Ground Broken on Nation’s Largest Self-Sustaining Bus Depot

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In a strategic partnership with developer AlphaStruxure, Mortenson Construction has been assigned as the engineering, procurement and construction partner for the Montgomery County David F. Bone Equipment Maintenance & Transit Operation Center fleet depot EV charging and microgrid project in Derwood, Maryland. The EMTOC microgrid will include up to 2.25 MW of electric bus charging capacity powered by 5.5 MWDC of rooftop and canopy solar generation, 2 MW battery energy storage and existing backup generation, along with plans for an onsite 1 MW hydrogen electrolyzer. The microgrid will not only power a mixed fleet of battery electric and fuel cell … Read more

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First Students Welcomed at University of Colorado Boulder’s Newest, Largest Residence Hall

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The new Williams Village East residence hall at the University of Colorado Boulder welcomed its first students for the fall 2019 semester. The 178,000-square-foot residence hall, the university’s largest, houses a total of 705 students. The $96.7-million residence hall was designed by KWK Architects as part of the Design-Build team, which also included architect-of-record alm2s and Whiting-Turner Contracting Company. Construction on Williams Village East began in August 2017. The building sits just east of the Williams Village North residence hall on a site formerly occupied by a parking lot and four tennis courts that were no longer in use. Important … Read more

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