Rendering Courtesy Future Cities The 11-acre site on Arizona State University's Tempe, Ariz., campus was planned to be the new home of USA Basketball. After several months of delays, Arizona State University on Jan. 8 declared it would no longer work with the development team attempting to build an approximately $400-million, mixed-use campus at the school's Tempe campus. Slated to be the new home for USA Basketball,the governing body for the sport in the U.S.The project, dubbed USA Place, also was intended to provide space for retail, residential and a 220-room hotel. The development team was a combined effort of
Rich Gohl was promoted to preconstruction manager at the Southwest district of Sundt Construction in Tempe, Ariz. Gohl will be responsible for all preconstruction activity in the district, including estimating and procurement as well as contractor and subcontractor selection.
An illustrious 38-year engineering and management career has kept Wylie Bearup as a central figure in public and private construction in the Southwest.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released the preliminary employment numbers for the month of October. In the construction field they are reporting an overall decrease in employment for the Southwest region. The numbers are showing that New Mexico, and Nevada both experienced downturns in their job growth between September and October, while Arizona saw a slight increase within the same time frame. Year-over-year, Arizona has fewer employed construction workers than in October 2013, while both New Mexico and Nevada have more. The reported numbers from Arizona are 118,400 employed construction laborers in October 2014, a slight rise from the
The Arizona Builders Alliance and the Arizona chapter of the Association of General Contractors held a Joint Economic Forecast Seminar Oct. 15 in Phoenix that featured AGC Chief Economist Ken Simonson who discussed Arizona’s construction industry and his forecast for the state’s 2015.While much of the construction industry in America has been on a fairly steady upturn lately, Arizona remains one state is not following along with the trend, he said, citing such evidence as a loss of construction jobs and that spending had receded to early recovery levels. While Arizona construction firms might wish for greater growth, Simonson pointed
Driven mostly by losses in Arizona, Southwest construction employment dipped in September, according to data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics earlier this week, but the losses in the Grand Canyon state are buoyed by gains in Nevada and steady performance in New Mexico.In Arizona from August to September 2014, slightly less than 3,000 construction jobs were lost. Construction employment is down to 115,500 in September 2014 from 118,200 in August 2014. Year-over year, construction jobs in Arizona have declined from 123,100 in September 2013 — a loss of about 7,500 construction jobs.From August to September 2014, Nevada
Courtesy Tony Illia The new control tower at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, Nev., looks to be delayed for one-year due to "construction issues," according to the FAA. The new 352-ft.-tall federal air traffic control tower at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas faces at least a one-year delay for repairs after an antimicrobial coating flaked from ductwork and became airborne, say project officials.A spray chemical was applied to dry building walls, ducts and subfloors, curbing a potentially toxic black mold called stachybotrys chartarum, which previously shutdown local buildings in the 1990s and 2000s. When the coating was placed in
By Jason Fifield Sun Devil Stadium in the midst of work to remove more than 5,00 seats from the north end zone. A little more than 55 years after it was originally constructed — and more than five years since the renovations were deemed necessary — Arizona State University announced on Thursday that Hunt Construction and Sundt Construction, Inc. will be the construction manager at-risk for the project.The university also announced that Arizona-based Gould Evans and national stadium design experts HNTB Corporation will handle design duties. Costs and details will be refined over the next year and construction is slated
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