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With the April 2016 completion of the $2.3-billion Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF), more than a half-century’s worth of radioactive liquid produced as part of the manufacture of nuclear materials at the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Savannah River site can now be processed for safe, environmentally sound disposal.

Skanska provided preconstruction and construction management at-risk services for this $164-million campus for UNC Hospitals on a greenfield site in Hillsborough, N.C.

The Emory University Hospital Perioperative Expansion was a 70,000-sq-ft, multiphased demolition and renovation of the perioperative services department.

This six-story, brick-and-glass, LEED Gold-accredited complex maintains a commanding presence on 35 acres near the Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Covering 430,000 sq ft—including 295,000 sq ft of supporting clinical use—the Charlotte VA facility provides outpatient primary and mental care, laboratories, operating rooms, kidney dialysis units and radiation and imaging technologies.

The $81-million replacement hospital for the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians was conceived as a symbol of pride and inspiration, epitomizing the beauty of the Cherokee culture and the Great Smoky Mountains and helping to support the physical, mental and spiritual health of the Cherokee people it serves.

This project is the realization of Denver International Airport’s original 1989 master plan.

The 26 Best Project and Award of Merit winners in the latest incarnation of the annual competition impress judges on a variety of levels with teamwork as a common thread.

The $12.1-million Val Vista Water Transmission Main Rehabilitation project was performed on more than 6,000 linear ft of pre-stressed concrete cylinder pipe that delivers water to more than 60% of the population in the city of Phoenix.

After the original rubber-bladder dam failed in 2010 and drained 1 billion gallons of water without warning from Tempe Town Lake, the city of Tempe, Ariz., engaged the construction team to design and build a more permanent replacement.

The $2.31-million Horse Mesa Dam Rock Debris Talus Stabilization project mitigates a rock-fall debris talus deposit located in extremely remote terrain at Salt River Project’s Horse Mesa Dam, east of Phoenix.