Like a magician, Fretz Construction Co., based in Houston, sliced the historic St. Mary's Catholic Church in half, added a new portion, reassembled the pieces and deftly blurred the transition from old to new.
Targeting LEED Silver, the 275,000-sq-ft Irving Convention Center comprises four levels of cantilevered, rotated masses reaching the height of a 14-story building.
Providing a college preparatory curriculum for as many as 500 students, the 104,000-sq-ft Kathlyn Joy Gilliam Collegiate Academy is on a 10-acre greenfield site adjacent to a nature preserve south of Dallas.
A learning and leadership-development destination for Deloitte University, this 780,000-sq-ft campus covers 107-plus acres and includes a four-acre irrigation pond and three structures, including the main building, which is a third of a mile long.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed the Hurricane Storm Damage Risk Reduction System to provide the New Orleans area 100-year-event flood protection. In just 11 months, Edison, N.J.-based Conti Group delivered the $53-million HSDRRS Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity (LPV) 149 Project.
HALLCliff R. Hall has joined Stantec as a principal in its Dallas-based transportation practice. Bringing more than 27 years of domestic and international experience in delivering bridge, light-rail transit, airport, major freeway interchanges, railroad and road projects, Hall is responsible for maintaining technical quality on client projects and the company's business development initiatives throughout Texas. Joseph Sensabe was hired by ARCADIS as vice president of Malcolm Pirnie, its water division, and location leader of the company's New Orleans and Metairie offices. He is a former supervisory project engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' New Orleans District.HOK, Houston,
Texas Children's Hospital and its family of medical facilities at Houston's Texas Medical Center are welcoming a new addition. The Pavilion for Women is a $575-million facility that will bring maternity and neonatal care capabilities to the hospital. Taking the pavilion from conception to birth is the most ambitious construction project in the hospital's history and the centerpiece of its $1.5-billion Vision 2010 expansion program. The 796,000-sq-ft, 90-bed facility combines an architecturally challenging design, a two-story signature pedestrian bridge that crosses a street and rapid transit line and one of the deepest excavations ever done at the Texas Medical Center
More than a year before the first exhibits open at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, a massive jigsaw puzzle is on display at the construction site in Dallas' Victory Park.
Three years into the economic downturn, many specialty contractors aren't sure what to make of today's market, much less where it is headed. Although the construction industry has weathered its fair share of cycles over the years, top brass at the region's largest firms have never been through a down period that lasted quite this long. This is new territory, even for the industry's most-seasoned executives. With private dollars still squeezed and public money running low, there is no clear path to long-term recovery, says Harold MacDowell, CEO of TDIndustries, Dallas.“It's a muddle-through economy,” he says. “It's going to be
Barry Moore, president of Brandt, a Carrollton, Texas-based mechanical, electrical and plumbing contractor, makes it perfectly clear: “We said that we were not going to participate in the recession.” While the downturn has been a heavy financial blow for many specialty contractors and sent many executives scrambling for solutions, Brandt chose to stick with the strategies that have kept the firm on a steady upward path in recent years.The firm continued to pursue a broad mix of work, including a healthy dose of large projects with repeat customers. Although highly competitive bidding squeezed profit margins, Moore says Brandt continued to
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