Seeking a home for dance and musical events produced by students, Mesa Community College decided on a $11.5-million project that morphed a 26,000-sq-ft movie house into a 48,000-sq-ft performing arts center.
A July 2013 landslide removed approximately a half-mile section of US 89 south of Page, Ariz., forcing the governor to declare an emergency and implement a temporary detour along Navajo Route 20.
The Los Alamos County Nature Center, a collaboration between Los Alamos County and the local Pajarito Environmental Education Center, is a back-to-basics yet pioneering project in the heart of the New Mexico wilderness and the winner of ENR Southwest’s Project of the Year award.
As ENR Southwest’s Best Projects Competition nears its second decade of recognizing the most notable construction projects and bringing them to the attention of the construction community at large, this year’s winners are almost universally led by teams that reported doing their job faster and with less overall waste than was expected.
A $9.3-million project has transformed Tolleson’s downtown area into a mile-long pedestrian-friendly destination now rebranded as the Paseo de Luces, or “path of lights.”
To construct the two-story, 160,000-sq-ft Building One of Liberty Center at Rio Salado, builders first utilized deep dynamic compaction to densify the soil on site—which is located close to the Salt River—to eliminate the potential for differential settlement on the $14.7-million project.
Albuquerque Convention Center authorities engaged the project team to transform the 1960s-era building into a structure that would capture “Albuquerque’s unique spirit” while not impinging on operations.
Creating the SLS Las Vegas out of the 50-year-old Sahara Hotel entailed a complete reinvention of a 1.5-million-sq-ft property and included three hotel towers.