Work started this fall on the I-35 expansion project, stretching for 8 mi from north of Salado into Belton. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The project is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and construction is expected to take approximately 48 months with completion in fall 2014. Baton Rouge-based James Construction Group was awarded the $106.9-million project.
Fort Worth-based Hahnfeld Hoffer Stanford completed the Hazel Harvey Peace Elementary, the first new campus completed under the 2007 Bond Election for the Fort Worth ISD. It is one of the first schools in the state built under specifications set forth in the Texas Collaborative for High Performance Schools program. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras"
Irving-based Fluor Corp. was awarded the Project Hijau Gasoil Phase-1 by Shell Refining Co. FOM Malaysia. The new diesel-processing unit project is in Port Dickson, Malaysia. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Fluor will perform engineering, procurement and construction management services as a follow-up to its previous front-end engineering and design work. The award value was undisclosed. The project is expected to peak at approximately 650 craft and professional employees.
Dallas-based KAI Texas increased its Fort Worth office space by relocating 777 Main to 1412 Magnolia. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" KAI added a location in Fort Worth five years ago when the firm began providing professional services for Tarrant County and the Fort Worth Independent School District. The firm is currently serving as project manager for Tarrant County’s new downtown jail as well as the expansion and renovation of the county’s medical examiners’ offices. It is also completing four projects for FWISD.
The U.S. Navy selected San Antonio-based Cram Roofing Co. and five other contractors for $100 million in general roofing projects in North Carolina. The contract runs through 2011, and could extend through 2015. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Cram was also awarded a contract as part of a multimillion dollar national roofing contract for UNICOR Federal Prison Industries with four other contractors.
Fort Worth-based Hillwood has partnered with the city of Jacksonville, Fla., to serve as master developer of 4,474 acres at Cecil Commerce Center, a portion of the former Naval Air Station Cecil Field. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Hillwood will work with the city to direct redevelopment and rebrand the property as AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center. Hillwood will establish an office on the property and is actively marketing the development to prospective companies. No dollar amount was attached to the partnership. Hillwood also started the next phase of its 2,000-acre Heartland residential community in Kaufman County, Texas. Construction
Designed by Dallas-based HKS, the $53-million Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound received the 2010 Symposium Distinction Design Team Award at the Healthcare Facilities Symposium in September. The team award focuses on a project team that has worked together to change the face of health-care design through innovation, creativity, efficiency and teamwork. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The hospital is one of the first integrated project-delivery projects in the country. The project’s duration was 396 days; 87 were missed due to weather or permitting issues. Fifty of the 87 days were made up through an integrated project team approach,
Plano-based SHW Group was selected by Texas A&M University System to complete the second phase of a student housing expansion project after the firm served as architect of record for phase one, which opened earlier this year. Photo: SHW The Gardens at University Apartments, phase one, at Texas A&M, College Station, was completed in July. Phase two is scheduled to open in summer 2011. Phase two includes 173,900-sq-ft of apartments. The four-building, 168-unit facility will house married or single graduate students, families, non-freshman undergraduate students and veterans. It is scheduled for a summer completion. The 234,300-sq-ft phase one project—the Gardens
Early in the planning stages of Texas A&M’s Health Science Center project in Round Rock, university leaders and the construction team recognized the importance of integrating technology infrastructure early for the 164,000-sq-ft anchor building, which was designed within a master plan to support several future buildings in the medical school. Photo: JanCom Technologies JanCom Technologies worked to develop an IT structure for the Texas A&M�s Health Science Center in Round Rock. “The infrastructure supporting IT systems is no less important in the design and construction of a facility than electrical service and water utilities,” John Jankowski, president and founder of
Alec Dreyer, Port of Houston Authority CEO, says August container TEUs (twenty-ft equivalent container units) at the port totaled 152,077 with year-to-date at nearly 1.2 million, which is a 2% increase over August 2009 year-to-date. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Steel throughput was at 285,000 tons, four times what it was in August 2009. The amount of export steel—60,467 tons—was the highest since March 2008. The POHA Commission approved a $2.9-million contract to Houston-based U.S. Builders for construction of two stevedore-support buildings at the Bayport Container Terminal. Intermodal steel building units (recycled shipping containers) will be modified and engineered
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