Texas middle-school students Zara Willard and Nicholas John received hands-on building experience and inspiration to pursue engineering and construction careers at TRF Camp Build in Austin last summer.
“Sustainability is at the forefront of Austin’s engineering and construction practices,” Roohms says. “The industry has also been adopting digital plan delivery, which leverages shared technology among the entire project team to enhance visualization and eliminate silos.”
This federal project recorded a rate of zero for both its OSHA recordable incident rate and lost-time accident rate. These pristine safety numbers come from a project of nearly 18,800 work hours with as many as 300 people on site at a given time.
Let’s start with some numbers: 30,000 pallet positions, 45 dock doors, 90 temperature-controlled loading docks— reported to be the biggest in the industry—and 58 drop trailer positions and two deep racking.
VGXI’s 120,000-sq-ft headquarters and manufacturing facility combines laboratories, pharmaceutical-grade clean rooms and purification, filling, packaging, warehousing, process support, corporate office and amenity support spaces.
In an effort to reconstruct and expand 7.64 miles of roadway along the IH-10 corridor in Austin County, crews expanded the existing two main lane and two-way frontage roads into six main lanes with three in each direction along with one-way frontage roads on opposing sides.
Located at the heart of UT Arlington’s main campus is its newest facility, featuring a mix of classrooms; flexible and state-of-the-art technology; enriched learning spaces; teaching and research labs; faculty and staff offices; study and support spaces; and infrastructure support space.