LBJ Infrastructure Group, LLC (LBJIG) completed its financing for the Dallas LBJ Express project ahead of schedule. Construction should start in early 2011 and be on a fast track for completion by 2016. Photo: TXDOT. Traffic on IH-635 (LBJ Express) in Dallas is estimated to exceed 450,000 vehicles by 2020. The LBJ Express project will give motorists a choice to by-pass mainlane congestion by using managed lanes when complete by 2016. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" LBJ Infrastructure Group spokesman Andy Rittler tells Texas Construction that the biggest benefit of the early funding for North Texans is the project
Dallas-based Hill & Wilkinson will build two new auto dealerships – Honda of Burleson and Park Place Motorcars, a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Grapevine. Good, Fulton & Farrell of Dallas is the architect for both. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Both projects will be built to attain LEED certification. The Mercedes-Benz dealership is on a 20-acre site and will house a 27,000-sq-ft showroom, a 37,000-sq-ft service shop with 71 service bays, and a 20,000-sq-ft paint and body shop. Honda of Burleson is a 67,000-sq-ft facility on an 11-acre tract south of Fort Worth.
TEXO presented its 2010 Distinguished Award winners for exceptional building and personal achievements in Dallas, Fort Worth and East Texas communities. TEXO is association formed between consolidation of the North/East Texas Chapter of the Associated General Contractors and the Associated Builders and Contractors North Texas. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Companies recognized for their outstanding safety programs with Construction Safety Excellence Awards at the local level and were forwarded to a national competition, where CF Jordan Construction LLC won third place in its category. Other safety winners were Dee Brown Inc., Lasco Acoustics & Drywall, RBR Construction, Inc., SEDALCO.,
Dallas-based Balfour Beatty Construction was selected to provide pre-construction services and manage construction of the new headquarters for NPR in Washington, D.C. Balfour Beatty Construction is expected to complete the new NPR headquarters by the end of 2012, with NPR beginning operations at the building in 2013. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The project will transform a historic warehouse into a sustainable 330,000-sq-ft office building.
Researchers reported results of two key studies—one on using real-time technology to reduce the danger of working around construction equipment and another on the impact of project-site leadership on safety—to the Construction Industry Institute’s annual conference held Aug. 4-5 in Orlando, Fla. Photo: Courtesy Of Georgia Institute Of Technology Warning device worn by a worker (below) approaching a danger zone emits a signal picked up by a device in the equipment’s cab (above). Photo: Courtesy Of Georgia Institute Of Technology Several safety-related topics were discussed at the event, including technology-based safety, which members and academics are researching in an effort
Even as U.K.-based oil giant BP remains in the U.S. government’s crosshairs for environmental damage resulting from the Deepwater Horizon drill-rig explosion that killed 11 workers April 20, it now faces record fines and new scrutiny over another fatal accident five years ago at a land-based company facility in Texas. Photo: Courtesy of U.S. Occupational Safety And Health Administration Explosion in 2005 killed 15 contractor employees and injured 170 others at Texas City site. OSHA’s fine is the highest single penalty ever to be issued for a single event. Photo: Courtesy of U.S. Occupational Safety And Health Administration In addition
A construction worker died on August 16 while working on the Gilcrease Expressway expansion in Tulsa, Okla. Tulsa Police and Fire Departments responded at about 9:30 a.m. to find Noe Mendoza, 45, an employee of Plains Bridge Contracting of Yukon, Okla., struck and killed by a piece of heavy equipment. Bill French, spokesman for Tulsa Fire, says Mendoza was hit by a 120,000-lb road spreader, with a big diesel-driven scraper to pick up pavement, and was “graphically” dead at the scene. Tulsa Police handled the scene, as they would for a fatal traffic accident, he said. Tulsa Police Dept. public
Texas Christian University in Fort Worth announced on Aug. 16 that construction will soon start on a $105-million renovation of the west side and north end zone of the school’s Amon G. Carter Stadium. The university aims to transform the historic Fort Worth icon into a collegiate football stadium in the spirit of major league retro renovations such as that of Baltimore’s Camden Yards. Image: HKS/TCU A rendering shows the renovated stadium designed by HKS. Austin Commercial will begin work on the project after the last home game of the 2010 season. Dallas-based HKS, which recently completed work on the
Schools all over Texas have inspected stadium lighting poles manufactured by Whitco Co. LLP of Fort Worth after 11 confirmed incidents occurred involving the 70-ft or taller defective steel poles. Photo: Hays ISD Photo: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission CPSC has announced a recall to repair Whitco stadium light poles. CPSC has confirmed eleven incidents in which Whitco Co. LP poles fell. In one incident last year, a pole fell through the roof of a school gymnasium in Central Texas, causing significant property damage. More than 50 people were inside the facility at the time. Local media reporting on the
The city of Fort Worth expects to save $65 to $58 million in program costs for $2 billion in planned infrastructure projects over the next five years under a new integrated program management system. The city worked with a consulting team led by CH2M HILL, Englewood, Colo, to streamline project delivery. Fort Worth expects to deliver projects six months earlier with its new IPM. The city’s project delivery capacity has now increased by 50%, from $240 million to $480 million annually. “The city needs more project managers, but cannot afford to hire them in the current economic climate,” says William
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