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Cook Children’s Health Care System Explores IPD for Office Project
12/12/11 By Debra Wood
Health-care system and its designer, builder, consultants and specialty contractors put trust in each other to share risks and rewards.

Rendering courtesy of Cook Children's Health Care System

ENR Texas & Louisiana Best Projects Completed in the Past Year
12/12/11 By Bruce Buckley
ENR Texas and Louisiana honors 27 examples of excellence.

Photo courtesy Perkins+Will

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12/12/11	A Meticulous Renovation For New Orleans Garrison Historic New Orleans garrison wins Best Project award in the renovation/restoration category.
12/12/11	Anderson-Alkek Center Faced Host of Challenges University of Texas MD Anderson Alkek project comprised a 12-story vertical expansion above the operating 12-story hospital and a new 24-story elevator tower.
12/12/11	Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center The Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center wins award of merit in the health-care category.
12/12/11	Botanical Research Institute Is a Flowering Achievement Botanical Research Institute of Texas in Fort Worth used renewable materials and captures 91% of stormwater runoff.
12/12/11	Building Team Raises the Roof for MD Anderson Hospital Expansion By Debra Wood Project design and construction gain award as Texas & Louisiana Best Overall Project in 2011.
12/12/11	Chalmette Cultural Arts Center, Chalmette, La. Chalmette Cultural Arts Center wins Award of Merit in the K-12 category.
12/12/11	Children's Hospital Puts A New Twist on the Tower Texas Children’s Hospital Jan & Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, the world’s first center for treatment of children’s neurological disorders, came in ahead of schedule and under budget.
12/12/11	Dallas Chapel Brings to Life Johnson's Final Design Based on a sketch by the late Philip Johnson, the interfaith center overcame site and design challenges to realize a clean safety record and on-budget, on-time project delivery.
12/12/11	Expansion Blurs the Line Between Old and New Texas church wins Best Small Project award.
12/12/11	Green Convention Center A First for City of Irving Building reached LEED-Silver target, had an innovative foundation system and was city’s first built under a green building mandate.
12/12/11	High-End Finishes Meet Sustainable Design Dallas academy wins Best Project award in the K-12 category.
12/12/11	Lake Pontchartrain & Vicinity (LPV) 149 Caernarvon Floodwall, St. Bernard Parish, La. New Orleans storm control system wins Award of Merit in the Civil/Infrastructure category.
12/12/11	LEAN Techniques Help Deliver Learning Center Turner Construction implements advanced techniques and systems throughout the construction process to meet aggressive goals.
12/12/11	Massive Remodel Meets Aggressive Schedule Dallas headquarters building wins Best Project award in the office category.
12/12/11	MD Anderson Cancer Center Pickens Tower and Faculty Center MD Anderson Cancer Center Pickens Tower and Faculty Center matches current needs with future flexibility.
12/12/11	Methodist West Houston Hospital Methodist West Houston Hospital wins Award of Merit in the health-care category.
12/12/11	New Orleans Floodwall Sets Record for Corps The largest design-build civil works construction project in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers history, the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Surge Barrier in New Orleans is designed to provide a robust and sustainable post-Katrina flood-protection system for the city and surrounding area.
12/12/11	Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Church Renovations and Shrine Addition Houston church wins Award of Merit in the Cultural/Worship category.
12/12/11	Project Team Serves Up Eco-Friendly Food Facility Food processing plant wins Best Project award in the industrial/manufacturing category.
12/12/11	San Antonio International Airport, Terminal B San Antonio International Airport wins Award of Merit in the transportation category.
12/12/11	Scaffold Secures Success Of Capitol Dome Repairs Texas State Capitol dome and roof repairs win Best Project award in the specialty contracting category.
12/12/11	Teams Keep Passengers Moving During Renovation Houston airport renovation wins Best Project award in the transportation category.
