Round Rock-based Moman Architects was selected to re-design five residential floor plans for the Williamson County Habitat for Humanity. The five plans have become the foundation for Round Rock’s first Habitat homes and others to be built throughout the county. The first designed residential floor plan was unveiled earlier this fall in Round Rock. Related Links: Port of Galveston Names Director of Gov Relations, Legislative Affairs Is the U.S. Falling Behind Europe in the Green Race? Whirlwind Building Components Receives Best of Freeport Award HCSS of Sugar Land Among 15 Top U.S. Small Workplaces $10 Million Gift Provided Toward The
Houston-based Satterfield & Pontikes Construction topped out the Texas A&M Health Science Center with the placement of the last piece of structural steel on the HSC’s first two buildings at the college’s new Bryan campus. Related Links: Poor Economy Doesn’t Slow Student Housing Construction GSA Awards Beck Technology $60M in BIM, Laser Scanning Contracts Dallas Museum of Nature & Science Unveils Designs, Building Model McCarthy Constructing Fort Worth Westside Water Treatment Plant Sinking Texas Gulf Coast Condos Razed Before Completion Work Under Way on 85-Acre Beaumont ISD Athletic Complex Texas A&M University-San Antonio Starts Design for First Building Montgomery County
While many construction projects languish in limbo awaiting the turnaround of the economy, university projects – particularly student housing - continue moving forward. “The higher education market is going fairly strong because there are only a few markets with money and that market is moving at a fairly strong pace,” Rick Johnson, COO of student housing developer Collegiate Development Services in Irving, told Texas Construction. A rendering shows new housing Collegiate Development Construction Services will build for Texas A&M University. Collegiate Development Services recently finished a project at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls. Related Links: GSA Awards Beck Technology
Dallas-based Cadence McShane Construction Co. is working on an expansion and reconstruction assignment for Plano ISD including an 84,299-sq-ft project at Plano East Senior High School to be completed in August. Dallas-based WRA Architects Inc. is providing architectural services for the project. Related Links: Poor Economy Doesn’t Slow Student Housing Construction GSA Awards Beck Technology $60M in BIM, Laser Scanning Contracts Dallas Museum of Nature & Science Unveils Designs, Building Model Satterfield & Pontikes Tops Out at Texas A&M Health Science Center McCarthy Constructing Fort Worth Westside Water Treatment Plant Sinking Texas Gulf Coast Condos Razed Before Completion Work Under
The General Services Administration’s Nationwide Indefinite Delivery – Indefinite Quantity recently awarded with a total value of $60 million, to Dallas-based Beck Technology. Related Links: Poor Economy Doesn’t Slow Student Housing Construction Dallas Museum of Nature & Science Unveils Designs, Building Model Satterfield & Pontikes Tops Out at Texas A&M Health Science Center McCarthy Constructing Fort Worth Westside Water Treatment Plant Sinking Texas Gulf Coast Condos Razed Before Completion Work Under Way on 85-Acre Beaumont ISD Athletic Complex Texas A&M University-San Antonio Starts Design for First Building Montgomery County Emergency Services Gets New Fire Station Heery, lauckgroup Design UT Center
Montgomery County Emergency Services District No. 8 broke ground this fall on a new fire station to replace Station No. 2, which was built in the late 1970s. The district provides emergency fire and medical first responder services to approximately 40,000 residents and businesses of southern Montgomery County, north of Houston in East Texas. Related Links: Poor Economy Doesn’t Slow Student Housing Construction GSA Awards Beck Technology $60M in BIM, Laser Scanning Contracts Dallas Museum of Nature & Science Unveils Designs, Building Model Satterfield & Pontikes Tops Out at Texas A&M Health Science Center McCarthy Constructing Fort Worth Westside Water
Construction is under way for a new, $38 million Beaumont Independent School District multi-purpose athletic facility located on an 85-acre tract of land. The project includes a 10,365-seat stadium, a press box, a 10,600-square-foot field house, ticket booths, offices and a 27,700-square-foot natatorium building. Completion of the complex is scheduled for 2010. SHW Group’s Houston studio was selected as the project architect while Parsons Corp.’s Houston office is serving as the program manager. Turner Construction Company’s Houston office, in joint venture with Houston-based Hallmark Group, was awarded the contract to provide construction management services. A rendering shows Beaumont ISD’s multi-purpose
The Remington Medical Resort of San Antonio was designed to be a first in its industry, combining patient care and therapy with the luxuries of a hotel resort. As the project morphed conceptual ideas to design, the team worked to make the project feasible, not only for the San Antonio location but also for future projects in different parts of Texas and the United States. Related Links: Best of 2009 Best Of Slideshow Award of Excellence Slideshow Throughout design and construction, the team worked to streamline the project in order to standardize construction methods and provide a baseline from which
Approximately 75% of the Sam Houston State University College of Humanities and Social Sciences Building’s first level was below ground and surrounded by an 18-in.-thick retaining wall, which had to be completed before the remainder of the second level slab-on-grade could be finished. Photo: Geoff Lyons Related Links: Best of 2009 Award of Excellence Slideshow Best Of Slideshow The construction of the foundations was particularly challenging after the discovery of ground water that did not appear on the soils report. The contractor, SpawGlass, elected to use a tower crane to erect the steel superstructure because the construction site was too
The St. Luke’s Sugar Land Hospital team faced a potentially project-ending problem soon after construction of the new facility began, but it pulled together to keep the job on track. The initial construction budget outlined the use of a spread-footing foundation for the five-story, 335,000-sq-ft hospital and medical office building, a method that is typically cheaper than piers. However, a detailed evaluation showed that this type of foundation would not work. Photo: Carl Mayfield Related Links: Best of 2009 Best Of Slideshow Award of Excellence Slideshow A collaborative effort established early in the design process among all project team members
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