Chicago-based CNA – the seventh largest U.S. commercial insurer and the 13th largest U.S. property and casualty insurer – honored Lubbock-based Lee Lewis Construction with its Leadership Safety Award. Related Links: Turner Construction Grows Green Business Sterling Construction Completes $65M Purchase of Utah’s RLW Overhead Door Corp. Acquires Wayne-Dalton’s Door Business ‘Real Men Drive Pink’ Promotes Male Breast Cancer Awareness McKinney’s Greenhaven Earns LEED for Homes Silver Certification Gonzales Wins AASHTO Public Transportation Honor Fort Worth Intermodal Airport, AllianceTexas, Celebrates 20 Years Re:Vision Dallas Competition Selects Winner for Inner-City Project Construction and Real Estate Consulting Firm Venturi Outcomes Opens Doors
Houston-based Cadence McShane Construction Co. was selected by Lone Star College System to complete a multi-building reconstruction assignment. LSCS recently acquired a five-building, 1.2-million-sq-ft office park in Houston for its new campus. Related Links: Dallas ISD Taps SHW for New High School Campus Design The Stayton at Museum Way Secures $165 Million Aries Capital Invests $22 Million in San Antonio River Walk Austin’s Perry Brooks Building Shows Off New Facelift Smith Seckman Reid Awarded GSA BIM Contract Turner Selected to Build Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church Texas Children’s Hospital Awards Gowan Mechanical Contract Bob Moore Construction Finishes Arlington LEED
Mitsubishi Forklift Trucks of Houston, the factory dealership owned by Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc., recently launched its campaign, “Real Men Drive Pink,” which focuses on raising awareness about male breast cancer. The American Cancer Society estimated nearly 2,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer were diagnosed in 2009 among men in the U.S. Breast cancer in men is often fatal because symptoms are ignored. Related Links: Turner Construction Grows Green Business Sterling Construction Completes $65M Purchase of Utah’s RLW Overhead Door Corp. Acquires Wayne-Dalton’s Door Business McKinney’s Greenhaven Earns LEED for Homes Silver Certification Gonzales Wins AASHTO Public Transportation
Turner’s Houston office was selected by the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to construct the 18,000-sq-ft Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, located on 20 acres in northwest Houston. Related Links: Dallas ISD Taps SHW for New High School Campus Design The Stayton at Museum Way Secures $165 Million Aries Capital Invests $22 Million in San Antonio River Walk Austin’s Perry Brooks Building Shows Off New Facelift Smith Seckman Reid Awarded GSA BIM Contract Cadance McShane Selected for 1.2M SF Reconstruction Project Texas Children’s Hospital Awards Gowan Mechanical Contract Bob Moore Construction Finishes Arlington LEED Project J-Q Completes Merger, Reports Strong Fourth
The newly reconstructed FM 157/Collins Street bridge over IH-30 in Arlington opened in mid-November. The bridge, which is part of the larger IH-30 mobility project, was closed in July for demolition. Related Links: Dallas Bridge Construction Gets Thumbs Up Transportation Commission OKs 74 New Projects Worth $2 Billion Construction Begins on $1B DFW Connector Project Tyler’s Toll Segment Breaks Ground Originally the bridge was to be built in phases that reduced motorists to one lane until spring 2010. Instead the bridge was demolished, rebuilt and opened before the end of 2009. The bridge is part of the $165.5-million project that
About two dozen buildings at Fort Sam Houston, some dating back almost as early as the post’s 1876 origin, are being transformed into modern, energy-efficient offices, barracks and other facilities for military personnel and federal employees. The work is part of the $3 billion in Base Realignment and Closure and other construction programs ongoing at military installations in San Antonio. Photo: Joint Program Management Office. An aerial view of one of Fort Sam Houston’s historic areas, where structures dating back to the 1890s will be renovated to provide modern offices and barracks. “Fort Sam Houston has the most historic structures
Using construction management at risk on the $15.5-million renovation of the National Museum of the Pacific War allowed the Texas Historical Commission and the Admiral Nimitz Foundation to get more bang for their buck and have the project delivered in the tight time frame required to open on the prescheduled, historic date, Dec. 7. Related Links: Pacific War Museum CM-at-risk was “so critical for the success of the project,” says Joe Cavanaugh, THC site manager at the museum. “The goal was to try and build an exhibit and museum for the amount of money we’re spending that was maximum value
North Texas and Oklahoma have not escaped the economic downturn, with designers and contractors finding fewer construction starts than a couple of years ago. Photo: Scott + Reid. Scott + Reid completed an interior build-out of Energy Future Holdings. Photo: Turner Construction. Turner Construction Co. is building Deloitte University, a learning and leadership development center in Westlake near the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. “North Texas, Dallas and Texas as a whole are still fairing well as compared to the rest of the country,” says Matthew Papenfus, vice president and general manager of Turner Construction Co.’s Texas operations in Dallas. “We
...rebuilding the Downtown Inner Dispersal Route. The $75-million project, which includes 44 bridges, is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Walton Construction Co. of Dallas received a $20.4-million contract last fall to build a 165,000-sq-ft defense logistics warehouse and distribution center at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. Completion is scheduled for 2011. Oklahoma private projects JE Dunn is building the $50-million, 46-bed Oklahoma Heart Hospital South Campus, and Thompson also expects to start construction on two rural hospitals in the coming year. The company has several other projects in the pipeline. He anticipates health
When Joe Cavanaugh talks about Pearl Harbor, Bataan, Midway and other focal points of World War II in the Pacific Theater, it takes a moment to realize he isn’t referring to the actual historic locations but rather exhibits at the newly renovated National Museum of the Pacific War on East Main Street in downtown Fredericksburg. Photo: Richter Architects Richter Architects of San Antonio designed additions to the recently re-opened George H. W. Bush Gallery at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg. Related Links: CM-at-Risk Gives Nimitz More Bang for its Buck “At Pearl Harbor, there is an
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