Dracut, MA (PRWEB) December 06, 2014

Once located in three separate buildings, Dracuts town departments now share a new Town Hall completed by CTA Construction. The 22,000-square-foot facility accommodates the departments previously housed in the old Town Hall, the Town Hall Annex, and the Sewer Department office.

The new building complies with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and includes administrative offices, selectmens meeting room, storage and a six-hour, fire-rated vault for vital records. The buildings clapboard siding and asphalt shingles blend Town Hall into the residential neighborhood.

We are grateful to the Town of Dracut for giving us the opportunity to both construct the new Town Hall and renovate and expand Dracut High School. It has been a pleasure to work closely with town officials and residents in constructing two facilities that are now the pride of the community, said Lyle Coghlin, Principal of CTA Construction, based in Waltham, Mass., and online at http://www.ctaconstruction.com.

The $9.3 million building, designed by architectural firm Johnson-Roberts Associates, replaces a facility built in 1890, which was torn down to make way for an town-center complex featuring the new town hall, the Moses Greeley Parker Library and the Grange Hall.

Last summer, CTA completed work on renovations and additions to Dracut High School, adding 83,000 square feet of classrooms, an auditorium, gymnasium and locker rooms to the existing 138,000 square foot facility.

CTA is a leading construction manager in the academic market, many of which are designed with sustainable elements and to meet the LEED for Schools standards. CTA Construction recently placed on a nationwide list of the Top 100 Green Building Contractors published by Engineering News-Record magazine. In addition to academic facilities, CTAs portfolio includes office, municipal, commercial, public safety and residential buildings.

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MANILA, Philippines SM Prime Holdings Inc is spending P7 billion ($156.77 million)* for the construction of two, new standalone office buildings next year.

The buildings will cater to business process outsourcing (BPO) industry locators.

The company will break ground on those buildings with a combined gross floor area (GFA) each of 160,000 square meters (sq m), SM Prime Commercial Properties Group head Dave Rafael said during the opening of the SM Cyber West Avenue in Quezon City.

The first building measuring 80,000 sq m is located in Quezon City. The second building in Ortigas Center will also have the same size.

Both buildings will each be 25-30 stories high and will cost P3.5 billion ($78.39 million) each to construct.

SM Prime is already in talks with interested BPO companies as possible tenants.

For further expansion, SM Prime is looking at Pampanga and Cebu as possible locations for its BPO buildings.

To date, SM Prime has 600,000 sq m of leasable space for BPOs, including the recently opened P1.05 billion ($23.52 million) SM Cyber West which spans 10,000 sq m of office space.

Strategically located

The 10-story SM Cyber West Avenue is 100% leased out to two BPO firms, Emerson Electric (Asia) Ltd and Synnex-Concentrix Corporation.

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Dec. 6, 2014, 4:30 a.m.

Construction of new homes at Dubbo is on the rise and the sector is on track to spin tens-of-millions-of-dollars into the economy next year.

Maas Group Properties sales coordinator Bill Kelly reviews progress of sales in Southlakes Estate as civil works in the subdivision progress. Photo: BELINDA SOOLE

Construction of new homes at Dubbo is on the rise and the sector is on track to spin tens-of-millions-of-dollars into the economy next year.

More than $34 million of single and dual dwellings have been approved since July and more plans for homes are expected to flow in on the back of strong land sales recently.

The industry's revival that's put a "smile on the face" of builders and sub-contractors would have benefits that spread throughout the community this Christmas and beyond, Maas Group Properties sales coordinator Bill Kelly said yesterday.

And he said the construction of new homes was not only generating work for Dubbo's tradies, it was also providing employment for the wider region.

New figures reported by Dubbo City Council this week revealed the approval of 101 new single dwellings in the first five months of the financial year, together totalling $28.62 million.

That was up more than $2 million for the same period last year, while dual-occupancy dwellings had powered ahead.

In the past five months 15 new dual-occupancy dwellings had received approval, five-times as many as the same period last year.

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Longtime Portland bureaucrat Dean Marriott, placed on paid administrative leave after a city audit showed the costs of a sewer office building went out of control, is appealing to a labor board to overturn City Commissioner Nick Fish's decision to send him home.

Marriott will receive a Jan. 8 hearing with Portland's civil service board, which reviews the suspensions and demotions of city employees. The hearing will decide whether Marriott's paid leave counts as a suspension he can appeal to the board.

Marriott, the director of the Bureau of Environmental Services, has filed a notice that he intends to sue Fish and City Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade. The Nov. 19 tort claim, first reported Wednesday by The Oregonian, charges Fish and Griffin-Valade with conspiring on a politically motivated attempt to end his career.

Fish placed Marriott on paid administrative leave because of the $11.5 million services building that opened this spring at the Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Plant.

In April, WW obtained documents showing how the city turned what was supposed to be a utilitarian office building, originally estimated at $3.2 million, into a poster-child facility for wastewater engineers in North Portland.

