Mayo Clinic broke ground for a cutting edge cancer therapy facility at its Phoenix campus, with Hunt Construction Group, Scottsdale, as general contractor and AECOM, Minneapolis, as architect. The $182-million facility will house Mayo Clinic's Proton Beam Therapy program. Image courtesy Mayo Clinic Rendering of Mayo Clinic's new Phoenix facility, to house new proton beam therapy treatment equipment. As part of the integrated program, Mayo Clinic will build facilities on Mayo's campuses in Minnesota and Arizona. The Arizona proton beam therapy program will be located east of the Mayo Clinic Specialty Building on the Phoenix campus at 56th Street and
Hampered by a river diversion that impeded flows, the Glendale Water Treatment Plant's water supply was modernized to ensure adequate and consistent water service to customers in Reno/Sparks, Nev.
This hospital expansion added 13 private patient rooms and converted 13 more to private from semi-private. Other additions included an easily identifiable hospital entrance and living room-like activity centers for families and teens.
While construction activity continues to lag in the Southwest due to the weak economy, the design and construction industry still produced some exceptional projects in 2011.
While Albuquerque has developed more than 400 miles of trails and bike lanes over the past two decades, this 1,100-foot-long bridge over the Rio Grande River filled in a major missing link connecting the city's east and west sides.
This unique LEED-Gold building on the 27-acre McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in Scottsdale, Ariz., houses three model railroad layouts, four club meeting rooms and exhibit space, where model railroad aficionados can share their craft with visitors and tell stories of how railroads helped define Arizona and the nation as a whole.
