Based in Miami Coastal Construction Group won the Construction Innovation Award for its work at Lakewood Village in Palm Beach County at the Build Florida Awards, hosted by South Florida AGC. The 96-unit apartment complex was built using the RENCO building system of LEGO-like blocks, which Thomas P. Murphy Jr., president of Coastal Construction Group, CEO and co-founder of RENCO, says is stronger than the concrete and more sustainable. A Feb. 22 statement from the companies noted that the connectable bricks and color-coded plans allow communities to build more affordable structures faster. As ENR reported in August, RENCO manufactures a proprietary mineral composite fiber-reinforced building system that uses interlocking blocks to create everything from structural walls to floors and ceilings.
Patrick Erin Murphy, Executive Vice President of Coastal, was also honored as Most Innovative Contractor of the Year at the RED (Real Estate Development) Awards Florida in January. The award recognizes Murphy’s contributions to the real estate and construction industries, as well as his role in advancing technology within the Coastal Construction Group.
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L&L Holding Co. i Oak Row shareswith partner Shorenstein properties and co-investor Clara Group, surpassed the Residences at Wynwood Plaza, a luxury apartment community being developed as part of a 1 million-square-foot mixed-use campus in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. Designed by Gensler, the residences total 509 high-end rental units with floor-to-ceiling windows and flexible layouts. The project will welcome its first residents in 2025. The structure will feature studios, one-bedroom units and two-bedroom units with high-end appliances and finishes and flexible layouts to accommodate working from home. The building will include a 26,000-square-metre public plaza by urban design practice Field Operations that will feature a signature mosaic walkway that winds through sculptures, art installations, native trees and other plantings. The space will be surrounded by 32,000 square meters of commercial and dining spaces. Residential facilities will include multiple connected and activated rooftops, a designated fitness area, multi-purpose sports court, two outdoor pools, sauna, cold plunge pool, glass atrium with co-working spaces, games room and more .
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Moss construction broke ground Feb. 13 on Cipriani Residences Miami, which will be the tallest tower in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood when it’s completed in 2028. Developed by Mast Capital and designed by Arquitectonica, Cipriani Residences Miami will stand 950 feet above the floor, an 84- nautical-inspired skyscraper at 1420 South Miami Ave. With 397 residences, the building will include 50,000 square feet of luxury spaces, including a private restaurant and resort-style pool deck with cabanas and fitness center, a spa with sauna and treatment rooms, a wellness center, a children’s playroom and a pickleball court.
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At the 52nd University of South Florida Engineering Expo in January, two Suffolk employees and USF Faculty of Engineering Alumnae shared with K-12 students the importance of STEM-related studies for those considering a career in construction. Daniela Farias (left) and Sofia Menacho Vargas (right) demonstrated how technology, robotics and AI are used in construction and showed Spot the robot dog built by Boston Dynamics. Spot is scheduled to tour Suffolk jobsites and complete image capture and laser scanning to enable crews to better understand and visualize jobsites more safely and efficiently. Farias and Menacho Vargas participate in Suffolk’s Career Start program, where college graduates rotate through estimating, project management and field operations for a two-year program that provides on-the-job training and hands-on learning opportunities to help young professionals to master the basics. of construction They are currently working on the residences at 400 Central, a 46-story condominium in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Professional services company GHD, which is expanding its presence in the Southeast, celebrated the opening of its office in Columbia, S.C. In a Feb. 14 announcement, GHD noted the state’s rapid population growth and said that the company has hired 14 local professionals who have been providing municipal water service. market for decades in the area and opened new office space in January in downtown Columbia near the State House. The firm plans to hire 30 more professionals until 2024 to support regional infrastructure needs in the water market. The new office follows the September 2023 announcement of GHD’s new engineering design office slated to open in Orlando in June, with plans to hire 100 employees by 2024 and 100 more by 2025.
Architectural collaboration, an Athens, Ga.-based firm, has become the first architectural firm in the state to be certified as a B corporation, it announced Feb. 7. Architectural Collaborative, or Arcollab, has adopted a commitment to sustainable design best practices, according to the announcement. Registered in Georgia as a beneficiary company, the company includes formal commitments in its articles of association that incorporate positive considerations of social and environmental impact into the business charter. Arcollab is the sixth B corporation in Athens and one of the first 30 in Georgia, a certification awarded by the non-profit organization B Lab, which evaluates companies based on standards of transparency, accountability and performance in five categories: government , environment, customers, workers and community.
