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The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) recognized Donald G. Warren, FDBIA, with the 2024 Brunelleschi Lifetime Achievement Award during the 2024 Design-Build Conference & Expo held in Dallas TX, in early November. Named after Filippo Brunelleschi, one of history’s greatest architects and engineers, the Brunelleschi Lifetime Achievement Award is DBIA’s highest honor. In announcing Warren…
Carolinas-based A M King, a leading integrated Design-Build firm with offices in Charlotte, NC, Greenville, SC. and Chicago, IL, has been recognized with a 2022 Best Project Award from the Design-Build Institute of America’s Southeast Region. A M King was singled out for its exemplary project delivery of what is now North America’s largest avocado…
Charlotte-based A M King, an Integrated Design-Build firm with offices in Greenville, SC and Chicago, IL, has begun construction of a USDA-certified, greenfield cold distribution facility for Combs Wholesale Produce Company in Winston-Salem, NC. The 40,000-square-foot structure, which will replace the company’s original facility built in 1978, will allow Combs Wholesale Produce to move to…
Donald G. Warren, Executive Vice President with Columbia-based McCrory Construction, has a long list of distinctions in the design-build arena. Since joining McCrory three years ago to help the century-strong company grow its long-time presence in the industrial market, Warren has continued a 30-year legacy of successful design-build project delivery in the Carolinas. Warren leads…
Design-build used to be considered an “alternative” way to build. New research shows it’s now the fastest growing and most popular method delivering construction projects in America. Industry analysts at FMI have completed a comprehensive assessment of the nonresidential, highway/street and water/wastewater design-build construction market. This long-awaited research provides the most comprehensive look at design-build’s…
Brian T. King is an entrepreneur, business professional and the founder, owner and president of A M King, a Charlotte-based firm that provides planning, design, construction and facility services of highly complex facilities in niche markets throughout the United States. If ever there was a CEO to be admired, Brian King is that person, and we’re not…
O’Neal, Inc, a Greenville, SC-based integrated design and construction firm, has announced expanded capabilities for the food, beverage and consumer packaged goods markets. The company is launching a Food and Beverage Strategic Business Unit (SBU) that will focus on food processing, food distribution and the broader consumer packaged goods markets. The firm has hired David Dixon…
Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and construction management contract by Novo Nordisk for its new $2 billion diabetes Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) manufacturing facility in Clayton, North Carolina. Fluor has been providing basic design services since Novo Nordisk announced plans for the new facility in August 2015 and now…
