Collaboration, Prefabrication Keep Research and Academic Building Project on Track

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The future of medical research and scientific study on the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center Campus, located in California, now resides in a new academic building. The UCSF Research and Academic Building consists of a 175,000-square-foot research and academic building, as well as a roadway project that is now part of the ZSFG campus. The new building consolidates some of the university’s research and teaching activity at ZSFG and contains a mix of state-of-the-art research and academic teaching spaces that will support the UCSF research and administrative space in the five-story structure. For Boldt project managers, collaboration … Read more

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Design-Build-Led Seismic Renovation of Robert A. Young Federal Building Complete

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An seismic renovation of the Robert A. Young Federal Building—one of downtown St. Louis, Missouri’s largest office buildings—has been completed to improve the historic structure’s seismic performance. The McCarthy Building Companies’-led Design-Build project team included Gensler (lead designer and architect of record), Etegra (associate architect) and Thornton Tomasetti (structural engineer). Other project team members included William Tao & Associates, Integrated Facility Services, Aschinger Electric and Wilson’s Structural Steel. The U.S. General Services Administration, which owns and manages the 20-story, 1-million-square-foot building, undertook the $75-million Design-Build project to provide additional shelter-in-place opportunities and safe exiting for the building’s 3,000 occupants in … Read more

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A Chat with Chase Corcorran, Superintendent at Webcor Builders

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Observation, teamwork cornerstones for success By Chris Maday Schmidt Chase Corcorran is LEED AP and superintendent at Webcor Builders, where he’s worked for nearly a decade. Prior to that, he interned with the company for two summers while in college. He’s a key member of Webcor’s recruiting team, manages its internship program and has helped develop its “boot camp” training programs for project engineers. Join Construction Superintendent as Corcorran talks about his involvement to help foster company-wide growth, his most memorable—and personal—project to date, the biggest change he’s seen on the jobsite in the last 10 years and more. (Q) … Read more

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