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Commercial

Lowe’s Sets Goal to Reach Net-Zero Emissions across Scopes 1, 2 and 3 by 2050

December 5, 2022

Company’s net-zero roadmap focuses on reducing impact of its value chain, increasing product efficiency and transitioning to renewable energy sources  Lowe’s today announced its goal to reach net-zero emissions across the company’s scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, in accordance with guidelines from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), the global body enabling…

NAIOP Examines the Role of Data in Commercial Real Estate Development

October 31, 2022

Industries are rapidly evolving as business processes grow more interconnected and automated. Data and analytics play an important role in information technologies and their interaction with the physical world, including emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), and virtual and augmented reality. Advanced data analytics gained from these tools can be…

NAIOP Examines the Role of Data in Commercial Real Estate Development

October 31, 2022

 Industries are rapidly evolving as business processes grow more interconnected and automated. Data and analytics play an important role in information technologies and their interaction with the physical world, including emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), and virtual and augmented reality. Advanced data analytics gained from these tools can be…

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Distribution / Warehouse

Supply Unchained: Codependent Infrastructure and Last-Mile Logistics Critical to Economic Growth

July 20, 2021

As the country begins its economic recovery efforts in all industries, it remains clear that last-mile logistics and solid infrastructure are key to seamlessly fueling growth throughout commercial real estate and beyond. Historically, the health of the commercial real estate segment has been a trustworthy indicator of the elasticity of the U.S. economy. CCIM Institute…

E. & J. Gallo Winery Establishing East Coast Operations in South Carolina

June 15, 2021

Governor Henry McMaster and the S.C. Department of Commerce today announced that E. & J. Gallo Winery (Gallo), a global wine and spirits company, will build a new state-of-the-art production facility and distribution center in Chester County to support future business growth and its long-term innovation plans. The $423 million investment will create 496 new jobs over…

A M King Breaks Ground on ALDI Divisional HQ and Distribution Center in Southern Alabama

February 11, 2021

Carolinas-based A M King, an integrated Design-Build Firm, has partnered with ALDI U.S. to provide property consulting, design, and construction of ALDI’s new facility in Loxley, AL. The 570,660-square-foot divisional headquarters and distribution center will service more than 100 stores in southern Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and the Florida panhandle. The grocery retailer, which opened its…

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Government Facilities

Conti Federal Awarded $69.4M Contract to Restore Fort Bragg Barracks

October 4, 2022

Conti Federal Services, a leading U.S. government construction and engineering firm specializing in military construction and rapid response projects, has been awarded a $69,364,902.46 task order under the Rapid, Disaster, Infrastructure (RDI) 2 Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Omaha District for a Barracks Restoration Project at…

Fluor Selected by U.S. Department of Energy for Position on Nationwide Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contract

July 7, 2020

 Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management selected the company for a position on the multiple award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide nationwide Deactivation, Decommissioning and Removal (DD&R) of facilities, waste management and program support. As one of nine companies selected, Fluor is eligible…

Corvias Renovates 480 on-Base Houses at North Carolina Military Base

April 4, 2019

Corvias, a partner to the U.S. military for the construction and management of on-base housing, nears completion of renovating 480 homes at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. Renovations are expected to be completed this summer. “We are in the final stretch of renovations with just 10 homes remaining,” said John G. Picerne, Founder and CEO…

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Health Care

ECU Health Partners With Acadia Healthcare to Build a New Behavioral Health Hospital Expanding Access to Behavioral Health Service

July 23, 2022

July 19, 2022 10:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time GREENVILLE, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ECU Health and Acadia Healthcare announced today plans to build a state-of-the-art, 144-bed behavioral health hospital in the medical district of Greenville, N.C., less than a mile from ECU Health Medical Center. This new facility will be a center of excellence, providing North Carolinians with…

Ameresco Begins Phase Two of Energy Savings Project at the Medical University of South Carolina

September 30, 2019

–Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC), a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company, today announced that it has begun phase two of a comprehensive energy savings project at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), one of the nation’s top academic health science centers and the largest medical school in South Carolina. MUSC financed this project under an energy savings performance contract (ESPC) and…

New Medical Office Building Completed by Mashburn Construction in Irmo, S.C.

