Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu October 31, 2019
UAB Expects New $75M Dorm Will Be Ready by Summer 2020
To meet the growing demand for housing, construction crews on the campus of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) are working to complete a new 231,000 sq. ft., U-shaped dormitory. Work on the roughly $75 million Residence Hall 2020 began last November and should be completed by next summer, in preparation for the fall semester....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu October 03, 2019
Auburn's $83M ACLC Project Nears Completion
With the first of two iconic buildings on Auburn University's campus now reduced to rubble, construction crews are one step closer to building the Academic Classroom and Laboratory Complex (ACLC). The $83 million ACLC project calls for a 151,000 sq....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue September 24, 2019
Insulated Concrete Forms Used for Building Utah School
When junior high students in Roy, Utah, start school next year, they won't only be attending a brand new school, they'll be attending the first school of its kind in the state. The school is being constructed of insulated concrete forms (ICF), a building block that comes with all sorts of advantages, said Mike Schwab, regional sales manager for Fox Blocks....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed September 11, 2019
Work Progresses on $100M Medical School in Phoenix
In midtown Phoenix work continues on a $100 million medical school. Nebraska-based Creighton University is building the Health Sciences Campus at Park Central to meet the demand for physicians, nurses and other health professions within Phoenix and the entire state....
Associated Press - Tue August 27, 2019
Oregon Repeals Tsunami-Zone Construction Ban; California Still Has None
NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) With sunlight sparkling off surrounding Yaquina Bay, workers are putting up an ocean-studies building, smack in the middle of an area expected to one day be hit by a tsunami. Experts say it's only a matter of time before a shift in a major fault line off the Oregon coast causes a massive earthquake that generates a tsunami as much as seven stories tall....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue August 20, 2019
Ohio State Re-Routes Thoroughfare to Protect Campus
A road project currently underway to protect the Ohio State University from flooding will have come with an added bonus once completed — additional acreage on which plans for development are already in the works by school administrators....
Texas Tech University - Tue August 13, 2019
ASCO Donates $5M to TTU's School of Veterinary Medicine
Agriculture and construction equipment dealer, Associated Supply Company Inc. (ASCO), will contribute $5 million to Texas Tech University for the School of Veterinary Medicine, located at the Health Sciences Center campus in Amarillo....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu August 08, 2019
Auburn Readies New Performing Arts Center for Opening
The curtain will soon be rising on Auburn University's $70 million Jay and Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center as construction crews add their finishing touches to the new structure. The state-of-the-art facility encompasses more than 85,000 sq....
Lori Lovely – CEG Correspondent - Thu July 25, 2019
Georgia Tech Goes Green With New Building
Nearing completion after two years of construction, the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design sets the bar for green buildings by becoming the first structure in the state certified under the Living Building Challenge, the world's most rigorous green building certification standard....
Eric Olson –CEG Correspondent - Tue July 23, 2019
New Animal Science Lab Nearing Completion at South Dakota State
The first of two important new veterinary science building projects at South Dakota State University is nearing the end of its construction, in time for opening prior to this fall's semester. That structure's finish, followed immediately by a renovation of an adjacent vet lab, is designed to elevate the school's already outstanding reputation for advancing the study of animal disease and prevention....
