Manhattan Construction Co. completed the 22,000-seat BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston's new home for its Major League Soccer team, the Dynamo, in April 2012.
In January 2011, The Lemoine Co. completed major renovations on the Lafayette General Medical Center, originally built in 1963 and last updated in 1983. The renovation, expansion and exterior up- grade was completed while the existing facility was in operation. Related Links: Engineering News-Record “Bedcount was critical for the hospital, so the planning that was involved in making a systematic plan that would not disrupt patient care was critical, as was the schedule,” says Cecil Zachary, health care business unit leader at Lemoine. “You break this down into basically 42 sequences of construction. Each sequence represented a floor or wing,
Construction has seen a bit of a lull in 2012 in Texas and Louisiana, but local experts are noting signs that the industry will strengthen heading into 2013. Related Links: Engineering News Record McGraw-Hill Dodge "We started 2012 off slowly, and then everything kind of picked up toward the middle to latter part of the year," says Brian Freeman, executive vice president and general manager of Texas operations for Skanska USA. "We saw a lot of good projects, but there's still a lot of pent-up demand. In the health care sector, infrastructure, even higher ed, Texas is a growing market."According
According to our independent panel of judges, the high caliber of every submission in this year's ENR Texas & Louisiana Best Projects competition made selecting winners incredibly difficult.
When a bridge in Houma, La., that had been unused for nearly 20 years had to come down for safety and obstruction reasons, the decision was made to relocate it to Freeport, Texas, where an existing bridge needed to be replaced.
St. Bernard Levee Partners, a joint venture led by URS Corp., completed the $272.7 million Chalmette Loop Levee improvement project for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hurricane Protection Office in New Orleans in September 2011.
Satterfield & Pontikes Construction completed the $29-million Ann Richards Middle School for the Dallas Independent School District on a 21.6-acre site.
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