Fort Worth-based Hillwood has partnered with the city of Jacksonville, Fla., to serve as master developer of 4,474 acres at Cecil Commerce Center, a portion of the former Naval Air Station Cecil Field. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Hillwood will work with the city to direct redevelopment and rebrand the property as AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center. Hillwood will establish an office on the property and is actively marketing the development to prospective companies. No dollar amount was attached to the partnership. Hillwood also started the next phase of its 2,000-acre Heartland residential community in Kaufman County, Texas. Construction
Designed by Dallas-based HKS, the $53-million Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound received the 2010 Symposium Distinction Design Team Award at the Healthcare Facilities Symposium in September. The team award focuses on a project team that has worked together to change the face of health-care design through innovation, creativity, efficiency and teamwork. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The hospital is one of the first integrated project-delivery projects in the country. The project’s duration was 396 days; 87 were missed due to weather or permitting issues. Fifty of the 87 days were made up through an integrated project team approach,
Plano-based SHW Group was selected by Texas A&M University System to complete the second phase of a student housing expansion project after the firm served as architect of record for phase one, which opened earlier this year. Photo: SHW The Gardens at University Apartments, phase one, at Texas A&M, College Station, was completed in July. Phase two is scheduled to open in summer 2011. Phase two includes 173,900-sq-ft of apartments. The four-building, 168-unit facility will house married or single graduate students, families, non-freshman undergraduate students and veterans. It is scheduled for a summer completion. The 234,300-sq-ft phase one project—the Gardens
Early in the planning stages of Texas A&M’s Health Science Center project in Round Rock, university leaders and the construction team recognized the importance of integrating technology infrastructure early for the 164,000-sq-ft anchor building, which was designed within a master plan to support several future buildings in the medical school. Photo: JanCom Technologies JanCom Technologies worked to develop an IT structure for the Texas A&M�s Health Science Center in Round Rock. “The infrastructure supporting IT systems is no less important in the design and construction of a facility than electrical service and water utilities,” John Jankowski, president and founder of
Alec Dreyer, Port of Houston Authority CEO, says August container TEUs (twenty-ft equivalent container units) at the port totaled 152,077 with year-to-date at nearly 1.2 million, which is a 2% increase over August 2009 year-to-date. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Steel throughput was at 285,000 tons, four times what it was in August 2009. The amount of export steel—60,467 tons—was the highest since March 2008. The POHA Commission approved a $2.9-million contract to Houston-based U.S. Builders for construction of two stevedore-support buildings at the Bayport Container Terminal. Intermodal steel building units (recycled shipping containers) will be modified and engineered
George Bush Intercontinental Airport received a $15-million Federal Aviation Administration Airport Improvement Program Grant for taxiway rehabilitation. It will rehab one of the five major runways to accommodate larger aircraft and extend its life by 30 years. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" New runway center line and runway status lights will be installed as part of the project. Two of the taxiways were constructed in 1965. A concrete overlay was added in 1976 to accommodate larger aircraft. Taxiways typically have a 20-year design life. Rehabilitating the taxiways with a new overlay will extend their use for 30 years and
Gary Thomas, Dallas Area Rapid Transit president/executive director, was elected as the new vice chair of the American Public Transportation Association at the organization’s annual meeting in San Antonio. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Thomas has been DART’s president/executive director since 2001 and has been vice chairman of APTA for the past three years.
A screening by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Fort Worth District showed Denton County’s 57-year-old Lewisville Dam wasn’t in imminent danger of failing, but it had high-risk characteristics. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Risk factors included downstream fatalities as well as economic, environmental and other impacts. Corps engineers said the dam is performing as intended, but interim risk-reduction measures and further studies are warranted. No changes in operations of the lake are anticipated while the interim risk-reduction measures, which are temporary solutions, are implemented and long-term studies are being conducted. The studies will take about two years and
The North Texas Tollway Authority board of directors elected Victor Vandergriff and Dave Denison to chairman and vice chairman, respectively. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Tarrant County appointed Vandergriff to the board in September 2007. He most recently served as the board’s vice chairman. Denton County appointed Denison to the board in October 2005. Duncanville City Manager Kent Cagle joined the NTTA board of directors in September, and community advocate Jane Willard joined the board in October. Cagle was appointed by the Dallas County Commissioners Court in August and replaces Alan Sims, who served on the board since June
With the help of Houston-based roofing manufacturer Architectural Building Components, Great Hills Baptist Church in Austin got a new roof on its 50,000-sq-ft sanctuary. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Working with Austin-based Austech Roof Consultants and Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing, Houston, Architectural Building Components retrofitted the old roof with its 238T structural standing-seam panel system. Workers used an Archzilla jobsite production truck that manufactured 125-ft metal panels on location.
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