Planning and proposals
Alabama
Construction has begun on a $600 million design-bid-build project to build an expansion at Facebook’s data center in Huntsville. The owners Meta Platforms Inc. and Starbelt LLC have not given a completion date for the project, which calls for adding two new one-story structural steel buildings to the data center for a total addition of 1 million square feet. The project team includes architect Burns. & McDonnell Civil Engineer Barge Design Solutions Inc. Electrical & Mechanical Engineer Environmental Systems Design Inc. General Contractor DPR Civil & Structural Engineer Peoples Associates. Meta Platforms Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California, 94025. DR#22-00837972.
Florida
The Florida Department of Transportation has begun work on the $908 million design-bid-build project to improve and build new interstate infrastructure along State Route 826 in Miami, known as the Palmetto Expressway. Funded in part by the Jobs and Infrastructure Investment Act, the public-private partnership effort began March 1 with an expected completion date of July 2031. Improvements include a new interchange ramp along SR 826/Palmetto Expressway to SR 9A/Interstate 95 Northbound. along SR 7 and SR9/Golden Glades Interchange with other ramp improvements. The project includes the replacement of the Golden Glades Interchange Bridge and the addition of lanes along the Golden Glades Interchange, as well as several ramps and added lanes along SR 9A/I-95 from NW 143 St. to east of NW 2nd Avenue and along southbound SR 9A/I-95. from NW 135th St. to the Biscayne Canal in Miami-Dade County. GGI Constructors JV is the contractor. Florida Department of Transportation Dist. 6, 1000 NW 111th Ave., Miami, 33172. DR#22-00779014.
Georgia
Cobb County is in the pre-design phase of an $895 million design-bid-build project in Marietta to establish a new Arterial Rapid Transit (ART) pending referendum approval of bonds in November. No construction schedule has been set for the project, which will use funds to implement high-priority ART routes so that bus service runs on dedicated lanes and serves high-quality stations approximately every quarter to half mile with a frequency of of 15-20 minutes. The ART program will include traffic signal priority and real-time passenger information technology and new vehicles. The county has identified three high-priority routes based on comprehensive transportation plan regional travel demand models, demographic analysis and public input. Routes under consideration from Marietta Transit Center to Johnson Ferry Road/Roswell Road, from Marietta Transit Center to Moore’s Mill Road/Marietta Boulevard and from South Cobb to Cumberland. Cobb County, 122 Waddell St. SE, Marietta, 30060. DR#23-00457526.
North Carolina
In Wilmington, the North Carolina Ports Authority is in the planning stages of an $846 million dredging project: the Port of Wilmington Navigation Improvement Project in New Hanover County . The Wilmington office of Moffatt & Nichol is listed as the consulting engineer on the project, which will deepen Wilmington Harbor on the Cape Fear River. The US Army Corps of Engineers is listed as the owner’s agent. The harbor is currently 44 feet deep inside its ocean entry bar and 42 feet along the channel to the harbor, and plans call for it to be dredged to a depth of 47 feet. Further expansion is also proposed to accommodate the world’s largest ships, and an estimated 26.9 million tonnes of sand and rock will be dredged from the river bed. North Carolina Ports Authority, Attn: Laura Blair, 2128 Burnett Blvd., Wilmington, 28401. DR#21-00856171.
