Fort Worth-based Speed Fab-Crete entered into an agreement with Cedar Park-EDGE Design-Build Partners owners Brad Hunemuller of Austin and Fritz Fromherz of New Orleans to extend and elevate Speed Fab-Crete’s presence in Central Texas and Louisiana. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Hunemuller is a civil engineer and Fromherz is a business development expert. Services will include civil engineering, project site solutions, construction product selections, certifications and maintenance for precast. Speed Fab-Crete has a 130,000-sq-ft precast concrete manufacturing facility in Fort Worth. The EDGE partners will represent Speed Fab-Crete in offering its various plant products for construction projects.
The Spring Branch Independent School District awarded a $13.5-million contract to Houston-based Satterfield & Pontikes Construction Inc. for the demolition and reconstruction of most of the Meadow Wood Elementary School and partial renovation of the remaining facilities. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Plano-based SHW Architects will provide design and architectural services. Project work began in August and is slated for completion in November 2011.
The WateReuse Association awarded the 2010 WateReuse Project of the Year Award –Desalination Facility to the Texas Water Development Board for the TWDB’s support of desalination and its unique funding of the Texas Desalination Project. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Funded by a Brownsville Public Utilities Board initiative, the project is designed to engage the regulatory community in a transparent dialogue about environmental issues and permitting concerns.
The Haskell Co. of Dallas completed construction on St. John Broken Arrow Hospital and its accompanying medical office building and medical campus in Broken Arrow, Okla., marking the largest design-build health-care project in the company’s 45-year history. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The $100-million general acute-care medical surgical hospital opened in fall and includes an emergency department, eight-room surgery suite, radiology and the Tulsa Bone & Joint Associates orthopedic center. The hospital includes a six-story building with a seventh story penthouse.
The Texas Transportation Commission approved two grants for more than $153 million to jump-start several transportation projects for the Texas Dept. of Transportation and Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority. Photo: TxDOT The $500-million Manor Expressway/U.S. 290 East project is under way in TxDOT�s Austin District. The agencies will use the money to complete the $500-million Manor Expressway/U.S. 290 East project and accelerate work on four other projects: the MoPac Improvement Project (Loop 1), Oak Hill Expressway (U.S. 290 West), Manchaca Expressway (45SW) and Bergstrom Expressway (U.S. 183 South). “We have been fortunate to receive the support of our Capital Area
The Texas Water Development Board will loan $104.6 million from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund to the Trinity River Authority – Central Regional Wastewater System to finance wastewater system improvements. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The funds will be used to rehabilitate existing buildings and treatment components at the existing 162 million-gallons-per-day wastewater treatment plant, as well as approximately 33,440 linear ft of pipe. The authority also proposes to fund engineering costs pertaining to the planning and design of four additional interceptor projects. In operation since 1960, the wastewater system serves portions of 20 cities and Dallas/Fort Worth
Dallas-based Turner Construction Co. completed 14 school projects in time for the start of the 2010 school year in the Dallas Fort Worth area. The projects totaled $43 million. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Turner completed $15 million of renovations at five schools for the Dallas Independent School District. It also completed the $14-million Forest Middle School and $13.9 million of renovations to eight schools for the Fort Worth ISD.
Dallas-based Corgan earned two 2010 Design Excellence Awards from the International Interior Design Association Texas/Oklahoma Chapter. The awards recognize the highest quality and achievement in interior design and honor creativity and innovation of the best of Texas and Oklahoma designers. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Valliance Bank in McKinney received an honorable mention in the retail category, and the CIGNA Pointe office building in Plano received an honorable mention in the sustainability category.
A $23-million athletic facility opened recently at the Episcopal School of Dallas. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Designed by Cambridge, Mass.-based ARC/Architectural Resources, Cambridge, and built by Dallas-based The Beck Group, the 114,000-sq-ft Stephen B. Swann Athletic and Wellness Center includes a gym, indoor running track, sports medicine facilities, dance studio and bookstore.
Work started this fall on the I-35 expansion project, stretching for 8 mi from north of Salado into Belton. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The project is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and construction is expected to take approximately 48 months with completion in fall 2014. Baton Rouge-based James Construction Group was awarded the $106.9-million project.
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