Built by the joint venture team of Clark|Parent, Vanderbilt University’s 235,000-sq-ft Engineering and Science Building features specialized laboratories, an innovation center, a two-story atrium and a 12,000-sq-ft Class 100 clean room, where 300 air changes occur every hour to prevent contamination.
Constructing a three-story, 187,500-sq-ft building designed for instructional flexibility in a highly constrained urban location required an agile construction team.
Robins & Morton partnered early with project designers, subcontractors, the client and community stakeholders to construct the Miami Cancer Institute, which includes a 305,000-sq-ft outpatient cancer center and an adjacent 140,000-sq-ft clinical research building.
A strategy that included design-assist of building systems and prefabrication of some building elements helped deliver the $190-million Heart and Vascular Hospital project six months ahead of schedule and more than $10 million under budget.
The first of its kind in the nation, the 180,000-sq-ft, community-centered Institute of Innovation offers high school students the chance to take courses in supply chain logistics, computer applications development and hands-on energy courses.
When NASA’s advanced Space Launch System (SLS) routinely propels human explorers to deep-space destinations at some future date, the vehicle’s powerful rocket engines will trace part of their evolution to a pair of specially constructed propulsion unit test stand structures at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
Built on a 425-acre site in southern Georgia, EPC contractor McCarthy Building Cos. delivered a 72-MW solar facility three months ahead of the original schedule, using mostly local labor that was not experienced in solar work.
The three-story, 55,000-sq-ft expansion of the Hayes Barton United Methodist Church Family Life and Mission Center added 29 classrooms, 17 offices and 50 surface parking spaces.
After surviving repeated delays, funding shortfalls and mid-project construction team changes, the four-building, 250,000-sq-ft museum complex adjacent to Biscayne Bay offers an aesthetically distinct, technically intricate setting rivaling the wonders of science and nature displayed within.