Fish responded to reports by WW and KOIN-TV by asking for a city audit. He sent Marriott home Oct. 22 after the audit said BES managers approved a design so ornate and inadequate that it required 85 change orders during construction, mostly to fix design problems like the ecoroof covered in wetland grasses.

Fish has asked the Barran Liebman law firm to investigate the project.

Marriott's civil-service protection is at the center of his tort claim. In it, his attorney says Fish and Griffin-Valade trumped up the sewer building's cost overruns to create a cause for the last city bureau director who can't be fired at the discretion of elected officials.

"Since 2000, when the city voted to remove civil servant status for bureau directors, all directors who retained their civil service protections have been replaced by 'at-will' employees," the tort claim says. "Both [Griffin-Valade] and Commissioner Fish have demonstrated clear animus toward Mr. Marriott's legal protections and shown a clear intention to remove him from his position and replace him with someone who can be fired at Commissioner Fish's discretion for any reason."

The civil-service protection has extended Marriott's 20-year career before.

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ALBURY company Joss Constructions will build a $15 million four-storey office building in central Wagga.

Manuel Donebus with plans for his new Wagga office complex while demolition on the site continues in the background with rubble being cleared. Picture: THE DAILY ADVERTISER

ALBURY company Joss Constructions will build a $15million four-storey office building in central Wagga.

Four Morgan Street buildings have been demolished to make way for the centre.

Wagga developer Manuel Donebus said Joss had been appointed to build the state-of-the-art office space.

And now we are about to get into the early earthworks side of it, Mr Donebus said.

Some 400 jobs are expected to be created on and off site for the project, which is expected to take about 12 months to complete.

Mr Donebus said the building would be the first in Wagga to have five stars under the National Australian Built Environment Rating System.

The building will have a new-to-market gas-fired air-conditioning system and what is known a triple Low-E insulated glazing.

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The rebuild may be slow but it should come as no surprise that construction in Christchurch is at record levels.

The latest Statistics New Zealand consent figures show almost a billion dollars worth of new commercial and public buildings were approved for construction in Christchurch in the past year.

The value of the consented work was more than twice any other year on electronic record.

According to Statistics New Zealand, consents for 350 non-residential buildings were issued by the Christchurch City Council in the 12 months to the end of October.

The consents cover commercial as well as public buildings, but exclude non building-construction, such as roads, bridges and pipework.

Residential construction in the city and the Canterbury region is also at record levels, with almost 7000 new Canterbury homes approved in the past year.

ASB bank's latest Cantometer Index, which tracks economic activity in Canterbury, described construction levels in the region as "very strong".

ASB chief economist Nick Tuffley said that while construction demand in the region was showing some signs of slowing from "very high levels", they expected demand for commercial building construction to pick up.

Concrete sales were growing strongly, and the rebuild was boosting demand for workers "across the sectors, from construction to professional services."

The biggest number of Christchurch consents for non-residential construction according to Statistics New Zealand was for office and administration buildings, with 105 worth a total of $417 million getting consent in the past year.

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CEBU.Two workers fell from the 11th floor of the FLB Corporate Center, which is being built along Archbishop Reyes Ave. in the Cebu Business Park. They were reportedly painting a wall around 9:20 a.m. when the ropes that held up their platform snapped. (Amper Campaa)

CEBU CITY -- A construction worker died while three others were injured after two of them fell from the building they were working on in Barangay Mabolo, Cebu City at 9:20 a.m. Tuesday.

The ropes that held the improvised lift they were standing on reportedly snapped, causing Jovito Alvarado, 42, and Cristino Cupta, 21, to fall from the 11th floor of the FLB Corporate Center.

Cebu Citys Office of the Building Official (OBO) will inspect the building, which is being constructed along Archbishop Reyes Ave. and within the Cebu Business Park, near a terminal.

We will check if the accident was due to the lack of proper safety and security measures or if there was any problem in the structure, said the OBO chief, Engr. Jose Marie Poblete.

Tan-awon nato ni tanan (We will look at everything).

Jovito and Cupta were standing on an improvised gondola lift,a platform supported by two parallel ropes attached to a steel bar. They had started painting the outside wall of the building around7 a.m.

Two hours later,the rope attached to the scaffolding reportedly snapped, causing Jovito and Cupta to fall.

Their harnesses were reportedly not tied properly to the gondolas rope. They tried to latch on it but fell, said SPO1 Ruth Violango of the Homicide Section.

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Work has started on the construction of a multi-million pound office building at Winnersh Triangle.

The speculative development of Building 1030 will create more than 60,000 sq ft of Grade A office space.

Developers say the project is an indication of the growing confidence in the economy.

The new building is being delivered by the business parks new owner Patrizia in partnership with Wates construction and completion is scheduled for spring 2016.

Will Lawrie, asset manager for Patrizia, said: Its exciting to be taking the park forward into a fresh development phase that will continue the upgrading of the western end of the estate.

