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Chicago has broken ground on the new Concourse D at O’Hare International Airport with AECOM Hunt Clayco Bowa serving as the construction manager at-risk for the $1.3-billion project that includes $300 million in infrastructure work. The project, one part of ORDNext, a $8.5-billion O’Hare 21 Terminal Area expansion and modernization project launched in 2018, is…

Rising costs—now estimated at topping $500 million—and local opposition to the planned design have led the Michigan Dept. of Transportation to pause a project to convert Detroit’s downtown I-375 freeway into a grade-level boulevard. Last year, MDOT selected Shelby Township, Mich.-based Dan’s Excavating, Inc., for the progressive design-build contract, with pre-construction work tentatively scheduled to…

Managing groundskeeping and outdoor maintenance equipment across a facility or campus is no small feat. Whether facility managers oversee landscaping, snow removal, turf care, or multi-site property upkeep, machines need to be where they’re supposed to be, running efficiently and ready for action. But rising costs, expanding campuses, and labor shortages have made equipment planning…

With the UK set to record its warmest summer on record, the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) is calling for urgent action to tackle the growing number of buildings that overheat. The Association says the rising number of deaths linked to longer and more intense heatwaves makes this a serious building safety issue with larger…

Study finds that more colleges and universities opting to reuse and renovate than build new Shiny toys are always fun to play with, but sometimes budgets don’t allow for new toys, so older favorites need a little cleanup and tender loving care before they can be used again. This metaphor also can be used to…

  Owners who ignore bad news about repair backlogs risk doing short-term damage to facilities, as well as undermining critical long-term goals for organizations. Are building owners sick and tired of hearing about deferred maintenance? If so, it would be understandable. Everyone from national associations monitoring the condition of institutional and commercial buildings to their…