The Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in downtown Tampa has become a signature facility for the city. The $13.5-million project was designed by Thomas Balsley Associates and RS&H. Photo Courtesy RS&H Photo Courtesy RS&H Related Links: Best Of 2010 The city replaced what was once the setting for an outdated art museum and turned it into a vibrant civic space. The park also connects the area’s two newest museums, the arts district and entertainment destinations. The city hired RS&H as project manager and Skanska USA Building to construct the park and the two new museums—the Tampa Museum of Art and Glazer
The Darden Restaurant Support Center, a 496,000-sq-ft corporate office headquarters in Orlando, provides space for the company’s 1,300 employees. It includes a broadcast area, testing and demonstration kitchens, fitness center, clinic, cafeteria and kitchen, conference center, data center and four-level, 1,050-space parking deck. Photo Courtesy Hardin Construction Photo Courtesy Hardin Construction Related Links: Best Of 2010 The project was designed to allow Darden employees to develop stronger working relationships and deliver higher levels of support to nearly 1,800 restaurants across North America. For instance, employees can easily move between floors using multiple staircases, widened to allow for impromptu conversations without
The East Carolina University – Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium East End Zone Expansion increases the capacity of the Greenville, N.C., sports facility by 7,000 seats and adds ground-level concessions, restrooms and handicap seating areas. Photo Courtesy Mid-Atlantic Construction Related Links: Best Of 2010 The original, older portions of stadium were constructed using a combination of structural steel and precast materials. The new, more innovative structure was built using all cast-in-place and precast concrete, which is intended to offer long-term savings in maintenance costs for the university. Mid-Atlantic Construction started the $2.83-million structural concrete package in January 2010 and finished it in August
Duke University’s $21-million East Campus Steam Plant is in an architecturally significant, historic building that was one of the original campus structures designed by the architectural firm of Horace Trumbauer. Photo Courtesy Balfour Beatty Construction Photo Courtesy Balfour Beatty Construction Related Links: Best Of 2010 The building was constructed at a cost of $440,000 during the unsteady financial times of the late 1920s. It sat unheated after being decommissioned about 30 years ago. The steam plant includes architectural features and touches uncommon for an industrial building. Cornices, decorative brickwork and recessed brick medallions with brick around inset square concrete panels
The $51.5-million, 64-acre Carolina First Campus in Greenville, S.C., rose on a former textile mill site that had undergone site remediation for a number of years to clean up toxins left behind by the old fiber manufacturing facility. Photo Courtesy The Harper Corp. Photo Courtesy The Harper Corp. Related Links: Best Of 2010 Carolina First Bank’s master plan for the site was to create a people’s park from which buildings spring as if organically one with the environment. In the center lies the public building of Carolina First Bank, the University Center and meeting spaces of the campus. While the
Editor’s Note: This page has been updated based on clarifications provided by Regenesis Power. Florida Gulf Coast University’s 2-megawatt single axis tracking solar photovoltaic array, built by Regenesis Power, is the first sun-tracking solar photovoltaic system installed in Florida. Photo Courtesy Kraft Construction Co. Related Links: Best Of 2010 An anemometer is set up onsite, and if it senses a wind speed of more than 40 mph for more than 15 seconds, a message is sent to the central controller to tell the array to store itself flat. In a flat position, the wind profile is substantially reduced. Regenesis began
Rarely do contractors have to deal with beluga whales, dolphins and other sea creatures while blasting or building, but the team building the $88-million Georgia Aquarium Dolphin Expansion project in Atlanta had to take steps to ensure the animals’ safety. Photo Courtesy Brasfield & Gorrie Photo Courtesy Brasfield & Gorrie Related Links: Best Of 2010 That attention to animal husbandry helped the project earn the “Judges Award” in Southeast Construction magazine’s annual Best of 2010 project-excellence competition. “They were able to build it and develop it with constraints of existing animals,” says David Kimmel, president and chief operating officer of
The $138-million Johns Creek Environmental Campus on the Chattahoochee River in Roswell, Ga., employs membrane-bioreactor technology to treat wastewater to levels suitable for reuse water distribution.
The $9.7-million Live Oak Public Library Southwest Branch building in Savannah contains story and activity rooms for children, a Friends of the Library store, youth rooms with interactive media, a library specifically for the blind, study rooms, two computer rooms and various adult collections areas. Photo Courtesy Choate Construction Co. Related Links: Best Of 2010 Choate Construction Co. began the project on a Savannah Mall outparcel in April 2008 and finished it in September 2009, two months ahead of schedule. The owner accepted 53 cost-saving alternatives suggested by Choate, which reduced the cost by $1.4 million and brought it within
The $185.5-million W Hotel and Residences in Miami Beach, a high-end, 816-unit condo-hotel project, features more than 20 unit types and layouts, each with different design challenges and coordination obstacles. Photo Courtesy KM/Plaza Photo Courtesy KM/Plaza Related Links: Best Of 2010 The project team delivered the job on time in June. The project is designed to mirror the vibrancy of the South Beach life where people go to see and be seen. Traditional boundaries of interior and exterior architecture are dissolved to engage the energy and light. Guest rooms are staggered in a herringbone design to provide guests with unsurpassed
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