Ontario’s First Mass-Timber, Net-Zero Institutional Building Closer to Completion

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Limberlost Place, Ontario, Canada’s first mass-timber, net-zero carbon emissions institutional building, has now reached the highest point in construction. The final wood and steel beams were installed in the 10-story facility located at George Brown College’s Waterfront campus in Toronto’s growing east Bayfront community. To celebrate the topping off milestone, project partners and the trades workforce signed a beam earlier this summer before it was lifted into place at the top of the building. Limberlost Place’s structure was completed using an intricate installation method including a sequence where each mass-timber column and cross-laminated slab band would be placed. The structure … Read more

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Construction Milestone Reached on $456M Wisconsin Center Expansion

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The Wisconsin Center District recently gathered with state and local leaders to celebrate the topping-off milestone for the expanded Baird Center in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This achievement marks the completion of the steel structure of the expansion. Gilbane Building Company and C.D. Smith Construction, who have formed a joint venture as Gilbane | Smith Wisconsin Center Expansion, are the general contractors on the project. Upon completion, this monumental expansion project will nearly double the convention center’s size, bringing the expo hall to 300,000 square feet, adding 24 new meeting rooms, six additional loading docks and a rooftop ballroom with spectacular … Read more

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San Diego International Airport Administration Building Tops Out

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The structural steel topping out of the new airport administration building at the San Diego International Airport (California) was recently celebrated with a ceremony, including the signing of the final steel beam, as well as a barbeque. Sundt Construction is serving as the general contractor on the project. The new SDIA is a replacement to the San Diego Airport Authority’s existing administration building, which is located in an area that conflicts with proposed terminal and roadway improvements that cannot be completed until the administration building has been relocated. The Design-Build project consists of the construction of a new 130,000-square-foot building … Read more

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UW-GU Health Partnership Celebrates ‘Topping Off’

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A construction milestone was reached recently when the final structural beam was placed — topping off the building that will become the new home for the University of Washington School of Medicine-Gonzaga University Health Partnership’s medical and health education, research and innovation center, located in Washington. The new four-story, 90,000-square-foot building will feature classrooms, an anatomy suite, research labs and administrative offices. These will be utilized by 120 first- and second-year UW medical students, faculty, staff and more than 500 undergraduate students from Gonzaga’s health sciences programs. Located adjacent to McKinstry’s historic SIERR Building, the new facility is designed to … Read more

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11-Story Hotel Tower at Wild Horse Pass Tops Off

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The new 11-story hotel tower at Gila River Hotels & Casinos – Wild Horse Pass, located in Chandler, Arizona, recently topped off. Sundt Construction, Inc. is the general contractor for the project. The new guest tower is a piece of the property’s $143-million expansion and renovation, and will connect to its existing hotel, doubling guestroom capacity. It includes 205 guestrooms, for a total of 447 guestrooms on the property. The building will feature a rooftop restaurant and a new lounge area. The expansion will also add 22,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor meeting space at Wild Horse Pass. This past … Read more

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