Designed for LEED-Silver certification, the resource center serves a student population of more than 27,000 at the state's second-largest educational institution.
Total Construction Starts Flagstaff, Ariz. ActualActualActualActualForecastTotal Construction20072008200920102011($ Millions)$309$231$271$174$315Non-residential$83$76$150$78$225Commercial and Manufacturing$33$62$39$6$21Stores and Shopping Centers$15$2$15$2$2Office and Bank Buildings$6$10$10$4$3Hotels and Motels—$41$6—$4Other Commercial Buildings$12$9$1—$6Manufacturing Buildings—$7——$7Institutional$50$14$110$72$203Education Buildings$11$4$32$44$41Health-Care Facilities—$18$1—$13Other Institutional Buildings$39$10$60$27$149Residential$121$61$63$42$35Single Family$96$60$33$34$25Multifamily$25—$29$8$10Total Non-building$104$95$59$54$55Highways and Bridges$42$78$30$39$17Other Public Works$18$4$14$8$13Environmental Public Works$45$13$15$7$25Electric Utilities——$1—— ENR Southwest ENR ENR Southwest Total Picture Construction Starts Forecast to Nearly Double in 2011 as Non-Residential Activity Surges Educational and other institutional buildings are providing the biggest boost to the citys project starts.
This two-story, 15,000-sq-ft addition to the Muscular Dystrophy Association's headquarters fits seamlessly into the natural desert surroundings and redefines the structure.
This family-centered facility actively involves the hospitalized child's parents in all aspects of the child's care and accommodates their physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs.
This LEED-Gold project added two separate mezzanines to an existing 300,000-sq-ft building, plus an addition for the bulk storage of raw materials for manufacturing. The project also included a retail area, corporate training and board rooms, offices and a lab.
Bradford Gatlin joins Lang Wyatt Construction as project manager. With a degree in civil engineering, he has 37 years of experience in planning, management, control and supervision for projects including commercial, mining, government and education. Gatlin most recently worked with Concord General Contracting for 12 years, and prior to that he was with T.L. Roof. Photo courtesy Rider Levett Bucknall Ward Simpson Sundt Construction Inc. has hired Scot Bennett as a business development representative. Bennett brings more than a decade of business development and design experience to Sundt, having previously served as a designer and then director of business development
With plans for 18 million sq ft of commercial space and 37,000 homes, Albuquerque's master-planned sustainable community, Mesa del Sol, was selected as an ideal test site for a collaborative U.S.-Japanese demonstration project to examine emerging technologies that digitally control and balance power generated by various energy sources, including renewables. Photo courtesy of Mesa del Sol Designed by Antoine Predock, Albuquerque's Aperture Center will be the site of a U.S.-Japan study of smart grid technology. Upon completion of Mesa del Sol's $6-million retrofit in spring 2012, the community's centerpiece, the Antoine Predock-designed Aperture Center, will be home to the three-year
Residents of two rural Southern Arizona towns are celebrating the reopening of a freeway bridge that had been severely damaged earlier this year after two semi-trucks caught fire during an accident. The bridge over Interstate 10 was demolished and rebuilt in only six months, alleviating a 10-mile detour for residents on either side of the freeway. Photo courtesy ADOT Crews install a new concrete box girder on the Mescal Road/J-Six Ranch Road Bridge over I-10 in southern Arizona as lighning lights up the night sky. Photo Courtesy ADOT The fire-damaged bridge was demolished just 24 days after the fire. Crews
Plans for federally controlled power lines to transmit solar power are moving ahead in the Southwest, but in the Northwest, lines to move wind power are being slowed while wind developments there are being re-evaluated. Photo courtesy of AP WIDEWORLD / Jae C. Hong MIXED MARKET Solar Southwest is strong, but the windy Northwest is weak. The Western Area Power Administration announced it will hire construction firms to upgrade and build parts of a $91-million transmission- line project in southern Arizona.The 109-mile Electrical District 5-to-Palo Verde transmission project includes a mix of new and upgraded WAPA-owned 230-kV lines as well
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