Texas & Southeast On the Scene: April 2025

JE Dunn Building celebrated 40 years of labor in Atlanta, the place its aviation and industrial work originated, creating right into a nationwide footprint for the corporate. Headquartered in Kansas Metropolis, Mo., the corporate has 26 workplaces throughout the U.S. and ranks at No. 18 on ENR’s High 400 Contractors listing. Since JE Dunn opened its Atlanta workplace in 1985, the agency has accomplished main landmark buildings for the realm, together with Northside Hospital’s 980 Docs’ Constructing, The Oaks at Buckhead and the 21-story, two-tower Metropolis. Stuart Bruening, JE Dunn Atlanta workplace lead, stated in an announcement that “reaching this 40-year milestone is a testomony to the dedication and onerous work of our staff members, previous and current.” JE Dunn can also be concerned in supporting its communities, donating 10% of its pretax internet revenue to charity and contributing 10,000 volunteer hours yearly to greater than 50 organizations akin to Boy Scouts of America and the Boyce L. Ansley College in addition to partnering on workforce readiness packages and internet hosting the Hammerdown Street Race to help Habitat for Humanity Atlanta, the Orange Duffel Bag Initiative and For the Hope Partnership. The agency has been named among the many nation’s best-managed firms for 5 years by The Wall Road Journal and Deloitte Personal. Latest notable tasks out there embody Spring Quarter (see above), which incorporates the Sora high-rise residences and 1020 Spring Road; Heart Park Stadium, the place the Georgia State College Panthers soccer staff performs; and the Youngsters’s Healthcare of Atlanta Arthur M. Clean Campus.

Girl-owned concrete specialty contractor T&T Building Administration Group, marking its thirtieth 12 months in enterprise in 2025, says it’s set to open its latest workplace in Tampa. The corporate says its anniversary theme, “Constructing a Resilient Legacy,” displays a dedication to high quality, innovation and worth for its purchasers and communities throughout the Japanese Seaboard of the U.S. “Our firm’s imaginative and prescient is to make sure the following 30 years are as impactful because the final,” says CEO Rebecca Thomas. Headquartered in Florida, the corporate champions range and empowerment within the development business, she says, and over the previous three a long time has expanded its footprint and capabilities in specialty concrete development work associated to tilt-up panels, precision flooring and cast-in-place concrete.

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Gilbane Constructing Co., with three way partnership companion R.J. Leeper Building, joined the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation’s Charlotte Hornets on March 26 to have a good time breaking floor on the staff’s new coaching facility, the Novant Well being Efficiency Heart. “We aren’t simply developing a constructing, we’re laying the muse for an thrilling future,” says Jeff Peterson, Charlotte Hornets president of basketball operations. “This facility can be a middle of excellence, geared up with cutting-edge expertise and state-of-the-art assets.” The middle will function greater than 160,000 sq ft of coaching and efficiency house, administrative workplaces, retail venues and orthopedic and sports activities medication care. Gilbane and R.J. Leeper will function development supervisor, with Populous and Lincoln Properties because the undertaking staff as designer and proprietor’s consultant, respectively.

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Robins & Morton has begun work on the $150-million vertical growth of the Huntsville Hospital Madison Road Tower in Huntsville, Ala. The five-story, 154,000-sq-ft facility (see rendering, proper) will embody 120 beds, a cardiothoracic intensive care unit, neurological intensive care unit for neurosurgical and stroke sufferers, three flooring of acute medical house and a brand new and improved car entrance for the emergency division. The undertaking will convert 70 current affected person rooms from double occupancy to single occupancy and can present the hospital with a complete of 931 affected person beds, up from the present 881. The growth is anticipated to finish in 2027. Jeff Samz, Huntsville Hospital Well being System president and CEO, says it would give the hospital house to serve superior well being care wants in northern Alabama and southern Tennessee for the long run. Robins & Morton constructed the Madison Road Tower in 2006 and is serving as common contractor for the growth. Chapman Sisson Architects is undertaking architect.

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Cobb County, Ga.-based consulting agency Croy acquired two Engineering Excellence Benefit Awards on the annual Georgia Engineering Awards program for the agency’s work on design of the Chattahoochee Technical Faculty Aviation Coaching Academy in Paulding County, Ga., (see under) and for its efforts on the Depot Park and Piedmont Financial institution Amphitheater in Kennesaw, Ga. Hosted by the American Council of Engineering Firms of Georgia and the Georgia Society of Skilled Engineers on March 7, this system acknowledges firm achievement in demonstrating design high quality and ingenuity. On the Chattahoochee Technical Faculty facility, which opened in 2024, Croy was liable for civil design of the location format, utility design, grading, drainage and stakeholder coordination. The corporate says it labored with town of Kennessaw to revitalize its historic downtown, first implementing a 12-phase grasp plan with program parts to extend the park’s dimension and to create a vibrant space. The Piedmont Financial institution Amphitheater, which included parking and a meadow space with trails and plaza occasion house, opened in 2024, signifying the completion of Section 8 of the grasp plan.