Moving up in the rankings, New South Construction of Atlanta credits diversification and customer relationships as keys to weathering the recession and $170 million in 2009 revenue. Related Links: The Southeast’s Top Contractors Odebrecht Helps Reopen Haiti Airport “We’ll be happy when the market returns, but we’re plugging along and doing well,” says Douglas C. Davidson, president and CEO of New South, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. “We’re making sure we protect our relationships with clients so they are not going to the market when other jobs come up.” More than 70% of New South’s projects are for repeat
The stagnant economy has forced Orlando city leaders and community arts supporters to revise original plans for a $450-million Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts (DPAC), the second component of the city’s downtown venues building program. Related Links: Orlando Report The city will proceed with a phased project and now with a $383 million budget. The center has raised about $88 million from private donors. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and center officials say breaking ground on the center will help spur additional private donations. “We can’t not move forward with the PAC,” Dyer says. “We’ve created this momentum, and
The project wasn’t one of Odebrecht Construction’s biggest, but the Coral Gables, Fla.-based contractor’s sense of pride couldn’t have been higher after it completed repairs at Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, enabling commercial carriers to resume service to and from Haiti’s capital beginning Feb. 19. Related Links: The Southeast’s Top Contractors New South Construction Representatives of Dallas-based American Airlines and Odebrecht toured the devastated city four days after the Jan. 12 earthquake. According to Odebrecht, the contractor immediately assembled a team to repair and rebuild the airport’s commercial terminal. The contractor is currently working at Miami International Airport’s
On the other side of Interstate 4 from downtown Orlando, the new $480-million home for the Orlando Magic is quickly heading toward an October tip-off, a symbolic sign of construction life. Back across I-4, a recently completed high-rise condominium sits mostly empty. Photo: Balfour Beatty Construction Expansion of the Peabody Hotel’s existing facility near the Orange County Convention Center is one of several hospitality projects moving toward completion in the Orlando area. Related Links: Performing Arts Center Set for Fall Groundbreaking Photo: Balfour Beatty Construction Balfour Beatty’s expansion of the Orlando Peabody includes approximately 450,000 sq ft of new convention
Throughout this issue of Southeast Construction, public works projects are front and center. Here, we provide a look at the strength of the market as a whole, and how contractors are fighting to win work in this critical construction sector. Photo: Dwayne Easterling, Jacobs Associates The $305-million South Cobb Tunnel, currently under construction in Cobb County, Ga., is one of the larger public-works projects under way in the four-state Southeast region. But it’s certainly not the only one. Image: City of Orlando Orlando’s “Venues” building program also includes a $425-mi llion performing-arts center. The center’s design team includes: HKS Architects,
It’s been a long time coming, but the final piece of the city of Jacksonville’s Better Jacksonville Plan is finally becoming a reality. Turner Construction Co. is leading the $224-million design-build construction of the Duval County Courthouse. Construction started last April, with scheduled completion in May 2012. Turner vice president and operations manager David Reaves says the company expects to top out the seven-story, 800,000-sq-ft structure in April. Image: Turner Construction The new Duval County Courthouse, designed by KBJ Architects of Jacksonville, Fla. Turner Construction Co. is leading the construction of the $224-million project. Related Links: Public Works: Industry’s Salvation
The Atlanta area is home to some of the biggest sewer and water projects in the four-state region, and the South Cobb Tunnel is one of the largest. This $305-million contract for the Cobb County, Ga., Water System represents the largest capital improvement project in the water system’s history. Shea –Traylor J.V., a joint venture of J.F. Shea Construction of Camarillo, Calif., and Traylor Brothers of Evansville, Ind., started work on the contract in March 2008. Construction began four months later, with completion expected by 2014. Photo: Dwayne Easterling, Jacobs Associates The South Cobb Tunnel project represents the largest capital
High-speed rail advocates celebrated the Jan. 28 award of grants from the $8-billion pot that is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, but officials must now figure out how to leverage the seed money into successful long-term programs. Florida, one of the big grant winners at $1.25 billion, is now pondering design-build and public-private partnerships along with other funding sources. Related Links: Public Works: Industry’s Salvation Transportation, Military and Civic Projects are Saving the Day for Some Southeast Firms Most of the funds went to long-term programs that now can proceed with environmental reviews and preliminary engineering. But
Military project starts remain strong throughout the four-state region. But how long can it last? Photo: Walton Construction Co. Walton Construction Co. of Harahan, La., is building a barracks complex at Parris Island, S.C. Photo: AeroPhoto, www.aerophoto.com VOA Associates of Orlando is the designer of record for the $21-million barracks complex for the Echelons Above Brigade at Fort Stewart, Ga. Image: BPRH ShenkelShultz Architecture of Orlando designed and Balfour Beatty Construction is building an elementary and middle school at Fort Bragg, N.C. Image courtesy of Balfour Beatty Construction. Image: BPRH BRPH Cos. of Melbourne, Fla., designed a $7-million, Child Development
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