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Springfield, MO
General contractor: Q & Co. LLC
Size: 200,000 square feet
Estimated cost: $37 million
Estimated completion: September
Project description: Convoy of Hope’s new office building, the Global Headquarters and Training Center, to be completed this month, just past its previously reported estimated completion in August, will provide a home base for the organization’s worldwide relief efforts and include expanded training and communication resources. The building’s post-tensioned, cast-in-place concrete-and-steel frame structure will have decorative wall panels and aluminum and glass features. An in-house auditorium will seat up to 700, and multiple audiovisual editing suites are included to help grow the organization’s outreach platform. Upon completion, all the organization’s personnel will be housed on one campus. Buxton Kubik Dodd Design Collective is project architect, and the mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineer, while other engineers are Olsson Inc., civil; Miller Engineering PC, structural; and Own Inc., geotechnical.
A City Utilities employee since 2017 with a 25-year legal background, he now leads the municipal utility provider with an $895 million annual budget.