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In renovating Birmingham’s 1920s-era former Federal Reserve building—and a 1950s-era annex—into commercial office space, the owner tasked the project team with incorporating existing items into the project in order to qualify for historic tax credits from the state of Alabama.

After nearly three decades of dormancy, a 92-year-old downtown Birmingham landmark has been reborn as an 11-story mixed-use facility with 143 apartments, 13,000 sq ft of office space and a mezzanine-level open-concept food hall showcasing the city’s best culinary entrepreneurs.

The CityPlace Doral project, developed and owned by Miami’s Related Group, is a 1.2-million-sq-ft multi-use complex consisting of seven different buildings: two residential towers, a 300,000-sq-ft retail center, a 36,000-sq-ft movie theater, two parking garages and a 30,000-sq-ft grocery store.

Contractors utilized integrated project delivery for this project, which transformed the former Downtown Disney into the retail, restaurant and recreation development known as Disney Springs via two phases over a roughly three-year period.

Despite numerous design and scope changes during construction, Brasfield & Gorrie delivered Comcast’s 440,00-sq-ft central division headquarters on time and under budget.

Renovating the 100,000-sq-ft building into a distinctive corporate headquarters proved to be a race against time as the project team was tasked with opening the new corporate headquarters on the same day that Newell Rubbermaid completed its merger with Jarden Corp.

The design-build-finance approach to new road construction of State Road 9B from Interstate-95 to north of U.S. 1 included construction of approximately 2.8 miles of State Road 9B and a full cloverleaf interchange at I-95 and SR 9B.

One in a series of projects aimed at expanding U.S. 331 to four lanes from two, the $118.5-million Choctawhatchee Bay Bridge project delivered a new 2.5-mile crossing over a sensitive marine environment.

The Frank D. Brown Hall project included demolition, renovation and expansion to the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer building in Uptown Columbus for the relocation of administration offices and academic facilities for Columbus State University.

Renovations to Duke University’s West Campus Student Union, originally built in 1928, delivered a building that blends the school’s traditional Gothic look with a contemporary design.