In its response to a mandate from the state of Florida to build a central sewer system for the city of Marathon, Weiler Engineering Corp. (WEC) went beyond the initial requirements and designed a comprehensive approach to wastewater management.
The team building the $108-million, 12-story J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Tower at Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla., had to overcome tricky underground issues, a cramped site and late design changes to get this health care facility up and running.
A complete rebuild of the Booker High School campus in Sarasota, Fla., required that construction activities safely co-exist with the activities of more than 1,000 students and staff over a three-year period.
A contractor's first foray into a strict adoption of lean construction strategies enabled the team to build a $42.7-million Atlanta condominium project—along with an adjacent 488-space garage—in just 52 weeks from groundbreaking to final occupancy.
The $245-million Duval County Unified Courthouse Facility in Jacksonville, Fla., is a seven-story, 800,000-sq-ft concrete-framed building with a facade of precast concrete panels and glass.
A 354,000-sq-ft data center with four separate data floor suites, the Facebook Forest City Data Center provides the online giant with significant computing power. Given its potential energy demands, designers created a highly efficient design with an ambitious goal of LEED-Gold certification.
The design for the $68-million, 200,000-sq-ft Emory University Health Sciences Research Building consists of three functional components: a wet-bench laboratory building; a tower containing public functions and computational research space; and an enclosed, occupied bridge that connects the new facility to clinical and research operations on Emory's medical campus.
The $25-million Academic Support Center at Miami Dade College's Kendall Campus unites learning and administrative functions while also linking the growing school's future to its origins.
For the second year in a row, an elevated rail project at Miami International Airport (MIA) has won both the top award in its construction category as well as the safety prize.
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