In 2018, Tyndall Air Force Base took a direct hit from Hurricane Michael’s 170 mph hurricane-force winds causing catastrophic damage. Ongoing is a five-to-seven-year rebuild effort that includes 44 new military construction, or MILCON, and 260 facility sustainment restoration and modernization, or FSRM projects, valued at $4.9 billion. GMF Steel Group is furnishing and erecting the structural steel packages for three new Ops/AMU Hangars, Flight Simulator, Weapons Load Training Hangar, F-35 Logistics RSF, and Corrosion Control Facilities. […]
Category: Projects
Asheville Regional Airport
Asheville Regional Airport – Terminal Modernization & Expansion is a $400 Million expansion that will consist of approximately 2,200 Tons of structural steel and 700 Tons of joist and decking material. Upon completion, the Airport will grow by approximately 150%–adding five gates, expanded ticketing operations, baggage space, and a new Grand Lobby. This is a multi-phase project that will span 3 years. Starting in August 2023 – February 2026. […]
Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Hotel
GMF Steel Group was honored to be selected as a part of the team to deliver the iconic new Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Hotel. This project used an innovative method known as “Integrated Fabrication Delivery” in collaboration with Walter P. Moore. This approach included Walter P. Moore completing detail drawings at the same time they were completing the final design, which expedited shop drawings, reduced the quantity of RFIs, and ultimately cut valuable time out of the typical steel detailing and fabrication duration. […]
Disney Springs
Disney Springs is the premier retail and entertainment venue in an area that is globally recognized as one of the top entertainment destinations in the world. There are 183 individual restaurants, bars, specialty shops, high-end retail stores, a theater, a concert hall, and even a circus. In addition to the project being a tight construction area, the site itself is located within Downtown Disney, which was maintained as an operating Disney experience. Every building structure on this project was custom designed to achieve the overall vision for Disney Springs. This is a very unique entertainment and retail venue that hosts […]
Winter Park Library & Events Center
This 55,256 square feet Library and Events Center boasts heavy interior columns with 1.75″ thick moment connection plates at girder beam attachments and a tilting perimeter steel column system that supports the integrated precast and glass panel systems. The Events Center and Library are only a short 6-feet apart from their closest points leaving logistical challenges for the erection team. By utilizing Synchro 4D and Touch Plan software on the front side, it allowed GMF to identify these challenges early and implement planning, making the erection process flow efficiently and smoothly. […]
Lake Nona Performance Club
Lake Nona Performance Club is a state-of-the-art community fitness, sports, and wellbeing center dedicated to advancing the pursuit of integrative health. The 65,000 square feet indoor pool area has architecturally exposed deck sheet seams and gaps. […]
Publix Headquarters Expansion
The Publix Corporate Office Expansion includes over 1,000 tons of structural steel with 75 tons of fabricated joists for the roof. The exterior is finished with a large custom green glass curtain wall to provide an overlook of the beautiful blue ponds and open, green landscape surrounding the corporate office. […]
L. Gale Lemerand Student Center at Daytona State College
This 75,000 square feet steel framed building has many stunning features including hiding the support for the cantilever in the stair tower enclosure and a bronze-clad gateway acting as two outreached arms that welcome and embrace visitors. Using steel allowed the team to create a 90-ft-tall portal to separate each wing, while also having the ability to resist hurricane-force winds. The American Institute of Steel Construction’s Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel (IDEAS²) Award program recognizes projects that illustrate the exciting possibilities of building with structural steel. Judges award less than ten IDEAS² Awards in the country […]
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University of Florida Ballpark at Alfred A. McKethan Field
This state-of-the art Division 1 college baseball stadium serves as the home for the Florida Gators Baseball Team. The pride of this stadium is the 360-degree concourse. Fans can take a lap around the entirety of the stadium and never lose sight of the action due to the open walls, grass berms, and outfield fencing. Whether along the baseline, directly behind home plate, or standing past center field, no one is in danger of missing a pitch. By cantilevering the structural steel of the roof, the team was able to shade the upper-level seats while using that deck to shade […]
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Sarasota Memorial Hospital – Venice Campus
Sarasota Memorial Hospital expanded closer to south Sarasota County with the opening of the Venice Campus. This build included a Medical Office Building, Patient Tower, and a Central Energy Plant. Within the Patient Tower was a complex, multi-stringer helix monumental stair and radiused glass curtainwall. […]