A $146-million reservoir project in Florida that was once the pride of utility Tampa Bay Water and engineer HDR Engineering is now the focus of a high-stakes, increasingly public legal battle between the two parties.
SnapShot December 12, 2011 Submitted By: Richard M. Miller Principal Perkins+Will, Dallas Smith, a licensed architect and professional photographer (csphoto.net), aimed to showcase the extensive sunshading on the LEED-Platinum University of Texas at Dallas Student Services Building. "We waited for the long shadows to cast across the floor and the back wall," he says. "We took other shots in the building, but we kept a close eye on this spot." Smith used a Canon 1D Mark III at 24mm, f/22 and 1/5 sec. Photographer: Charles Davis Smith, AIA
On The Scene December 12, 2011 Craig Andrade U.S. Army Specialist Craig Andrade received the keys to his new 2,645-sq-ft Marion, Texas, home on Nov. 11, thanks to the Homes for Our Troops program. The Marion project was orchestrated by Hardin Construction Co. and drew on a crew of more than 100 volunteers. The project is Hardin’s second home built in 2011 under the program. Pictured from left are Shawn Callahan, Hardin Construction project area superintendent; Craig Andrade; Andrade’s son, Christian; daughter, Isabella; wife, Danielle; and son, Donovan. Photo Courtesy Of Hardin Construction Topping out Awards At the eighth-annual Topping
Begun in June 2010 and completed in just six months, the LEED- Silver-targeted Denbury Resources headquarters building includes offices; a Tier 2 data center and server room with raised flooring; and an executive boardroom featuring a 2,000-lb jumbotron with six 40-in. LED monitors.
Miner-Dederick Construction completed 17 floors of tenant build-out including the president's floor, conference rooms, a fitness center, the Lantern Café and a distance learning center at MD Anderson Cancer Center Pickens Tower and Faculty Center.
The Houston office of Austin Commercial served as construction manager for the six-story Methodist West Houston Hospital, built along with a six-story, 170,000-sq-ft medical office building.
The largest design-build civil works construction project in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers history, the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Surge Barrier in New Orleans is designed to provide a robust and sustainable post-Katrina flood-protection system for the city and surrounding area.
Fretz Construction Co. expanded the Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Church campus with a limestone and stucco cloister, a courtyard with marble fountain, matching additions and renovations to the existing Parish Hall, an outdoor pavilion, a new education building and a focal-point outdoor shrine whose keystone incorporates stones from the original English shrine constructed in 1061.
When ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston decided to build a $156-million state-of-the-art plant for processing its sweet potato product line, the Omaha, Neb.-based company turned to long-time construction partner Fisher & Sons, Burlington, Wash., for design/build services.