Private construction starts have all but evaporated, but public work continues to offer hope to contractors working along Florida’s Gulf Coast. Slide Show Photo: Aero Photo Kraft Construction is building a $35-million police station for the city of Sarasota. From the Everglades to the Panhandle, construction activity along Florida’s Gulf Coast is suffering a major recession-induced headache, with little private investment available to keep contractors working. “It’s slow,” says John Cammack, Skanska USA Building area general manager for Florida in Tampa. “It’s going to be a bleak year. If you ask anybody in the business, revenues are down and are
The downturn in the Southeast’s construction economy is definitely hitting some design firms in the four-state region as well, a fact that is apparently reflected in this year’s Southeast Construction Top Design Firms ranking.
McGraw-Hill Construction recently updated its forecast for residential construction starts in the four-state region. The volume of new residential construction project starts in the four-state Southeast Construction is likely to measure only $18.9 billion by the end of 2009, according to the latest information from McGraw-Hill Construction, the magazine’s publisher. If that forecast proves accurate, that would be the lowest dollar volume in more than 15 years. In that time period, the previous low was $24.7 billion, recorded in 1995. It would also be well below the region’s annual average for the 2004-2008 period, of roughly $68.6 billion. The latest
The Dallas Cowboys’ Irving, Texas, practice facility collapsed on May 2, 2009, injuring 12 people, because wind-load demands exceeded the structure’s capacity to resist a thunderstorm’s 55 mph to 65 mph gusts, which were well below the 90 mph wind-speed specifications set by ASCE 7-98 and ASCE 7-05 Standards for that location, according to a draft report released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a nonregulatory agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Photo: Courtesy NIST Buckling of the steel frame of the Dallas Cowboys practice facility is seen in the upper left of the photograph (marked
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Cadence McShane completed the three-story, 170,823-sq-ft West Pointe Center in Houston. Related Links: Houston Community College Finishes First Phase of Development Project First Phase of Paris Greenville Campus Master Plan Opens Dallas County Satellite Campus in Irving Completed Tarrant County College Campus Seeks LEED Certification for Project Cadence McShane Completes 99,000 SF Elementary in Pasadena Plano ISD Starts 76,000 SF Addition, Renovation at Vines High School McShane Development Forms Alliance with Harrison Street Trinity River Project's 50-Ton Steel Bridge Pieces Make Big Entrance Texas Children's Hospital Tops Out Construction on West Campus Construction Starts on Baytown Apartment Complex Houston-based Cadence
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