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...North Texas. He says that as long as the area continues to have a fairly strong economy and people are relocating to it, they will need schools, government services and health care.
The firm designed the $80-million University of Texas at Arlington Engineering Research Complex, now under construction by the Austin office of Hensel Phelps Construction Co., and is working on a bookstore and gateway project expected to break ground in 2010 at the University of Texas at Dallas.
“We’re pleased with where the economy seems to be going, compared with four to five years ago when it was superheated,” Flabiano says. “We’re back to a regular pace.”
Meanwhile, “In Oklahoma, we still have some glimmers of hope,” says Bob Jack, project executive with Manhattan Construction’s Oklahoma Division in Tulsa. “Commercial construction is off quite a bit.”
Manhattan is working on a $40-million ONEOK Field baseball stadium renovation in Tulsa’s Brady District. The project received public and private funding.
Dallas-Fort Worth public projects Public-sector projects are active, Flabiano says. PageSoutherlandPage recently began designing a $179-million, 177,230-sq-ft U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs Satellite Outpatient Clinic in Fort Worth.
Corgan Associates of Dallas is designing a $500-million terminal redevelopment and modernization program at Dallas Love Field. The project includes a new centralized concourse with 20 gates, remodeled lobby, expanded baggage claim area and new ticketing wing. Hensel Phelps Construction Co. is the lead contractor on the project, which is scheduled for completion in 2014.
“There is some major airport work going on,” Papenfus says. “DFW Airport is looking at a complete renovation and improvement program, [which is] in the architect and contracting selection process.”
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport announced an eight-year, approximately $1.5-billion program to renovate the airport’s four original terminals. URS Corp. of Dallas was awarded a $20.75- million contract to provide preliminary design work. Construction is expected to start in early 2011, after that year’s Super Bowl in Arlington.
At the end of 2009, DFW Airport received a $2.3-million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant from the Federal Aviation Administration to rehabilitate a runway. The award represents the distribution of the last of the FAA’s recovery act dollars.
Joint-venture partners HDR Architecture of Dallas and Corgan Associates are working on designing the...
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