2012 News
Friday, December 28, 2012
Clark Rebuilding Maryland's I-95 Travel Plazas
— Areas USA MDTP, LLC, has awarded Clark Construction a $42 million contract for the MDTA I-95 Travel Plazas project. Under this contract, Clark will demolish and reconstruct two of the busiest travel plazas on Interstate 95: Maryland House and Chesapeake House. The work will be phased so that one plaza is always open to drivers travelling along I-95 in northeastern Maryland.Earlier this fall, Maryland House was closed and demolished. In its place, the project team is...
Monday, December 17, 2012
NAVFAC Awards Clark “Market-Style” Barracks Project in Norfolk
— Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Mid-Atlantic awarded Clark Construction Group a $66.8 million design-build contract for the P123 Bachelor Quarters project at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. The project supports the U.S. Navy's Homeport Ashore program, which provides housing on shore for sailors between deployment. LS3P ASSOCIATES LTD is the project architect. Conceived as a "market-style" apartment building, P123 Bachelor Quarters is a five-story residential building with 225 units. Built on a pile foundation, the bachelor...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
New Learning and Teaching Center Coming to UMD’s College Park Campus
— Continuing a relationship that has lasted seven decades, the University of Maryland awarded Clark Construction Group a $40 million contract to build the Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center. The new, 95,800 square-foot facility will be located on the university's College Park campus.To prepare for the new academic building, Clark and its team first will demolish the university's Shriver Laboratory and part of Holzapfel Hall. The team will then renovate 27,400 square feet of...
Friday, August 31, 2012
Clark Selected to Build Anaheim Transportation Hub
— On Tuesday, August 27, 2012 the Anaheim City Council selected Clark Construction Group - California, LP, as the general contractor for the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC). Clark Construction was identified as the lowest responsible bidder among eight construction companies that entered into the bidding process. ARTIC is a partnership between the City of Anaheim and the Orange County Transportation Authority and is funded with a combination of Measure M funds, the local half-cent sales tax for transportation improvements, as well...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Construction To Begin on Argonne’s Advanced Protein Crystallization Facility
— Argonne National Laboratory's Office of Project Management, in conjunction with Jacobs Engineering, awarded Clark Construction Group a $22.8 million contract to construct the Advanced Protein Crystallization Facility (APCF). Built as part of a partnership between Argonne and the State of Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, the APCF will contain the most advanced protein science technology in the nation. This is the second contract Argonne has awarded Clark in recent years, the first being the...
Friday, July 27, 2012
Clark Awarded Inova Women’s Hospital & Children’s Hospital Construction Contract
— Inova Health System selected Clark Construction Group to build the largest phase of its capital improvement program, the 665,000 square-foot Inova Women's Hospital & Children's Hospital. The $215 million contract is part of Inova Health System's multi-year effort to upgrade its Fairfax campus into a world-class environment for patient care, education, and research.The 12-story hospital will contain 192 patient rooms on four floors, a 108-bed neonatal intensive care unit, 33 labor and delivery rooms, six C-section...
Monday, July 23, 2012
Four Clark Projects Earn National Design-Build Honors
— Four Clark Construction Group projects, including one led by subsidiary company Shirley Contracting, earned national honors from the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA). The National Design-Build Project Awards honor construction efforts that exhibit the best practices of the design-build delivery method including early integration of key team members and close coordination between design and construction team members from design development through final construction. The awards will be presented on November 8 during the 2012 Design-Build Conference &...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Clark Enterprises Named DC Area’s Top Corporate Philanthropist
— The Washington Business Journal named real estate developer Clark Enterprises, the parent company of Clark Construction Group, Clark Builders Group, and Clark Realty Capital, the area's top corporate philanthropist. Last year, the Clark family of companies donated more than $12 million to charities and non-profit organizations in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. In total, Clark donated more than $14 million across the country with company employees donating nearly 12,000 volunteer and pro bono hours. Giving back to...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Mixed-Use Development To Increase Housing, Parking in Downtown Bethesda
— Construction has begun on Lot 31/31A, a $200 million development in downtown Bethesda, Md., that will increase the area's housing, retail, and public parking options. Lot 31 Development Statutory Trust, a joint venture between Bethesda's StonebridgeCarras, PN Hoffman, Washington, D.C. and Northwestern Mutual, Milwaukee, awarded Clark Construction Group, LLC, a $120 million contract for the project's construction.Lot 31/31A includes construction of two residential buildings, 42,000 square feet of retail space, and a four-level below-grade public and private parking...
