A new 1-MW solar power plant is being planned for Arizona State University’s Polytechnic Campus in Mesa, Ariz. The project will be built as a partnership between the school, Phoenix-based utility Salt River Project and San Jose, Calif.-based SunPower Corp. Photo courtesy SunPower SunPower's C7 Tracker technology is designed to concentrate the sun's power sevenfold by combining single-axis tracking with rows of parabolic mirrors. SunPower will engineer, construct, operate and maintain the plant on the southeast corner of the ASU Polytechnic campus. SRP has agreed to buy the entire output of the solar plant, and ASU will purchase an equivalent
The prolonged economic downturn has led to thousands of construction professionals losing their jobs in the Southwest, but that hasn't stopped the efforts of these 20 young individuals to reinvigorate the industry and their communities.
Barry Bartle BARTLEhas been named president at Phoenix-based NAI Horizon and will lead the strategic repositioning of the Property Management Division to help the commercial real estate firm grow its management portfolio to 10 million sq ft. With a career spanning 30 years, Bartle has led property management divisions for such firms as RREEF, Cushman and Wakefield and Pacific Office Properties, directing more than $2 billion in real estate investments for more than 100 clients. Anthony Jeffers has been hired as a project manager for Johnson Carlier, Tempe, Ariz. Jeffers has more than a decade of experience in construction management,
Inspired by the one-room schoolhouses of a bygone era, Marshall G. Zotara is bringing an array of construction industry giants together to perform old-fashioned barn raisings for low-income, Title 1 school districts around the country.
Two Midwest projects, the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids Mich., and BP Bright Lights, a Chicago-based office facility, are among the winners of Engineering News-Record's fourth-annual Best of the Best Projects Awards, a competition among 119 Best Projects winners awarded by ENR’s seven regional publications. Winners will be profiled in the Feb. 13, 2012 issue of ENR. Photo Courtesy of Lend Lease BP Bright Lights, Chicago, was named Best Interior Design/Tenant Improvement Project for 2011 An independent panel of design and construction professionals selected 18 winners in categories ranging from green building to transportation. Projects were judged on
Images courtesy Stantec / Cause and Effect Evolutions Stantec architect Annette Zacherson designed the project to maximize natural light through clerestory windows. Images courtesy Stantec / Cause and Effect Evolutions Shaded light wells and outdoor screens are a major feature of the school design. An audacious plan is under way to build as many as 24 new schools in key markets across the U.S. solely through corporate funding, donated materials and volunteer labor.Dubbed the Green Schoolhouse Series, the idea sprung from father-and-son team Marshall and Jeff Zotara, co-founders of Cause and Effect Evolutions, a Carlsbad, Calif.-based firm acting as organizer,
Phoenix firms Orcutt|Winslow and Kitchell have been selected to design and construct a new patient tower at Chandler Regional Medical Center, located in Chandler, Ariz. Site work on the five-story inpatient tower is set to begin this month, with vertical construction slated to start by November 2012. Image courtesy Orcutt|Winslow The $125-million addition will house a new emergency department, along with operating rooms, a chapel and food service area. Image courtesy Orcutt|Winslow The new five-story building will add 96 patient rooms to the existing Chandler Regional Medical Center. With the addition of 96 new in-patient beds bringing the total number
An audacious plan is under way to build as many as 24 new schools in key markets across the U.S. solely through corporate funding, donated materials and volunteer labor. Image courtesy Stantec The 6,291-sq-ft Safari building at Roadrunner Elementary School in Phoenix will be built by donated labor and materials. Image courtesy Stantec Stantec architect Annette Zacherson designed the project to maximize natural light through clerestory windows, light shelves and shaded light wells to boost student learning. Dubbed the Green Schoolhouse Series, the idea sprung from father-and-son team Marshall and Jeff Zotara, co-founders of Cause and Effect Evolutions, a Carlsbad,
Mayo Clinic broke ground for a cutting edge cancer therapy facility at its Phoenix campus, with Hunt Construction Group, Scottsdale, as general contractor and AECOM, Minneapolis, as architect. The $182-million facility will house Mayo Clinic's Proton Beam Therapy program. Image courtesy Mayo Clinic Rendering of Mayo Clinic's new Phoenix facility, to house new proton beam therapy treatment equipment. As part of the integrated program, Mayo Clinic will build facilities on Mayo's campuses in Minnesota and Arizona. The Arizona proton beam therapy program will be located east of the Mayo Clinic Specialty Building on the Phoenix campus at 56th Street and