12/12/11	Teamwork on Display at Houston Zoo Project Houston Zoo facility wins Best Project award in the landscape/hardscape/urban development category.
12/12/11	Texas A&M University Agriculture Headquarters Building Texas A&M Agricultural Headquarters Building wins Award of Merit in the higher education/research category.
12/12/11	Texas State Technical College University Center The two-story, 38,000-sq-ft University Center, located on the former Harlingen Air Force Base, wins Award of Merit in the green building category.
12/12/11	U.S. Custom House Tenant Improvements National Historic Landmark wins Award of Merit in the renovation/restoration category.
12/12/11	Ultra Electronics Showcases Transformation Ultra Electronics building wins Award of Merit in the interior design/tenant improvement category.
12/12/11	University of Texas at Dallas, Student Services Building First LEED-Platinum higher-education building in Texas wins Award of Merit in the green building category.
10/17/11	Concrete Crews Decipher Puzzling Perot Project By Debra Wood Creating an unusual textured look at Dallas’ Perot Museum of Nature and Science requires a complex set of precast panels.
10/17/11	Texas Children’s Hospital Adds a Pavilion for Women to the Facility Family By Debra Wood The Pavilion for Women is a $575-million facility that will bring maternity and neonatal care capabilities to the hospital. Taking the pavilion from conception to birth is the most ambitious construction project in the hospital's history and the centerpiece of its $1.5-billion Vision 2010 expansion program.
08/15/11	Demoed Lake Pontchartrain Bridge Keeps on Giving By Angelle Bergeron The demolished I-10 Twin Span bridges have been repurposed to create a new fishing pier and two artificial reefs that will provide habitat for marine life and protect shoreline.
08/15/11	I-10 Twin Spans Speed Relief Over Lake Pontchartrain By Angelle Bergeron The Interstate 10 Twin Spans, one of Louisiana’s largest projects, is scheduled to wrap up nearly one year early thanks to an efficient design and streamlined approvals.
06/13/11	Corgan Diversifies, Comes Out Ahead By Debra Wood Aviation, mission-critical and a high-profile health-care project are among the work that has boosted Corgan’s already impressive portfolio
06/13/11	Texas Schools Harvest Energy—and Educate By Debra Wood In three school districts, three new schools will save energy and teach students about sustainability; one will be the state’s first net-zero school
06/13/11	The Annual Top Design List Features More Than 70 Firms The following rankings are based on revenue reported by participating firms from their previous calendar or fiscal year for work performed in Texas and Louisiana
04/18/11	Changing Markets Push LNG Toward Export By Pam Radtke Russell The sudden abundance of natural gas in the U.S. has owners of two new, but practically unused, liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals in Louisiana and Texas proposing expensive conversions to export the fuel—an unthinkable proposition just five years ago.
04/18/11	Public Projects Dominate Top Starts By Eileen Schwartz and Debra Wood While public projects dominate Texas and Louisiana's more than $10 billion in Top Starts for 2010, a smattering of private jobs also were able to secure enough backing to move forward.
04/18/11	ENR Texas & Louisiana's Owner of the Year By Angelle Bergeron By June 1, when the 2011 hurricane season starts, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its industry and municipal partners will have delivered the bulk of a $14.6-billion program to provide New Orleans and surrounding parishes with what they say will be the best flood protection ever.
04/18/11	Powerplant Upgrades Test New Technology By Debra Wood A$400-million wet flue gas desulfurization (FGD) project now under way at the Fayette Power Project near La Grange, Texas, will remove about 97% of sulfur dioxide emissions from the plant's two units and allow the 1,200-MW facility to meet permitting obligations.
04/18/11	Water Treatment Plant Provides New Big Gulp By Debra Wood Austin's $508-million Water Treatment Plant No. 4 required engineers and contractors to creatively address a host of environmental concerns to ensure that the city could provide enough water for its growing population through the century.