August 25, 2019

Columbia, S.C.— Mashburn Construction is pleased to announce the completion of Irmo Wellness Center, a two-story medical office building in Irmo, S.C. This is the second building that Mashburn has constructed for South Carolina Internal Medicine. The 43,480-square-foot building was constructed using 66 tilt-up concrete panels, allowing for a more aggressive schedule and a most cost-effective…

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Hotels / Hospitality

Watercrest Myrtle Beach Assisted Living and Memory Care Honored for Outstanding Creative Landscape Design by the City of Myrtle Beach

December 13, 2021

Watercrest Senior Living Group proudly announces that Watercrest Myrtle Beach Assisted Living and Memory Care has been awarded for Outstanding Creative Landscape Design by the City of Myrtle Beach Community Appearance Board. Watercrest Myrtle Beach Executive Director Hunter Weaver accepted the award on the community’s behalf at the 2021 City of Myrtle Beach Arbor Day Celebration. The exterior landscaping…

Historic Black Social Club Starts Renovation, Seeks Black Architects to Restore Charlotte Landmark

July 9, 2020

The new owners of the historic Excelsior Club announced this week they are seeking distinguished Black architects from around the nation to participate in the redevelopment and revival of the club, a longtime epicenter of African-American politics and culture in North Carolina. The Excelsior Club opened in 1944 as a fashionable nightclub that attracted Black professionals and politicians…

Blending Business, Friendship & Family: Creative Builders and Saskatoon Lodge Partnership

August 25, 2019

Will McCauley and the team at Creative Builders have gone back and forth with Greenville, S.C.’s Saskatoon Lodge Restaurant and Event Center team, trading places as vendors, customers, and coworkers. Creative Builders played a large role in constructing the restaurant’s new venue on Halton Road — and they also did the upfit renovation that turned…

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Industrial

Boom Supersonic Begins Construction on Overture Superfactory

January 26, 2023

Boom is joined by North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper and Senate Leader Phil Berger at groundbreaking event in Greensboro, NC Boom Supersonic, the company building the world’s fastest airliner, kicked off construction of its Overture Superfactory today in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Overture Superfactory is a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility located on a 62-acre campus at the Piedmont Triad International Airport. This site will…

Lilly Plans to Invest an Additional $450 Million at Research Triangle Park, NC Site

January 24, 2023

Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced plans to invest an additional $450 million and create at least 100 new jobs to expand its manufacturing capacity at the company’s Research Triangle Park facility. The expansion includes additional parenteral filling, device assembly and packaging capacity to support an increased demand for Lilly’s incretin products that treat diabetes. “As we move…

Alcami Builds cGMP Biostorage Facility in North Carolina

December 1, 2022

Alcami, a leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), today announced that the build-out is underway of a new 65,000-square-foot cGMP biostorage facility. Located near the RTP corridor in North Carolina, this new facility will leverage Alcami’s Masy division’s industry-leading biostorage systems and processes and feature high levels of redundancy to ensure the protection of customer-owned…

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Mission Critical / Data Centers

DC BLOX Breaks Ground on its Myrtle Beach Cable Landing Station and Dark Fiber Route

October 4, 2022

DC BLOX, a provider of multi-tenant data centers, dark fiber, and connectivity solutions that delivers the infrastructure essential to power today’s digital business, announces today the groundbreaking on its new international subsea cable landing station (CLS) in Myrtle Beach, SC. In addition, a new dark fiber route linking Myrtle Beach with the connectivity hub of the Southeast in Atlanta is…

DC BLOX’s New Greenville Data Center is Open for Business

February 5, 2022

DC BLOX, a provider of interconnected multi-tenant data centers that deliver the infrastructure and connectivity essential to power today’s digital business, announces the opening of its Greenville, South Carolina data center. The data center, designed to Uptime Institute’s Tier III standards, is the first-of-its-kind multi-tenant data center located in South Carolina. The initial 25,000 square foot facility can…

Apple to Invest $1 Billion, Hire 3,000 in North Carolina

April 26, 2021

Apple has selected North Carolina’s Research Triangle region as the location for its newest research and development campus and will create 3,000 jobs in Wake County, Governor Roy Cooper announced today. Apple plans to invest more than $1 billion in the state by 2032. Earlier today, Governor Cooper, Senator President Pro Tempore Phil Berger, Senator…

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Multi-Family Residential

Commercial and Multifamily Make Solid Gains in 2022

February 1, 2023

All top 10 metro areas posted gains during the year In 2022, the value of commercial and multifamily construction starts in the top 10 metropolitan areas of the U.S. increased 37% from 2021, according to Dodge Construction Network. Nationally, commercial and multifamily construction starts increased 25%. Commercial and multifamily construction has made impressive gains in 2022 largely…

Olive Tree Affordable Housing Enters Into North Carolina Market with Acquisition of Multifamily Community in Wilmington

January 26, 2023

 Olive Tree Affordable Housing, the affordable housing affiliate of Olive Tree Holdings, a mission driven private investment company with a focus on real estate, today announced the acquisition of The Life at Lakeside Villas, a 429-unit, affordable multifamily community located at 1519 Lake Branch Drive in Wilmington, North Carolina. With equity provided by the American South Fund Management Team, Olive Tree has…

