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“Sustainability is at the forefront of Austin’s engineering and construction practices,” Roohms says. “The industry has also been adopting digital plan delivery, which leverages shared technology among the entire project team to enhance visualization and eliminate silos.” 

“The current buzz in the construction community is the surge of large industrial projects announced this year,” says McCaskill.

In early March, contractor KDC topped off the 850,000-sq-ft state-of-the-art campus in Iving, Texas, for financial giant Wells Fargo—the firm’s first net-positive energy office complex in the U.S.

Officials of Mississippi River cities and towns say their bridges need to be assessed after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. 

Hurtado Construction Co. has a history of past OSHA citations and officials said another of its employees was killed in a trench accident in 2007.

Contracting team is still awaiting a notice to proceed.

Walter P Moore and Associates expert says the project, which the firm and Rice University are designing, involves constructing an island chain to protect industry in the Houston Ship Channel from hurricane impact.

The conspiracy targeted contracts together worth more than $100 million on transportation infrastructure projects over several years.

The design-build team plans to use a modular construction approach to allow for future modules without having to move surrounding infrastructure.