Dallas-based Barnhart Balfour Beatty will serve as construction manager-at-risk for a LEED-gold-targeted, $104-million apartment village to house more than 800 students at the University of California, Riverside. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The 350,000-sq-ft project will begin in June with completion set for July 2013. Sasaki Associates of San Francisco is the architect. Parent company Balfour Beatty Construction of Dallas, in partnership with Fort Lauderdale-based Cummings General Contractors, was awarded a $100-million contract to manage the Terminal 4 Gate Replacement at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The construction is part of a $1-billion expansion program. Preconstruction for the project began
Baylor Medical Center at Garland’s emergency department expanded with an extensive renovation of its existing 20,300 sq ft and the addition of 4,300 sq ft to accommodate three radiology rooms, one trauma room with seven critical-care treatment rooms, a new triage unit and 18 treatment rooms. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Dallas-based t. howard + associates served as architect. THA’s design and project management team worked around columns hidden behind walls, outdated infrastructure and other design complications. Dallas-based MEDCO Construction was the contractor for the project.
Dallas-based Beck Technology Ltd. released the latest version of DProfiler, the company’s flagship macro building information modeling software. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" With the DProfiler Site3D Module, users can introduce topography to their model that will allow rapid creation of site plans. The new module makes it possible to review construction cost, site cost and energy cost simultaneously in a single application. Also, The Beck Group added four names to its list of managing directors across national operations, including Matt Williamson as Central and South Texas managing director. With the addition of architectural services to its Austin operation,
One outcome of the deadly 2007, rush-hour collapse of the IH-35W bridge crossing the Mississippi River in Minneapolis has been a re-newed focus on bridge safety nationwide. Photo: Stan Williams/courtesy of TxDOT The Spur 98 Bridge spanning the Guadalupe River in Kerrville was completed in August 2006, extending the spur to FM 1338. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" In Texas, the state departments of transportation and public safety work together to ensure that the state’s bridges are safe, Mark Cross, TxDOT spokesman, tells Texas Construction. TxDOT oversees more than 50,000 bridges, including those maintained by state or other governmental
The city of Austin recently named Lucia Athens to the newly created position as its chief sustainability officer. Austin city leaders saw a need to pull together the many green initiatives across the city. Athens, a UT graduate with a master�s in architecture, returned to Texas from Seattle after working for ten years leading Seattle�s green-building initiative. She arrived in mid-September, and Texas Construction wanted to sit down and welcome her to her new position. We also wanted to get a feel for what she will contribute to the A/C/E environment and the impact her position will have on the
Touting his Pickens Plan, Dallas oilman and philanthropist T. Boone Pickens said in a keynote address on October 14 in Grapevine, Texas, that he is courting the 60 United States senators he needs in order to pass his energy plan in a vote scheduled for November 17. Photo: Tonie Auer With more than $80 million from his own wallet, Pickens is promoting America’s energy independence. The 82-year-old Texas oil tycoon told attendees at the 2010 Sunbelt Builders Show held at the Gaylord Texan that this is his mission in life. Pickens says out of the 85 million barrels of oil
Fluor Corp.’s built many complex structures but its first offshore wind farm project isn’t going well. Greater Gabbard project has faced weather and equipment problems. The Irving, Texas-based contractor will report quarterly earnings Nov. 4 and will take a $163-million write-off in its third-quarter earnings because of unexpected complications in building the 504-MW Greater Gabbard wind farm off the coast of England. The loss on the $1.8-billion, fixed-price contract with Scottish and Southern Energy plc means that the project will be unprofitable, says Avram Fisher, an analyst who follows Fluor for BMO Capital Markets. Fluor blames problems with weather, material
In the wake of this year�s fatal oil platform explosion and resulting Gulf of Mexico spill�not to mention major refinery accident and pipeline leaks in recent years�under a new CEO, U.K.-based BP PLC is revamping its corporate safety culture. The firm announced late last month a new safety-and-risk division, the function of which will be �embedded� in corporate operating units with �sweeping powers� to oversee, audit and intervene in BP technical activities. BP chief executive Robert Dudley created a new safety division with oversight and auditing power. �The changes are in areas where I believe we most clearly need to
Corgan Associate’s Dallas office announced three new associates to add to its team of professionals with expertise in aviation and interior design. Dan Hursin, Ginger Gee and Shelly Nichols were promoted to associate. Gee received a bachelor’s degree in interior design from Harding University in Arkansas and received her master’s of architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" STG Design in Austin announced the promotion of two team members, PollyAnna Little and Jeff Ervin. Little has been promoted to principal and Ervin to associate principal. Little is a graduate of the University of
Irving-based VCC Construction was awarded a $7.4-million contract to build an ecologically friendly forensics center in Lacombe, La., about 40 mi northeast of New Orleans. It is expected to be completed in September 2011. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras"
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