Articles Tagged with ''Government/Public Buildings''

The project team says that preserving the U.S. Capitol’s ornate facade involved “firsts” in the nation for the successful execution of large-scale laser ablation cleaning and stone consolidation to conserve a marble exterior.

This project merged a unique set of sustainable and urban-design strategies to create a modern center for forensic science, one that features state-of-the-art autopsy, morgue and lab spaces.

The $115-million, 348,000-sq-ft Pantex Administrative Support Complex enables the National Nuclear Security Administration to relocate employees from its aging facilities into a modern, energy-efficient facility adjacent to the nearby Pantex Plant.

Rapid growth at Denver International Airport created the need for a new fire station. Station No. 35 also serves as the new division headquarters for the airport’s five firefighting facilities.

The Auraria Higher Education Center in Denver features the nation’s only academic library that’s shared by three institutions of higher learning—the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver and the Community College of Denver.

The new state building in Taylorsville houses a state crime lab and a medical examiner’s lab as well as agriculture and food laboratories.

Since 1940, Provo Power has provided electricity to the residents of the city.

Delivered under a design-build contract, this project in an outer suburb of Washington, D.C., needed to be completed within 21 months after the contract award so that the Montgomery County Public Schools and the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission could occupy the facilities.

The new U.S. Diplomacy Center houses the nation’s first museum dedicated exclusively to the practice of U.S. diplomacy and also serves as the new public entrance and screening area for the U.S. Dept. of State headquarters.

Emergency Medical Station 50 was designed to be both an emergency response station and a division headquarters for the city’s emergency medical services in the borough of Queens.