Building 1030 will be a fantastic addition to the wide range of buildings already at Winnersh Triangle and should be well placed to capture the growing demand from major international companies seeking a first-class business environment with excellent connectivity and amenities.

The 72-week build programme will see the creation of a four-storey building with 60,483 sq ft of office space.

It will be located at the western end of the 85-acre business park which has a range of office, industrial, research and development and data centre accommodation.

Peter Whitmore, business unit director at Wates Construction Southern Home Counties & South West, said: The ongoing development of outer-city business parks such as Winnersh Triangle creates a real sense that the economic recovery has turned a corner and ongoing investment in regeneration is a must to keep this momentum going.

We are extremely excited to be working with Patrizia on Building 1030 and bringing to life their vision for an exceptional office space that will complement the vibrancy that is continuing to grow at Winnersh Triangle.

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Madison, WI (PRWEB) December 02, 2014

Building God's Way (BGW), a nationwide church architect and builder network that provides a broad range of solutions to Christian ministries, announced that it has formed an exclusive partnership with NCI-Roberts Construction in the state of Wisconsin. This partnership combines the church building expertise and excellent reputation of NCI-Roberts Construction throughout Wisconsin with the broad network of services offered to ministry-based organizations through the BGW program, including church design, funding, for-profit integration, leadership development, A/V technology and more.

BGW partners with top church and school builders around the country that have both a heart for Christian ministry and a reputation and track record for constructing top quality buildings at affordable prices.

NCI-Roberts Construction is an award-winning, full-service commercial construction firm that specializes in new construction, remodels, additions, and maintenance/renovation work. With offices in Madison and Blue Mounds, WI, the company has completed more than 150 church projects, hundreds of non-profit facilities, and award-winning work for office and retail space projects.

Dan Cook, Founder of BGW, commented on the new partnership, We are truly honored to partner with NCI-Roberts Construction and are excited to bring the unique Building Gods Way approach to faith-based organizations in Wisconsin. NCI-Roberts aligns very well with our philosophy and our heart for helping ministries be the best stewards of their God-given resources.

BGW and NCI-Roberts Construction kicked off their new partnership with a seminar event on November 18 at Blackhawk Church, a building constructed by NCI-Roberts in Middleton, WI. Churches throughout the greater Madison, WI area attended this Momentum Summit event to hear presentations by award-winning church architect Don Mahoney of BGW and Pastor / leadership coach Michael Goldsmith of Forward in Faith. The speakers shared innovative new strategies for church design & construction, capital fundraising, church growth and A/V technology.

About Building Gods Way - BGW has become a recognized leader in ministry design and construction through its extensive experience in working with hundreds of churches, Christian schools and colleges across the U.S. BGW's trademark programs based on Biblical stewardship and ministry on the construction job site have set them apart from other church builders and includes an unparalleled network of services, including church design, church building, leadership development, capital fundraising, for-profit integration, A/V technology and more. For more information about BGW, call 800-552-7137 or visit the BGW web site.

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A computer-generated image of the proposed Bolands Mill redevelopment. Photograph: Paul Tierney

Plans for a 150 million redevelopment of the historic Bolands Mill site in Dublins Docklands, including the construction of a 14-storey office block, will be lodged with Dublin City Council tomorrow.

The application, which proposes the restoration of the five original, but now derelict, mill buildings, and the construction of three new office and residential blocks, is the first significant plan to be made under the fast-track planning scheme for the Docklands.

The Docklands Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) scheme, approved by An Bord Pleanla last May, allows property owners to secure construction permission from Dublin city planners which cannot be appealed to An Bord Pleanla.

The application is being submitted to the council by Mark Reynolds and Glen Crann of Savills, acting on behalf of Nama. Bolands Mill was previously owned by developer Sen Kellys Benton Properties and a Treasury Holdings company.

The development is one of the largest proposed for Dublin since the crash and would provide almost 30,000sq m of office space for about 2,300 workers, 42 apartments, shops, cafes, restaurants and an exhibition building.

The tallest building proposed would be 14 storeys and 53m in height. A 15-storey apartment block is proposed, but it would be lower in height at 47.8m. The third new building, also an office block, would be 13 storeys and up to 49m.

Under the SDZ scheme a building of 15 storeys is permissible at the Bolands site. Dublins current tallest commercial building, the Google-owned Montevetro building on nearby Barrow Street, is 15 storeys tall, but buildings of up to 22 storeys or 88m could be permitted at two locations in the Docklands development zone at the Point Square on the north side and Britain Quay on the south side.

The principal historic buildings on the site are two six-storey stone warehouse buildings dating from the 1830s, as well as a number of buildings on Barrow Street dating from the 1870s. The mill, which was used during the 1916 Rising, was built for Bolands Bakery and was in use until 2001.

Plans to build three 12- to 16-storey office buildings and a boutique hotel on the site were rejected in 2006 on the grounds they would be out of scale with the area.

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