As manufacturing facilities for everything from electric vehicle components to the crystalline photovoltaic wafers in solar panels are funded by government incentive as well as private investment, design firms are being called on to redesign production processes dependent on the materials and regulations that long-favored overseas manufacturing.
Vietnamese electric vehicle producer VinFast selected Clayco as the general contractor and construction management company for its first U.S. manufacturing plant near Raleigh, N.C.
The East Bay Municipal Utility District in Oakland, Calif., awarded a $237-million contract to Flatiron for construction projects at two of the utility’s water treatment plants: the Upper San Leandro Water Treatment Plant, built in 1927, and the Sobrante Water Treatment Plant.
Construction is underway, with new contracts awarded, on the first phase of Sempra Infrastructure’s $13-billion Port Arthur LNG export terminal in Texas near the Gulf of Mexico, following the energy firm’s award to Bechtel Energy of an EPC contract to manage the two-train project.
Construction is set to begin later this year on the $3-billion TransWest Express Transmission Project, a 732-mile high-voltage interregional transmission system designed to deliver about 20,000 GW of renewable energy per year to western states and in early September on the estimated $8-billion SunZia transmission project that will carry an initial 3 GW of clean power to southwest U.S. markets.
Turner Construction will begin work on the University of Kansas David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium in December, following the conclusion of the 2023 football season.
Punch-listing and testing acoustics and movable parts at the World Trade Center venue, with three flexible halls that have more than 60 configurations, was like fine-tuning a Swiss watch.
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