Pittsburgh-based dck worldwide purchased Summit Builders earlier this month. The Phoenix-based general contractor will be renamed Summit dck, to underscore the effort to unite the capabilities of both companies and open up the Southwest market for dck. Photo courtesy Summit dck Summit recently completed Trillium North, a 274-unit apartment community in Phoenix. Photo courtesy Summit dck Summit built the 80,000-sq-ft Naco Border Patrol Station in Bisbee, Ariz., which also included a 12,600-sq-ft firing range. Related Links: Long-Stalled Tempe Condo Towers Reborn as Apartments ENR Southwest's Ranking of Top General Contractors “We’ve worked in the area but never had a strong presence
A contractor working for Australian mining giant BHP Billiton was killed on Sept. 22 at the Pinto Valley Mine, about 5 miles west of Globe, Ariz. Operations at the site were immediately stopped at the mine, which is undergoing a $195-million construction project to restart the mine. Image: ENR Pinto Valley Mine is located approximately 5 miles west of Globe, Ariz. Related Links: Safety Experts Caution Contractors About Hot Weather Danger in Wake of Tucson Death Safety in Construction: Safety-Culture Clash Meant 13 Workers Never Made It Home [9/2008] BHP officials said in a statement that an investigation into the
Pat Maciulla MACIULLAhas joined Lang Wyatt Construction in Tucson, Ariz., as director of operations. He brings nearly 40 years of experience, including 20 years with Giles Construction, where he served as president for more than a decade. Related Links: ENR Southwest People ENR Southwest Lee & Associates of Phoenix has hired veteran broker Scott Smith as a principal for the firm's industrial team. Smith transfers from the Lee & Associates office in Orange, Calif. where he started in 2002. He has worked in the industry for nearly 30 years, starting his career at CB Richard Ellis in 1983 and later
Southern Nevada's boom-to-bust construction market is slowly reinventing itself with private-public-partnership projects, now set to include a proposed $1.5-billion mixed-use health-care village to be sited on 151 acres outside of Las Vegas near U.S. Highway 95 and Galleria Drive. Image courtesy Union Village Union Village will include four hospitals and 1,000 homes for senior living, plus medical office space, restaurants, shopping, hotels and a movie theater. With Clark County construction employment down from 110,000 in 2006 to just 36,200 jobs generated in July, according to state figures, project backers are leveraging multiple public and private funding resources and tapping into
Two sports stadiums now under construction required intensive community outreach and careful coordination among the design and construction teams to become a reality. Related Links: Read about other challenging projects on the ENR Southwest Projects Page UNM Renovates Legendary 'The Pit' Arena in Albuquerque (Aug. 2009) Albuquerque Public Schools' $35.9-million Community Athletic Facility is the first stadium to be built by the New Mexico school district in more than 40 years. Meanwhile, the University of Arizona is expanding and improving its 84-year-old Lowell-Stevens Football Facility in Tucson.Welcome to the NeighborhoodFor decades, just two stadiums have been serving all of the
Mark Henderson had a lot to learn when he took over his father's company in 1990. He already knew a lot about construction, having worked at Jack B. Henderson Construction Co. since 1968 as an estimator, project manager and superintendent. But he knew little about running the business side and issues such as bonding, insurance and banking. Related Links: ENR Southwest's Top Specialty Contractors Ranking Niche Markets Help Top Subcontractors Stay Above Water How times have changed. In the 22 years since he took the reins as CEO, Henderson has led his Albuquerque-based firm from being a small family business
It was another bumpy ride for the region's top specialty contractors in 2011. Respondents to ENR Southwest's annual survey saw the volume of subcontracting work in Arizona rise, but those gains were offset by steep declines in Nevada and New Mexico. Firms that succeeded did so by finding new niches or adding specialties that dovetailed with their existing skills. Related Links: Top Specialty Contractor Rankings Specialty Contractor of the Year: J.B. Henderson Finds Success In High-Stakes Jobs Arizona subcontractors reported $1.4 billion in work during 2011, up 4% over the previous year. But New Mexico subcontracting work fell 27%, and
Hot on the heels of the startup of Nevada's first wind power project on public land, the forecast for the nation's wind industry is beginning to turn, well, not so swell. Sector layoffs and plant shutdowns this year are up and are expected to continue next year, which many industry players largely blame on the scheduled expiration of the renewable energy production tax credit (PTC) by year-end. Photo Courtesy of Pattern Energy New Turns: Pattern Energy's new 151.8-MW Spring Valley wind farm is Nevada's first on public lands. Even so, this has been a strong year for U.S. wind-power capacity
Arizona State University and YMCA broke ground on a 64,283-sq-ft addition to the Lincoln Family Downtown YMCA at 350 N. First Ave. in downtown Phoenix. The building was originally erected in 1955 and was last renovated in 2006. Related Links: New ASU ISTB IV Science Lab Uses Ample Green Systems NAU's Health & Learning Center Combines Four Programs Under One Roof The ASU Downtown Phoenix Campus Recreation Center (or Y@ASU for short) is one of four fitness centers across the ASU university system that students voted to fund with an increase to their recreation fees of $75 per each semester
Mayo Clinic is planning a major expansion to its Phoenix campus that will create a single-site, integrated Cancer Center. The $130 million new facility will add three additional floors and 217,200 sq ft of clinical and office space above the first level of Mayo Clinic's Proton Beam Therapy Building on Mayo Clinic’s Phoenix campus at 56th St. and Loop 101. Image courtesy Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic's $130-million consolidated cancer center facility will be built atop a portion of the underway $182-million Proton Beam Therapy Building, pictured here. Related Links: Mayo Clinic Begins Construction on Phoenix Proton Beam Facility [Dec. 2011] The
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