Sugar Land-based construction software developer HCSS was named one of 15 winners of The Wall Street Journal’s Top Small Workplaces in America competition. HCSS and the other winners were profiled in the September 28 edition of The Wall Street Journal. Related Links: Port of Galveston Names Director of Gov Relations, Legislative Affairs Is the U.S. Falling Behind Europe in the Green Race? Whirlwind Building Components Receives Best of Freeport Award $10 Million Gift Provided Toward The Trinity Project in Dallas Walter P Moore’s Raymond Messer Enters Carroll College Hall of Fame Past President AGC of Texas, Charles Schmidt, Dies at
Round Rock-based Moman Architects was selected to re-design five residential floor plans for the Williamson County Habitat for Humanity. The five plans have become the foundation for Round Rock’s first Habitat homes and others to be built throughout the county. The first designed residential floor plan was unveiled earlier this fall in Round Rock. Related Links: Port of Galveston Names Director of Gov Relations, Legislative Affairs Is the U.S. Falling Behind Europe in the Green Race? Whirlwind Building Components Receives Best of Freeport Award HCSS of Sugar Land Among 15 Top U.S. Small Workplaces $10 Million Gift Provided Toward The
Houston-based Satterfield & Pontikes Construction topped out the Texas A&M Health Science Center with the placement of the last piece of structural steel on the HSC’s first two buildings at the college’s new Bryan campus. Related Links: Poor Economy Doesn’t Slow Student Housing Construction GSA Awards Beck Technology $60M in BIM, Laser Scanning Contracts Dallas Museum of Nature & Science Unveils Designs, Building Model McCarthy Constructing Fort Worth Westside Water Treatment Plant Sinking Texas Gulf Coast Condos Razed Before Completion Work Under Way on 85-Acre Beaumont ISD Athletic Complex Texas A&M University-San Antonio Starts Design for First Building Montgomery County
While many construction projects languish in limbo awaiting the turnaround of the economy, university projects – particularly student housing - continue moving forward. “The higher education market is going fairly strong because there are only a few markets with money and that market is moving at a fairly strong pace,” Rick Johnson, COO of student housing developer Collegiate Development Services in Irving, told Texas Construction. A rendering shows new housing Collegiate Development Construction Services will build for Texas A&M University. Collegiate Development Services recently finished a project at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls. Related Links: GSA Awards Beck Technology
Dallas-based Cadence McShane Construction Co. is working on an expansion and reconstruction assignment for Plano ISD including an 84,299-sq-ft project at Plano East Senior High School to be completed in August. Dallas-based WRA Architects Inc. is providing architectural services for the project. Related Links: Poor Economy Doesn’t Slow Student Housing Construction GSA Awards Beck Technology $60M in BIM, Laser Scanning Contracts Dallas Museum of Nature & Science Unveils Designs, Building Model Satterfield & Pontikes Tops Out at Texas A&M Health Science Center McCarthy Constructing Fort Worth Westside Water Treatment Plant Sinking Texas Gulf Coast Condos Razed Before Completion Work Under
The General Services Administration’s Nationwide Indefinite Delivery – Indefinite Quantity recently awarded with a total value of $60 million, to Dallas-based Beck Technology. Related Links: Poor Economy Doesn’t Slow Student Housing Construction Dallas Museum of Nature & Science Unveils Designs, Building Model Satterfield & Pontikes Tops Out at Texas A&M Health Science Center McCarthy Constructing Fort Worth Westside Water Treatment Plant Sinking Texas Gulf Coast Condos Razed Before Completion Work Under Way on 85-Acre Beaumont ISD Athletic Complex Texas A&M University-San Antonio Starts Design for First Building Montgomery County Emergency Services Gets New Fire Station Heery, lauckgroup Design UT Center
Montgomery County Emergency Services District No. 8 broke ground this fall on a new fire station to replace Station No. 2, which was built in the late 1970s. The district provides emergency fire and medical first responder services to approximately 40,000 residents and businesses of southern Montgomery County, north of Houston in East Texas. Related Links: Poor Economy Doesn’t Slow Student Housing Construction GSA Awards Beck Technology $60M in BIM, Laser Scanning Contracts Dallas Museum of Nature & Science Unveils Designs, Building Model Satterfield & Pontikes Tops Out at Texas A&M Health Science Center McCarthy Constructing Fort Worth Westside Water
Construction is under way for a new, $38 million Beaumont Independent School District multi-purpose athletic facility located on an 85-acre tract of land. The project includes a 10,365-seat stadium, a press box, a 10,600-square-foot field house, ticket booths, offices and a 27,700-square-foot natatorium building. Completion of the complex is scheduled for 2010. SHW Group’s Houston studio was selected as the project architect while Parsons Corp.’s Houston office is serving as the program manager. Turner Construction Company’s Houston office, in joint venture with Houston-based Hallmark Group, was awarded the contract to provide construction management services. A rendering shows Beaumont ISD’s multi-purpose
Gregs G. Thomopulos, P.E., Chairman & CEO of Stanley Consultants of Houston, was elected president of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers for a two-year term. FIDIC represents globally the consulting engineering industry. Thomopulos has been on the organization’s executive committee for six years. His election marks the first time in 20 years that a U.S. citizen holds the position, which only three other Americans have held in FIDIC’s nearly 100-year history. Dynamic Lighting Solutions in Pearland announced Robert C. Horswood joined the company as utility sales representative, Eastern Division. He graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s
Two workers sustained injuries after falling from an upper section of the Dallas Cowboys Stadium roof to a lower portion of the dome on December 3, 2010. Photo/ Aerial Photography Inc. for Manhattan Construction The new $1.2-billion Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, during construction earlier this year. The top of the retractable roof is more than 300 ft from the field below. The incident occurred at approximately 7 a.m. The two employees of Birdair of Amherst, N.Y., a subcontractor to Manhattan Construction Co. of Dallas, were preparing to access the high roof of the stadium’s retractable dome to finalize