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If you have driven through the heart of Midtown Atlanta lately, you may have seen bright yellow panels wrapping the sides of one of the high-rise buildings currently under construction at West Peachtree and 8th Street. Though it has functioned as a great branding tool for Balfour Beatty Construction and our client, Wood Partners, it serves an even greater purpose – enhanced safety.

By Leon Blondin Memorial Day has always held a special place in my heart, and I believe the privilege of living and working in the nation’s capital has a lot to do with that. When I think of the Lincoln Memorial that enshrines the memory of a president and the union he helped preserve, I can’t help but pause to give thanks for this country.

Check out the timelapse video of the tower crane going up at our high-rise, mixed-use residential project for The Related Group in the heart of Midtown Atlanta. Check back for future updates on this project as it goes vertical!

What do you do when your client developing a nearly 1 million-square-foot, mixed-use project in a busy urban city center asks you to cut your already tight schedule even further?

Project delivery within the construction industry continues to evolve toward increasingly collaborative environments. Our clients are placing greater emphasis on a heightened sense of communication between project partners and many are committing to a relatively new type of project delivery for the design and construction world – Integrated Project Delivery (IPD).

Our UK colleagues explain the Large-Diameter Piling technique in use on the foundations of the One Nine Elms towers project in London.

Check out the time lapse video of the construction at our 300 S. Tryon project in Charlotte.

Balfour Beatty leverages virtual reality technology to explore and test future construction designs prior to building anything in the physical world.