Updates from Across DPR

With designer SLAM and structural engineer Walter P. Moore, DPR SPW teams installed an extensive and distinctive mass timber roof at the Dr. Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center at Georgia Tech, a signature feature of the new facility. The 18 cross-laminated timber panels and 14 glulam beams were fabricated by Smartlam, and are featured in a radial design on both the north and south side of the facility.

The DPR team, along with SmithGroup and Chico State, broke ground at California State University, Chico’s new Human Identification Laboratory (HIL). The new 28,600-sq.-ft. design-build facility and its expanded capabilities will allow more communities to be served, quicker response times to urgent cases, and further the important mission of identification and recovery work.

The DPR team in Dallas-Fort Worth was recently recognized for its exemplary efforts to expand supplier diversity in its operations and sourcing, including hosting successful outreach activities and engaging new trade partners related to HCA Healthcare's local projects.

DPR broke ground on the first 72MW building of a three-building, 192MW, data center campus in the first East Coast collaboration with Vantage Data Centers. This campus is designed for the next generation of sustainable, high-performance infrastructure to meet the region’s growing connectivity needs. The design, targeting LEED Silver, has a closed-loop and liquid-to-liquid cooling for water efficiency, and utilizes advanced VDC, BIM, and design-assist strategies for speed, quality and cost efficiency. The project will create 1,100 construction jobs and 50 permanent operations jobs in the D.C. suburb.

Connecticut Children’s celebrated the ribbon cutting of its new eight-story clinical tower. Built by DPR, with design partners Cannon, Colliers Engineering & Construction, Salas O’Brien and Fuss & O’Neill, the 194,000-sq.-ft. expansion brings advanced care, immersive design and family-centered healing to the heart of Connecticut. The tower includes private NICU rooms, a fetal care center and numerous kid-friendly experiences such as a selfie wall and motion-activated art. Use of integrated project delivery and Lean construction methods aligned the hospital, architect, contractor and trade partners, enabling real time decision making, transparent budget management, early constructability reviews, and proactive responses to global supply chain constraints.

The Richland Parish Data Center is Meta’s largest and most advanced data center to date, and DPR's first project in Louisiana. Spanning a 2,250-acre site, this next-generation campus is designed to support Meta’s AI-driven future by delivering compute capacity. At peak construction, more than 5,000 workers will be on site, making it one of the largest active construction projects in the country. This ambitious project is being delivered through a joint venture between DPR, Turner Construction and Mortenson. Construction began in late 2024, with the facility expected to become operational by 2030.

DPR’s SPW teams stepped in to bring the unique design vision to life at the Phoenix headquarters of a major commercial customer. With rounded corners and curved walls and soffits, DPR's drywall team built a mock-up to help crews test construction methods and solve problems before working in the actual space. With four floors of construction underway at the same time, and at different stages of construction, this practice resulted in faster turnaround and reduced re-work.

The Quincy Vantage Data Center team successfully delivered a 550,000-sq.-ft., 24MW facility on time and with zero recordable incidents. With more than 618,400 work hours spanning 16 months, this milestone reflects outstanding teamwork, commitment to safety, and excellence in execution. This phase was the fifth and final phase of construction on the 17-acre campus.

DPR's Special Services Group (SSG) supported the build out of techno-vertical farming units at an emerging life sciences company. This technology uses plants as the infiltration unit for gene therapies, the first company to ever test this technology using plants. The team installed vertical farming equipment from the Netherlands, providing structural support, and working with the international third-party vendor to coordinate on city code ordinance for this new technology.

DPR officially moved into its new headquarters in Silicon Valley. The nearly 114,000-sq.-ft. space houses regional and corporate operations, a Prefabrication Assembly Facility (PAF), and members of DPR’s Family of Companies: GPLA Structural Engineers, OES Equipment, and EIG Electrical Systems. Sustainability was central to the design, featuring innovative solutions like low-carbon concrete and mass timber. The new space doubles DPR’s prefabrication capacity in the Bay Area and supports customers across the West Coast.

DPR team members joined with officials from AdventHealth to celebrate the groundbreaking of the health system's Tampa Physician Office Building and Cancer Center. The 100,000-sq.-ft. facility will support the hospital’s oncology program, expanded clinical care, and advanced specialty imaging services. To accommodate increased activity, a new seven-story parking garage—delivered turnkey by Finfrock—will provide more than 1,000 parking spaces for patients, visitors and staff.

DPR SPW teams got to show their creativity with a unique build for Walnut Valley Water District's new headquarters. Two adjoining industrial buildings were combined into a single 23,000-sq.-ft. space. To emphasize the biophilic design, a kinetic wall system, driven by wind power, portrayed the natural movement of water, and six large round skylights, designed to look like water droplets, lets in natural light. SPW teams also played a large part in the deconstruction, concrete pour, interiors, drywall and doors and hardware in the space.