02/14/11	Texas Capitol Repairs Squeezed for Time By Eileen Schwartz and Debra Wood The construction manager for the $3.5-million partial rehabilitation of the 122-year-old Texas State Capitol in Austin was under a strict deadline—the job had to be completed in seven months.
01/24/11	The 2010 Best of the Best: Texas and Louisiana Winners From more than 1,500 submissions, including museums, airports, parks and hospitals, the special panel of judges picked the country’s 21 top projects of 2010. Find out who the winners were in our region.
12/01/10	Best of 2010 Congratulations to the winning teams that built the projects presented on the following pages. Texas Construction is proud to bring its readers the results of our annual awards competition in this feature dedicated to the 14th annual Best Of program. We also wish to thank our jurors, without whose careful consideration of nearly more than 175 entries the program would not be possible
11/01/10	Greening Texas Schools By Bruce Buckley With more than a decade of data on sustainability documented at pilot projects around the state, Texas school districts are buying into the promise of green building for K-12 facilities in a big way.
11/2010	Parkland: A ‘Hospital for the Future’ By Debra Wood When an ambulance rushed fatally wounded President John F. Kennedy to Parkland Hospital in Dallas in 1963, the facility sported the latest equipment and a skilled team of clinicians.
11/01/10	Oklahoma City Defies Recession By Eileen Schwartz with Debra Wood In a boom defying the national bust, Oklahoma City is witnessing approximately $2 billion worth of public and private development.
10/01/10	High-Rise Peaks By Debra Wood Even during the recession, a few high-rise projects are under construction in Texas and Oklahoma, but those either started before the economic meltdown or are funded with the help of public dollars.
09/01/10	Bridge Building Buzzing By Debra Wood Texas and Oklahoma are in the midst of building bridges and implementing replacement and rehabilitation programs, many of which are projects fueled by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
09/01/10	Storm of Contracts By Angelle Bergeron Contractors can anticipate a flurry of projects over the next year as the Texas Dept. of Rural Affairs (TDRA) awards $1.5 billion in public projects to rebuild areas hit hard by hurricanes Dolly and Ike.
06/01/10	Top Project Starts - 1 to 25 Top Project Starts - 26 to 55 Twenty-five projects out of the 55 that made the list of our annual Top Projects Starts are listed on the following pages in order of total construction cost.
06/01/10	Southern Methodist University Projects By Debra Wood Donation-supported, new projects keep moving forward at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
05/01/10	A River Runs Through It By Angelle Bergeron By fall, kayakers will enjoy the new waterfalls and whitewater in the Trinity River as part of the recreation portion of the $2.5- to $3-billion city of Dallas Trinity River Corridor project that is 20 mi long and...
05/01/10	Brushy Creek Among New Water Treatment Plants By Debra Wood The water will pass through several open flocculation, sedimentation and filtration basins, a disinfection system and an enclosed clear well. An elevated storage tank will hold water ready for distribution.
04/01/10	Mixed-Use Projects a Mixed Bag By Debra Wood The 125 Texas firms in our 15th annual Top Contractor rankings collectively billed about $24 billion in the state in 2009, a decrease of about $1 billion reported from the 2008, when we listed an additional five...
03/01/10	Pacific War Museum By Angelle Bergeron When Joe Cavanaugh talks about Pearl Harbor, Bataan, Midway and other focal points of World War II in the Pacific Theater, it takes a moment to realize he isn’t referring to the actual historic locations but...
03/01/10	Lorenzo de Zavala Archives and Library Building By Angelle Bergeron The recently completed $15.5-million renovation of the Lorenzo de Zavala Archives and Library Building in Austin means documents and artifacts that illustrate Texas’ rich history are now better protected and...
03/01/10	Historical Fort Sam Houston Made Modern By Angelle Bergeron About two dozen buildings at Fort Sam Houston, some dating back almost as early as the post’s 1876 origin, are being transformed into modern, energy-efficient offices, barracks and other facilities for...

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