The $72-million Pinellas County Public Safety Facilities and Centralized Communications Center project called for the complete demolition of existing buildings on a 40-acre campus and replacement with new, storm-hardened facilities such as a sheriff’s administrative building, emergency operations and dispatch centers, a 1,248-space parking garage and an energy plant to supply emergency power and cooling.
For 15 years now, ENR Southeast’s annual Best Projects contest has been recognizing construction and design excellence performed on contracts from across the region.
A new high-speed rail project is gaining traction, having reached a 50% milestone in development capital this month and will move forward with engineering and pre-construction with the announcement of its design-build development partnership.
The continued prevalence of energy projects across the Gulf Coast is one of the main reasons specialty contractors are seeing largely stable or increasing workloads in Texas and Louisiana.
With four offices spanning Texas and Louisiana, and a team of 2,100 “associates,” Baton Rouge-based ISC Constructors LLC is bringing its collaborative approach to electrical and instrumentation work to more customers across the region. The firm saw one of its strongest years in 2014, bolstered by the continued strength of oil and gas-related work in both states that brought a steady project load from clients such as ExxonMobil, Sasol and Shell Oil Co.
Texas A&M University houses the only veterinary school in the state of Texas—a program that is ranked in the top five in the country. The school is expanding its footprint at the College Station campus with a new Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Education Complex and by renovating and expanding the existing Small Animal Hospital.
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