PROJECT COST: $360 million Photo Courtesy Odebrecht Construction MIC Earlington Heights Connector Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts A joint venture of two Miami-area firms is leading the construction of the $360-million Earlington Heights-MIC Connector, a 2.4-mi rail line that will link the Miami Intermodal Center, under construction next to Miami International Airport, with Miami�s Metrorail transit system. The joint-venture construction team is a 50/50 partnership between OHL USA of Miami and Odebrecht Construction of Coral Gables, Fla. The OHL team also includes two OHL subsidiaries, Community Asphalt and Tower-OHL Group. The line will be built between the MIC
PROJECT COST: $300 million Photo: Jim Hinnant, Forscom Public Affairs FORSCOM Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The United States Army Forces Command and U.S. Army Reserve Command at Fort Bragg, N.C., will be consolidating command and operations and providing office and conference space for nearly 2,800 military, civilian and contracting personnel. The two commands will retain separate identities. Hensel Phelps Construction Co. of Chantilly, Va., received the $300-million, design-build contract in 2008 and broke ground on the 700,000-sq-ft project in February 2009. Scope includes the headquarters building and four support and information technology structures, totaling about 40,000 sq
PROJECT COST: $250 million Image Courtesy BE&K Building Group Boeing 787 Dreamliner Final Assembly Plant Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts Boeing Co. tapped three firms with connections to its existing facilities in North Charleston, S.C., to build a second final assembly plant for its 787 Dreamliner. Boeing selected North Charleston as the site of its new facility after the South Carolina Legislature approved incentives valued at an estimated $450 million. The Boeing plant is expected to deliver about 3,800 jobs to the area. BE&K/Turner, a joint venture of the BE&K Building Group of Greenville, S.C., and Turner Construction
PROJECT COST: $515 million Image Courtesy Populous Florida Marlins Ballpark Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The new home for the Florida Marlins will be a baseball-only facility constructed on approximately 17 acres in the Little Havana section of Miami, at the former site of the Orange Bowl. The ballpark will seat 37,000 fans under a three-panel retractable roof. A joint venture of Moss & Associates of Fort Lauderdale and Hunt Construction Group of Scottsdale, Ariz., in association with Mars Contractors of Miami, is managing the $515-million, public-private project. Populous, formerly HOK Sport, of Kansas City, Mo., is the
PROJECT COST: $160 million Photo Courtesy Hensel Phelps Construction 7th Special Forces Group Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The 7th Special Forces Group, one of five active special forces groups providing support to combatant commanders, will relocate to Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, next year, following completion of construction of a new complex. Hensel Phelps Construction Co. of Orlando broke ground on the first $160-million phase in March 2009. The contractor will build eight buildings, including a group headquarters building, a battalion headquarters/company operations facility, a combat readiness training facility, a group support battalion headquarter and operations
PROJECT COST: $559 million Photo: Community Asphalt SR 826/SR 836 Interchange Reconstruction Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The $559-million reconstruction of the interchange connecting State Road 826 (Palmetto Expressway) and SR 836 (Dolphin Expressway), one of the most heavily congested areas in Miami-Dade County, is funded through a partnership between the Florida Dept. of Transportation and the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority. Funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act helped push forward the long-awaited project. A joint venture of three Miami contractors is leading the work: Community Asphalt (a subsidiary of OHL USA), Condotte America and the DeMoya Group.
PROJECT COST: $240 million Image Courtesy Skanska USA Building Nemours Children�s Hospital Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts Aiming to become one of the nation�s top providers of children�s health care, Nemours Foundation is building a 620,000 sq-ft Nemours Children�s Hospital in Orlando to care for children with specialized health care needs and to provide services not currently available in Central Florida. Construction manager Skanska USA Building of Orlando broke ground on the $240-million project in June 2009. The 95-bed facility, situated on a 60-acre campus, includes an emergency department, diagnostic and ambulatory care centers, a research center and
PROJECT COST: $259.4 million Photo Courtesy Parsons-Odebrecht JV MIA People Mover Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The MIA Mover is a 1.23 -mi automated people-mover system that will transport passengers and employees from Miami International Airport to the Miami Intermodal Center, an intermodal transportation hub still under construction that links the airport to rental car companies, Tri-rail and Metrorail. The project includes a 41,007-sq-ft station and a 1.23-mi-long guideway. The MIA Mover will operate between MIA and the two major structures of the MIC�the Rental Car Center and the Miami Central Station. It is Miami-Dade County�s contribution to
PROJECT COST: $164.6 million Image Courtesy BE&K North County Resource Recovery Plant Refurbishment Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County, Fla., hired BE&K, a division of KBR, to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for the refurbishment of its North County waste-to-energy resource recovery facility. The North County Resource Recovery Plant, located in West Palm Beach, is a two-boiler waste-to-energy facility burning 1,800 tons per day of municipal solid waste, located on Jog Road in West Palm Beach, Fla. The steam produced from the combustion of the refuse is used to power
PROJECT COST: $137.4 million Image Courtesy The LPA Group Triangle Parkway Related Links: Back to Top Project Starts The $137.4-million Triangle Parkway, running through Durham and Wake counties, is one of two projects making up the Triangle Expressway, North Carolina�s first modern toll road, employing all-electronic tolling. Design-build contractor S.T. Wooten Corp. of Wilson, N.C., began work on the 3.4-mi long, six-lane project in September 2009 and expects to complete it in July 2012. Scope of work includes building eight new bridges, seven box culverts and needed retaining walls; grading; installing storm drainage systems; completing water and sewer work; adding
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