Gilbane Building Active in $28 Billion Worth of U.S. Projects

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Founded in 1870, Gilbane Building Company (Providence, Rhode Island) has become one of the leading construction firms in the U.S. Industrial Info is tracking projects valued at more than $28 billion involving the company. The projects cover a range of sectors, from airports to pharmaceutical-biotech plants.

Easily among Gilbane's largest projects are those involving the construction of new computer-processor and semiconductor fabs at Intel Corporation's (NASDAQ:INTC) (Santa Clara, California) campus in New Albany, Ohio, where Gilbane is providing construction management services. The projects involve construction of two fabs, totaling more than 2 million square feet and including 600,000 square feet of cleanrooms.

Excavation work led by Gilbane began in July. Bechtel Corporation (Reston, Virginia) is providing general engineering, construction and procurement services. Construction is expected to wrap up in early 2025. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Industrial Manufacturing Project Database can click here for the report on the semiconductor fab and here for the computer processor fab.

Another project with an investment value exceeding $1 billion is the replacement of Terminal D at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas. This undertaking involves demolishing the existing terminal and constructing a new, 780,000-square-foot facility, with 15 gates and two new piers capable of handling 15 wide-body aircrafts. Parking facilities also are being constructed. The project has been underway since 2019 and is expected to wrap up in 2024. Gilbane is acting as construction manager. Subscribers can click here for the detailed report.

Gilbane has a hand in naval undertakings via General Dynamics Corporation's (NYSE:GD) (Reston, Virginia) submarine-manufacturing plant and shipyard expansion in Groton, Connecticut. The project entails the construction of the 200,000-square-foot South Yard Assembly Building and a new floating dry dock to facilitate construction of the U.S. Navy's new Columbia-Class submarine, a nuclear submarine designed to replace an existing class of ballistic missile submarines. This project also got underway in 2019 and is expected to be completed in the coming months. Subscribers can click here for the project report.

Gilbane also has several pharmaceutical and biotech projects in its portfolio. Last year, Gilbane began work on one of its biggest pharma projects for Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:LLY) (Indianapolis, Indiana) in Concord, North Carolina, at a former Philip Morris site. The project includes constructing five buildings, totaling 800,000 square feet, that will include a biologic manufacturing facility, including fill/finish capabilities, along with space for warehousing, packaging, a quality control lab and a central utilities plant. Construction began late last year and is expected to take about three years. Subscribers to Industrial Info's GMI Pharma-Biotech Project Database can click here for the full report.

Other Gilbane projects in the life sciences sector include a 14-story, 350,000-square-foot, LEED Silver-certified research building for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Construction kicked off late last year and is expected to wrap up in 2025. Subscribers can click here for more details.

Subscribers to Industrial Info's GMI Database can click here for a list of detailed reports for projects discussed in this article, and click here for the related plant profiles.

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