The Houston office of Austin Commercial served as construction manager for the six-story Methodist West Houston Hospital, built along with a six-story, 170,000-sq-ft medical office building.
The largest design-build civil works construction project in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers history, the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Surge Barrier in New Orleans is designed to provide a robust and sustainable post-Katrina flood-protection system for the city and surrounding area.
Fretz Construction Co. expanded the Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Church campus with a limestone and stucco cloister, a courtyard with marble fountain, matching additions and renovations to the existing Parish Hall, an outdoor pavilion, a new education building and a focal-point outdoor shrine whose keystone incorporates stones from the original English shrine constructed in 1061.
When ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston decided to build a $156-million state-of-the-art plant for processing its sweet potato product line, the Omaha, Neb.-based company turned to long-time construction partner Fisher & Sons, Burlington, Wash., for design/build services.
Critical to the success of the $3.5-million Texas State Capitol Dome & Roof Repairs & Repainting project, Betco Scaffolds, Austin, Texas, provided an intricate scaffold system under a $544,755 contract with Flintco, the Austin-based general contractor.
Delivered by the Houston office of SpawGlass in August 2010, this $61-million project comprised interior and exterior renovations to Terminal C at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.
The largest facility ever constructed at the Houston Zoo—the $25-million African Forest Exhibit—was delivered by Gilbane Building Co., Houston, on time and on budget in June 2011.
Skanska USA Building, Houston, completed Texas A&M University's Agriculture Headquarters in College Station, Texas, a month ahead of schedule and on budget. The $49-million, BIM-facilitated project includes two structures: the five-story, 170,000-sq-ft Headquarters Building and a two-story, 12,500-sq-ft Visitors Center.
Located at Texas State Technical College, on the former Harlingen Air Force Base, the two-story, 38,000-sq-ft University Center was completed on time and on budget in June 2011 by the Harlingen office of SpawGlass Contractors.