A fter years of being "repurposed by attrition," as the project team puts it, a building in Plano, Texas, that has housed the city's government operations for 47 years is finally getting a real makeover. The much-needed $8-million face-lift and expansion of the facility, which now centralizes technology, communication and data services for the city's traffic, police, fire department and administration will now become the Plano Technology Services Center, a Tier 3 data center. Related Links: Alliance Architects, Inc. Turner Construction Co. In 2011, the City of Plano saw it had a need for a consolidated data center, says Jim
Construction on the University of Houston’s new football stadium is now underway. Design firms PageSoutherlandPage and DLR Group, as well as contractor Manhattan Construction and university staffers celebrated the project’s groundbreaking February 8 near downtown Houston. Photo courtesy of PageSoutherlandPage The University of Houston hosted the groundbreaking of its new stadium February 8. Shown from left to right: Jonathan Thurston, Executive Director of UH Facilities Planning & Construction; Matt Doffing, Manhattan Construction; Duane Duffy, Manhattan Construction; David Quenemoen, PageSoutherlandPage; Rob Owens, PageSoutherlandPage; Don Barnum, DLR Group; Greg Garlock, DLR Group; Tony Levine, UH Football Coach; Mack Rhoades, UH Vice President
Two wind farms will soon be up and running in Texas, thanks to work being done by the North American Development Bank (NADB) and Duke Energy Renewables, a commercial business unit of Duke Energy.
An aging hospital in Fort Hood, Texas, is being honorably discharged. The 47-year-old Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center was initially designed to support 17,000 troops; today, it serves 45,414 active personnel and 125,000 family members and retirees. The 70-year-old, 340-sq-mile military base midway between Austin and Waco is the state's largest single site employer. Related Links: Engineering News Record Despite several upgrades, including a $49-million expansion that doubled its size in 1984, the medical center has been unable to keep pace with Fort Hood's growing health care demands. Each day, Darnall delivers seven babies, fills 4,500 prescriptions and has
Featuring the world's largest drainage pump station and the largest navigable floodgate in the U.S., the $1-billion Gulf Intracoastal Waterway West Closure Complex is a critical part of the Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System that will provide the New Orleans area with 100-year-event flood protection.
Woodward Design+Build completed the Marine Corps Support Facility in July 2011. This was the first phase and anchor project for a first-of-its-kind government cam- pus in New Orleans.
Robins & Morton completed the 623,260-sq-ft University Medical Center of El Paso, the only nonprofit, community-owned hospital in the area, in June 2012.
The University of Texas at Austin School of Law turned to Satterfield & Pontikes Construction to complete the five-phase renovation project for the 35-year-old Jesse H. Jones Hall.
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