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Swedish contractor Skanska has signed an agreement with the Texas State University System to build a new science, technology, engineering and math building on the university’s San Marcos campus, the company said in a press release shared with Construction Dive.
The eight-story, 155,900-square-foot building will house mathematics and computer science departments, with space for teaching, laboratories, departmental offices and research labs. The project will also require site and utility improvements to support the new building.
Skanska said it will begin construction in June 2024 and complete the project in May 2026.
Just a week before announced the new contract, Skanska reached a milestone in another Texas-based educational project.
At Texas A&M University in College Station, the contractor topped off the new Wayne Roberts ’85 Building, which is part of the Mays Business School. When completed, the building will become the centerpiece of the school’s new business education complex. The four-story, 82,500-square-foot facility will feature a large atrium, cafeteria, learning studios and meeting spaces.
To celebrate the completion of the steel, crews signed the beam placed in the northeast corner of the building. Skanska expects to complete the project by the end of 2024 to open in 2025.
Another major contractor recently delivered a major building project. Bethesda, Maryland-based Clark Construction completed the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC this fall.
Adjacent to the US Capitol, the Bloomberg Center was formerly the Newseum Clark and JHU teamed up for the review the project The combination removed aspects of the building and used temporary steel to reinforce others. The roof could not come off, however, so construction crews were unable to use the crane. Instead, the project team removed the facade.
The challenging nature of the build is exactly what drew Clark’s team to the project, Matt Vaughn, Clark’s project executive told Construction Dive.
