Last week, Rebecca Pizzi, project executive in our Philadelphia office, spoke at the Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal 5th annual New Jersey Healthcare & Medical Properties Conference. Rebecca highlighted the cutting-edge work the team is bringing to the Inspira Health Network's Mullica Hill hospital and surrounding community.
Our friend and second grader, Jacob, walked to school every morning for a year with a "Thank you" sign for our crew. We took the opening of his new school, Tacoma Public Schools, to send him a special thank you. Jacob and his fellow classmates were welcomed by our construction team with signs, cheers and applause for the unveiling of their new school. #BuildingWhatMatters
Today, our New York team was joined by Governor Andrew Cuomo to debut the largest milestone yet at our LaGuardia Terminal B project with the opening of the eastern concourse. Congratulations to our team and our partners, The Walsh Group, Meridiam, and Vantage Airport Group. #BuildingWhatMatters
Congratulations to our team on the divestment of our 121 Seaport office tower development in Boston. This 17-story elliptical-shape tower is our third development on Seaport Boulevard and rounds out Boston’s Most Sustainable Block. Our team has created a new, all-inclusive neighborhood destination within the Seaport with the delivery of 121 Seaport, 101 Seaport, PwC’s headquarters, Watermark Seaport, one of the Seaport’s first luxury rental towers, and Harbor Way, an engaging AR-enabled pedestrian promenade that marries the history of the area with its innovative future and celebrates the discovery of the Seaport Shipwreck. We are proud to be Building What Matters.
How do you know which delivery method is the right fit for your next life sciences project? The life sciences industry continues to evolve and staying on top of changes in delivery methods when planning for the design and construction can be challenging. Our SVP, Don Crotty discusses this topic in his byline "Owning the Process" in Laboratory Equipment.
This week, the former Eurostar terminal at Waterloo station permanently reopened for the first time since international services moved to St Pancras in 2007. Skanska worked alongside Aecom, Colas Rail and Mott MacDonald to bring the terminal back into use as part of Network Rail’s £800 million project to increase capacity on the South Western Railway network.
Passengers will benefit from more space at Britain’s busiest railway station, with platforms 20 to 22 now in use for regular services to Reading, Windsor and south west London. This follows work to extend platforms at Waterloo and nine other stations along the route, making room for longer trains, with more than 16,500 more seats provided for passengers over the last year.
The new terminal provides more concourse waiting space, moving people away from the main station, extra ticket barriers to reduce queueing elsewhere and new customer information screens, helping people find the train they need faster. There will also be direct access to London Underground for quicker connections in early 2019.
Platforms 23 and 24 are set to come into use in May next year as part of the next timetable change. By December 2020, South Western Railway will have provided a total of 52,000 extra peak time seats into and out of Waterloo.
