For GoodRx, an app-based health care company increasing access to affordable prescriptions, the goal was to bring a “homey” feel to its new 76,000-sq-ft headquarters building.
The abandoned former Cook County Hospital building was a wreck. “The term ‘fully depreciated’ was an understatement,” says Kenneth Johnston, senior project manager with Walsh Construction.
Constructing a cruise terminal at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic was a surreal experience for the project team, but pandemic disruptions did not derail work on the Norwegian Cruise Line Terminal B, now a soaring landmark at the Port of Miami that can handle cruise ships carrying up to 5,000 passengers.
Tasked with rebuilding a historic Tampa elementary school that was nearly destroyed in 2017 by the one-two punch of Hurricane Irma and ensuing fire, contractor JE Dunn Construction Co. and architect Fleishman Garcia began a painstaking effort to revive the early 1900s-era brick building into a modern facility.
When the University of Texas at Dallas wanted to consolidate its physics and space sciences departments into a single facility, it took the opportunity to build a signature gateway building to the campus.
The team working on this Chicago riverfront tower faced a variety of constraints, from the narrow trapezoidal site to historic preservation requirements and a city-mandated public walkway.
The 125,000-sq-ft First Americans Museum is both a cultural center and museum that pays tribute to the history of Native American tribes and their connection to Oklahoma.
The construction of the $96-million, 115,000-sq-ft, LEED Gold-certified athletics and educational community college facility in Redwood, Calif., would test Blach Construction’s safety program in unique ways.
The $1.4-billion expansion of a Phillips 66 natural gas liquids complex in Sweeny, Texas, was “the best example of teamwork I have seen in my 30-plus year career,” says John Parker, senior vice president of construction at project design-builder S&B Engineers and Constructors.
