CentralMaine.com - Thu June 24, 2021
New Construction to Bring a Transformation to USM Portland Campus
There are major changes coming to the University of Southern Maine's Portland campus, where extensive construction is under way on a $100 million dormitory and student center project. The benefits of this effort are many, such as affordable housing for students at the new 580-bed residence hall, a career and student center with sustainable features such as solar panels and cross-laminated timber, a grassy quad providing a natural gathering place, and new arts and graduate facilities....
Flagpole - Thu June 03, 2021
New Episcopal Dorm Under Construction Near University of Georgia Campus
After a delay of more than a year, primarily due to the pandemic, construction crews are finally able to get construction underway on Wright House, a new residential facility in Athens, Ga., that has been in the planning stages for years....
Buffalo Rising - Tue June 01, 2021
Buffalo, N.Y.'s Canisius High School Gifted $2.5M for Global Learning Center
A $2.5 million donation was announced recently by Buffalo, N.Y.'s Canisius High School for the building of its new Madden Center for Global Learning. The facility will be located at the Delaware Avenue campus and is the largest in the college prep school's "Rich Tradition Bold Vision" capital campaign, one that is now approaching $20 million....
Auburn University - Sun February 21, 2021
Final Beam Raised on Unique Facility at Auburn, Set to Open in 2022
A crane hoisted the last construction beam atop a unique, world class facility at Auburn University on May 14, marking a critical point in the construction of the school's Tony and Libba Rane Culinary Science Center....
Skanska - Tue May 18, 2021
Skanska Selected to Build Radford University's $102M Center for Adaptive Innovation, Creativity
Global construction and development firm Skanska has been selected to build Radford University's new Center for Adaptive Innovation and Creativity (CAIC). Located in Radford, Va., the $102 million, 177,917-sq.-ft....
Providence Journal - Wed May 12, 2021
Rhode Island's $250M School Construction Bond Hailed by State Treasurer
In 2007, the Rhode Island Department of Education's Jacobs Recommendations for Consideration report concluded that the state's schools faced a tidal wave of need. Science labs were woefully outdated, roofs leaked, pipes burst, and, at one Newport high school, mice dropped from the ceiling....
Portland Press Herald - Wed May 12, 2021
USM to See Its 'Ugly' Law School Building Demolished
The University of Southern Maine's School of Law building, at the intersection of Brighton Avenue, Deering Avenue and Falmouth Street in Portland, will be demolished and replaced with a more modern facility at the same site on campus....
The Washington Post - Wed May 05, 2021
Virginia Tech to Receive $50M Gift From Boeing to Build New Campus
Virginia Tech will receive $50 million from Boeing, the world's largest aerospace company, to go toward financial aid to build and diversify the graduate technology campus the university is developing in Alexandria, Va....
Athens Banner-Herald - Thu April 08, 2021
New Early Head Start School to Soon Be Built in Athens, Ga.
Construction crews is set to begin to build an early learning center at Athens, Ga.'s West Broad Street school. The Clarke County School District met with members of the community March 30 to get input on the building plans for the property, which will house an Early Head Start program, designed to serve children from eight weeks to three years old in families who are either at or below the poverty line....
St. John’s University News - Mon March 29, 2021
New Health Sciences Center Planned for New York's St. John's University
A $5 million New York State Higher Education Capital Matching Grant (HECap) has been awarded to St. John's University to help finance the construction of a new Health Sciences Center building at the Queens, N.Y., campus....
