Despite complexities faced during building and renovation at Richland High School, the project finished early. Photo: Randal Vanderveer Related Links: Best of 2010 Awards Renovations encompassed more than 450,000 sq ft and involved the complete demolition or gutting of every building on the school’s campus. Facilities included offices, classrooms, a science wing, cafeteria, auditorium, band hall, choir hall, library, gymnasium, agriculture building, ROTC space and common areas. To keep personnel and students safe, general contractor Adolfson & Peterson built emergency egress corridors. With entrance points at existing exit doors leading to parking lots, the corridors had to pass directly through
With a construction timeline of nearly six years, the Roosevelt High School Replacement Campus was the longest duration job to date for Joeris, the job’s construction manager. Photo: Joeris Related Links: Best of 2010 Awards The 465,000-sq-ft job was an entire campus rebuild done while the existing school remained fully operational. The campus underwent a complete inversion of its previous layout, from a central core of buildings surrounded by open space to a large central courtyard surrounded by new buildings. Work included 11 bid packages, from three bond programs. New facilities include science labs, art rooms, music halls and practice
Cedar Ridge High School is the Round Rock Independent School District’s fifth high school and the largest building under one roof in the city of Round Rock. Photo: Jim Lincoln Related Links: Best of 2010 Awards The 375,000-sq-ft, two-story, tilt-up concrete building’s systems include structural steel and tiltwall interior framing, slab-on-grade with footings and drilled piers, exterior metal panels and architectural flyovers. The entrance floors are terrazzo with 10-ft-diameter school logos laid in the design. The school includes grades nine through 12, including seven career and tech academies. Other space includes fine art and performing art classrooms, black-box theater, media
C.D. Henderson Construction Group, the general contractor for the Southwest Airlines General Use Building, trained a number of its employees to be Green Advantage certified or a LEED-accredited professional in anticipation of construction of the airline’s first LEED project. Photo: Brent Combs Related Links: Best of 2010 Awards The 55,000-sq-ft industrial building is divided roughly into thirds and includes a cargo area for bulk air-freight shipping, a provisioning area for the onboard food and beverage service and a ground-support equipment area to serve all non-flying equipment for the airline. The building was the first project to kick off a major
The new 44-story Spring condominium tower is Austin’s first “point tower,” a design concept that lends itself to far-reaching views and offers a tremendous amount of space efficiency. Photo: Park Street Photography Related Links: Best of 2010 Awards Its slender design allows for glass-walled living rooms and bedrooms in each unit that overlooks the city. The concrete-frame building has HVAC ducts embedded inside 7.5-in.thick post-tension concrete slabs. There are no interior columns. The 249-unit tower also includes a seven-story garage with two underground and five above-ground levels of parking and approximately 10,000 sq ft of ground-level commercial/retail space wrapping the
At 115,000 sq ft, the Tellepsen Family Downtown YMCA is the flagship facility of the YMCA of Greater Houston. Photo: Thomas Mcconnell Photography Related Links: Best of 2010 Awards Four generations of the Tellepsen family have served on YMCA boards. The project is seeking LEED silver and may receive LEED gold. Innovations incorporated into the facility include an in-slab electrical system for strength/cardio equipment to prevent cords from being seen and becoming a trip/safety hazard. It also includes metal mesh ceilings to increase airflow and reduce humidity, polished concrete floors in public corridors and a glass wall at the main
Intense teamwork was necessary right from the beginning of the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas’ Hamon Tower project. The tower would be built right in the middle of campus over a main traffic throughway. Its location was needed as a connection for six existing structures. Photo: Ed Lacasse Related Links: Best of 2010 Awards Austin Commercial and HKS had to coordinate with the hospital facilities group, hospital staff and its users as well. The seven-story, 460,000-sq-ft tower reaches two levels below ground. The GC/CM had to work with many team members to coordinate logistical obstacles. Several structures associated with
Built on a 30,000-sq-ft site with zero laydown area, The Austonian project team had to lease an adjacent 5,000-sq-ft staging area during construction and orchestrate material deliveries with precision.
Despite a number of high-risk activities involved in construction of the 1.6 million-sq-ft hospital tower, the Hensel Phelps team was able to successfully achieve completion two days early. Photo: Richard Muniz Related Links: Best of 2010 Awards With more than five million patient visits annually and one of the highest densities of clinical facilities of any location, the Texas Medical Center in Houston is the largest medical district in the world. It contains 42 medicine-related institutions, 13 hospitals and two medical schools. The project began with the implosion of Methodist’s Diagnostic Clinical Center to make way for the 26-story tower.
The Chrysalis Building at Houston’s Monarch School is a three-story, 24,700-sq-ft educational facility that includes classrooms, observation rooms, diagnosis areas and community spaces for students with mental and social differences. The project represents the first phase of the multibuilding Monarch campus. Photo: Skyworks Photography Related Links: Best of 2010 Awards The project’s LEED-gold designation meant the project team faced unique design requirements such as inverted roofs, specialized materials and air-quality controls. The jobsite had been hit by Hurricane Ike, which delayed construction and damaged installed items. Mission Constructors, the general contractor, helped push the project from LEED silver to gold
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