Randy Holman, credited with overseeing the surge in military construction activity at San Antonio’s Fort Sam Houston prompted by mandated base realignment, describes the program as “fast-moving, complex and dynamic.”
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Touting his Pickens Plan, Dallas oilman and philanthropist T. Boone Pickens, the 82-year-old Texas oil tycoon, gave the keynote address to attendees in September at the 2010 Sunbelt Builders Show held at the Gaylord Texan. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Pickens says out of the 85 million barrels of oil produced daily across the globe, the U.S.–with 4% of the world’s population–consumes 21 million [per day] of those. “Of the 14 million barrels we import every day, five million comes from OPEC and the Middle East; from countries where our State Department advises us not to travel.” He adds
div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" ALLEN SECKINGER WALTER P MOORE, Houston, announced that Ryan Seckinger, P.E., was chosen as the 2010 recipient of the firm’s prestigious “Javier F. Horvilleur Outstanding Young Engineer Award.” The award is presented annually to one young structural engineer at WALTER P MOORE who best exemplifies design excellence, outstanding client service and business acumen. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s of science and master’s of science in civil engineering. Also, it was announced that Hollis Allen, Jr., P.E., Ben Cheplak, P.E., Doug Coenen, P.E., Joseph Dowd, P.E., Daron Hester, P.E.,
San Antonio-based Overland Partners Architects earned the 2010 Firm of the Year title from the Texas Society of Architects. Photo: Overland Partners Overland Partners designed �The Bridge� project in Dallas. The Architecture Firm Award is the highest honor bestowed upon a firm in Texas that has consistently produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years and has contributed to the profession and community. “This is an award we’re particularly excited about because it’s about celebrating the totality of the people that make Overland what it is today and those who contributed over the past 20 years,” Overland principal Bob Shemwell
URS Corp., Austin, was awarded a contract to provide support services for the Red River Army Depot in New Boston, Texas. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The contract covers a one-year base p�eriod with two one-year options. URS will provide ongoing maintenance, repair, overhaul, modify and upgrade vehicles. The company also will provide environmental clean-up services. The depot contract has a maximum $140-million value for URS if both option years are exercised.
Fort Worth-based Speed Fab-Crete entered into an agreement with Cedar Park-EDGE Design-Build Partners owners Brad Hunemuller of Austin and Fritz Fromherz of New Orleans to extend and elevate Speed Fab-Crete’s presence in Central Texas and Louisiana. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Hunemuller is a civil engineer and Fromherz is a business development expert. Services will include civil engineering, project site solutions, construction product selections, certifications and maintenance for precast. Speed Fab-Crete has a 130,000-sq-ft precast concrete manufacturing facility in Fort Worth. The EDGE partners will represent Speed Fab-Crete in offering its various plant products for construction projects.
The Spring Branch Independent School District awarded a $13.5-million contract to Houston-based Satterfield & Pontikes Construction Inc. for the demolition and reconstruction of most of the Meadow Wood Elementary School and partial renovation of the remaining facilities. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Plano-based SHW Architects will provide design and architectural services. Project work began in August and is slated for completion in November 2011.
The WateReuse Association awarded the 2010 WateReuse Project of the Year Award –Desalination Facility to the Texas Water Development Board for the TWDB’s support of desalination and its unique funding of the Texas Desalination Project. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Funded by a Brownsville Public Utilities Board initiative, the project is designed to engage the regulatory community in a transparent dialogue about environmental issues and permitting concerns.
The Haskell Co. of Dallas completed construction on St. John Broken Arrow Hospital and its accompanying medical office building and medical campus in Broken Arrow, Okla., marking the largest design-build health-care project in the company’s 45-year history. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The $100-million general acute-care medical surgical hospital opened in fall and includes an emergency department, eight-room surgery suite, radiology and the Tulsa Bone & Joint Associates orthopedic center. The hospital includes a six-story building with a seventh story penthouse.
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