Natalie Jones from NeoCon 2012 discusses the positive feedback she is hearing from designers visiting the showroom in terms of new and bigger projects both in renovations, new construction and how the difficult economy has changed the design process.
After a two-year long construction project, which began in April 2010, the future home of Palomar Medical Center West in Escondido, California is nearly completed and scheduled to open this summer.
Construction workers at 4 World Trade Center in New York hoisted and placed the final beam for the building's steel skeleton on Monday, keeping the structure on track to be the first to open at the site since the September 11 attacks brought down the twin towers.
Looking ahead to the third quarter of the year, Industrial Info Resources is currently tracking another 1,700 capital or maintenance projects worth an estimated $60 billion that are scheduled to begin construction.