Related Links: Congress Promotes Green-Building Practices with Financial Incentives Adolfson & Peterson Marks Safety Milestone, Earns ABC Award Rider Appointed to Industrialized Building Code Council Corrpro Houston Crew Earns Safety Excellence Award TCEQ Names M.D. Anderson New Clean Texas Member Tellepsen Launches New Brand to Mark Anniversary Mike Kress, VP With The Bayou Companies in Houston, Dies Williamson County recently hired retired Texas Department of Transportation’s Austin District Engineer, Bob Daigh, as its infrastructure chief starting in September. The newly created job utilizes Daigh’s expertise in highway planning and construction. Daigh, who worked previously as director of TxDOT’s Turnpike Authority
Related Links: Funding for Austin�s Manor Expressway Speeds Project Ahead Transportation Commission Selects Private Firm for Agency Review Bridge Beams Go Up in Woodall Rodgers Extension Project in Dallas Plano�s Eastbound Parker Road Bridge at U.S. 75 Completed Stimulus Projects Started on Longview Roads Work began recently on the $17-million reconstruction project of Rosedale Street (Bus. U.S. 287) from IH-35W to U.S. 287 in Fort Worth. The 1.1-mi project will reconstruct the existing roadway from four lanes to six lanes with medians, drainage improvements and a new railroad bridge. The project is a partnership between the city of Fort Worth,
Texas A&M Breaks Ground on New HQ, Visitors Center 09/01/2009 Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary celebrates the ribbon cutting and opening of the John and Nancy Anderson House, the fi rst phase of a master plan completed by O�Connell Robertson. Skanska USA Building Inc. team members celebrate the groundbreaking of the Texas A&M University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Texas AgriLife Agricultural Headquarters Building and Visitor Center. The 166,000-sq-ft-building is seeking LEED- silver certifi cation. Frisco city officials and Chamber of Commerce representatives gather at the new Post Sierra at Frisco Bridges development to celebrate the opening. Breaking ground
Photo: NorthGate Constructors The $1.02-billion DFW Connector project, designed to relieve congestion and double traffic capacity on 8.4 mi of state highways 121 and 114, gets under way in earnest Feb. 15. “Work zone” signs are already posted and some speed limits reduced on the corridor through Southlake, Grapevine and the north edge of the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, where roads will be rebuilt and expanded, ultimately doubling capacity from 12 to 24 lanes. NorthGate Constructors, a joint venture led by Kiewit Texas Construction, Fort Worth, and Zachry Construction, San Antonio, won the contract last year from the Texas Dept.
Photo courtesy DFWfreeways.info In an unusual move in the highly commercialized sports market, the city council of Irving, Texas, voted on Dec. 31 to award naming rights to the demolition of Texas Stadium to Kraft Foods Global. The city council says the partnership, nicknamed “The Cheddar Explosion,” will yield $1 million in promotional value for the city. Kraft agreed to pay $75,000 for the naming rights and provide an additional $75,000 in products to local food banks. Weir Bros. Inc., a Dallas-based contractor, received a notice to proceed on the demolition project on Oct. 20, 2009. The implosion of the
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