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Haskell to design and build Navy engineering ops center
The Navy will pay The Haskell Company $14.6 million to design and build an engineering operations center and to renovate a nearby building on Naval Air Station Jacksonville.
The new building is needed following the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure, which resulted in Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast being formed in Jacksonville and absorbing three other commands, one of which was based in Charleston.
"This new building will align our core staff and provide our employees the opportunity to work closely together at one location," NAVFAC Southeast Commanding Officer Capt. Michael Blount said. "The commands we support will see increased efficiencies in our transformation and realignment."
Construction is scheduled to begin in summer 2007, and the building will be occupied by August 2008.
The project also includes renovating existing space in Building 135, including roofing repairs, interior walls, interior finishes, electrical, mechanical, and heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
"We are excited about getting all of our core staff together, all 450 of them," says Blount. "We have been working over the past eight months to streamline processes throughout the Southeast with our staff separated by hundreds of miles."
Although all employees in Charleston have been guaranteed jobs in Jacksonville, many are expected not to make the move when the office there closes. The command will need to fill as many as 300 vacancies, providing opportunities for college graduates and experienced engineers in the area.
Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast manages the planning, design, construction, contingency engineering, real estate, environmental, and public works support for U.S. Navy shore facilities throughout the Southeast. The command employs more than 1,700 civilian and military personnel who provide shore facilities support in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Andros Island, Puerto Rico and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Dubai in overdrive to build world's largest airport
Dubai already has the fastest growing airport in the Middle East, handling over 28 million passengers in 2006, but the booming emirate is on course to build another one -- the world's largest.
In the vast desert stretching east of Jebel Ali port and free zone, one runway is nearly finished.
So far it remains the only visible infrastructure of the Dubai World Central International Airport (JXB), whose target is to handle 120 million passengers a year when completed.
Five more runways are to follow, with the airport due to be in operation by the end of 2008. Hundreds of construction vehicles and thousands of labourers are working non-stop to meet this deadline for the first phase.
"Once the work is complete, this airport will be larger than any airport we know," said Khalifa al-Zafeen, chief engineer in Dubai's aviation authority.
The airport is part of the Dubai World Central (DWC) mega-project, which is expected to cover 140 square kilometers (87 square miles) and feature a regional logistics hub, in addition to commercial and residential areas.
As a cargo hub, the new airport is also expected to be the world's biggest, with a capacity to handle 12 million tonnes annually. Total infrastructure costs are estimated to reach a whopping 33 billion dollars.
Zafeen said the construction will employ between 20,000 and 30,000 workers at peak time, but he declined to disclose a deadline for the completion of the whole project.
The new airport is not intended to replace the older aviation hub -- the most modern airport in the Middle East -- that is just 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the new development and a few minutes drive from the city centre.
The fast growing city state of Dubai continues to pump cash into developing its existing airport, with a third terminal expected to open by the end of 2007, aiming to increase the number of passengers to 60 million in 2010.
In 2006, the number of passengers rose 16 percent to 28.7 million from 24.7 million in 2005. Freight rose 5.85 percent to 1,410 million tonnes from 1,333 tonnes in 2005.
The Gulf emirate of about 1.3 million people has embarked on a strategy of headlong expansion under the ruling Maktoum family, committing billions of dollars to hugely ambitious projects.
In just 25 years, a sleepy pearl and trading outpost has been transformed into a dynamic regional economic and tourist power with world-class infrastructure.
Although the Jebel Ali free zone itself seemed a few years back to be sandwiched between the Gulf and an empty desert, Dubai's construction frenzy has now brought residential and commercial areas to the edge of the zone.
Charlotte Firm Targeting Services for Building Materials Industry Lands $18.5M in Venture Financing
BlueTarp Financial, a company that provides a variety of financial services to building materials and supply companies as well as contractors, has landed $18.5 million in new venture financing.
Leading the Series B round is Trinity Ventures, which has more than $1 billion under management.
As part of the deal, Trinity general partner Noel Fenton will join the BlueTarp board of directors.
BlueTarp moved its headquarters to Charlotte in December of 2004 from Maine. It also raised $14 million in capital that was announced in January of 2005.
Participating in the new financing were existing investors Highland Capital Partners, IDG Ventures Boston and Village Ventures.
BlueTarp works with more than 550 building supply firms and more than 12,000 contractors. Services include credit extension, invoicing and collections.
“We’ve experienced significant growth in our business over the past several years and made tremendous strides in providing world-class financial products to the building materials and supply industry,” said Bond Isaacson, chief executive officer of BlueTarp Financial. “We are thrilled to welcome Trinity Ventures to our investor team and look forward to working with all of our investors as we continue our rapid growth.”
BlueTarp added more than 100 dealers to its network in 2006.
“We were impressed with significant traction BlueTarp Financial has achieved in the building materials and supply industry over the past year,” Fenton said in a statement. “This traction, along with the strong management team at the company, well positions the company to build on its past successes and achieve significant growth.”
Polish Building Materials Producers Look East for Cheap Labour and Growing Local Markets
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