Hitt Contracting Inc. has broken ground on a planned innovation lab in Falls Church that it hopes will speed up the commercial real estate industry’s embrace of new products and technologies.
The 8,600-square-foot Co|Lab at 2757 Hartland Road was designed by William McDonough + Partners and is slated to open next summer. From within it, Hitt hopes to bring together architects, developers and contractors to try out concepts they’re reluctant to embrace on the job site where such experimentation…