TxDOT’s 2012-13 legislative appropriates request for the next biennium and beyond has decreased from previous years. The baseline request for 2012 is $8.3 billion and $7.2 billion for 2013, or about $1.3 billion less than the current biennium. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The drop in funds is mostly attributed to diminishing bond proceeds, lower federal stimulus expenditures and lower federal reimbursements. To provide legislators with a clearer picture of how to increase the number of new projects that can begin in 2012 and 2013, TxDOT requested exceptional items for general revenue, fewer diversions and additional proceeds from Prop
Earl Broussard, founding principal at Austin-based landscape architecture firm TBG Partners, and James Richards Jr., founder and principal of Fort Worth-based Townscape, were inducted into the American Society of Landscape Architects’ council of fellows. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Fellowship is among the highest honors ASLA may bestow and recognizes the contributions these individuals have made to the profession and the public through their works, leadership and service.
The Dallas Independent School District awarded Houston-based Satterfield & Pontikes Construction a $40-million contract to build the new W.H. Adamson High School. Designed by Dallas-based Corgan Associates, the three-story school is expected to take two years to complete. Image: Satterfield & Pontikes A rendering shows the W.H. Adamson High School, designed by Corgan Associates of Dallas. Satterfield & Pontikes will build the new three-story school for the Dallas Independent School District. The facility will replace the existing Adamson High School, one of the oldest school buildings in Dallas. It will be built adjacent to the current campus. The job includes
Dallas-based Broad Oak Energy’s bank group increased the company’s borrowing base by $90 million, or 56%, to a total of $250 million, which follows a $60-million increase in February. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The company’s daily net production recently surpassed 9,000 Barrels of Oil Equivalent Per Day, up from 4,800 BOEPD in March, and expected to continue to grow apace with ongoing drilling activity. Broad Oak’s operations are centered on the Wolfberry Play in the Midland Basin where it has drilled 271 wells to date. The company has identified more than 1,500 drilling locations over its 65,000-acre lease
Some 60 employees of CB Richard Ellis’ Houston office took a day off of work recently to paint properties for Santa Maria’s House of Hope, a homeless housing provider. Photo: CBRE CBRichard Ellis� Houston-area employees participated in the firm�s CBRE Cares program. Employees volunteered for BuildMonth activities. As an outreach of CBRE Cares, the firm’s corporate philanthropy program, more than 20 CBRE offices participated in rebuilding projects for BuildMonth in September. This was to benefit local communities and in partnership with HomeAid and Rebuilding Together, CBRE Shelter Program partners and Habitat for Humanity, CBRE spokeswoman Robin Black tells Texas Construction.
Construction on the new 185,221-sq-ft CTI Foods headquarters in Saginaw is scheduled to complete this month. Cost for the multipurpose facility on a 14.35-acre site was not released. Photo: Cadence McShane Cadence McShane recently completed the new CTI Foods headquarters building in Saginaw. Dallas-based Pross Design Group is the project architect. Dallas-based Cadence McShane Construction Co. utilized painted tiltwall and insulated metal-panel construction on the facility’s exterior. The building features a two-story office component, production area and refrigerated storage and distribution sections to facilitate the firm’s food processing operations. Cadence McShane was recently awarded the $12.6-million contract for construction of
The Waller Independent School District’s Evelyn Turlington Elementary School, which opened August 2009 in Hockley, won the 2010 Caudill Award. It is the highest honor for planning and design of Texas public education facilities at the Texas Association of School Boards’ and the Texas Association of School Administrators’ annual convention. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Plano-based SHW Group designed the 102,835-sq-ft facility. The annual Caudill Award is given to a facility that demonstrates excellence in design, innovation, educational appropriateness, process of planning, sustainability and value. A SHW Group-designed project has now received the Caudill six times since the award’s
Central Health is building its North Central Health Center in Austin. The 50,000-sq-ft facility should open by fall 2011. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The Lawrence Group of St. Louis designed the facility. Flynn Construction, the Bommarito Group and landscape architect Eleanor McKinney, all of Austin, round out the team.
Houston-based Integrated Electrical Services was awarded a contract for the installation of electrical systems at the Precision Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo. The contract amount was not released. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" IES is will install the primary and emergency power systems for an area that covers 68 laboratory and clean-rooms totalling more than 400,000 sq ft.
After garnering the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association’s 2010 Toll Excellence Award in Customer Service, the North Texas Tollway Authority’s Customer Driven Management program has earned the IBTTA’s President’s Award for Excellence. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The IBTTA Toll Excellence Awards program recognizes member toll agencies that are furthering the aims of the industry through creative, innovative and positive programs.
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