Barton Malow Company and project partner Gray Construction have broken ground at BlueOval SK Battery Park in Glendale, Kentucky. BlueOval SK, a joint venture between Ford and SK On, will produce advanced batteries onsite for future Ford and Lincoln electric vehicles. Construction is ahead of schedule. To date: Crews have moved 4.3 million cubic yards of soil — enough to fill 200 American football stadiums 283,000 tons of stone have been laid, roughly equal to the weight of 1,350 freight trains 66,000 CY of concrete have been poured — enough to fill 356 backyard swimming pools 3,300 tons of resteel … Read more
Joint Venture Hits Major Construction Milestones on Grand Egyptian Museum
September was full of important milestones for the BESIX and Orascom Construction teams working jointly on the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt, just off the plateau of the Pyramids of Giza. First, the JV team took a significant step toward completion by delivering substantial parts of the cultural masterpiece. Second, the JV won the Autodesk Excellence Award 2022 for Best Construction Project for its use of BIM software, which allowed the team to smoothly coordinate the more than 150 subcontractors on the project. Finally, the project team also celebrated 20 million man-hours without any severe incident. The delivery of … Read more
Mall of Oman Awarded LEED Platinum Certification
The joint venture of Consolidated Contractors Company and Shapoorji Pallonji Middle East’s Mall of Oman Project — located in Dubai, U.A.E. — was awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum certification this spring. The Mall of Oman project achieved a Platinum certification under the LEED 2009 Core and Shell Development rating system with a total of 81 points. The Mall of Oman was built using low-environmental impact construction materials; approximately 22.95% of the materials used in the construction were recycled-content products (the product was manufactured with recycled materials either collected from a recycling program or from waste recovered … Read more
AECOM-Hunt Turner, Joint Venture Tops Out Concrete at LA Clippers’ Future Home Intuit Dome
Turner recently celebrated the topping out of the Intuit Dome’s concrete frame – the Los Angeles Clippers’ future home along with joint venture partner AECOM-Hunt. More than 200,000 hours of work performed by 350 workers went into completing the concrete frame. To celebrate the major milestone, the joint-venture team joined LA Clippers Chairman Steve Ballmer, LA Clippers President of Business Operations Gillian Zucker, Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts, Intuit’s Director of Sponsorships Danielle Roark and Sen. Steven Bradford, to place handprints in concrete. “What our construction team has achieved in the last six months is incredible,” said Rames Sundaram, project … Read more
Behavioral Health Teaching Facility at University of Washington’s Medical Center-Northwest Achieves Construction Milestone
The new six-story Behavioral Health Teaching Facility, at University of Washington’s Medical Center-Northwest in Seattle, will include 150 patient beds and more than 184,000 square feet of clinical and administrative space. The project will feature 75 long-term civil commitment beds, 25 geropsychiatric beds and 50 licensed med-surgery beds with the capacity to treat patients with psychiatric diagnoses and/or substance use disorders. The facility also will include a 24/7 telehealth consultation program, a procedural area for electroconvulsive therapy and neuromodulation to support patients’ commitment to community-based living and healthcare, as well as space to conduct comprehensive workforce training and development for … Read more