This family-centered facility actively involves the hospitalized child's parents in all aspects of the child's care and accommodates their physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs.
This LEED-Gold project added two separate mezzanines to an existing 300,000-sq-ft building, plus an addition for the bulk storage of raw materials for manufacturing. The project also included a retail area, corporate training and board rooms, offices and a lab.
Bradford Gatlin joins Lang Wyatt Construction as project manager. With a degree in civil engineering, he has 37 years of experience in planning, management, control and supervision for projects including commercial, mining, government and education. Gatlin most recently worked with Concord General Contracting for 12 years, and prior to that he was with T.L. Roof. Photo courtesy Rider Levett Bucknall Ward Simpson Sundt Construction Inc. has hired Scot Bennett as a business development representative. Bennett brings more than a decade of business development and design experience to Sundt, having previously served as a designer and then director of business development
With plans for 18 million sq ft of commercial space and 37,000 homes, Albuquerque's master-planned sustainable community, Mesa del Sol, was selected as an ideal test site for a collaborative U.S.-Japanese demonstration project to examine emerging technologies that digitally control and balance power generated by various energy sources, including renewables. Photo courtesy of Mesa del Sol Designed by Antoine Predock, Albuquerque's Aperture Center will be the site of a U.S.-Japan study of smart grid technology. Upon completion of Mesa del Sol's $6-million retrofit in spring 2012, the community's centerpiece, the Antoine Predock-designed Aperture Center, will be home to the three-year
Residents of two rural Southern Arizona towns are celebrating the reopening of a freeway bridge that had been severely damaged earlier this year after two semi-trucks caught fire during an accident. The bridge over Interstate 10 was demolished and rebuilt in only six months, alleviating a 10-mile detour for residents on either side of the freeway. Photo courtesy ADOT Crews install a new concrete box girder on the Mescal Road/J-Six Ranch Road Bridge over I-10 in southern Arizona as lighning lights up the night sky. Photo Courtesy ADOT The fire-damaged bridge was demolished just 24 days after the fire. Crews
Plans for federally controlled power lines to transmit solar power are moving ahead in the Southwest, but in the Northwest, lines to move wind power are being slowed while wind developments there are being re-evaluated. Photo courtesy of AP WIDEWORLD / Jae C. Hong MIXED MARKET Solar Southwest is strong, but the windy Northwest is weak. The Western Area Power Administration announced it will hire construction firms to upgrade and build parts of a $91-million transmission- line project in southern Arizona.The 109-mile Electrical District 5-to-Palo Verde transmission project includes a mix of new and upgraded WAPA-owned 230-kV lines as well
Caesars’ empire will soon grow a little larger. Caesars Palace, the Las Vegas Strip resort-casino, will open a $375-million, 668-room hotel tower addition on January 2, 2012. The project shell was completed two years ago, but the interior was mothballed due to reduced visitor demand. Photo courtesy Caesars Entertainment The shell for the 23-story Octavius Tower was completed two years ago, but the interior build-out was placed on hold until tourism levels rebounded. Photo courtesy Caesars Entertainment The Octavius Tower features 668 rooms designed by KNA Design, Los Angeles. The joint venture of Marnell Corrao Association, Las Vegas, and Keating
Battling monsoons, heat, live traffic and subpar soils, a joint-venture team expects to complete 30 miles of a Phoenix-area freeway expansion in just eight monthsadding another reason for the Arizona Dept. of Transportation to embrace design-build as it constructs projects to cope with growing traffic.A team of Kiewit Corp. and Sundt Construction holds the approximately $90-million contract to add 30 miles of high-occupancy vehicle lanes to Loop 101 between state Route 51 and Interstate 10.To do this many miles in [nine] months is pretty exciting, says Steve Mishler, ADOT project manager. Typically, this project would have been broken up into
SnapShot September 19, 2011 Submitted By: Dustin Krugel Public Information Officer ADOT, Phoenix A 285-ton oversize load inches across the Roosevelt Lake Bridge east of Phoenix on Aug. 16, carrying a massive anode used for copper refinement. The week-long, 380-mile journey began in Salt Lake City and crossed into Arizona on Aug. 9 via the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge. Hauled by two semis and a custom 18-axle trailer, the anode reached its final destination on schedule at the Freeport-McMoRan mine in Miami, Ariz. Photographer: Mike Poppe Precision Heavy Haul
Specialty contractors, whether steel or electrical or masonry, struggled through another year of steep revenue declines in the Southwest. The top 80 firms saw the value of work performed in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico drop 28% to $2.5 billion in 2010, compared with $3.4 billion in the previous year. And that was just the firms that were willing to report revenue—many chose not to, leading to the lowest participation for this survey in more than a decade. Arizona subcontractor revenue tumbled 28% to $1.4 billion in 2010, but it was Nevada that took the biggest blow, dropping below $1
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