The Central Florida Region

On January 19, representatives from Wharton-Smith, Volusia County, Schenkel Shultz, MWL Architects, and the public joined in celebrating the ribbon cutting of the new Volusia County Medical Examiner’s Office. See photos and video. The state-of-the-art 20,000-square-foot facility features a drive-thru, temperature-controlled sally port, ergonomic autopsy stations, and an isolated autopsy room for cases with contagious diseases. It will allow [...]

On December 13, representatives from Wharton-Smith, Bay Laurel Center CDD, and Kimley Horn joined to celebrate the topping out of the Bay Laurel North Water Reclamation Facility in Ocala, Florida. See pictures and video from the event. The ceremony, signifying the highest structural point in the project being reached, featured custom project t-shirts, dozens of donated raffle prizes, [...]

On December 12, officials from Lake County Schools, the City of Minneola, Wharton-Smith, GSB Construction, Zyscovich, BBM, Matern, Kilma Weeks, and members of the public celebrated the groundbreaking of a new K-8 relief school. See photos and video from the event. The yet-to-be-named school will be built to serve around 1,200 students, helping to alleviate overcrowding at nearby [...]

On December 1, Space Coast Commercial team members, subcontractors, vendors, and dignitaries from Brevard Public Schools celebrated the Topping Out of the recently named Viera Middle School. See event pictures. Attendees received small gifts like tape measures, lunch boxes, and hard hats and entered to win raffle prizes of two TVs, combo drill and driver sets, [...]

On November 29, the Sanford office gathered for the annual Deck the Halls event to light the Christmas tree. Joined by special guest Santa Claus, President and CEO Tim Smith flipped the switch to illuminate the tree, marking the start of the festive season. See photos and video. Following the tree lighting, team members enjoyed ice cream from [...]

On November 17, Wharton-Smith joined Habitat for Humanity of Seminole-Apopka to turn the keys over to O’Nekay Campbell and her four children, the beneficiaries of a beautiful new four-bedroom home constructed as part of the Home Builder Blitz program. While past Habitat builds have been three-bedroom homes, this is the first time Wharton-Smith has completed [...]

On November 13, Wharton-Smith Commercial and Water teams in North Central Florida participated in the inaugural “No Matter How You Say It, Hunger Hurts” food drive in Sumter and Marion County. Donations were collected at both The Villages job site trailer in Middleton and the Bay Laurel job site trailer in Ocala, leading to around [...]

On November 9, representatives from the City of Leesburg, Dewberry Engineers, St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD), and Wharton-Smith joined together to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Leesburg Turnpike Wastewater Treatment Facility Upgrades Phase II Project. See pictures and video. The $39.9 million project includes increasing the facility's capacity to six million gallons daily, rehabilitating the pretreatment [...]