Atlas Real Estate Partners and FIDES Development Acquire Multifamily Development Site in Charleston

January 25, 2023

Atlas Real Estate Partners, a multifamily-focused private investment and development firm with offices in New York and Miami, completed the site acquisition for The Darby multifamily development in Charleston, South Carolina. The firm is partnering with FIDES Development on the project. The transaction closed on Jan. 10, following an intensive two-year contract period in which…

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Office Buildings

The Winners of the 8th Annual Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards

October 25, 2022

The eighth annual ACI Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards showcased dozens of innovative concrete projects from around the world. The “Overall Excellence” award was presented to Chau Chak Wing Museum, located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The winning concrete project also received first place in the mid-rise structures category at the ACI Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards…

Balfour Beatty and Samet Corporation Joint Venture to Deliver Modernized Courthouse in Forsyth County

March 26, 2021

Balfour Beatty, in joint venture with Samet Corporation, is partnering to deliver the new Forsyth County Courthouse in Winston Salem, North Carolina. A groundbreaking event for the new courthouse took place in February to celebrate the construction of the newly modernized courthouse that will provide improved security, accessibility, and technologies to better serve Forsyth County citizens and…

Preparing for Office Re-Entry: A Case Study

June 4, 2020

Since the beginning of our work-from-home experience, the workplace design team at Progressive AE has been focused on building a plan for our eventual office re-entry. Mitigating risk and keeping staff safe have been foundational to our efforts. To help guide our work, we made the decision early on to follow federal and state-issued guidelines,…

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Power / Energy

Duke Energy Carolinas Requests Rate Review by North Carolina Utilities Commission to Build a Cleaner, More Reliable Energy Future

January 19, 2023

Duke Energy Carolinas today asked North Carolina regulators to review its rates as the company continues to strengthen the electricity grid to improve reliability for customers and facilitate a cleaner, more secure energy future in a manner that supports economic development across the state. The rate case includes a three-year plan to fund system improvements, including nearly $4.2…

Duke Energy Restores Thousands of Customers After Substation Vandalism in N.C.

December 5, 2022

Duke Energy crews have restored power to nearly 7,000 customers since Sunday night when substations in Moore County were attacked. Today, approximately 38,000 customers in the area remain without power – down from 45,000, who were initially affected. Duke Energy will continue to restore service quickly and safely, although many affected customers should prepare for an outage…

Duke Energy Progress Requests Rate Review by North Carolina Utilities Commission to Build a Cleaner, Smarter Energy Future

October 6, 2022

Duke Energy Progress today asked North Carolina regulators to review its rates as the company continues to strengthen the electricity grid, reducing power outages for customers and facilitating a clean, secure energy future in a manner that supports economic development across the state. Over the past five years, infrastructure upgrades helped avoid more than 1.3 million extended…

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Retail / Shopping Centers

84 Lumber Set to Accelerate Expansion Plans

January 29, 2023

The nation’s largest privately held building materials supplier plans to add to its existing 310 facilities in 2023 84 Lumber, the largest privately owned building materials supplier in the U.S., currently operates 310 facilities which include 234 stores, 14 component manufacturing plants, 28 engineered wood product (EWP) centers and 34 door shops. The company plans to open new facilities…

Woolpert Contracted to Plan, Design Northwest Concord (N.C.) Community Park

July 22, 2020

Woolpert has been contracted by the city of Concord, N.C., to provide park master planning, conceptual design, and engineering and architecture services for its new 28.6-acre Northwest Concord Community Park. The park site is at 1252 Cox Mill Road in Concord, adjacent to Cox Mill Elementary School and across the street from Cox Mill High School. Woolpert…

DICK’S Sporting Goods Announces the Grand Opening of Two New Concept Stores

June 17, 2020

DICK’S Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS), the largest U.S.-based, full-line omni-channel sporting goods retailer, will be expanding its nationwide footprint with the opening of two new concept stores – OVERTIME by DICK’S Sporting Goods and DICK’S Sporting Goods Warehouse. Following the opening of three clearance centers last year in in Utica, MI, Spartanburg, SC and Racine WI, DICK’S is expanding its footprint of outlet…

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Roads, Bridges and Highways

Balfour Beatty Awarded $242.35 Million Design-Build Contract by North Carolina Department of Transportation

February 1, 2023

North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has awarded Balfour Beatty a $242.35 million design-build contract to deliver improvements to Interstate U.S. 70 between the Havelock Bypass and east of Thurman Road in Craven County. The project will upgrade the 6.4-mile section of U.S. 70 to improve mobility and military interconnectivity, support economic development and increase…

