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Lafayette Tower is D.C.'s First LEED Platinum Certified Office Building

… Lafayette Tower exceeded exemplary performance thresholds in Site Development: Maximizing Open Space, Alternative Transportation: Public Transportation Access, and Heat Island Reduction: … for 8-foot 10-inch ceilings on the first eight floors and 9-foot 3-inch ceilings on the top three floors. Below grade, the building has a health club, office space, and three levels of … Clark Construction's green building portfolio. In 2000, Clark constructed the first ever LEED Platinum certified building, The Phillip Merrill Environmental Center in Annapolis, Md. The …
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Clark Hokies Help Cultivate Next Generation of Construction Leaders

… their passion for serving the community with Clark’s steadfast belief in cultivating the next generation of construction leaders. As a result, the newest graduates of Virginia Tech’s … Construction’s recruiting efforts at Virginia Tech, found it easy to assemble a team of Clark Hokies to guide students through the semester. Construction Operations Vice President Ken Keyser … them to expand their thinking beyond the classroom. The alumni provided individual expertise on topics most aligned to their respective professional skillset via guest lectures. Krause taught …
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Diversity as a Competitive Advantage

… Maryland, when I was five years old. As the son of a diplomat, I understood the concept of diversity - its value and importance - at an early age. By the time I attended Howard … more on the talents of our ever-growing workforce to innovate and to respond to more complex challenges. Our I&D initiatives are an integral part of a broader agenda that aims to better serve … team members, helped expand the program to San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest. SPP has opened doors for over 1,000 entrepreneurs and business leaders nationwide seeking greater …
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The Building Blocks of Construction

… times more. The team excavated a few feet of the pre-existing soil to add 30 feet of geofoam on top. The resulting structure is seismically stable. 2 The team didn’t need to transport timber … the project’s disruption to its neighbors. Once the geofoam was in place, Atkinson’s team tied reinforcing steel on top of the foam structure between the ramp walls and poured concrete …
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Anticipation Builds as Fuse at Mason Square Reaches Major Construction Milestone

… to commemorate the achievement of a major construction milestone – the building’s structural topping out. The day-long celebration began with an event highlighting the research and … more than 20,000 cubic yards of concrete to form the building’s structure. Fuse is slated to open in summer 2024. Mason Innovation Partners is a consortium that includes Edgemoor …
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Vertical Construction Underway at New Australian Embassy Building

… new, state-of-the-art chancery after a year-long effort on site to remove the existing building and excavate the below-grade structure. Designed by Bates Smart, the … will feature a custom curtain wall system and expansive interior glass atrium, as well as open assembly spaces, an exhibition gallery, event spaces, and offices. The new six-story … below-grade story for the new structure. During this process, Clark Foundations installed tie-back rods to reinforce existing foundation walls, allowing portions of the existing walls to …
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Hydro Excavation at Suburban Hospital Provides Client-Focused Solution

… than 5,000 wheelbarrows full of dirt out the front door of the building. Additionally, hand-digging and transporting such a large quantity of soil would have been time-consuming, … expensive, extremely labor intensive, and subsequently riskier from a safety perspective due to the potential for strains, sprains, or accidents. Construction Executive Brian … I had worked with 15 years ago, and mentioned our challenge. He came by the site on one of his trips to Bethesda and suggested excavating from the side through the foundation wall. This …
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New Terminal Project at KCI Spurs Economic Growth, Capacity Building Among Diverse Local Businesses

… Two years prior to opening for air travel, the New Terminal has hit cruising altitude with the help of more than … MBE/WBE firms working on the New Terminal project as compared to other MBE/WBE contracts in KC Tapped to spearhead the $1.5 billion project in 2017, developer Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real …
Healthy Buildings: Q&A with Clark Construction’s Fernando Arias

… Commercial Observer | Healthy Buildings: Q&A with Clark Construction's Fernando Arias …
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KCI New Terminal Project Team Recognized with National Innovations in Diversity Award

… Project at KCI. The team has been named by Profiles in Diversity Journal® among this year’s Top 10 Innovations in Diversity for 2020 award winners. When the team was tapped to lead the development, design, and construction of the new $1.5 billion airport … honored to receive this national recognition for rolling out programs that remove barriers typically impacting small, disadvantaged, minority, and women-owned businesses from securing …