The Houston office of Tellepsen completed the $149-million Texas Children's Hospital Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute ahead of schedule and under budget in October 2010—the first center in the world dedicated to the research of children's neurological disorders.
Dedicated to good stewardship of its resources, the nonprofit Cook Children's Health Care System in Fort Worth, Texas, turned to integrated project delivery (IPD) to deliver a planned medical office building, putting its faith in a team of contractors and design firms to produce the facility more efficiently. Rendering courtesy of Cook Children's Health Care System Cook Childrens is using integrated project delivery to build a general office building and parking deck on its Fort Worth campus. Photo courtesy of Cook Children's Health Care System The Cook Childrens project team discusses design of the general office building. Related Links: Main
The Cathedral of Hope Interfaith Peace Chapel—where people of all faiths, or no faith, can gather to pray, meditate and meet—was the last work sketched by famed architect Phillip Johnson, who died in 2005.
Like a magician, Fretz Construction Co., based in Houston, sliced the historic St. Mary's Catholic Church in half, added a new portion, reassembled the pieces and deftly blurred the transition from old to new.
Targeting LEED Silver, the 275,000-sq-ft Irving Convention Center comprises four levels of cantilevered, rotated masses reaching the height of a 14-story building.
Providing a college preparatory curriculum for as many as 500 students, the 104,000-sq-ft Kathlyn Joy Gilliam Collegiate Academy is on a 10-acre greenfield site adjacent to a nature preserve south of Dallas.
A learning and leadership-development destination for Deloitte University, this 780,000-sq-ft campus covers 107-plus acres and includes a four-acre irrigation pond and three structures, including the main building, which is a third of a mile long.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed the Hurricane Storm Damage Risk Reduction System to provide the New Orleans area 100-year-event flood protection. In just 11 months, Edison, N.J.-based Conti Group delivered the $53-million HSDRRS Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity (LPV) 149 Project.
HALLCliff R. Hall has joined Stantec as a principal in its Dallas-based transportation practice. Bringing more than 27 years of domestic and international experience in delivering bridge, light-rail transit, airport, major freeway interchanges, railroad and road projects, Hall is responsible for maintaining technical quality on client projects and the company's business development initiatives throughout Texas. Joseph Sensabe was hired by ARCADIS as vice president of Malcolm Pirnie, its water division, and location leader of the company's New Orleans and Metairie offices. He is a former supervisory project engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' New Orleans District.HOK, Houston,