The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations Announces Design-Build Award for the U.S. Consulate General in Lagos
The Department of State has awarded Pernix Federal, LLC of Lombard, Illinois the $319 million design-build contract for the new U.S. Consulate General in Lagos, Nigeria. The 12.2-acre site for the new Consulate General is part of Eko Atlantic, a development led by South Energyx Nigeria Limited in collaboration with Lagos State. The location will provide the future diplomatic campus and its neighbors with access to sustainable, modern infrastructure, including an 8.5 km seawall designed to prot...
Skanska builds school in Malmö, Sweden, for about SEK 400M
Skanska has signed a contract with Stadsfastigheter in Malmö to build a new upper secondary school in Malmö, Sweden. The contract is worth about SEK 400M, which will be included in the order bookings for Sweden for the third quarter 2021. The new school will be four stories high and will have a total area of almost 15,000 square meters. The new building includes school premises, a canteen and a café. The upper secondary school will be the first in many years to be built in the city and will h...
The Department of State Dedicates New U.S. Embassy in Maputo
In a display of the enduring friendship and strategic partnership with Mozambique, U.S. Ambassador Dennis Walter Hearne, Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) Managing Director Tracy Thomas, Mozambican Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Ernesto Max Tonela, Maputo City Secretary of State Vicente Joaquim, and Maputo Province Governor Julio Parruque today dedicated the new U.S. Embassy in Maputo, Mozambique. The new campus provides a secure, innovative, sustainable, and resilient p...
Skanska divests office building in Kiruna, Sweden, for about SEK 260M
Skanska has divested an office building in Kiruna, Sweden, to Luleälven Fastigheter AB for about SEK 260M. Construction of the six-storey building will start in 2021 and transfer of the property will take place in connection with completion in 2023. The transaction will be recorded by Skanska Sweden in the Commercial Development stream in the third quarter 2021. The office building, named Börsen H1, will be located on the town hall square in the new Kiruna city center, adjacent the town hall....
Skanska Builds New Hotel in Helsinki Airport
Skanska has signed a contract with KOy Apron to build a hotel developed by LAK Real Estate Oy in Helsinki Airport, Finland. The contract is worth EUR 86M, about SEK 870M, which will be included in the Nordic order bookings for the third quarter of 2021. The hotel will be the largest hotel in Finland with over 700 rooms totaling about 37,800 square meters. It will have five restaurants, spa, gym, and excellent services for meetings and conferences. The building is expected to receive a LEED Go...
The Department of State Marks Construction of the New U.S. Embassy in Podgorica
During a ceremony to mark the construction of a new U.S. Embassy on September 21, 2021, the U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro, Judy Rising Reinke, the Mayor of Podgorica, Ivan Vuković, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs State Secretary, Ljubomir Mišurović signed a stone that will be placed within the foundation of the new U.S. Embassy in Podgorica. Construction of the new chancery, managed and directed by the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO), highlights the enduring ties that bind the stro...
Healthpeak Properties Selects View Smart Windows for Second Large-Scale Development in San Diego
Callan Ridge Life Science development follows The Boardwalk campus installation in 2020. San Diego, CA and Milpitas, CA — View, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIEW) (“View”), the leader in smart building technologies, announced its Smart Windows will be installed at the Callan Ridge campus, a new life science project under development by Healthpeak Properties (Healthpeak), a publicly traded national REIT, in the Torrey Pines submarket of San Diego. Callan Ridge represents Healthpeak's second life science deve...
AISI Publishes AISI S250-21, “North American Standard for Thermal Transmittance of Building Envelopes With Cold-Formed Steel Framing, 2021 Edition”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has published AISI S250-21, “North American Standard for Thermal Transmittance of Building Envelopes With Cold-Formed Steel Framing, 2021 Edition,” as a single source for calculating the thermal transmittance (U-factors) of walls and ceiling/roof envelope assembles that contain cold-formed steel framing. The standard is intended for adoption and use in the United States, Canada and Mexico and is available for free download at www.ai...
Populous Completes Ken Garff Red Zone at Rice-Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah
New Addition Includes Team Facilities, Fan Lounges, Integrative Branding and Expanded Seating Capacity, as well as a Plaza Commemorating the 2002 Olympic Games Salt Lake City, Utah – Global design firm Populous announces the completion of the $80 million Ken Garff Red Zone at Rice-Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Populous conducted a master plan study of the project site back in 2017, and served as design architect for the stadium expansion, providing design an...
International Structural Engineering Firm Fast + Epp Installs View Smart Windows at New Mass-Timber Designed Headquarters in Vancouver
Vancouver, BC — View, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIEW) (“View”), the leader in smart building technologies, today announced its Smart Windows have been installed at the new corporate headquarters for Fast + Epp, a world leader in mass-timber structural engineering and design. Fast + Epp built their new headquarters with sustainability and employee health and wellness in mind. The unique design of the new four-storey building features a hybrid mass-timber and steel structural system with cross-laminated t...
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