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Louisiana picks design firm for $14M coastal research center February 8, 2021 GMT THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — Louisiana has hired a firm to design a $14.5 million coastal research center at Nicholls State University. Thibodaux-based Duplantis Design Group will design the project, and the building should be put out to bid by the end of the year, the school and the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority said in a news release Monday. “When Nicholls was founded in 1948, we were 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the Gulf Coast. Today, we are 24 miles (39 kilometers) away,” university...

State officials said Tuesday that they have received $26.7 million in money from BP oil spill fines to start work on the Houma Navigation Canal lock system.

Duplantis Design Group to design Coastal Center February 9, 2021, by Eldin Ganic The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and Nicholls State University have announced that Duplantis Design Group has been hired to design the Coastal Center.    This announcement officially sets in motion the facility formation phase of the $14.5 million project. Announced in 2019 by Gov. John Bel Edwards, the planned 33,000-square foot building should go out to bid by the end of the year with construction following the bid process. A planning...

Nicholls to build $14.5 million coastal research center Nicholls State University in Thibodaux will begin preliminary work next year on a $14.5 million Coastal Center that will serve as a hub for research on Louisiana's eroding wetlands and how to preserve and restore them. “As the state university that is geographically closest to the coast, Nicholls is at the epicenter of our coastal land loss crisis and is ideally situated to host this Coastal Center and educate the next generation of leaders in this field,” Chip Kline, chairman of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Aut...

La chooses design firm for $14M coastal research center at Nicholls State University 2 months 2 days 20 hours ago Tuesday, February 09 2021 Feb 9, 2021 February 09, 2021 7:49 AM February 09, 2021 in News Source: Associated Press Photo: Google THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — Louisiana has hired a firm to design a $14.5 million coastal research center at Nicholls State University. Thibodaux-based Duplantis Design Group will design the project, and the building should be put out to bid by the end of the year, the school and the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority said in a news releas...