There’s not much use for a tape measure on this construction job. “I don’t think there is a corner here,” said David Calhoun, project manager for Skanska USA Building Inc., the construction management company overseeing the project. “On most jobs, you just find a corner and use your tape measure. Here, we use GPS coordinates.”
The job is the spectacular curving structure of the Innovation, Science and Technology Building at Florida Polytechnic, a new four-year university in the small town of Lakeland, Fla. Designed by world-renowned architect Santiago Calatrava, the eye-shaped building is a futuristic 120,000-square-foot facility that will house classes, laboratories, administration and common areas.