Gibbs Construction, New Orleans, renovated and restored the U.S. Custom House in New Orleans, a National Historic Landmark and one of country's finest examples of Greek Revival architecture.
Turning a dark tilt-wall, 76,800-sq-ft warehouse with 25-ft ceilings into Class A office space for Ultra Electronics of Austin, Texas, challenged the Austin, Texas, office of SpawMaxwell, a Balfour Beatty company.
The first LEED-Platinum higher-education building in Texas, the $28-million, 74,343-sq-ft Student Services Building was delivered by Hill & Wilkinson, Richardson, Texas, in August 2010.
The $239-million University of Texas MD Anderson Alkek project comprised a 12-story vertical expansion above the operating 12-story hospital and a new 24-story elevator tower.
The $127-million Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center is a 467,000-sq-ft outpatient cancer-treatment facility connected by sky bridge to the inpatient areas of the Baylor University Medical Center campus and two parking garages.
The LEED-Platinum Botanical Research Institute of Texas is a 70,000-sq-ft, two-story building delivered by The Beck Group, Dallas, in May 2011 without lost-time accidents.
For the $239.3-million University of Texas MD Anderson Albert B. and Margaret M. Alkek expansion, McCarthy Building Cos. raised the roof—figuratively and literally.
The Chalmette Cultural Arts Center is a 90,000-sq-ft, cast-in-place concrete addition to the Chalmette High School—and a source of community pride for Katrina-devastated St. Bernard Parish.
The Houston office of Tellepsen completed the $149-million Texas Children's Hospital Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute ahead of schedule and under budget in October 2010—the first center in the world dedicated to the research of children's neurological disorders.