Case Studies In House Construction Executive

Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field is home to the Yellow Jackets football program and the Georgia Tech Athletic Association—and one of the most prominent, recognizable sites on Georgia Institute of Technology’s campus. It can seat around 55,000 people—and John D. Tweedy is the one making sure the gates are open to welcome everyone […]

As new details emerge about the environmental impact of toxic lead cables, fiber is looking better and better. A recent Wall Street Journal investigation revealed there are at least 2,000 toxic lead cables, and possibly many more, spread across the U.S., thanks to AT&T and other telecoms. In contrast to their lead and copper ancestors, […]

Usually, a three-story hole in the side of a hospital building is a cause for concern. At Northwell Health’s Peconic Bay Medical Center, it represented advancement in patient care. The hole was cut into the side of the main hospital building to connect it to a new critical care tower. Construction of the $70 million […]

In terms of Southlake Regional Health Centre’s facilities, its switchboards may be its nerve center. It’s not the type of switchboard seen in vintage movies where incoming phone calls are directed to someone by an operator plugging a wire into a circuit. The two switchboards at Southlake distribute electricity received from two high voltage transformers […]

Renee Strehlau’s footsteps have been winding through the University of Wisconsin’s 13 campuses since 1997. Completing her bachelor’s in interior design in 2000 from its Stout location, she became a facilities coordinator there upon graduation. Seven months later, she was hired as the facilities designer at the Eau Claire campus—and has enjoyed helping evolve and […]

In 2001, when Angelo Pellegrini became the lead electrician at the San Diego Community College District, it had just 10 locations spread across 1.6 million square feet. After several recent projects, today, the district has expanded to 4.7 million square feet, including 54 multi-story buildings. Pellegrini has been with the district throughout the changes, becoming […]

What could bring a Long Island boy out to the farmland of New York’s Chenango County? If you’re Rich Stone, only the opportunity to help save lives. Stone has worked for UHS Chenango Memorial Hospital for 18 years now, rising to director of support services and construction administration. But two decades ago, he was a […]

A dollar saved is a dollar earned. So goes the truism that Lindsay Walton takes to heart, sometimes while wearing work boots and a hard hat while stepping through the hardscrabble West Texas plains. For the areas around Midland and Odessa are among the places where her employer, Energy Transfer, has acquired other midstream companies […]

Eric Siskow was at a Minnesota Vikings game in 2020 when he got a life-or-death call. Actually, it was a lives-or-deaths call because Lakeview Hospital in Stillwater, Minnesota, just outside Minneapolis, was running out of the liquid nitrogen that’s converted to oxygen for patients. The oxygen demand had increased substantially to treat COVID-19 patients, Siskow […]

In 2015, members of the Johnson Govies, the student leadership program at Saint Paul Public Schools’ Johnson Senior High School, shared concerns about bathrooms with the facilities department staff tasked with replacing antiquated water piping and plumbing fixtures. And they weren’t talking about the facilities not being in good working order. “Students told us that […]