Meritorious construction: Associated Builders and Contractors honors Indiana projects.

AuthorLewers, Christine
PositionCONSTRUCTION

EACH YEAR ASSOCIATED Builders and Contractors honor the best in merit shop construction. The latest Indiana projects to receive the organization's excellence award are:

COMMERCIAL OVER $10 MILLION

Cincinnati's Messer Construction Co. relied on lean construction methodology to complete the three-city-block, $30 million Lawrenceburg Riverfront Development early, on budget and with no claims or litigation. Challenges during construction of two office buildings and an 800-car parking facility on the riverfront included providing public access to a neighboring war memorial, protecting residential and historic districts and working around a mil line.

INSTITUTIONAL OVER $10 MILLION

Wurster Construction of Indianapolis partnered with Smoot Construction to build Clarian Health Partners' new $40.6 million pathology laboratory in downtown Indianapolis' Canal District. The 323,000-square-foot, technologically advanced facility serves three hospitals (Methodist, University and Riley), all of which are connected to the lab by one of the largest pneumatic tube systems in the nation. Construction constraints included the tight, three-acre site bounded by Interstate 65 and 11th Street and within 40 feet of a continuously operating monorail.

INDUSTRIAL OVER $10 MILLION

Communicating regularly with the architect allowed Zionsville's RL Turner Corp. to overcome building and scheduling constraints to complete Cook Pharmica's Project Phoenix in Bloomington early and on-budget. The $70 million project involved converting a 440,000-square-foot electronics assembly plant into a state-of-the-art facility for developing and manufacturing cell culture based pharmaceuticals. Hypermetric filtration systems, air locks and varying air pressures were incorporated to control air quality in process areas.

COMMERCIAL $2 MILLION TO $10 MILLION

Indianapolis-based S&B Construction Co. employed a non-traditional soft-soil stabilization foundation system to make the 141st Street Shoppes in Fishers financially feasible for owners of the retail development. Awnings, color, storefront set-backs and a facade consisting of brick and EIFS (synthetic stucco) achieved a high-end look while keeping costs down. Despite beginning the foundation system during a December snowstorm, "our crews worked through the adverse conditions, completing the project in the budget and on schedule," says S&B Construction Co. president William Cooper.

INDUSTRIAL $2 MILLION TO $10 MILLION

Challenges faced by RL Turner Corp. of Zionsville in the 25,000-square-foot addition and renovation of the Hussey Mayfield Memorial Public Library in Zionsville were shutting down...

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