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
Balfour Beatty JV Awarded Manufacturing Facility Contract in Hong Kong
Balfour Beatty’s 50/50 joint venture, Gammon Construction, has been awarded a HK$4.75 billion contract to deliver an Advanced Manufacturing Centre on behalf of the Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation. The contract will see Gammon deliver the 108,000-square-meter AMC facility, including a seawater district cooling system. This system, which will be used to cool the entire AMC building, is a cost-effective and environmental friendly solution for building cooling. The work will include all mechanical, electrical and plumbing services, the building façade and a significant amount of steelworks. To ensure the project’s safe and efficient delivery, Gammon will deploy a … Read more
$3.6M Tenant Improvements Complete for County of Orange Probation Department
Expanding its portfolio of work in the Los Angeles/Orange County area, BNBuilders recently completed tenant improvements for the County of Orange Probation Department, located in Laguna Hills, California. The $3.6-million project is one of the firm’s recent and upcoming projects in the region. For the County of Orange, BNBuilders completed tenant improvements to an existing 13,286-square-foot, one-story building on a 50,041-square-foot lot. The general contractor performed both design/preconstruction and construction services for the project. Preconstruction services included reviewing the construction documents and advising on alternatives for cost and time savings, ways to gain efficiencies and procurement of materials and subcontractors. The … Read more
Newtecnic Appointed to Oversee Istanbul City Museum Construction
Following its involvement since the early design stage, Newtecnic have been appointed by Salon Architects to coordinate the design of structure, façade and MEP engineering for Turkey’s new Istanbul City Museum. The building, located in the Topkapi district, is under construction and due for mid-2019 completion. The deceptively simple building envelope gives the appearance of being a solid mass that, through the provision of massive splits in the façade, invites visitors to explore the 8,000-year story of Istanbul as though they are entering an archaeological site. As part of its new role, Newtecnic will optimize the façades, main structure and … Read more
Washington University School of Medicine on BJC Healthcare Campus Undergoes $4M Facelift
Kadean Construction has completed a $4-million renovation for the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis’s (Missouri) Department of Anesthesiology at the BJC Healthcare campus. The builder completed the 20,700-square-foot project, which included construction of 96 doctors’ offices in the historic Peters Building, near Euclid and Barnes-Jewish Hospital Way, in the city’s Central West End. The project, which took roughly six months to complete, required gutting two floors and constructing new private and shared offices, along with conference and support space for anesthesiologists and other physicians. It also included a complete upgrade of all electrical, plumbing, fire protection, HVAC … Read more