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...Parkland hospital’s $1.27-billion replacement facility in Dallas. The construction manager for the project is BARA, a joint-venture team of Balfour Beatty Construction, Austin Commercial, H.J. Russell & Co. and Azteca Enterprises, all of Dallas. The program controls manager is CH2M HILL Enterprise Management Solutions of Dallas.
Dallas Independent School District remains on track to build and renovate schools as part of a $1.35-billion bond program approved in 2008.
“That will be the most important to our industry because it will not be just one or two contractors [being awarded the work],” Roussell says.
Highway work continues with more big projects expected to break ground this year. W.W. Webber began construction in March on a $56-million project for the Texas Dept. of Transportation, adding new bridges and ramps at State Highway 360 and Division Street in Arlington. W.W. Webber also is working on TxDOT’s $143.8-million IH-30 Mobility Improvement Project, also in Arlington. It is scheduled for completion by the end of the year.
TxDOT anticipates LBJ Development Partners of Austin, a consortium of Cintra of Spain and Meridiam Infrastructure of France, will begin construction in mid-2010 on the $4-billion, 13-mi new LBJ/IH- 635 Expansion Project.
The North Texas Toll Authority approved a design-build contract late last year with Prairie Link Constructors, a joint venture between Fluor EPCM Services of Irving and Balfour Beatty Infrastructure of Atlanta, to complete the $414-million, 6.5-mi, phase four State Highway 161 project. The bid was 32% below the authority’s estimate of $610 million, according to a report in Engineering News-Record.
Private work continues But not all of the activity involves public dollars.
Turner broke ground in late 2009 on the $130-million, 712,000-sq-ft Deloitte University, a learning and leadership development center in Westlake, just north of the DFW airport. It includes an 800-room hotel with a conference and training facility.
“Deloitte University will be where our people meet, learn industry knowledge and develop as business leaders, so we needed a location that could help us to realize that vision,” Blaine Nelson, managing partner of Deloitte’s North Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma practice in Dallas, says in an e-mail. “Westlake was chosen because of its central U.S. geographic location, proximity to DFW airport and nearly year-round comfortable climate.”
Also near DFW airport, Jackson-Shaw of Dallas is developing Parc 114, a multiphased, flex-warehouse project in Irving.
“DFW airport sustains and grows businesses, and there is a huge market for traditional warehouse...
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