Related Links: NAU Breaks Ground on Health & Learning Center Interactive Children's Museum Exhibit Underway First Wind Farm Dedicated New Hotel Underway in Chandler Construction began on the Tubac Fire Station No. 4, which was designed by Breckenridge Group. Located in Tubac, the 9,200-sq-ft station will house six firefighters per shift. Designed to blend with the residential scale of the neighborhood the new station utilizes materials, forms and colors indicative of the architectural flavor of the region. The station also incorporates several sustainable features including: low flow plumbing fixtures, native landscaping and water harvesting to conserve water; cool roof materials
Related Links: CORE Begins New $16.6M School Pahrump Justice Facility Begins Construction on New Addition Crystals at CityCenter Achieves LEED Gold United Construction Co. has received LEED gold for their recently completed corporate office located at 5300 Mill St. in Reno. The building includes interior courtyards for daylighting, lighting control systems to reduce energy use and low-VOC products for a healthy work environment. Construction on the 12,350-sq-ft facility began August 2008 and was completed in February.
Related Links: Merrick Awarded Sub-Contract at LANL Spaceport Plans T or C Visitor Center Thornburg Campus Achieves LEED Gold Six Stimulus Projects Added Ascension Group Architects completed work on the $8.5-million expansion and renovation of Eastern New Mexico Medical Center in Roswell. Work included a 14,500-sq-ft expansion of the emergency department, featuring three trauma rooms, 16 exam rooms and a computerized tomography room. Space also was left for a chest X-ray room in the future. Another 3,700 sq ft involved minor renovations to the hospital.
Related Links: CORE Begins New $16.6M School Pahrump Justice Facility Begins Construction on New Addition United�s Office Awarded LEED Gold Crystals, the retail and entertainment district at CityCenter, has achieved LEED gold core and shell, the world’s largest retail district to receive that level. Opening this month, Crystals’ achievement marks the fourth gold certification for CityCenter. Under the rating, USGBC evaluated the entire district with the exception of the tenants’ interior spaces. Highlights include radiant floor cooling, Forest Stewardship Council-certified wood, efficient water fixtures saving up to 1.8 million gallons of water and skylights providing ample natural light. Crystals’ multi-faceted
A three-story high, wild maze of tube steel with pieces weighing as much as 5,000 lbs is currently under construction at the Children’s Museum of Phoenix. The Schuff Perini Climber, located in the Children's Museum of Phoenix, is being built through the donations of over 30 construction firms. Related Links: NAU Breaks Ground on Health & Learning Center Tubac Fire Station Breaks Ground First Wind Farm Dedicated New Hotel Underway in Chandler Known as the Schuff Perini Climber, the project’s original educational and physical concept has morphed into a much more dramatic exhibit due to the enthusiasm of the construction
Related Links: Spaceport Plans T or C Visitor Center Ascension Group Completes Roswell Project Thornburg Campus Achieves LEED Gold Six Stimulus Projects Added Merrick & Co. was one of six offerors recently awarded a sub-contract to provide engineering and architecture services to Los Alamos National Security LLC, the prime contractor for operations at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The $200 million in sub-contracts, which run for a five-year period, call for the companies to augment in-house design engineering capabilities at LANL.
Northern Arizona University broke ground on a new health and learning center, which will provide a range of health and counseling services, recreation space, classrooms and the Lumberjack Stadium for track and soccer teams and locker rooms. The 270,000-sq.-ft., $79.1-million facility is the largest project undertaken at NAU and was designed by the Phoenix office of OWP/P I Cannon Design. Mortenson Construction is the construction manger for the project. Related Links: Interactive Children�s Museum Exhibit Underway Tubac Fire Station Breaks Ground First Wind Farm Dedicated New Hotel Underway in Chandler The facility will seek LEED gold, and is expected to
Related Links: NAU Breaks Ground on Health & Learning Center Interactive Children's Museum Exhibit Underway Tubac Fire Station Breaks Ground First Wind Farm Dedicated A.R. Mays Construction Inc. has been awarded a nearly $10-million contract to build the first Cambria Suites hotel in the Phoenix metro area. Located in Chandler at the southwest corner of Chandler Blvd & Dobson, the Cambria Suites is being developed by HP Properties of Birmingham, Ala. for its client Suenos Hospitality LLC. The project architect is Rodriguez & Associates of Kansas City, Mo. The new 137-room, five-story hotel will break ground in early November. Cambria
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