Joint Venture Completes Design-Build Work on 1st Wastewater Treatment Plant in B.C.

Design-Build work has been completed on the first wastewater treatment plant in Victoria, British Columbia. The McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant provides tertiary treatment for wastewater from the core area municipalities of Victoria, Esquimalt, Saanich, Oak Bay, View Royal, Langford and Colwood, and the Esquimalt and Songhees nations. Work at the facility began in 2017 by Harbour Resource Partners, a joint venture between AECOM and Graham. The plant is the main component of a CAD$775-million wastewater program undertaken by the Capital Regional District. The Design-Build partnership leveraged AECOM’s wastewater design and environmental expertise and Graham’s competence in this sector of … Read more

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ZÜBLIN to Deliver New Public Administration Center in Germany

STRABAG subsidiary ZÜBLIN and Dreßler Bau GmbH are working together as management contractors in a consortium to realize the new public administration headquarters in the heart of Dresden (Germany). The Design-Build contract, which will leave its mark on the Dresden cityscape, was awarded by Kommunale Immobilien Dresden GmbH & Co. KG with a fixed lump sum price of € 116 million. The project is based on a design by the architectural firms Barcode Architects and Tchoban Voss Architekten. The contract has been ceremoniously signed and the consortium of ZÜBLIN (66 %) and Dreßler Bau (34 %) will begin realizing the … Read more

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UMass Medical School New 350,000-SF Education, Research Building to Target LEED Gold Certification

Construction on the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s New Education and Research Building is underway. Shawmut Design and Construction has been selected to build the nine-story biomedical research and education facility, which will support laboratory research growth and acceleration into new therapeutics for some of the most challenging diseases that humans face. In partnership with architecture firms ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge and ZGF, as well as the UMass Building Authority, the nine-story, 350,000-square-foot building will support the development of therapeutics in a high-performance, sustainable environment. The complex will feature program space for a projected 77 principal investigators, an FDA-compliant manufacturing facility … Read more

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Balfour Beatty to Build £32M National Treatment Centre in Scotland

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £32-million contract to build a world-class ophthalmology and orthopedic health facility in Inverness, a city in the Scottish Highlands, on behalf of NHS Highland. The general contractor will construct the 8,305-square-meter National Treatment Centre, including 24 inpatient rooms, five operating theatres, clinics and outpatient departments. In addition, the company will build minor operation and procedure rooms, consulting rooms, a café, children’s play area and office support rooms. The new facility will provide elective orthopedic surgery and full ophthalmology services to the surrounding communities, helping to reduce the waiting times for patients across the Highlands. … Read more

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Flagship Generation Park Y Offers Futureproof, Sustainable Office Spaces in Warsaw

Generation Park Y, located in Warsaw, Poland, has recently received its occupancy permit. This 140-meter-high building is the greenest skyscraper in the capital, offering futureproof, sustainable office spaces, innovative solutions and an expansive city view. The main idea behind the Generation Park project was to create a workplace that would respond to the needs of employees of all generations. Construction of Generation Park Y, phase III of the complex, started in November 2018. Generation Park will be Skanska’s largest office development project in Warsaw and include the company’s first office skyscraper in Central and Eastern Europe. Generation Park Y will … Read more

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