St. David’s South Austin Hospital began a $72-million capital investment for a renovation and expansion project in April to increase the hospital by three floors, more than 100,000 sq ft, and provide 25% more patient beds. Related Links: Dallas College Uses Project to Brand Campus $26-Million Contract Awarded for San Antonio BRAC Building Project Mycon Selected to Build Encore Wire’s R&D Center M.J. Harris Builds Rehabilitation Hospital of Mesquite Cadence McShane Selected for Several Projects Statewide Tellepsen Completes Bayshore Elementary Four Months Early Skanska Completes Arts Facility for Texas Southmost College Williamson County Approves Unique Command Center Norman, Okla., Firm
Skanska USA completed construction recently on the new $21-million Texas Southmost College Arts Center Building in Brownsville. Shaped like a nautilus shell, the approximately 55,000-sq-ft building reflects the university’s historic architectural design and detail. Related Links: Dallas College Uses Project to Brand Campus $26-Million Contract Awarded for San Antonio BRAC Building Project Mycon Selected to Build Encore Wire’s R&D Center M.J. Harris Builds Rehabilitation Hospital of Mesquite Cadence McShane Selected for Several Projects Statewide Tellepsen Completes Bayshore Elementary Four Months Early Williamson County Approves Unique Command Center Norman, Okla., Firm Starts $15-Mil Expansion Project SHW Designs Marshall Elementary School to
SpawGlass - with offices in Austin, Houston, San Antonio and South Texas - has been selected as general contractor for the approximately 63,000-sq-ft Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative Western Operations Center in Seguin. The $15-million project is seeking LEED-silver level. Related Links: Dallas College Uses Project to Brand Campus $26-Million Contract Awarded for San Antonio BRAC Building Project Mycon Selected to Build Encore Wire’s R&D Center M.J. Harris Builds Rehabilitation Hospital of Mesquite Cadence McShane Selected for Several Projects Statewide Tellepsen Completes Bayshore Elementary Four Months Early Skanska Completes Arts Facility for Texas Southmost College Williamson County Approves Unique Command Center
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, awarded a $26.4-million contract to Minneapolis-based M.A. Mortenson Construction for a new headquarters building for the Army’s Installation Management Command, which will move to Fort Sam Houston from Arlington, Va., as part of the ongoing Base Realignment and Closure (or BRAC) process. Photo: USACE. A $26-million contract was recently awarded for BRAC construction at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, the first of more than 25 military projects expected to be awarded in the city in 2010. Related Links: Dallas College Uses Project to Brand Campus Mycon Selected to Build Encore
Houston-based Tellepsen completed the $18.5-million Bayshore Elementary School in La Porte four months ahead of schedule working with a team that includes architects Dallas-based PBK on a fast-track schedule. The 105,000-sq-ft school was done in nine months. Related Links: Dallas College Uses Project to Brand Campus $26-Million Contract Awarded for San Antonio BRAC Building Project Mycon Selected to Build Encore Wire’s R&D Center M.J. Harris Builds Rehabilitation Hospital of Mesquite Cadence McShane Selected for Several Projects Statewide Skanska Completes Arts Facility for Texas Southmost College Williamson County Approves Unique Command Center Norman, Okla., Firm Starts $15-Mil Expansion Project SHW Designs
By mid-July, Conti Federal Services Inc., Edison, N.J., will begin repairing jetties off the Texas coast that were damaged during Hurricane Ike as the first task order of a $495-million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Multiple Award Task Order Contract that was issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on March 19. Photo: NASA Hurricane Ike as seen from the International Space Station. “We’ll be repairing jetties along the entire coast of Texas, from Louisiana to the Mexico border,” says Anthony LaBato, Conti’s vice president. The corps’ IDIQ MATOC contract includes design-build and design-bid-build projects for marine- and land-based horizontal construction
The Texas Stadium in Irving, former home of the Dallas Cowboys, will be imploded this Sunday, with Weir Brothers Inc. of Dallas awarded a $5.8-million contract to carry out the plan outlined by Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. of Houston. The Texas Dept. of Transportation signed a $15.4-million lease from Irving for the next 10 years to use the site as a staging area for road and light-rail construction projects. Kraft, meanwhile, meanwhile, has naming rights to the implosion from the Irving City Council. The event will be called a "Cheddar Explosion." Photo: Texas Stadium; courtesy city of Irving Related Links:
After several stops and starts and some controversy over the alleged dangers of steel rail ties, Austin�s Capital Metro opened its 32-mi MetroRail commuter line between the city of Leander and the Convention Center in Downtown Austin on March 22, a year later than originally planned. Photo: Capital Metro Citing safety concerns, Capital Metro on March 23, 2009, postponed the planned MetroRail opening. At a board meeting, according to official minutes, chairman Margaret Gomez said she was disappointed but having waited 30 years for a rail line, “I can wait another few weeks or so because safety is the most
The North Texas division of Yates Construction has a new address for the company’s base of operations, moving its division office to the CentrePort office park just South of DFW International Airport at 14500 Trinity Blvd., Suite 106 in Fort Worth. Related Links: Building IT Into Construction Dallas Logistics Hub Buildings Achieve Gold LEED Certification Hill International Acquires Boyken International STV Acquires Dallas-Based Civil Structures Inc. TxDOT Selects Leader for New Rail Division BNSF Names Dean Wise Vice President, Network Strategy HKS, Hill & Wilkinson, Complete Dallas’ Ronald McDonald House
Innovative Developers Inc. was contracted by The Armory Building LLC to do interior finish-out and exterior enhancements of its Fort Worth facility. Related Links: Fort Worth Museum of Science & History Inspires Building Ingenuity Alamo Colleges Opens New Northeast Lakeview Campus Bob Moore Construction Completes 200,000-SF ATC Complex in Dallas Lakeside Hospital Opens in The Woodlands OakBend Doctors Center Tops Out in Fort Bend County Cadence McShane Completes Dallas Medical Office Building Texas Health Resources Plans New Hospital in North Tarrant County Burt-Watts Completes ‘Bazaar’ New Austin Project Texas Stadium Implosion Scheduled This Month The Fort Worth Police Department’s Neighborhood