University of Central Florida College of Nursing

Owner: University of Central Florida
Location: Lake Nona, FL
Completion Date: 2025
Designer: HuntonBrady Architects
Partners: TLC Engineering Solutions, Ayers Saint Gross (ASG)

This project is a ground-up building featuring 90,000 sq ft. of flexible instructional space, collaborative study areas and innovative simulation labs. The labs will include dedicated space for virtual reality learning and structured clinical examination to prepare students for practice.

This project plays a role in addressing the national nursing shortage. The finished project will have a positive impact on communities in Central Florida and across the state as the majority of UCF nursing graduates remain in Florida to live and work.

Rendering: HuntonBrady Architects

Gasan Data Center

Owner: Confidential Client
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Completion Date: Q3 2025
Designer: HAEAHN Architecture Inc.
Partners: KEYSUNG E&C, SEJIN Electric Engineering, DL E&C

The project is one of the last data center developments in Gasan. When complete, the 57,000-sq.-ft. building will consist of eight floors.

DPR is providing design/permit management, project preplanning, and supported the client through the pursuit and negotiation with its master lease tenant.

DPR’s involvement began in late 2022 when the team provided technical translation assistance while the project was being co-developed by both Korean and foreign developers. The project broke ground in Summer of 2023, and DPR is currently engaged as project manager for the construction phase.

Rendering: HAEAHN Architecture Inc.

23 Springs

Owner: Granite Properties and Highwoods Properties
Location: Dallas, TX
Completion Date: Q3 2025
Designer: GFF
Partners: Schmidt & Stacy, L.A. Fuess Partners, Pacheco Koch, a Westwood Company

This is the largest office tower project Granite Properties has ever built. Construction includes demolition of existing structures, a six-level belowgrade parking garage and a 26-story, 625,000-sq.-ft. core and shell office tower with a finished two-story lobby, outdoor workspace, restaurants and dramatic views.

Construction in this dense urban area requires robust planning, scheduling and coordination to sequence concrete pours, with the help of 70 laborers and carpenters.

Rendering: GFF

Southline

Owner: Lane Partners
Location: South San Francisco, CA
Completion Date: October 2024 (Phase 1)
Designer: DES Architects & Engineers
Partners: Holmes, GPLA, Inc.

This development project consists of seven buildings and two parking garages built across 31 acres. Phase 1 includes a 318,000-sq.-ft. Class A office building, a one-story mass timber amenities building, and a cast-in-place parking structure for 987 cars.

Southline is an innovative mixed-use, transit-oriented development. It will revitalize the area by adding up to 2.8 million sq. ft. of Class A office and life science space.

Design-to-build efforts included changing the amenities structure from steel to mass timber. In collaboration with strategic partner GPLA, DPR’s self-perform concrete team changed the parking structure from a mat foundation to a grade beam foundation.

Photo: Bill Michie

Aperture Campus Phase II

Owner: Gemdale USA Corporation
Location: San Diego, CA
Completion Date: 2024
Designer: Dowler-Gruman Architects
Partners: Latitude 33, GroundLevel, Coffman Engineers, TK1SC

The project includes core-and-shell construction of two 140,000-sq.-ft. four-story office buildings, as part of the larger five-building Aperture Del Mar development.

The property will serve as the new corporate headquarters for Neurocrine Biosciences, housing primarily office and R&D lab space.

Other scopes of work include 35,000-sq.-ft. basements for each building, site work, a new loading dock, and a 13,000-sq.-ft. fitness center. The project team recently celebrated its topping out. More than 80 local craft workers from a variety of trades worked 60,700 hours without a recordable incident to reach this milestone.

Photo: Matt Pranzo

The Louis and Phyllis Friedman Building

Owner: Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Location: Towson, MD
Completion Date: 2023
Designer: Hord Coplan Macht, Inc.
Partners: Leach Wallace Associates, Inc.

The new three-story inpatient facility includes two acute care units housing 60 patient rooms and serves as the relocated new main entrance to the hospital.

The largest project in 25 years for the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, the Friedman Building is the first phase of the Promise Project, a two-building campus expansion.

Built on a tight site on an active campus, the facility is adjacent to the Berman Pavilion, which is also under construction.

Credit: CPI Productions