Complex Projects Drive Growth at DPR

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"This project is an example of helping realize a facility that will take the client's initiatives and mission to a new level of per-formance." - Matt Shock, Project Executive, DPR Construction DPR's Banner Desert and Mayo Clinic West Expansion projects are using prefabrication to deliver more predictable outcomes. On the Mayo Clinic's 650,00-sq-ft expansion project, DPR drilled a 250-ft-long tunnel under the existing lab and seven-story tower to connect it to the new space and built 155 headwalls on site. A collaboration with the city of Mesa and ASU, the MIX project is a testament to DPR's skill at facilitating the goals of two large public entities while also collaborating with two architectural partners and numerous faculty, staff and end users, says project executive Matt Shock. "We're seeing more and more facilities focused on the interface of the real and virtual environment and understand how to construct these technically complex facilities."The project, which broke ground and was constructed at the height of COVID, features an intricate facade of terra-cotta panels from Germany. The Meta Mesa Data Center project features many of the key pieces DPR brings to its projects: prefabrication, virtual design and construction and self-performed work. "Anything happening cutting edge within DPR is happening with our Meta project," he adds. "We're a builder not a broker, and we are eager to take on as much self-performed work as possible." - Joe Yeargan, Project Executive, DPR Construction It's DPR's seventh greenfield development for Meta and "The client wants prefab in spades," says Yeargan.