Built in the heart of historic Savannah, Ga., the six-story, 65,000-sq-ft Cay Building sits atop a 1,000-space parking garage owned and operated by the city.
One of Nashville's latest hits, the $415-million Music City Center project, provides state-of-the-art convention center facilities with a style clearly reflecting its homegrown, country music roots.
The challenges of revamping a 140-year-old industrial structure into a modern apartment building proved numerous and continual on W.C. Bradley Co.'s residential development in Columbus, Ga.
At first glance, a lineup of some of the biggest Southeast projects expected to begin construction during 2014 seems to indicate a boom market. There's a $1-billion National Football League stadium project in Atlanta. A $1-billion passenger rail line linking Orlando to Miami. In Orlando, a $2.1-billion, 21-mile-long transformation of Interstate 4. And in Atlanta, an $840-million revamping of Interstate 75. Photo courtesy of Moss and Associates South Florida is a growing haven for residential contracts, such as this Moss and Associates project in Fort Lauderdale for The Related Group. Image courtesy of 360 Architecture The Atlanta Falcons say they
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is requiring contractor CB&I to enact measures to improve the workplace culture related to quality control at the firm's Lake Charles, La., plant that supplies wall modules to nuclear-power projects in Georgia and South Carolina. Photo courtesy Georgia Power The CB&I plant that feeds CA20 sub-modules to the Plant Vogtle project, pictured here, is facing heightened NRC scrutiny over workplace concerns. Related Links: Builders of Vogtle Nuclear Plant Face Growing Costs, Concerns Vogtle Nuclear Plant Owners Seek Budget Hike, Extend Schedule On Sept. 17, the NRC announced a deal with the company that resolves two employment
In the fall of 2009, before construction had even begun, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' first design-build hospital project, sited in Fort Benning, Ga., had become a contracting nightmare. Related Links: Turnkey Equipment Procurement a Key to Success on Navy Hospital Job Court Orders Army to Reinstate Turner Contract The two losing bidders for the $333-million Martin Army Community Hospital (MACH)—a McCarthy/Hunt joint venture and a team of Harbert Construction and Brasfield & Gorrie—were filing lawsuits relating to the selection of Turner Construction Co. and Ellerbe Becket/RLF Architects. By February 2010, the Corps was ordering Turner Construction Co. and
Favorable economics for natural gas-fired energy production is putting pressure on builders of Georgia's $14-billion Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion project, with Southern Co. and contractor CB&I facing heightened scrutiny as they deal with continuing cost and schedule overruns. Photo by Georgia Power In June, Vogtle construction crews placed this 900-ton containment vessel bottom head into the Unit 3 nuclear island. Related Links: Vogtle Nuclear Plant Owners Seek Budget Hike, Extend Schedule Duke Energy Cancels $24.7B Florida Nuke Plant Project Philip Hayet, a Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) analyst, summed up the changed fiscal environment when he testified in early August
International Speedway Corp., owner of the Daytona International Speedway, kicked off construction in early July of its $400-million renovation of the NASCAR racetrack in Daytona Beach, Fla. The project—dubbed "Daytona Rising: Reimagining an American Icon"—is the single largest investment in the company's history. Image courtesy Rossetti The $400-million makeover of Daytona International Speedway will transform the nearly 1-mile-long grandstands section of the famous NASCAR track. Image courtesy Rossetti Design of the design-build project was nearly 100 percent complete at the start of construction in July. Related Links: As $400M Daytona Speedway Redo Revs Up, Other Southeast Sports Projects Get Ready
The team building the 32-mile-long first phase of a $1.2-billion Central Florida commuter rail project, which endured years of political delay, is making its way through a unique set of coordination challenges to get the first trains moving next spring. Related Links: Construction of $1.3B SunRail Project Finally Set to Start Gov. Scott Gives Go-Ahead for $1.3B Commuter Rail Project The $168.1-million design-build-maintain contract for Phase 1—held by a joint venture of Archer Western Contractors, Tampa, and RailWorks Track Systems, New York City—is transforming an active freight line into a hybrid system that is passenger-centric during commuter hours. The first
Claiming the Fluor Corp.-led construction management team that manages and operates a federal nuclear-waste site in Aiken, S.C., intentionally misled it about the status of design completion on a $90-million plutonium and uranium waste-disposal project under way, Baker Concrete Construction Inc. sued the joint venture on June 6 in U.S. District Court there. Photo courtesy Savannah River Site Waste processing facility at Aiken, S.C., site was originally set for completion in July 2012. Related Links: Baker Concrete v. SRNS DOE Looking at Cost, Schedule Problems at S.C. Nuclear Site Baker seeks damages of nearly $20 million from Savannah River Nuclear
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