Groundbreaking Celebrated on $2B Expansion Project for Vantage Data Centers

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Work has begun on a $2-billion project to expand Vantage Data Centers’ campus in New Albany, Ohio. Turner Construction Company is serving as the general contractor on the project. The start of construction was celebrated with a groundbreaking ceremony attended by representatives from Vantage, Turner and leaders from local organizations. The campus is Vantage’s first project in the Midwest and will provide secure and reliable infrastructure for cloud technologies and artificial intelligence. Situated on 70 acres, the data center will provide 192 megawatts of capacity across more than 1.5 million square feet. It will be built in alignment with Turner … Read more

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Mixed-Use Project in Austria Awarded to STRABAG

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A mixed-use project with a usable floor space of around 40,000 square meters is being built on a site previously used as a parking lot in Muthgasse, located in Vienna’s Döbling district in Austria. STRABAG secured the contract from WBV-GPA in a bidding process. Multifunctionality and affordability are the hallmarks of the project at Muthgasse 50. Of the 309 residential units, 238 are subsidized rental apartments. In addition to affordable housing, a student residence with a total of 258 units, a kindergarten for six groups of children and a sports hall are planned. This hall is designed as a multipurpose … Read more

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Bishop Auckland Bus Station, Car Park Project Team Celebrates Topping Out

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Bishop Auckland’s new bus station in England is taking shape as the building’s steel frame reaches completion. Marking a key construction milestone on the project, more than 120 hot-rolled steel girders weighing a total of 23.49 tons have been installed. The steel was fabricated less than two miles from the development by South Durham Structures Ltd. The bus station – being delivered by Esh Construction on behalf of Durham County Council – will offer modern and accessible facilities to passengers. Sustainable technologies will boost the building’s environmental credentials. These include solar photovoltaic panels on the roof, a rainwater harvesting and … Read more

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GSA Awards $275M Contract for New Douglas Land Port of Entry in Arizona

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The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded a $275 million contract to Hensel Phelps Construction Company for the new Douglas Land Port of Entry. The general contractor will provide Design-Build services for the new commercial port, which will be built approximately five miles west of the existing Raul Hector Castro Land Port of Entry in Douglas, Arizona. This award includes small business subcontracting goals that highlight GSA’s commitment to creating more opportunities for small businesses. This critical infrastructure development project, which received $180 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding and $92 million in Inflation Reduction Act funding, will increase capacity and … Read more

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McLaren to Deliver Block F of Rental Housing-Led Regeneration of Bermondsey Biscuit Factory

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Greystar Real Estate Partners has appointed McLaren Construction to deliver Block F of the rental housing-led regeneration of the Peek Frean biscuit factory in Bermondsey, London (England). The general contractor is responsible for creating 230 of the total 1,624 high-quality build-to-rent homes in the regeneration project. Block F will be a mixed-use building part of the regeneration scheme, offering new homes, as well as retail spaces from the ground floor to level 2 of the building. To deliver Block F, McLaren will partially retain the former packing factory on the site, and repurpose it to fit the needs of modern … Read more

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