Stantec Assisting City of Kirkland to Improve Fish Passage, Reduce Flooding in Cedar Creek
KIRKLAND, WA - Stantec—a global engineering, architecture, and consulting firm—is helping the City of Kirkland improve fish passage and reduce flooding in Cedar Creek by replacing an aging culvert at 100th Avenue Northeast. The design team recently submitted a 30-percent design to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for permitting on the $1 million project. “By working with the City of Kirkland we have an opportunity to restore a key stretch of Cedar Creek,” said Jim McPherson, Stantec projec...
Stantec Celebrates Grand Opening of UPMC Memorial Hospital
York, PA, NYSE, TSX: STN: UPMC Memorial Hospital in York, Pennsylvania, reached a significant milestone on August 15, with project partners celebrating its grand opening. The 130-bed, 260,000 square foot facility replaces the existing hospital in downtown York and provides acute and emergency medical care, cardiology and vascular services, maternity services, chronic disease management, surgical services, and treatment for patients in need of long-term care. “The doors to UPMC Memorial are op...
Stantec to Design Specialized Career Technical Education High School in New Mexico
New institute to offer an energy course cluster to promote jobs in the Energy sector Hobbs Municipal Schools (HMS) has selected Stantec to design a new Career Technical Education (CTE) Center in Hobbs, New Mexico. As a regional facility, the Center will potentially serve students from surrounding school districts in Lea County and provide the full spectrum of CTE Clusters and Pathways. The project features facilities to support a new Energy Cluster program that will provide students with...
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology Breaks Ground on Second Academic Tower
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology (HUST) recently broke ground on the second academic tower on its downtown campus in Pennsylvania’s capital city. The $125 million, 17-story building will feature health science classrooms and simulation laboratories, which support the university’s nursing, pharmaceutical sciences, and other allied health programs. The project also incorporates specialized laboratories dedicated to advanced manufacturing and digital media studies and incorporates a...
Gilbane Building Company Celebrates Groundbreaking of The Ion
Houston, TX – On Friday, July 19, Gilbane Building Company joined Rice Management Company, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, city leaders, Hines, Gensler Architects and SHoP Architects in celebrating the groundbreaking of The Ion. This historic renovation will transform a Sears, Roebuck & Company building that was built in 1939 and turn it into an innovation hub which consists of co-working, event, academic (classrooms and lecture rooms), restaurant and entertainment amenities. “We are now ent...
Project of the Year Award Goes to Gannett Fleming Construction Services
(Harrisburg, Pa.)- The Construction Management Association of America’s Mid-Atlantic Chapter named Gannett Fleming’s Packer Avenue Marine Terminal Berths 4 and 5 Improvements as the Project of the Year Award winner in the Over $20 Million category. “The upgrades to berths 4 and 5 allow PhilaPort to serve the world’s largest container vessels and therefore strengthen the port’s significance in global trade,” said Gannett Fleming’s Michael Juliana, CCM, program manager. “The safe and on-time de...
Emre Arolat Architecture Engaged to Design Alcantara Gardens Mixed Use Complex in The Heart of Lisbon
LISBON – Internationally renowned, award-winning architectural firm EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture, with offices in New York, London and Istanbul, and known for producing relevant and contemporary architecture around the world, has been engaged to design Alcantara Gardens in Lisbon, Portugal. Alcantara Gardens will be a 23,000 sqm complex comprised of residential apartments and office spaces, with 93 residential units in total, ranging from large apartments for families to small units for sho...
Woolpert Providing Structural Engineering for Dayton Kroc Center Expansion
The firm is working with Roll & Associates and Ferguson Construction Co. to renovate multiple aspects of The Salvation Army location. DAYTON, Ohio — Woolpert was contracted to provide structural engineering services in support of the expansion of the Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center, which began construction this spring. The renovation of The Salvation Army location north of Dayton, Ohio, will include a new outdoor recreation facility, a soccer field and stands, a splash park and...
Ready for an Encore, Boston? New Casino Resort Opens on the Harbor
This new resort on Boston Harbor marks history for Massachusetts and we led its architecture. Celebrate Encore Boston Harbor’s grand opening – from the 27th floor down to a 6-acre harbor walk – in this article. It’s the subject of the popular tune, “Over the River and Through the Wood,” a narrative driver in the novel “Mystic River” and later, the Clint Eastwood-directed film of the same name – and now, Mystic River is home to the new Encore Boston Harbor resort. Jacobs served as the e...
Stantec’s Community-First Design Featured in New Sidewalk Labs Plan
Image Credit: Sidewalk Labs On Monday, Sidewalk Labs publicly released its Master Innovation Development Plan (MIDP) for the Quayside District in Toronto, which rethinks how infrastructure can be designed in a people-first community. Stantec’s innovative approach to infrastructure features heavily in the MIDP. The plan was submitted to Waterfront Toronto, the government agency overseeing the development, and is now under review. Sidewalk Labs turned to Stantec to help design the infra...