CEG - Mon February 10, 2025
University of Florida Takes Steps to Build Graduate Campus in Downtown Jacksonville
The city of Jacksonville is providing 23 acres in its downtown area for a new University of Florida (UF) graduate campus, including land it acquired in a swap deal with a local developer. The partnership between the Gainesville-based university and the city has been in the works since 2023, when then-UF President Ben Sasse announced the possibility of a graduate campus....
UGA Today & Tifton Gazette - Mon February 10, 2025
New Plans Call for Renovated UGA Building, GDOT Eyes I-75 Interchange Redo
The University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens announced plans in late January 2025 for a comprehensive $115.7 million renovation of Creswell Hall, one of the campus's landmark residence halls. UGA Today, an online campus news source, noted that the project is scheduled to take place in 2027 and 2028 and will modernize the 62-year-old building on Baxter Street....
CEG - Mon February 03, 2025
Long-Awaited Flood Mitigation Work Begins at Wilton, Conn.'s High School Sports Complex
A construction project aimed at mitigating problems with flooding at a Connecticut high school's sports complex began Feb. 3, the Norwalk Hour reported. Wilton's Public Works Director Frank Smeriglio brought forth the initial plans for the project in April 2022 after Hurricane Ida damaged Wilton High School's turf football field and new track the year before, a project that had cost the town $1 million to complete....
CEG - Mon February 03, 2025
Unique Design of Roux Institute's Alfond Center in Maine Inspired By Iconic Bridge
A major educational building under construction in Portland draws inspiration from a nearby coastal Maine icon: the historic Cribstone Bridge between Orr's and Bailey islands. Northeastern University's Roux Institute held a design contest for the Alfond Center on its new, $500 million Portland campus....
University of Wyoming and Cowboy State Daily - Wed January 22, 2025
University of Wyoming Aquatics Center Construction Begins
Groundbreaking for the $65 million University of Wyoming Aquatics Center occurred in November 2024 and construction is now under way on the facility, which is slated for completion in the summer of 2026....
Greenville News - Tue January 21, 2025
Construction Begins On Clemson University's $285M Veterinary School, South Carolina's First
Work has gotten under way on the first college of veterinary medicine in South Carolina, the $285 million Harvey S. Peeler Jr. College of Veterinary Medicine at Clemson University. The facility will be across from Clemson's Equine Center on West Queen Street in the nearby community of Pendleton, adjacent to the Clemson Experimental Forest....
The Collegian and Fresno State University - Tue January 21, 2025
Fresno State Begins First Student Housing Since 1968
Fresno State University broke ground on Dec. 6, 2024, on its first new housing project in more than 50 years, according to The Collegian. The new 80,000-sq.-ft. building will be four stories high and include one to four bedroom units....
School Construction News - Wed January 15, 2025
New Mixed-Use Building in Boston Will Provide Modern Housing for Harvard Students
Boston-based Shawmut Design and Construction has reached the topping-off milestone for a new sustainable mixed-use facility in the city's Allston neighborhood that will serve the Harvard University community by providing student housing and inviting public spaces....
Tallahassee Democrat - Tue January 07, 2025
Design of New 500-Bed Residence Hall at Florida A&M Maintains Campus Aesthetics
While Florida A&M University in Tallahassee is in the process of building a new 700-bed student residence hall on campus, it also is moving forward with plans for a new 500-bed facility that will resemble the campus's older dormitory halls....
Texas A&M University - Tue January 07, 2025
Texas A&M Board Approves More Than $500M for Construction
The Texas A&M University System's Board of Regents in November approved more than half-a-billion dollars in construction projects that will touch everything from space exploration to national defense to people's beloved pets....
