Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood Announces WonderWorks Project
March 17, 2010
MYRTLE BEACH, SC – March 17, 2010 – Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood is pleased to announce the firm has been selected to design a new family attraction in Myrtle Beach, SC. WonderWorks is a 100-foot-tall, 30,000-square-foot museum with the theme of an upside down science laboratory with more than 100 interactive exhibits. Scheduled to open spring 2011 at Broadway at the Beach, the project is expected to cost between $13 million and $15 million and employ 120 people. Wonderworks currently has two other museums in Orlando, Fla. and Pigeon Forge, Tenn. as well as to additional museums planned in Panama City, Fla. and New Jersey Meadowlands.
The firm’s Florida office has been contracted to design the three new buildings. Michael Allen, architecture project manager in Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood’s Greenville office, will oversee construction management for the Myrtle Beach project. I’ll have to say that I’ve never worked on an upside-down building before so this will definitely be an experience, said Allen.
For the project, Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood is using the latest in building design software, Autodesk Revit. This building information modeling system helps architects and contractors coordinate through an integrated process built on coordinating information from design through construction and into operations using three-dimensional modeling.
Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood, Inc. is an award-winning, full-service Engineering, Architectural, and Planning firm with offices in South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, and Tennessee. Rated as a Top 500 Firm by the Engineering News Record, GM&C opened their Greenville office in 2007. http://www.gmcnetwork.com/
