Photo: Courtesy of Skanska USA Building

Skanska USA Building is wrapping up construction of a music building for the University of Texas - Brownsville/Texas Southmost College in Brownsville.

SpawGlass received an $18-million construction-manager-at-risk contract to build three performing arts centers for Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District. It is part of a $112-million bond program approved in May 2008. Other work includes four elementary schools to be built by Joe Williamson Construction Co. of McAllen and two middle schools, valued at $18 million each, by D. Wilson Construction of McAllen.

VCC of Dallas broke ground in June on a $45-million, 364,931-sq-ft school for the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD. The project, the district’s fourth comprehensive high school, is scheduled for completion in August.

Skanska finished the $58-million Palmview High School in Mission for La Joya ISD this year, and Leyendecker Construction of Laredo is working on the $58-million Juarez-Lincoln replacement high school in La Joya for the same district.

“There’s still a lot of K-12 going on, and there’s university work that was put on the back burner that we are hearing them talk about again,” Massey says.

University work
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi recently started work on the $25-million Michael and Karen O’Connor Building, a facility to house the college’s business school. Omniplan of Dallas designed the building, and Satterfield & Pontikes Construction’s San Antonio office received the construction-manager-at-risk contract.

Fulton-Coastcon General Contractors of Corpus Christi continues its work on the $36-million Texas A&M Nursing, Health Sciences Building, which connects with a Kinesiology Facility, also built by Fulton-Coastcon, a joint venture between Fulton Construction Corp. and Coastcon Corp.

Skanska has started the $22-million Texas A&M University Kingsville Citrus Center in Weslaco.

SpawGlass is building a $23-million Science & Technology Learning Center for the University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College. The building, designed to withstand a category 4 hurricane, will house six labs, concentrating on research in the areas of infectious disease, cancer, neuroscience and animal science. Construction on the 20-month project began in early.

Skanska is wrapping up work on a $21-million, two-story classroom building and library, called the Professional Zone, for the University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College, and the company is working on a $23-million, 50,000-sq-ft music building, called The Arts Center, for the college.

On the South Texas College Starr County campus in Rio Grande City, SpawGlass has started construction on the $5-million, 21,000-sq-ft Upper Level Center for the University of Texas-Pan American. The center will be for students transferring from community colleges.

SpawGlass also has started the $16.5-million, 20,000-sq-ft University of Texas Marine Science Institute Reserve Headquarters and Lab Expansion in Port Aransas.