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In a jobsite trailer that serves the Terminal Renewal and Improvement Program at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, managers have created a memorial to construction site excess. A dozen rolls of outdated design development documents, each weighing 70 lb, are unused relics of how information was originally managed on the TRIP program when it kicked off just over a year ago. During the past year, a construction joint venture that oversees $800 million in projects within the $1.9-billion TRIP program has gone completely paperless. Most notably, the initiative extends beyond office-bound designers, consultants and construction coordinators to include field staff. Rather

 RIGGINSCF Jordan Construction LLC, an El Paso, Texas, commercial construction firm, has hired John Riggins as director of business development. He is based in Dallas. Courtesy of CF Jordan Construction CF Jordan Construction LLC, an El Paso, Texas, commercial construction firm, has hired John Riggins as director of business development. The Shaw Group Inc., Baton Rouge, La., has hired Timothy J. Pocheas chief accounting officer. He was most recently an audit partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP, serving as office managing partner and professional practices director in the firm's New Orleans office. Larry D. McKillophas joined The Beck Group, Dallas,

March 1-3, 2012 American Subcontractors Association Business Forum and Convention 2012 Hyatt RegencySan AntonioContact: asaonline.comMarch 10-13, 2012 National Demolition Association Trade Show Henry B. Gonzalez Convention CenterSan AntonioContact: demolitionassociation.com

Texas is showing a friendlier attitude toward subcontractors. The American Subcontractors Association named Texas the state with the most improved public-policy environment for construction subcontractors in 2011. Related Links: The Policy Environment in the States Drawing from the American Subcontractors Association's (ASA) report, "The Policy Environment in the States," Texas’ ranking among states rose to No. 10 from No. 29 in terms of the public-policy environment in all 50 states.“Texas succeeded in driving legislative reforms in five major areas: electronic reverse auctions, payment bonds on public-private partnerships, risk allocation, lien claims for retainage and statutory lien forms,” said 2011-12 ASA

Begun in June 2010 and completed in just six months, the LEED- Silver-targeted Denbury Resources headquarters building includes offices; a Tier 2 data center and server room with raised flooring; and an executive boardroom featuring a 2,000-lb jumbotron with six 40-in. LED monitors.

Miner-Dederick Construction completed 17 floors of tenant build-out including the president's floor, conference rooms, a fitness center, the Lantern Café and a distance learning center at MD Anderson Cancer Center Pickens Tower and Faculty Center.

The Houston office of Austin Commercial served as construction manager for the six-story Methodist West Houston Hospital, built along with a six-story, 170,000-sq-ft medical office building.

The largest design-build civil works construction project in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers history, the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Surge Barrier in New Orleans is designed to provide a robust and sustainable post-Katrina flood-protection system for the city and surrounding area.

Fretz Construction Co. expanded the Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Church campus with a limestone and stucco cloister, a courtyard with marble fountain, matching additions and renovations to the existing Parish Hall, an outdoor pavilion, a new education building and a focal-point outdoor shrine whose keystone incorporates stones from the original English shrine constructed in 1061.