Emory Healthcare of Atlanta has teamed with a private developer for construction of a $200-million proton therapy center in downtown Atlanta. Brasfield & Gorrie, Kennesaw, Ga., is building the 107,000-sq-ft oncology center for San Diego-based developer Advanced Particle Therapy. VOA Associates is the project architect. Perkins + Will is serving as the landscape architect. Image courtesy VOA Associates Brasfield and Gorrie recently started construction in downtown Atlanta of the $200-million Emory Proton Therapy Center, scheduled to open in 2016. Related Links: Atlanta's Construction Industry Making a Comeback Atlanta Authority Hires 360 Architecture to Design Falcons Stadium To accommodate a scheduled
General contractor Samet Corp. of Greensboro, N.C., recently started construction of a $30-million senior-living facility in Charlotte, N.C. According to the contractor, the Brightmore Senior Living facility will feature 138 independent-living units, along with 16 assisted-living and 14 memory-care units. Liberty Healthcare of Wilmington, N.C., is the project owner. Image courtesy of Samet Corp. Samet Corp. is building the Brightmore Senior Living facility in Charlotte, N.C., for Liberty Healthcare of Wilmington, N.C. Related Links: Top Southeast Start Reflect a Rejuvenated Residential Market ENR Southeast: Projects James Reed, health-care group manager with Samet, said the contractor was able to trim the
Creating a mechanically stabilized mountain and building a pair of massive, buried bridge structures are all part of a day's work for the crew working on the elevated and sloping runway project at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL). Related Links: Broward County Picks Designers for South Runway Project Balfour Beatty, Cummings Land Fort Lauderdale Terminal Contract The entire project, estimated at $750 million, is designed to extend the boundaries of the airport by raising one of its runways up and over a major highway and rail line.Targeted for completion by September 2014, the work is testing the limits of contractors
The condo boom is back. South Florida developers have adopted the custom, common abroad, of collecting big deposits for residential investments before construction. One contractor says the use of this financing method could create a building boom that could become "unprecedented." More immediately, as this year's Top Starts ranking attests, Miami may become one of the nation's first major cities to enter a post-recessionary boom. Related Links: Top Starts Ranking Is Miami About to Boom Again? Is Miami's Condo Boom Already Heading for Overdrive? At Cape Canaveral, A Powerful Launch "It's unbelievable what's going on right now," says Thomas P.
The space shuttle may not lift off from Florida's "Space Coast" anymore, but an upcoming launch of new power-generation technology on a $970-million plant modernization near Cape Canaveral will raise the output of the state's largest electric utility while providing cleaner power, thanks to the first use of some of the world's most efficient gas turbines. Though set to go online June 1 as originally planned, construction of the 1,250-MW Florida Power & Light combined-cycle natural gas powerplant is running about six weeks ahead of schedule, despite serious labor shortages along the way. Related Links: Building Critical Biomass Imploding the
Unsatisfied with Brasfield & Gorrie’s response to a recent threat of contract termination—known as a cure notice—the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) ratcheted up the heat on Jan. 31 by issuing a show cause notice to the contractor over its performance on a nearly $300-million hospital project in Orlando. Photo by Scott Judy The Dept. of Veterans Affairs has issued a Show Cause notice to hospital contractor Brasfield & Gorrie. The contractor has until Feb. 11 to respond or face termination from the project. Related Links: Congress Seeks Elusive Answers About Troubled VA Project Construction CEO's Testimony Offers Glimpse
Following in the footsteps of schools that have brokered development partnerships between high-tech companies and academia as well as cities that have revitalized struggling districts into 24/7 neighborhoods, the University of Florida is going outside its Gainesville campus gates and stepping into the shoes of an urban renewer. The UF goal is to turn an adjacent neighborhood full of underutilized low-rise buildings into a 40-acre compact community where people work, live and play. Having overcome the many zoning, infrastructure and cultural challenges that stood in its way, Innovation Square—which could encompass more than 5 million sq ft when it is
In 2007, a fire ripped through the Jacksonville Humane Society's facilities. Firefighters battled the flames to save more than 80 animals, but tragically nearly the same number of pets died.
The construction industry may still be stuck in low gear as a result of lingering economic trouble, but the Southeast's contractors and designers are obviously not wasting any time showcasing their expanding set of tools and capabilities as they team up on impressive projects throughout the region.
The design-build team of KBR Building Group and Clark Nexsen was charged with programming, designing and constructing Medicago's 97,000-sq-ft research and production center in just 12 months.
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