With its one-two sustainable punch, the recently opened Forest Edge Elementary School, Wisconsin’s first net-zero energy public school, is ready to serve as a model for capturing, controlling, and maximizing the economic value of sunshine and ground temperatures.

The 115th Fighter Wing awarded the first of 19 military construction contracts to a local building company ahead of the F-35 conversion in Madison. According to a news release, J.H. Findorff & Sons will assist with the construction. The project is slated to begin in May and will include demolishing a 4,646 square foot facility to make room for a 19,000 square foot F-35 flight simulator facility.

J.H. Findorff and Sons, Verona Area School District’s construction contractor, has received the 2021 Build America Merit Award from the Associated General Contractors of America in the category of “Building New or Renovation over $126 million” for its construction of the high school, according to a news release from the Verona Area School District.

Shine Medical Technologies LLC announced that construction of the exterior structure of its first-of-a-kind medical isotope production facility is complete and the building is weathertight, a major milestone with significance for Shine, the medical isotope industry and patients around the world.

Marquette University will break ground soon on business school facility. The $60 million, 100,000 square-foot facility is set to open by the end of 2022.

Following a facilities study by J.H. Findorff and Son, Jefferson school district planners looked over a potential timeline for a referendum to address building needs. The recent study considered all of the facilities needs in the district, determining that East Elementary School, at 80 years old, had the highest level of needs of all the buildings in the district, and would cost the most to maintain without renovation.

Aldevron expands manufacturing capabilities in Madison. Aldevron produces the raw materials that allow clients to make groundbreaking therapies, and its protein business unit has operated within University Research Park since 2009. The facility’s growth from 8,000 to nearly 30,000 square feet includes a new 3,500-square-foot fermentation suite and will allow the company to expand its projects’ scope and scale.

SHINE Medical Technologies announced the company has broken ground on a new Janesville facility that will house its corporate headquarters. The 54,000-square-foot project will also be home to a large-scale production facility for the Therapeutics division, according to a news release.

Spurred on by the push to end the COVID-19 pandemic, Catalent Biologics is rapidly expanding its Madison facilities and staff to account for increased production of substances used by various pharmaceutical companies around the world.

Forest Edge Elementary School — named for its location and designed to embrace its natural setting — walks the talk. The fourth elementary in the Oregon School District, and its newest school, Forest Edge is believed to be the first net-zero school in the state.