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Replacing a medium-voltage system that had served North Carolina State University’s 260-acre central campus for more than 50 years meant nearly every road and sidewalk had to be disrupted to install new underground infrastructure.
But the existing building was physically connected to four working facilities: Jefferson Tower Hospital, the School of Dentistry, the VA Bridge and the Zeigler Research Building. And the building shared chilled utility services with all of them.
Replacing a structurally deficient bridge originally built in 1958 over the Loxahatchee River and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway called for a 915-ft bridge featuring a 267-ft twin double-leaf trunnion bascule main span.
As a final segment of a multi-phase program, this two-mile arterial roadway completed a long-planned east–west corridor between Interstate 75 and Lakewood Ranch Boulevard.
This 1.7-mile stretch of urban roadway closes a critical north-south gap in one of Central Florida’s busiest tourist corridors and improves regional mobility.
Racing against the clock to beat expiring leases in the owner’s previous space, the project team had just 5.5 months to fast-track a simultaneous build-out across eight floors of a fully active 25-story office tower at Atlantic Station.
In addition to consolidating and modernizing Southeast Toyota Distributors’ operations, the JAXPORT facility relocates them from Talleyrand Terminal, where they had been since 1968.
Also known as The Well, this nine-story wellness-centered mixed-use development features an advanced building envelope and facade to withstand hurricanes as well as salt air and sun exposure.