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Construction & Engineering Projects News
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White House offers transparency
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The White House Office of Management and Budget launched the Federal Infrastructure Projects Dashboard, a web page where you can track the federal permitting and environmental review process for expedited high priority infrastructure projects. These projects were identified pursuant to a Presidential Memorandum, in which the President directed agencies to expedite environmental reviews and permit decisions for a selection of high priority infrastructure projects that will create a significant number of jobs, have already identified necessary funding, and where the significant steps remaining before construction are within the control and jurisdiction of the federal government and can be completed within 18 months. |
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Homeland Security finds a home
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is consolidating its headquarters in the National Capital Region (NCR) at St. Elizabeth’s Campus in the Anacostia neighborhood of southeast Washington, DC. The DHS's current facilities are spread among more than 40 buildings in the Washington, D.C. area. In an effort to provide a more unified, secure campus that brings together its executive leadership and operational management, DHS's new headquarters will allow for more efficient incident management response and command-and-control operations.
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DOE invests in solar generation project
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Department of Energy has offered a conditional commitment for a $359.1 million loan guarantee to Mesquite Solar 1, LLC to support the development of a photovoltaic solar generating project.
The optimized 150 megawatt (MW) alternating current (AC) photovoltaic (PV) solar generation project is sponsored by Sempra Generation and will be located in Maricopa County, Arizona, approximately 45 miles west of Phoenix. Sempra Generation estimates the project will create up to 300 construction jobs and 7 to 10 full time operating jobs. |
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DOE invests in solar power projects
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the offer of conditional commitments to provide loan guarantees to support two concentrating solar power (CSP) projects—the Mojave Solar Project (MSP) in San Bernardino County, California, and the Genesis Solar Project, located on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management in Riverside County, California.
The Department is offering a conditional commitment for a $1.2 billion loan guarantee to support the Mojave Solar Project and a conditional commitment for up to a $681.6 million loan guarantee to support the Genesis Solar Project. At 250 megawatts (MW) each, the projects' combined capacity will double the nation's currently installed CSP capacity and displace a total of 40% of the output from a typical 500MW coal-fired plant. Abengoa Solar Inc., the Mojave Solar project sponsor, estimates that project will create more than 830 construction jobs and 70 operating jobs. NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, the Genesis Solar project sponsor, estimates that project will create approximately 800 construction jobs and 47 operating jobs.
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VA to build mental health facility in Florida
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced the award of a $92 million contract to construct a new mental health facility at the VA medical center at Bay Pines, Fla., to expand care and services for Florida’s Veterans.
The contract provides $91.9 million to Archer Western/Demaria JV II, of Chicago. The contract calls for construction of a multi-story 156,000-square-foot addition to the main hospital building at Bay Pines. It will be a mixed facility that provides residential rehabilitation, acute inpatient mental health services, and outpatient mental health services.
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