Construction of Hoover's Spain Park High School wraps up

Golden & Associates Construction LLC of Birmingham, Ala., is putting the final details on Spain Park High School's athletic facilities additions and renovation.

The $4.2 million project includes a new 14,400-sq.-ft. multipurpose building, a 12,800-sq.-ft. building addition to the school and a 2,600-sq.-ft. storage room.

The multipurpose building will be utilized by several of the athletic teams and will house separate locker rooms for track, softball and baseball, and will also include coaches' offices and indoor batting facilities.

The new addition to the existing school will house a new weight room, girls' basketball, volleyball and soccer locker rooms and additional coaches' offices. The new storage room is located under the football stadium.

The multipurpose building was completed in September and the entire project is scheduled to be complete this week. Golden & Associates Construction will finish the project in 268 days, which is almost half of contracted 420 days for completion. Golden & Associates' Ryan Ferris is the project manager and Marty Wagnon is the superintendent. Adams Design Associates is the architect firm for the project.

"This was a very challenging project for Golden & Associates due to the time constraints on the multipurpose building and some unforeseen existing conditions during excavation," Ferry said.

Multi-specialty clinic to break ground at Princeton Baptist campus

The Simon-Williamson doctors group broke ground on their new multi-specialty clinic in December. The 100,000-sq.-ft. medical office building will be located on the Princeton Baptist campus in Birmingham, Ala.

Specialties offered in the new facility will include: internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, gastroenterology, urology, neurology, oncology, ophthalmology, ENT/audiology, diagnostic laboratory and imaging.

The design/build project is scheduled to be completed in spring 2007 and the estimated construction cost is $16 million. Inkana Development is the developer, Brasfield & Gorrie is the general contractor, Gresham Smith & Partners is the architect, landscape architect and civil engineer, Whitaker Rawson, is the mechanical engineer and Sajjadieh Engineering Group is the electrical engineer.

Opened in 1922, Baptist Princeton is the flagship hospital of the Baptist Health System. Today, Baptist Princeton is a full service tertiary hospital with approximately 1,400 employees providing a wide range of services including such specialties as diagnostic imaging, cancer treatment, wound care, cardiac services and surgery, pulmonary medicine, neurosurgery, obstetrics and orthopedics.

HNTB selected to complete corridor management plans

The Alabama Association of Regional Councils, in conjunction with the Alabama Department of Transportation, has awarded HNTB-Atlanta the Alabama Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan project.

HNTB will be responsible for the development of CMPs for two corridors - the Coastal Connection Corridor along the Gulf Coast and Lookout Mountain Parkway in northeast Alabama. HNTB's responsibilities during the 12-month study will include public involvement, land use transportation linkages, traffic operations analyses and coordination with key stakeholders.

The CMPs included in this assignment will serve as part of a pilot program in Alabama with the Coastal Connection Corridor and Lookout Mountain Parkway being two of the first CMPs to be completed under the new Scenic Byway Program Guidelines adopted in 2003. HNTB also served as the consultant on the assignment.

"The Coastal Connection and Lookout Mountain CMPs will be used as examples for future projects," said HNTB project manager Douglas Allen. "There are a number of scenic byway projects in the State of Alabama. Success with this pilot program will demonstrate that these are viable tools for protecting outstanding intrinsic natural and cultural resources."