Friday, April 13, 2012
ICC Constructors Awarded Final Phase of Maryland’s Intercounty Connector
— The Maryland Department of Transportation's State Highway Administration (SHA) has awarded ICC Constructors (IC3) an $89 million contract to design and build the final segment of the Intercounty Connector (ICC/MD 200). Shirley Contracting Company leads IC3, which also includes Clark Construction Group, as well as Facchina Construction Company, and Trumbull Corporation. Dewberry and Davis is IC3's design lead.Contract D/E will complete the ICC by constructing the final segment between I-95 and US 1 in Prince George's County. ...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Boulder Crest Retreat To Provide Respite for Wounded Warriors
— Clark Construction Group and the Clark Charitable Foundation have teamed up to pledge $500,000 to Boulder Crest Retreat, a 37-acre facility located in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains that will offer a rural recovery setting for wounded warriors and their families. Designed as an escape from the clinical environment of local military hospitals, Boulder Crest will offer accommodations and recreational services aimed at expediting the physical and emotional recovery of injured service men and...
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Modern Healthcare Names Clark Top Healthcare General Contractor
— For the second consecutive year, Clark Construction Group, LLC, is the nation's top general contractor, according to Modern Healthcare's 2012 Construction & Design Survey. Clark ranked first on the publication's list with $1.4 billion in healthcare dollar volume in 2011, retaining the spot it earned the previous year.Clark completed two of the nation's leading military healthcare facilities in 2011: San Antonio Military Medical Center and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Mandated through the Base Realignment...
Friday, March 16, 2012
Clark/Balfour Beatty Receives Multiple High Honors at Associated General Contractors of America’s 93rd Annual Convention
— The joint venture team of Clark/Balfour Beatty received high honors on two projects at the Associated General Contractors of America's (AGC) 93rd Annual Convention this week. The national industry association honored the NGA Campus East project at Fort Belvoir, Va. with a prestigious Marvin M. Black Excellence in Partnering Award, and with an Alliant Build America Award. The association also honored the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. with an Alliant Build America...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Community Service Initiative Honored by Construction Industry
— Clark Construction Group was honored today for performing some of the construction industry's best charitable work in 2011 for its efforts in helping communities impacted by the extensive construction work required through the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process. As a result, the construction firm was one of 13 organizations nationwide to win the AGC in the Community Award from the charitable arm of the Associated General Contractors of America, AGC Charities, Inc."Firms like this show...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
LAX Central Utility Plant Project Tops Out
— The new Central Utility Plant (CUP) at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) reached a major construction milestone when construction workers placed the final structural steel beam atop the building's frame on January 24, 2012. Currently on schedule for construction completion in summer 2014, the $438 million (development cost) design-build project is being built by Clark/McCarthy, A Joint Venture.\In just four weeks, construction workers from Schuff Steel used a Manitowoc 999 Lattice-boom crawler crane with a...
Monday, January 16, 2012
Clark/Banks Reaches Substantial Completion of The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s New Patient Care Building
— Capping five years of construction and eight million man hours of work, Clark/Banks, A Joint Venture has reached substantial completion of a new expansion of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The 1.6 million-square-foot, 560-bed facility on a five acre site is the centerpiece to Johns Hopkins Medicine's downtown Baltimore campus redevelopment. The $750 million building features two connected 12-story towers. It was designed and constructed to provide a healing environment to enhance the patient experience. The building...