Construction Partners, Inc. Completes North Carolina Acquisition

December 2, 2022

 Construction Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROAD) (“CPI” or the “Company”), a vertically integrated civil infrastructure company specializing in the construction and maintenance of roadways across six southeastern states, today announced that it has acquired Ferebee Corporation, a full-service hot-mix asphalt and paving company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. With three hot-mix asphalt plants in the greater Charlotte/Rock Hill…

Carolinas AGC and SCDOT Announce Results of South Carolina Work Zone Safety Survey

June 2, 2022

On Wednesday, May 26, Carolinas AGC proudly partnered with AGC of America and the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) for a press conference in Columbia, South Carolina to release the South Carolina results of AGC of America’s 2022 Work Zone Safety Awareness Survey consisting of results from CAGC Members. CAGC Highway Division Vice Chair…

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Schools (K-12 and Higher Education)

USC selects lead development team for health sciences campus in BullStreet District

December 21, 2022

The University of South Carolina has selected Gilbane to lead the planning, design, development and construction of the university’s health sciences campus in the BullStreet District in downtown Columbia, South Carolina. The initial engagement with Gilbane was presented to the Board of Trustees at its Tuesday (Dec. 13) meeting.  “Gilbane has assembled a world-class design…

Strategically Funding School Facility Improvements

November 14, 2022

A blueprint for districts to secure taxpayer-funded capital investment Public education is facing renewed scrutiny in post-pandemic America. Improving student outcomes for today’s world means bringing disparate topics together to make wiser and bolder decisions in school planning, design and improvement. It has always been a challenge for public schools to keep pace with facility…

Skanska to Build School in Wake County, NC

October 4, 2022

Skanska has signed a contract with the Wake County Public School System to build a new middle school in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, USA. The contract is worth USD 78M, about SEK 770M, and will be included in the US order bookings for the third quarter of 2022.   The contract for the final phases of a multi-phase contract,…

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Transportation / Ports

Balfour Beatty Awarded $242.35 Million Design-Build Contract by North Carolina Department of Transportation

February 1, 2023

North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has awarded Balfour Beatty a $242.35 million design-build contract to deliver improvements to Interstate U.S. 70 between the Havelock Bypass and east of Thurman Road in Craven County. The project will upgrade the 6.4-mile section of U.S. 70 to improve mobility and military interconnectivity, support economic development and increase…

Charleston Turns to Black & Veatch to Map Out City’s Water Resilience Future

December 27, 2022

Global water solutions leader Black & Veatch today announces its selection by the city of Charleston, South Carolina, to draft a comprehensive, integrated flood mitigation plan for the 155-square-mile community along the Atlantic Ocean. With Black & Veatch serving as an owner’s agent and project lead, the extensive evaluation will help Charleston understand, plan for,…

Protect Your Freight by Packing, Crating and Storing Before Shipping

March 25, 2021

When shipping sensitive, fragile, expensive — or all of the above — cargo overseas, it’s important to ensure it’s properly protected. Whether it’s the salty sea air or the turbulent waves, cargo on a vessel can take a beating if not properly packed and crated. After all, the cost associated with project delays when the…

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Balfour Beatty Awarded $242.35 Million Design-Build Contract by North Carolina Department of Transportation

February 1, 2023

North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has awarded Balfour Beatty a $242.35 million design-build contract to deliver improvements to Interstate U.S. 70 between the Havelock Bypass and east of Thurman Road in Craven County. The project will upgrade the 6.4-mile section of U.S. 70 to improve mobility and military interconnectivity, support economic development and increase…

Commercial and Multifamily Make Solid Gains in 2022

February 1, 2023

All top 10 metro areas posted gains during the year In 2022, the value of commercial and multifamily construction starts in the top 10 metropolitan areas of the U.S. increased 37% from 2021, according to Dodge Construction Network. Nationally, commercial and multifamily construction starts increased 25%. Commercial and multifamily construction has made impressive gains in 2022 largely…

84 Lumber Set to Accelerate Expansion Plans

January 29, 2023

The nation’s largest privately held building materials supplier plans to add to its existing 310 facilities in 2023 84 Lumber, the largest privately owned building materials supplier in the U.S., currently operates 310 facilities which include 234 stores, 14 component manufacturing plants, 28 engineered wood product (EWP) centers and 34 door shops. The company plans to open new facilities…

Olive Tree Affordable Housing Enters Into North Carolina Market with Acquisition of Multifamily Community in Wilmington

January 26, 2023

 Olive Tree Affordable Housing, the affordable housing affiliate of Olive Tree Holdings, a mission driven private investment company with a focus on real estate, today announced the acquisition of The Life at Lakeside Villas, a 429-unit, affordable multifamily community located at 1519 Lake Branch Drive in Wilmington, North Carolina. With equity provided by the American South Fund Management Team, Olive Tree has…

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