2012

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Lady Bird Johnson Middle School is the first net-zero public school in Texas. Balfour Beatty Construction completed the $29.9-million project in March 2012.

The 844,763-sq-ft, 29-story Hess Tower building, which is owned by Trammell Crow Co., was completed in December 2011.

Additional capacity drove Baylor Health Care Systems to expand The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, a 290,000-sq-ft, 116-bed facility that opened in 2007.

Merging the start of the second phase of construction into the ongoing construction of the first phase of the 160,000-sq-ft University of Washington Molecular Engineering & Sciences Building was a good challenge, says Bob Vincent, project manager for Seattle-based Hoffman Construction, the general contractor.

Building a 253,000-sq-ft expansion of an active hospital meant extra infection and noise control.

Designing a children's hospital to invite patients and families into what can often be a scary environment has intrinsic challenges.

Clackamas County Water Environment Services not only picked a high-performance membrane bioreactor technology to expand wastewater treatment at this Oregon City facility; it did so within a small, indoor footprint.

Along with the complex new Outpatient Specialty Clinic at the existing 50-acre V.A. Medical Center campus in Vancouver, Wash., came concerns over scheduling and supply deliveries for the intricate pieces of the $5.9-million building.

Working in Alaska's harsh winters always provides challenges, but so does working without a firm contract in place.

A tight budget, a rural location on the cliffs above the Columbia River Gorge and a jobsite attached to a 100-year-old museum listed on the National Register of Historic Places combined to challenge designers and contractors on a 25,500-sq-ft expansion of the Maryhill Museum of Art in Goldendale, Wash.