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.
In a city that sits below sea level and is surrounded by water, drainage projects can be complex and crucial undertakings. Now more than halfway complete, the Pump to the River project will improve drainage in part of New Orleans by increasing capacity and shortening the distance to the basin. Related Links: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project Corps of Engineers Brings $100 Million Drainage Project To New Orleans Corps of Engineers Begins $48M Underground Drainage Project In New Orleans Designed and constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the project spans almost
First comes natural gas, then the infrastructure needed to support it. That's a formula that has meant growth for the Texas and Louisiana construction industry over the past few years. The end result is continuing strength for the region's specialty contractors. Related Links: Engineering News Record Architectural Record This year's ENR survey of Texas and Louisiana's Top Specialty Contractors drew 98 responses. Firms reported more than $7.425 billion in regional revenue across both states. That's a gain of nearly $300 million over the top 98 firms in last year's ranking.Bolstered MarketsFive of the top 10 firms in this year's ranking
The Colony, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, is the site of a new 1.9-million-sq-ft home-furnishing mecca quickly nearing completion. Nebraska Furniture Mart's latest store, and its first in Texas, is a $156.8-million behemoth that will include 564,000 sq ft of retail space; a 1.3-million-sq-ft warehouse and pickup area; an 800,000-sq-ft, 2,000-space, five-story parking garage; and a data center and central utility plant. Related Links: Nebraska Furniture Mart NFM Blog Turner Construction Co. 2013 Top Starts in Texas & Louisiana Work began on the project in March 2013, and Turner Construction Co., the construction manager, anticipates a Dec. 1 completion, well
Building a collegiate football stadium for 30,000 spectators is no easy task, but doing it in a small footprint in a residential neighborhood and on a short schedule takes skill and experience. After facing hurdles and delays well before groundbreaking, a New Orleans contractor is making a mad dash to finish Tulane University's stadium in time for the football team's season home opener in September. Related Links: Tulane University Yulman Stadium small footprint, tight timelineThe $63-million Yulman Stadium will be the university's first on-campus stadium since historic Tulane Stadium was demolished in 1980. From 1926 to 1975, the old structure
San Antonio is home to a new military medical center, now rising at Lackland Air Force Base. The $457-million, 645,000-sq-ft Lackland Ambulatory Care Center is a state-of-the-art replacement hospital that will become the largest ambulatory care center the Dept. of Defense has built to date. Related Links: Design Firm of the Year: HDR Development of the new facility was driven by the Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC) of 2005, an initiative that consolidated all military medical training and health care in the San Antonio area."BRAC 2005 directed that Wilford Hall at Lackland was going to become a large outpatient
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