Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Tue December 17, 2019
UCR's Largest Expansion Project Is Currently Underway
Work is under way on a new living-learning, mixed-use community that represents the University of California, Riverside's (UCR) largest-ever expansion. The multiphase redevelopment effort known as the North District is part of a move to increase on-campus student housing, with construction taking place at the same time as the school's Dundee-Glasgow project....
Brian Witte - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Mon November 25, 2019
Md. Leaders Announce $2.2B School Construction Measure
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) Maryland lawmakers outlined plans on Nov. 6 for increasing school construction funding by $2.2 billion, as part of a larger push to increase education funding by billions of dollars....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Tue November 12, 2019
Crews Prepare Site for $32M COTC, Ohio State STEM Center
Site work continues on the shared campus of The Ohio State University at Newark and Central Ohio Technical College (COTC), as crews prepare to build a $32 million STEM Center. The John and Mary Alford Center for Science and Technology has been years in the making....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed November 06, 2019
McCarthy Builds New School in Honor of Pat Tillman
In Phoenix, work is underway on a new school bearing the name of one of the nation's most revered American heroes. Pat Tillman Middle School will include a nearly 70,000 sq.-ft. building with 42 new classrooms, administrative offices, STEM learning flex space and two new laboratories....
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....
