtual Oct. 28-30. With seven tracks of education, including targeted tracks for Water/Wastewater, Transportation and Virtual Design & Construction, federal sector pre-conference sessions, a virtual Technology Pavilion and more, DBIA’s virtual events will harness the best online conferencing tools available to deliver its most expansive program ever. America’s Design-Build teams are playing a critical role in the pandemic response and will be vital to our nation’s post-COVID-19 recovery. That’s why now, more than ever, it’s important DBIA provides the tools, resources and networking opportunities Design-Build project teams need to prepare for the future. … Read more

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