Articles Tagged with ''renovation/restoration''

First completed in the late 1930s, North Carolina State University’s Memorial Belltower had always lacked a key component—the bells. Instead, four loudspeakers had for decades broadcast bell sounds across the campus. In the decades since, the iconic campus landmark had suffered from water intrusion and other issues.

This adaptive reuse project transformed an empty, 1980s-era outlet mall located near Research Triangle Park into a modern facility offering Class A office space as well as laboratory space. 

To develop its first wide-scale production testing facility, biotech company GRAIL wanted to move quickly. It called on contractor Brasfield & Gorrie to deliver the $38-million, 200,000-sq-ft project in 5.5 months.

This expansion and renovation of an existing cold storage warehouse and office building originally built in 2015 added nearly 150,000 sq ft of freezer space and a 24,000-sq-ft cold dock.

An ambitious plan to transform a 50-year-old, 13-story office building into a 16-story, mixed-use residential development was nearly stymied at the outset when asbestos was discovered in nearly half of the interior walls as well as in the sealant used to glue drywall to columns. 

The iconic 1970s-era building has been transformed into a community resource.

Transformation of a 150-year-old former orphanage into a boutique hotel requires overhauling five buildings.

Complicating inherent challenges of renovating the central dome atop the botanical garden’s Palms of the World Gallery of the 55,000-sq-ft conservatory, built in 1902, was the need to maintain ideal interior climate conditions for its tropical plant collection during the year-long construction phase.