PageSoutherlandPage, which focuses on urban building, civic participation and professional projects, has won the 2009 Architecture Firm Award from the Texas Society of Architects, which represents the AIA in Texas. Photo: PageSoutherlandPage Austin Convention Center. Photo: PageSoutherlandPage Discovery Green in Houston. The firm will receive its award later this week in Houston at the 70th Annual Convention and Design Products & Ideas Expo. The society’s selection of PSP, which has offices across the Lone Star State, was based on three areas of achievement: exemplary design, practice and personal development, and professional and community involvement. “PSP supports its employees in performing
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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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 White Rock Commercial's West Pointe Center Opens in Houston 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 Dallas-based Cadence McShane Construction Co. was recently awarded a contract for the 75,715-sq-ft addition and
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