Photo courtesy Brasfield & Gorrie

Brasfield & Gorrie and Clemson University broke ground Dec. 7 on a $37.5-million expansion to the Division I university’s athletic facilities that included new and upgraded lakefront lacrosse, gymnastics and rowing facilities. The development’s lacrosse stadium will include bleacher seating and artificial turf, a 9,000-sq-ft operations complex and other amenities. A 21,000-sq-ft facility will be the home for day-to-day operations for the Clemson gymnastics team, with practice gym, offices, locker room, lounge and training area. The rowing center will be renovated with updates to the training room facility, building infrastructure and other cosmetic updates. A 10,000-sq-ft training and recovery facility will be built adjacent to the three facilities.

Brasfield & Gorrie also celebrated the topping out of Spirit Airlines’ new headquarters in Dania Beach, Fla. The project includes corporate offices, a crew training facility with flight simulator, an amenity building and a 1,010-space parking garage.

Photo courtesy Frampton Construction

Frampton Construction has wrapped up work on a four-building Class A industrial complex in Charleston, S.C., at an 837,000-sq-ft industrial park developed by Trinity Capital Advisors on Weber Boulevard in North Charleston’s rapidly growing Palmetto Commerce Park. The site offers convenient port and interstate access. Frampton completed sitework for the 78-acre park and the core construction of four buildings using concrete tilt-wall construction. The buildings varied in size from 145,6000 sq ft to 342,160 sq ft.

Rendering Courtesy Skanska

Photo courtesy Skanska

A joint venture of Skanska, New South Construction, FS360 and Synergy Construction has completed the first phase of work on the Concourse T Gates at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, including construction of four new gates at the end of Concourse T, delivered ahead of schedule for use by United Airlines. The joint venture rebuilt a major portion of the North Terminal exit road, a Delta Air Lines support equipment facility and a fire station and managed relocations of utility infrastructure. The work is a part of the airport’s broader expansion and renovation plan, ATLNext, which aims to increase capacity, replace existing facilities and enhance the airport’s aesthetic appeal.

Photo courtesy Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command

An Alberici-Mortenson joint venture has completed $600 million in improvements to the U.S. naval submarine base in Kings Bay, Ga., supporting the Columbia-class submarine as it comes online in the coming years as well as supporting eight Ohio-class submarines homeported at the base to keep up with maintenance schedules. The Trident Refit Facility Kings Bay held a ribbon cutting Oct. 18 for the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southeast recapitalization, which began in summer 2020. The three-phase project included construction of temporary work and storage spaces, replacement of roof and wall panels, recoating all structural steel, replacement of utility systems supporting docked submarines and replacement of all the dry dock systems that move water in and out of the dock.