Construction and Real Estate

$62 million Stadium Delivered for Kickoff in 20 Months

When Alabama State University started working on its new football stadium, the plan was to complete the stadium in time for the 89th annual...

Naval Hospital for the Pacific Rim Needs a Modern Replacement

For more than half a century, the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Rim has relied on the U.S. Naval Hospital at Guam for healthcare....

Building Tools Redesigned

A magnetic drill attachment to avert neck pain for overhead work. An ergonomic mud pan for drywall finishers. A hard hat that monitors...

Hard Hat Higher Ed

It has all of the characteristics of a typical construction site. The pounding of hammers and the piercing sound of circular saws fill...

Building Back Better

Alabama is vulnerable to major storm damage from tornadoes and hurricanes, and lately it seems we have had more than our fair share....

Drilling for Liquid Gold. Water, That Is.

Tragedy struck suddenly from the sky in Tuscaloosa on April 27, 2011, when an EF-4 tornado ripped through the town with...

Standout Projects: Flagship Reconstruction

When Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf Coast communities in August 2005, she took with her portions of the...

Standout Projects: Top-in-Hemisphere Green Merits

The eight-story, 85, 000-square-foot Perkins + Will Office Building at 1315 Peachtree may be located in Atlanta, but it was Alabama...

Standout Projects: Polishing the Mobile Skyline

On October 17, 1965, the Mobile Press-Register ran a full page ad: “Towering to a skyline-splitting height of 424 feet above...

Martin Marietta's Mad Men Blitz Kiboshed

In the spring of 2010, Vulcan Materials Inc. CEO Don James was seriously studying the next big deal—a merger by the Birmingham-based...

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