International Code Council, Modular Building Institute Release New Standards for Offsite Construction

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The International Code Council and the Modular Building Institute have published two new comprehensive standards that will accelerate the offsite construction industry. ICC/MBI 1200-2021 Standard for Off-Site Construction: Planning, Design, Fabrication and Assembly and ICC/MBI 1205-2021 Standard for Off-Site Construction: Inspection and Regulatory Compliance are intended to promote consistency around the globe of regulatory requirements for offsite construction processes. As the building industry continues to face multiple challenges including workforce availability, housing affordability, jobsite safety, building quality and sustainability, the expanded use of offsite construction, often called modular or prefabrication, is one approach that has risen to address these challenges. … Read more

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New $105M Airport Ground Facilities Critical Milestone in O’Hare Runway Modernization

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Mortenson used innovative construction technologies and Lean practices to build three major new ground facilities totaling 180,000 square feet for United Airlines at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (Illinois) in less than a year. The contractor fast-tracked the project because United Airlines needed to vacate its previous ground facilities to make way for runway construction at O’Hare. Completion of the United project is a critical milestone in O’Hare’s massive modernization of its runways, which includes adding and extending some while closing others. The runway work complements the planned $8.5-billion investment to upgrade terminals and other amenities and add the first new … Read more

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Gammon Awarded Data Center Project in Singapore

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Gammon Pte. Limited, a subsidiary of Gammon Construction Limited, has been awarded a data center project in Singapore for Global Switch, an owner, operator and developer of large-scale, carrier and cloud neutral, multi-tenanted data centers across Europe and Asia-Pacific. Located in the Woodlands area of Singapore, the data center will comprise a six-story precast structure containing 10 data suites and infrastructure. It will be built to achieve LEED Gold and Green Mark Platinum standards utilizing Building Information Modeling through design development, construction, operation and maintenance. The data center is due to launch later this year. Global Switch’s Singapore Woodlands data center is … Read more

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Collaboration, Prefabrication Streamlined Construction of Finland’s New Children’s Hospital

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Construction of the New Children’s Hospital at Meilahti, Helsinki has been completed. The project’s main contractor, SRV, has handed over the hospital to its future user, the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa, two months ahead of schedule. The original target date for completion was the end of June. The New Children’s Hospital will open in autumn 2018 and will replace the outdated premises of the present Children’s Hospital and Children’s Castle Hospital. Construction began in August 2014 with earth construction and excavation work. Preparations for the future commissioning of the building were made during the construction phase; for example, … Read more

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Construction of Cincinnati Children’s/UC Health Proton Therapy Center Complete

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HOUSTON, Texas and CINCINNATI, Ohio – Linbeck Group and Messer Construction Co. has completed the Cincinnati Children’s/UC Health Proton Therapy Center in Ohio, the second facility of its kind in the world owned by a children’s hospital. The total cost of the project is $120 million. The two-story, 89,549-square-foot facility features a vault to house the 9 ton, super-conducting cyclotron system and three treatment bays, or gantries, with additional space for a fourth bay to be built when needed. When the Proton Therapy Center opens in August 2017 it will be the only facility in the country with a gantry … Read more

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