Walbridge Awarded Construction Manager Contract for Monroe Community College's New Career Technology Center

DETROIT, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Walbridge, a Detroit-based multi-national full-service construction service provider, is pleased to announce that it has been selected by Monroe County Community College (MCCC) as construction manager for its new 60,000 square-foot Career Technology Center.  The new center will be constructed on the college's main campus in Monroe, Michigan.  

Walbridge will be working closely with MCCC representatives and Hobbs + Black Associates Inc., the architect/engineer already secured by the college. To meet the college's growing enrollment needs, the new facility will provide teaching labs and training classrooms with infrastructure that is flexible to workforce demand. Training will be focused on construction management, alternative energies, hybrid auto, computer-aided design, and nuclear engineering, for which MCCC recently received a $200,000 federal earmark.  

Walbridge Chairman and CEO John Rakolta, Jr, said, "We are pleased to oversee construction of the new Career Technology Center, and support MCCC's vision for expanding the skill sets of current and future Michigan workers."

Upon completion, the Career Technology Center will apply to become certified under the U. S. Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program.

This is the first construction project that Walbridge will manage for MCCC.  Among the many higher-education projects recently completed by Walbridge are the Wayne State University Mazurek Medical Education Commons, Stockwell Hall at University of Michigan, University of Michigan Law School renovations, and the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education at the College for Creative Studies.  Late in 2009, Walbridge was named construction manager for Eastern Michigan University's Pray-Harrold Building renovation.

About Walbridge

Founded in 1916, Walbridge has steadily grown to become one of the top 50 construction firms in the country.  Headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, Walbridge provides diverse delivery options including construction management, program management, general contracting, design-build and turn-key solutions for new construction as well as renovations and expansions.   Services include pre-construction, engineering management and decommissioning.  The company also self-performs structural concrete and flatwork, millwright and rigging, equipment installation and facilities management.  

Walbridge provides construction services for education, airports, healthcare, federal government, infrastructure, manufacturing, automotive, research & development, and power & energy.  For more information, visit the Walbridge website at www.walbridge.com.

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