On Thursday, November 16, the JB Duke Hotel and Thomas Center Executive Conference team was honored at the ABC Excellence in Construction awards in Charlotte, North Carolina. The JB Duke project team received the highest honor – an EAGLE award – in the category of Specialty Team Project over $50 million in size.
The hotel and conference center is located on a three-acre site in the heart of Duke University’s west campus. Starting with the original cluster of three 1980s-era buildings, the project completely reinvented the facility and almost doubled its size. Work, completed over two years, covered 117,341 SF in renovations and 90,457 SF of new construction. Today, the new facility includes 198 guest rooms, two boardrooms, four large meeting rooms, two 65-person tiered classrooms, a 200+ person restaurant/dining room, two bars, a 20,000 SF lobby and a 5,450 SF ballroom that can hold 784 people or be broken into five smaller configurations.
Congratulations to the LeChase project team of DJ Smith, general superintendent; Kathryn Payne, project manager; Jason Varner, superintendent; Kevin Brooks, MEP project manager; Todd Hilderbrant, MEP superintendent; Burnice Laws, assistant superintendent; Brooke Hathaway, regional EHS manager; Dee Richardson, project administrator; Tuti Brown, foreman; Marco Cervantes, foreman; and everyone who played a role in making this project a success.
