Mechanical Engineer: McClure Company Location: University Park, Pennsylvania Penn State University’s beloved “Oak Building” will be renovated and renamed. The Penn State Board of Trustees recently approved the facelift and new name the J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation Building, in honor of the foundation whose gift is helping to make the renovation of…
Mechanical Engineer: Jacobs Engineering Location: Memphis, Tennessee The first major project of the $1.3 billion expansion of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital campus in Memphis, Tenn., is the $412 million Saint Jude Advanced Research Center (ARC, $342 million construction cost) — an eight-story, 625,000 sq. ft. concrete building being constructed by Flintco LLC with an…
Mechanical Engineer: SSR Location: Durham, North Carolina Skanska has signed a contract with Duke University Health System to build a patient bed tower addition at Duke University Healthcare’s main campus in Durham, North Carolina. The contract for the Duke Medical Hospital Bed Tower Addition consists of the construction of about a 500,000-square-foot, 13-story patient tower…
Mechanical Engineer: SSR Location: Detroit, Michigan With the return of the Detroit Pistons from the suburbs to Downtown Detroit in 2017, designing the team’s new training facility became an opportunity to re-energize the franchise’s relationship with the city and the community. The benefits of the Henry Ford Pistons Performance Center go well beyond sports…
Mechanical Engineer: Phoenix Design Group Location: Wildwood, Florida DPR Construction has been issued separate building permits totaling $152 million to construct a hotel/restaurant/spa and surgical center in Wildwood. The projects will expand the The Villages Health Brownwood Care Center with a seven-story, 151 room hotel with conference area, spa, pool, restaurant and a four-story outpatient…
Aero-Dyne Turning Vane solutions will appear in another educational and commercial building, this time within the HVAC systems of the Penn State Advanced Manufacturing & Innovation complex in Erie, PA. According to psbehrend.psu.edu, “the two-story building will add 60,000 square feet of space to Knowledge Park, a partnership of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College,…
Turning vanes with some acoustical attributes are today’s latest trend, but Aero-Dyne Turning Vanes have always been engineered for sound control performance, any important feature that has set our turning vane solutions apart from competitors for over 40 years. One building in which Aero-Dyne Turning Vanes are featured is, Benaroya Hall, home of the Seattle…
We were excited to be a part of a new project with the Lake Mills Prospect Elementary School in Lake Mills, Wisconsin. Opening for the 2014 / 2015 school year, Lake Mills Prospect Elementary School was expected to be among the most energy-efficient schools in the nation. The school, originally built over 50 years ago,…
Photograph by Lara Swimmer Benaroya Hall, home of Seattle Symphony, is Seattle’s first facility designed exclusively for symphonic music performances. Located on an entire city block in downtown Seattle, the Hall serves as a focal point of the city’s urban core.
MedImmune’s primary goal is to ensure the firm’s long-term competitiveness through reduced operating costs. Systematic energy management is a way for MedImmune to demonstrate its corporate commitment to energy efficiency and environmental stewardship. As a current participant of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Better Plants Program, MedImmune Gaithersburg was selected to participate in the…
