PROJECT COST: $21.1 Million IMAGE: TATE SNYDER KIMSEY ARCHITECTS Silverland Intermediate School IMAGE: TATE SNYDER KIMSEY ARCHITECTS Silverland Intermediate School This new educational campus -- including an elementary and intermediate school -- reflects both the built and natural context of Fernley, providing a sense of community and permanence. A central courtyard organizes each school, providing flexible spaces for both social and educational interactions. The elementary school is based on grade-level pod arrangements, with each pod focused around a multi-purpose, shared/flexible space for spillover activities and group assignments. The intermediate school features grade-level wings that advance the practice of team teaching.
PROJECT COST: $118 Million PHOTO: CORE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES OF ARIZONA Sixth Street Residence Halls This project will provide new on-campus housing for 1,088 undergraduate students. The brick buildings are designed around interior courtyards to create secure private space for student circulation and gathering. The Tyndall site at Sixth Street and Euclid Avenue will have 719 beds in three modules of four, five and six stories. The Highland Avenue and Sixth Street building will have 369 beds in two, four-floor and one, six-floor modules. The facilities will be in traditional dorm layout with double rooms, hall baths and spaces on each
PROJECT COST: $120 Million IMAGES: BETTY WELTY/URS/FOSTERS+PARTNERS 1. Spaceport America IMAGES: BETTY WELTY/URS/FOSTERS+PARTNERS 1. Spaceport America Spaceport America will be the world�s first purpose-built commercial spaceport capable of accommodating the activities of both vertical and horizontal launch space vehicles, serving as the base for pre-flight and post-flight activities, and providing a center for interested spectators. The master plan includes: an airfield, internal roadways, water supply and distribution system, waste water collection and treatment system, aircraft rescue and fire fighting station, fuel storage facility and an iconic terminal and hangar facility. The terminal hangar facility will be the centerpiece of Spaceport
PROJECT COST: $500 Million PHOTO: TRANSCANADA Coolidge Generating Station PHOTO: TRANSCANADA Coolidge Generating Station This simple-cycle, natural gas-fired peaking power generation station is located on 100 acres of former farmland and features 12 natural gas-fired turbines capable of producing an electrical output of approximately 575 MW, enough electricity to power approximately 575,000 homes. The project is designed to provide a quick response to peak power demands and also provide reserve capacity with the ability to add power quickly to support power reliability in the region. TransCanada has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with the Phoenix -based utility SRP to
PROJECT COST: $85 Million IMAGE: PUGSLEY. SIMPSON. COULTER. ARCHITECTS 4. CCSD West Career & Technical Academy This new school promotes a sense of community within the campus while fostering relationships with industry partners to provide students with a clear career path early on. Similar in theory to small learning communities, the individual buildings are designed to take full advantage of college-like, project-based learning which the district plans to implement. Within each academy�s central corridor, views into the classrooms and lab spaces make learning visible while reinforcing connections and excitement to the specific industry vocation. Centralized work areas for teachers afford
PROJECT COST: $40.5 Million PHOTO: CORNERSTONE PHOTOGRAPHY Banner Thunderbird Medical Center Backfill Renovation This 170,000-sq-ft renovation project followed the construction of a new patient tower at the medical center. Work included improvements to the kitchen, pharmacy, central sterile processing, conference center, medical imaging and cath labs, interventional prep and recovery, cardiac center, PACU, PICU, pediatrics med-surg, dialysis and four med-surg floors. McCarthy utilized laser scanning to model the existing facility utilities above the ceiling and incorporated into the BIM model where the new mechanical, electrical and plumbing were designed to have as little impact on the existing as possible. Location:
Image: Whiting-Turner Contracting Company The Smith Center for the Performing Arts Related Links: 1. The Smith Center for the Performing Arts 2. I-15 South, Blue Diamond Rd. To Tropicana Ave. 3. North Las Vegas City Hall and Civic Plaza 4. CCSD West Career & Technical Academy 5. Metropolitan Police Headquarters Campus 6. Lake Mead Intake #3 Connector Tunnel 7. Freedom Park 8. U.S. 95, Horse Drive Interchange 9. Windmill Library & Operations Center 10. William N. Pennington Health Sciences Building Notables: City of Henderson Detention Center Expansion Notables: Silverland Intermediate School Notables: Valley High School The Top Starts section highlights
Image: URS/Fosters+Partners Spaceport America Related Links: 1. Spaceport America 2. Presbyterian Rio Rancho Medical Center 3. Hewlett Packard Office Building 4. University of N.M. Arena - �The Pit� 5. Taos County Administrative/Judicial/Detention Complex 6. Mesa Middle School 7. I-25, Tramway to Bernalillo 8. Hobbs High School Freshman Wing & Central Kitchen 9. U.S. 491 Newcomb 10. CNM - New Rio Rancho Campus, Phase I Notables: Paseo del Volcan Roadway Engineering Notables: The Pueblo Of Isleta Tribal Services Complex, Phase II Notables: UNM Science & Math Learning Center The Top Starts section highlights the largest projects to begin construction in the
Photo: Kiewit/Sundt JV Loop 202 Widening, SR 51 to Loop 101 Related Links: 1. Coolidge Generating Station 2. Maricopa County Court Tower 3. Loop 202 Widening, SR 51 to Loop 101 4. Mariposa Land Port of Entry 5. Sixth Street Residence Halls 6. Loop 303 Happy Valley Road to Lake Pleasant Parkway 7. Salt River Spring Training Facility 8. Northern Arizona University Health and Learning Center 9. Mohave County Correctional Facility 10. Cox Deer Valley Technology Center 11. Loop 303, Lake Pleasant Parkway to I-17 12. Casa Grande Water Reclamation Facility Phase III 13. Santa Cruz County Ed Pastor Justice
PROJECT COST: $32.1 Million IMAGE: CDG ARCHITECTS Pima County Psychiatric Hospital & Crisis Response Center The project includes a three-story, 136,000-sq-ft psychiatric hospital addition housing in-patient acute care beds, urgent care, court hearing rooms and clinical study rooms. A two-story, 67,000-sq-ft Crisis Response Center will house screening, crisis stabilization and triage. Site work includes parking and landscaping. Location: Tucson, Ariz. Started: September 2009 Completion: May 2011 Owner: Pima County Design Firm: cdg Architects General Contractor: DPR Construction Construction Manager: Gilbane Building Co. Engineers: RS Engineering; Holben, Martin & White Consulting Engineers; Adams & Associates; Bowden Engineering Subcontractors: Mechanical Systems; D.P.
