To build one of the largest single data center structures in Data Center Alley, the team had to adhere to the client’s tight deadline, making the integration of design and construction processes critical.
Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Texas coast just weeks after the building shell for Lonza Houston Inc.’s 265,000-sq-ft facility in Pearland was completed.
Foxconn Technology Group confirmed it has selected Gilbane Building Co. of Providence, R.I., and Germany’s M+W Group as the joint-venture general contractor for a $10-billion LCD screen manufacturing facility planned for Mt. Pleasant, Wis.
According to several sources close to the project, Rhode Island-based Gilbane Building Co. has been chosen as general contractor for the 22-million-sq-ft, $10-billion flat-screen-panel manufacturing campus to be built by Taiwanese electronics maker Foxconn in Mt. Pleasant, Wis. Gilbane.
More than 100 scientists, engineers and managers will eventually work in the first vertical construction project to be completed at Denver’s smart-city development, called Peña Station NEXT.
The project team was able to deliver in just 180 days this two-story, 22.5-MW, 225,000-sq-ft greenfield data center, including the fit-out and commissioning of 160,000 sq ft of data hall space and MEP galleries.
A young Boston-area start-up, ManufactOn has entered into a non-exclusive partnership with Autodesk, which plans to integrate ManufactOn's cloud and mobile software for optimizing materials and prefabrication supply-chain management with Autodesk's BIM 360 construction management platform. The partnership was announced on Sept. 18.