Across the Southeast, overall contracting activity is definitely picking up the pace. But a still uneven construction market is enabling those firms that aim to make the most of the strong residential sector to race ahead of the pack.
A complex, groundbreaking automated car elevator system, situated in the center of the $560-million, 60-story Porsche Design Tower project in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., is raising the bar on "sky garage" technology, and taking its builders on a memorable journey as contractors and engineers make accommodations for the massive system.
A Dept. of Energy-sanctioned report on plutonium disposition alternatives, citing uncertainties related to design and construction of the Mixed-Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility project in South Carolina, indicates shifting to a new approach would be less costly than continuing to pursue the MOX program.
During construction of Florida Polytechnic University's $60-million Innovation Science and Technology Building—which more closely resembles a flying saucer than a citadel of learning—the flappable wings ruled.
While constructing Clemson University's $110-million wind-energy test center in North Charleston, S.C., the project owner and its builders were often working toward a "moving target."
When contractors complete the finishing touches on the Georgia Institute of Technology's $89-million Engineered Biosystems Building (EBB) this spring, the five-story, 218,880-sq-ft LEED Platinum laboratory will go above and beyond just joining the university's portfolio of high-performing, high-sustainability facilities.
With the Florida Dept. of Transportation's approval last month of the start of construction of the $2.3-billion I-4 Ultimate project in Orlando, state officials—led by Gov. Rick Scott (R)—held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the state's largest-ever public-private partnership.
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