PROJECT COST: $78,000,000 - TIE Photo: Perkins + Will Cedar Ridge High School Related Links: Top Project Starts - 1 to 25 Top Project Starts - 26 to 55 The new Cedar Ridge High School, the fifth within its school district, will serve a 3,000-student core capacity accommodating ninth through 12th grades. The new design is approximately 375,000 sq ft. Architect-facilitated project programming and workshops among administrators, teachers, community members, students and parents resulted in the decision to pursue an academy-based design. The school will include separate academies with focuses on arts and humanities; the Texas Science, Technology Engineering and
PROJECT COST: $73,000,000 Photo: The Benham Cos. Company Operations Facility, Task Order No. 5 Related Links: Top Project Starts - 1 to 25 Top Project Starts - 26 to 55 Part of the Army's initiative to arrange combat capabilities where it can effectively organize, train and deploy troops to support ongoing operations worldwide includes the creation of a Brigade Combat Team Complex Company Operations Facility for each brigade combat team. This project, a Company Operations Facility at El Paso's Fort Bliss, is a combination of thin-shelled, tilt-up and modular construction consisting of eight buildings. The BCT 3 facility will use
PROJECT COST: $89,000,000 Photo: Cook Children's Medical Center Cook Children's Medical Center North Tower Related Links: Top Project Starts - 1 to 25 Top Project Starts - 26 to 55 A major component of Cook Children's largest-ever facility expansion program, the new six-level, 283,000-sq-ft North Tower will expand world-class pediatric care in North Texas with 158 new patient rooms. With an emphasis on enhancing the patient experience and family-centered care, the North Tower will also house a new food court-style cafeteria and dining area and a conference/education center expansion. The expansion also includes family amenities such as in-room overnight accommodations,
Dallas-based HKS Architects has offset 100% of annual electricity consumed at its 110,000-sq-ft corporate headquarters with the purchase of 4.3 million KW hours of renewable energy credits generated by wind farms across the U.S. through the Boulder, Colo.-based provider Renewable Choice Energy. Related Links: Texas Stadium Implosion Site Will Serve as TxDOT Staging Area Energy Issues Likely Part of 82nd Legislature Discussions DFW Airport Awards $900M Project to Balfour Beatty Construction JV KBR Acquires Energo Engineering The EPA estimates that the purchase helps avoid a similar amount of CO2 emissions as produced by driving more than 4.8 million mi in
W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Co., with Texas offices in San Antonio and Fort Worth, and The Mundy Cos. of Houston each recently earned Safety Excellence Awards from the National Associated Builders and Contractors. Related Links: Skanska Texas Office Makes Diversity a Priority Houston Loses More Construction Jobs Than Any Other Metro New Board Member Joins Mobility Authority Houston AIA Chapter Selects 2010 Design Awards Linbeck Wins Aon Award for Dallas Opera House ROMCO Equipment Co. Wins Customer Satisfaction Award Hoffman Fixtures Acquires Phoenix Fabrication LLC in Oklahoma City Terex Roadbuilding Modifies Operations, Sales and Operations STG Design Relocates Offices
Prairie Link Constructors, a Fluor-led joint venture with Balfour Beatty of Dallas, received final notice to proceed from the North Texas Tollway Authority for the SH 161 Tollway project in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth region. The contract value is $416 million. Related Links: Williamson County Toll Road 5-Mi Extension Starts Bay Area Highway Projects Move Forward; More in the Works Southwest Parkway Work Crosses Tarrant County in Multiple Areas U.S. 67 Expansion Project Starts NTTA selected the Irving-based Fluor team in August. “The continuation of this project is a milestone for us, our partners and the North Texas region,” NTTA
STG Design, and architectural and interior design firm, relocated its Austin office to an addition behind GSD&M’s main office. The three-story studio is in downtown Austin. The firm occupies the third floor. Related Links: Skanska Texas Office Makes Diversity a Priority Houston Loses More Construction Jobs Than Any Other Metro New Board Member Joins Mobility Authority Houston AIA Chapter Selects 2010 Design Awards Linbeck Wins Aon Award for Dallas Opera House ROMCO Equipment Co. Wins Customer Satisfaction Award Hoffman Fixtures Acquires Phoenix Fabrication LLC in Oklahoma City Terex Roadbuilding Modifies Operations, Sales and Operations Yates Construction, Mundy Cos. Earn ABC
Construction of the Base Realignment and Closure project to expand Brooke Army Medical Center progressed as the structural steel frame of the hospital’s seven-story addition was completed with a topping out. Photo: USACE Work is under way at the Brooke Army Medical Center, where a seven-story addition recently topped out. Related Links: McCarthy Building Completes $240M Houston Hospital Expansion Armed Forces Reserve Center Under Construction in Lewisville Contract Awarded for Lackland’s First Airmen Training Complex Historic Fort Sam Houston Theater Gets $17M Renovation, Expansion Yates Construction Builds Army Reserve Center, Fort Worth School Houston’s Three Eldridge Place Achieves LEED Gold
Fort Worth’s $22-million, 8.7-mi Southwest Parkway limited-access toll road will be under way through spring. It was combined with a 6-mi section of SWP being developed by TxDOT and the 13-mi Chisholm Trail (or CT), also developed by TxDOT. The combined project is 28-mi long and extends south from IH-30 in Fort Worth to U.S. 67 in Johnson County. Related Links: SH 161 Project Will Expand Artery on Major Interstates in DFW Region Williamson County Toll Road 5-Mi Extension Starts Bay Area Highway Projects Move Forward; More in the Works U.S. 67 Expansion Project Starts It will be funded through
Terex Roadbuilding has retooled its Oklahoma City facility to be leaner and more agile. All sales team members are cross-trained on all Roadbuilding asphalt and concrete products manufactured by the Oklahoma City facility – pavers, reclaimer/stabilizers, milling machines, curb and barrier machines and plants. Related Links: Skanska Texas Office Makes Diversity a Priority Houston Loses More Construction Jobs Than Any Other Metro New Board Member Joins Mobility Authority Houston AIA Chapter Selects 2010 Design Awards Linbeck Wins Aon Award for Dallas Opera House ROMCO Equipment Co. Wins Customer Satisfaction Award Hoffman Fixtures Acquires Phoenix Fabrication LLC in Oklahoma City Yates
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