Development
NeoCon 2010: Overcoming Barriers to Green Building
All too often green building is impeded by finger-pointing and adversarial relationships between building owners and their tenants.
Feds Continue Construction Frenzy, Selecting CDM for $500M Design-Build Contract
CDM will have its hands full over the next several years. The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract calls for the firm to supply design-build services for a variety of development endeavors to both USCG and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Online Service Documents Construction Process
Seeing is believing. That’s why Scott Yahraus created ConstructionPhotoDocs, an online system that documents each step of the building process.
Balfour Beatty Tapped to Build 330,000-SF NPR Headquarters in D.C.
The new NPR headquarters will be located at 1111 North Capitol St., N.E., in the city’s burgeoning NoMa neighborhood, on a site that was home to a 165,000-square-foot warehouse when the company acquired the property in 2008.
Skanska Tapped for $115M Seattle Road Construction
The Swedish development and construction firm will build the $115 million Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle, a 0.8-mile stretch on the southern section of the Alaskan Way on the State Route 99 bypass in downtown Seattle.
Turner Tapped for $31M Renovation of Portland’s PGE Park
The company will be responsible for overseeing the construction of a training facility, club seating with a full-service restaurant, grandstands with concessions, a roof structure to cover the stands and a new playing field.
Report: Santa Clara City Council Approves New Yahoo! Complex
The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that the Santa Clara City Council has given the nod to an enormous new Yahoo campus.
Perkins+Will Tapped as Master Planner for Walter Reed Campus
Global interdisciplinary design firm Perkins+Will has been selected as the master planner for the 62-acre Walter Reed Army Medical Center Campus.
With Receiver at the Helm, Construction Resumes on $180M D.C. Office Project
Less than a year after Rockville, Md.-based developer Opus East L.L.C’s bankruptcy filing put the brakes on construction of the 400,000-square-foot office building at 1015 Half Street in Washington, D.C., San Diego-headquartered court-appointed receiver Douglas Wilson Companies (DWC) has gotten the approximately $180 million project million project back on track.
Canon Kicks Off $636M Development of HQ on Long Island
After three years of planning, Canon U.S.A. Inc. has just broken ground on its new 1.2-billion-square-foot headquarters in Melville, N.Y.