PROJECT COST: $38,000,000 Photo: Smith Group/ Marmon Mok Audie L. Murphy VA Hospital Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center Related Links: Top Project Starts 1-25 Top Project Starts 26-55 Key Facts Location: San Antonio Construction Start Date: November 2009 Expected Completion Date: April 2011 Utilizing BIM? Yes Seeking LEED certification? No Owner/Developer: Department of Veteran Affairs, Washington, D.C. General Contractor: Robins & Morton, Birmingham, Ala. Architect: Smith Group/Marmon Mok (joint venture), Washington D.C. and San Antonio Next Project »
PROJECT COST: $77,182,652 Photo: Aerophoto Austin Community College - Round Rock Campus Phase I Related Links: Top Project Starts - 1 to 25 Top Project Starts - 26 to 55 The first phase of the new Austin Community College District Round Rock Campus includes five buildings totaling more than 276,000 sq ft on 48 acres. The facilities will provide space for the delivery of general studies, as well as health-service curricula including professional nursing, radiology, allied-health sciences, health and kinesiology and related studies. The campus also includes facilities for instruction in computer science and advanced technology; applied technology, including automotive
PROJECT COST: $120,800,000 Photo: Earthcam Baylor Cancer Center Related Links: Top Project Starts - 1 to 25 Top Project Starts - 26 to 55 The Baylor Cancer Center outpatient facility is a 10-story, 460,000-sq-ft structure with a facade that includes a mix of glass fiber reinforced concrete, stone, glass and metal panels. An additional 125,000 sq ft of parking is located on two below-grade floors. The center will include four linear accelerator vaults, a high-dose radiation room, multiple X-ray rooms, an MRI suite, laboratories, research suites, infusion rooms, pharmacies, and multiple exam and treatment rooms. The facility has a self-supporting
PROJECT COST: $60,500,000 Photo: Perkins+Will Baylor Sammons Collins Renovation Related Links: Top Project Starts 1-25 Top Project Starts 26-55 The renovation of the Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center at Baylor University Medical Center seeks to unify the sprawling urban hospital campus. Over the years, campus expansion occurred without a master plan, leaving the 100-plus-year-old facility disjointed and fragmented. A new south entry will become the centerpiece announcing arrival to the overall campus. The integration of the two existing 250,000-sq-ft inpatient care buildings with a new 500,000-sq-ft outpatient cancer center was accomplished by designing a circular connecting walkway linking the atriums
PROJECT COST: $78,000,000 - TIE Photo: Perkins + Will Cedar Ridge High School Related Links: Top Project Starts - 1 to 25 Top Project Starts - 26 to 55 The new Cedar Ridge High School, the fifth within its school district, will serve a 3,000-student core capacity accommodating ninth through 12th grades. The new design is approximately 375,000 sq ft. Architect-facilitated project programming and workshops among administrators, teachers, community members, students and parents resulted in the decision to pursue an academy-based design. The school will include separate academies with focuses on arts and humanities; the Texas Science, Technology Engineering and
PROJECT COST: $73,000,000 Photo: The Benham Cos. Company Operations Facility, Task Order No. 5 Related Links: Top Project Starts - 1 to 25 Top Project Starts - 26 to 55 Part of the Army's initiative to arrange combat capabilities where it can effectively organize, train and deploy troops to support ongoing operations worldwide includes the creation of a Brigade Combat Team Complex Company Operations Facility for each brigade combat team. This project, a Company Operations Facility at El Paso's Fort Bliss, is a combination of thin-shelled, tilt-up and modular construction consisting of eight buildings. The BCT 3 facility will use
PROJECT COST: $89,000,000 Photo: Cook Children's Medical Center Cook Children's Medical Center North Tower Related Links: Top Project Starts - 1 to 25 Top Project Starts - 26 to 55 A major component of Cook Children's largest-ever facility expansion program, the new six-level, 283,000-sq-ft North Tower will expand world-class pediatric care in North Texas with 158 new patient rooms. With an emphasis on enhancing the patient experience and family-centered care, the North Tower will also house a new food court-style cafeteria and dining area and a conference/education center expansion. The expansion also includes family amenities such as in-room overnight accommodations,
PROJECT COST: $38,871,914 Photo: SHW Group Lewisville 9th & 10th Grade Center Related Links: Top Project Starts 1-25 Top Project Starts 26-55 Key Facts Location: Lewisville Construction Start Date: October 2009 Expected Completion Date: June 2011 Utilizing BIM? No Seeking LEED certification? No Owner/Developer: Lewisville ISD, Lewisville Construction Management Firm: Pogue Construction, McKinney Architect: SHW Group, Plano Civil Engineer: G & A Consultants, Lewisville Structural Engineer: SHW Group, Plano MEP Engineer: Estes McClure & Associates, Tyler Main Specialty/Subcontractors: Master Concrete, Irving; DMG Masonry, Arlington; H & G Systems, Garland Next Project »