NASA Selects Walsh Construction to Build New Research Support Building

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NASA has selected Walsh Construction to build a new research support building at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The total potential value of this contract is approximately $32.7 million. The two-story, 64,000-square-foot building will house approximately 164 employees and include open office areas, private offices, conference rooms, collaborative engineering rooms and a cafeteria with supporting kitchen and dining spaces. Work under the contract includes removal of existing paved surfaces and underground utilities; site preparation; caissons for foundation support; the construction of curbs, roadways, parking areas and pedestrian walkways and landscaping. The contract also includes supporting utilities to … Read more

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Hill International Named Construction Manager for Measurement Systems Lab

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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. and HAMPTON, Va. — Hill International has received a contract from the U.S. General Services Administration, on behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to provide construction management services in connection with the Measurement Systems Laboratory to be built at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The 30-month contract has an estimated value to Hill of approximately $3.2 million. The new $80-million MSL is the third phase of a multi-year master plan known as the “Revitalization Program” for NASA’s Langley Research Center. The new facility will consolidate many similar-functioning laboratories spread across the campus into a … Read more

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Brasfield & Gorrie’s Construction Veteran Buddy Clark: Man on a Mission

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – In 1962, 18-year-old Buddy Clark worked as an apprentice carpenter building a test stand for NASA’s Saturn V launch vehicle at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This project enabled NASA to test the Saturn V, the rocket used in the Apollo program that took U.S. astronauts to the moon. Now, at age 72, Clark is back at Marshall working on two stands designed to perform structural tests on the largest-ever cryogenic fuel tanks for the most powerful rocket in history, the NASA Space Launch System. These test stands will expand the U.S. space program and … Read more

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