The 111,500-sq-ft U.S. Coast Guard Houston-Galveston Sector Building was completed in October 2013 at Ellington Field. Planning for the project began after Hurricane Ike caused significant damage to the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Field Office in Galveston in 2008.
Thinkery, formerly the Austin Children's Museum, turned to The Beck Group to lead construction on its 35,000-sq-ft facility located just north of downtown Austin.
Barriere Construction was tasked with demolishing and rebuilding a defunct 230-kV electrical substation for Entergy Services in New Orleans because of the increased power demand from the city's new BioDistrict.
At the request of Chevron, Versabar Inc. developed the VersaCutter, a subsea cutting tool that provides a safer, more efficient and environmentally friendly way of severing subsea structures such as platforms and pipelines no longer in operation.
The $23.8-million, 89,500-sq-ft student center at Tidewater Community College in Virginia Beach was built in the middle of a five-acre stormwater retention pond.
A joint-use public partnership, the library serves both Tidewater Community College and the City of Virginia Beach and required the team to meet the programmatic needs of both users.
Plans for the 160,246-sq-ft Physical Sciences Complex were updated dramatically late in the design process when a $10-million grant was received from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Five new residence halls—part of a University of Virginia effort to overhaul its Alderman Road community for first-year students—were delivered in three phases.
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