Lewisville ISD selected Dallas-based Charter Builders as construction manager-at-risk for $40 million in additions and renovations to Lewisville High School. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The upgrades to the existing high school, founded in 1897, are part of the school district’s plan to provide high-quality educational facilities to serve the growing student population, which is expected to increase by 1,200 to 2,000 new students annually. Construction will occur in two phases beginning this month. The first phase will add 131,000 sq ft of new space to the campus. The second phase consists of 90,000 sq ft of additions and
A new runway and replacement control tower are under construction at Collin County Regional Airport. It is the largest single project administered by TxDOT’s Division of Aviation. The project is funded by: $33 million from the Federal Aviation Administration, $11 million from TxDOT’s Division of Aviation, $7 million from the McKinney Economic Development Corp. and $6 million from the city of McKinney. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The tower replaces a temporary tower, which once served at Alliance Airport as a temporary tower. The tower and runway are scheduled for completion in 2011 and 2012 respectively.
The Environmental Protection Agency awarded more than $1 million to the Port of Corpus Christi Authority. The funds go toward improving air quality by reducing emissions from in-use diesel engines. The project will re-power a 120-ton switch engine locomotive and two industrial diesel engines with anti-idling, fuel efficiency and particulate filtering technology. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Also, the EPA granted the Port of Houston Authority with almost $1.5 million. The funds are to help reduce emissions from in-use diesel engines and replace fuel switching on 21 ocean-going vessels to a lower sulfur fuel. In another area, the EPA
After more than a year’s halt prompted by the economic slowdown, Valero Energy Corp., the country’s largest independent oil refiner, is reviving refinery expansions in Port Arthur, Texas, and St. Charles, La., that will cost nearly $3 billion combined. The San Antonio-based company announced last month restarts of hydrocracker construction projects at the two facilities that will help it remove sulfur and produce more diesel. Valero stopped both projects in mid-2009, citing weak demand and poor refinery margins, says Bill Day, a company spokesman. The estimated $1.5-billion Texas project is expected to generate up to 1,500 new construction jobs and
The Federal Highway Administration has given the Texas Dept. of Transportation a green light to proceed with construction of the West Rail project in Brownsville, an estimated $85-million effort to relocate a Union Pacific Railroad line out of the heart of the city and away from downtown Matamoros, Mexico. The project is a cooperative effort involving officials in both cities, the state agency, Cameron County and the Mexican government. On the U.S. side, improvements would relocate the existing railway from the U.S. 77-83 rail junction to a switching yard farther west, routing it south to the Rio Grande River just
Efficiency is not a word to describe traditional construction systems, says Jim Jacobi, senior principal and chief information officer with Houston-based Walter P Moore. Photo: Tonie Auer Jim Jacobi, senior principal & CIO, Walter P Moore, delivers the keynote presentation at BIM Texas 2010 in Dallas on September 23. Delivering the keynote presentation at the two-day BIM Texas 2010 conference in Irving on Thursday, Jacobi touted the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in yielding significant results toward that effort. The event was jointly presented by TEXO, a construction association in Dallas and Texas A&M University. Jacobi says Walter P
A $503-million replacement hospital project at Fort Hood was awarded to Balfour-Beatty/McCarthy, Dallas, on September 10 by the Fort Worth District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Image: USACE, Fort Worth. An aerial rendering shows a northwest view of the new Fort Hood replacement hospital designed by HKS, Dallas, and Wingler & Sharp, Wichita Falls. The contract was a two-step full and open design-build procurement process, says Denisha Braxton, spokeswoman for USACE, Fort Worth. The two other short-listed teams were Hensel Phelps (Austin) & Robins Morton (Birmingham, Ala.) and Turner-Zachry Fort Hood Healthcare of San Antonio. The Corps selected
St. Louis-based Kwame Building Group, with offices in Dallas and Oklahoma City, was recently contracted to provide construction management services to the Oklahoma Dept. of Transportation. The first projects under the contract are expected to total $59 million. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Kwame will provide construction management for road, bridge, drainage and other repair projects throughout Oklahoma.
W.S. Bellows Construction Corp. and Texas Children’s Hospital topped out the $575-million maternity center, which is aiming for completion later this year. Texas Children’s Hospital’s new 796,000-sq ft maternity center will include a 15-floor maternity hospital, clinic and additional space built over a 532,000-sq-ft sub-grade, four-level parking garage. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The ultimate site will encompass 1.9-million sq ft with two 28-story towers serving obstetric and pediatric patients. The center was designed by Dallas-based FKP Architects and Houston-based Inventure Design.
Construction started this summer at the 20MW $30 million Pringle Wind Farm in the Texas Panhandle with completion slated for the third quarter. With foundations being completed earlier this summer, the $30 million Pringle Wind Farm, in the Texas Panhandle, has begun crane operations at the first turbine and will sequentially move through turbine No. 10. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" DeWind Co. Project Manager Hugo Ramirez tells Texas Construction that 10 80-meter towers will be strategically spread out over approximately three miles of agricultural and oil field wells. The project will have local distribution lines and some direct
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