New Brookhaven City Centre Showcases Georgia’s First Mass Timber Municipal Building

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Brookhaven City Centre celebrates the grand opening of Georgia’s first mass timber municipal building, constructed McCarthy + Barnsley, A Joint Venture. Located just north of Atlanta, the new city hall is a major milestone for Brookhaven, serving a populace of nearly 60,000 people and marking the first purpose-built city hall since the city of Brookhaven was incorporated in 2012. Brookhaven City Centre is the only government facility in the state of Georgia built primarily using mass timber, featuring exposed wood throughout the upper levels and concrete for the parking garage. The building exemplifies a growing national trend in sustainable development … Read more

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Gloria Drummond Patient Tower at Boca Raton Regional Hospital Reaches Construction Milestone

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The Gloria Drummond Patient Tower at Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Florida has topped out. Robins & Morton is the general contractor for the project and HKS is the architect. Once complete in 2025, the new nine-story patient tower will include all-private patient rooms, surgical suites and critical care units, leveraging the latest in healthcare technologies and design principles that foster healing environments. It will also house the Michelle and Michael Hagerty Center for Graduate Medical Education, more than doubling the hospital’s existing education space and helping recruit and retain top medical school graduates. The tower will encompass more than … Read more

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Construction Completes on US Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville on Redstone Arsenal

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A celebration was recently held upon completion of construction on the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville on Redstone Arsenal — the Redstone Gateway 300 building — located in Huntsville, Alabama. Robins & Morton served as the general contractor, and Nola Van Peursem Architects was the architect. The three-story building, located on Secured Gateway, features 200,000 square feet of Class A office space and a 15,000-square-foot warehouse constructed with concrete tilt-wall panels. It will be occupied by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntsville Center, enabling the agency to consolidate its workforce in one location. The facility includes a … Read more

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Interior Construction Site Separation of Waste

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4 best practices from the field when pursuing LEED certification By Michael Orbank As the climate crisis worsens, the impacts of traditional construction and demolition waste disposal have begun to stick out like a dirty, sore thumb. Historically accepted commingled C&D waste practices are becoming unsustainable as the industry quickly realizes that the promises of high landfill diversion, and material recycling percentages from the waste processor, don’t quite match reality. The question is, how can the construction industry improve our waste practices to help promote a cleaner, more circular future? Site separation is key, and superintendents play maybe the most … Read more

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Renegade Plastics Debuts Fully Recyclable Tarps, Drop Cloths

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Renegade Plastics recently debuted its fully recyclable tarps and drop cloths for the building and construction industries. The drop cloth tarps are made from a low-carbon coated fabric that is free from lead, phthalates, dioxins, PFAS, VOCs and heavy metals, generates less carbon emissions than traditional coated fabrics and is safer for people, plants, animals and the environment. Their products are an alternative to the PVC-coated and cheap polyethylene fabrics that dominate the marketplace. The fully recyclable tarps also feature eco-friendly recycled plastic grommets and are lighter-weight than traditional tarps. Use of the evolutionary fabrics will eventually count toward LEED … Read more

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