Hoar Construction - Fri December 28, 2018
Caydon's Houston High Rise Tops Out
Caydon's first United States high rise, at 2850 Fannin St., is nearly a year away from adding 357 luxury units in a rejuvenating neighborhood of Midtown. The new residential tower, which has topped out, overlooks downtown Houston and brings new retail and restaurants to the area, including Houston's first Flying Biscuit Café....
ARTBA - Fri December 28, 2018
TxDOT Adopts ARTBA Safety Program
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has made a major commitment toward improving safety in and around the state's roadway construction work zones. The agency has become the first in the nation to help hundreds of its employees earn the "Safety Certification for Transportation Project Professionals" (SCTPP) credential endorsed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)....
Texas Department of Transportation - Fri December 28, 2018
USDOT Awards TxDOT $50M for Road Improvements in Permian Basin
The Texas Department of Transportation was awarded $50 million in federal grants to pay for critical improvements needed to address safety and connectivity in the booming Permian Basin. Through its Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Transportation grants, the U.S....
University of Texas at Austin - Fri December 28, 2018
McConaughey 'Minister of Culture' at New $338M UT Arena
The University of Texas at Austin (UT) and a group led by the Oak View Group (OVG) will build a world-class arena on campus that will be home to Texas Men's and Women's basketball games, graduations, concerts and other events....
Chuck Harvey – CEG Correspondent - Fri December 28, 2018
Construction Moves Ahead on $270M Frisco Hospital
The Texas Health Hospital being constructed in Frisco, Texas, will be much more than a typical hospital. It is referred to as a medical campus because it will have a hospital and medical office building and it will share the site with Texas Health and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center....
Apple - Wed December 19, 2018
Apple Invests $1B in Austin Campus
Apple announced a major expansion of its operations in Austin, Texas, on Dec. 13 including an investment of $1 billion to build a new campus in North Austin. The company also announced plans to establish new sites in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, Calif., and expand in cities across the United States including Pittsburgh, New York and Boulder, Colo., over the next three years, with the potential for additional expansion elsewhere in the United States over time....
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers - Wed December 19, 2018
Ritchie Bros. Sells More Than $60M of Equipment in Texas
Ritchie Bros. finished strong with its tenth and final Texas auction of 2018, selling more than 4,150 equipment items and trucks for more than $60 million in Fort Worth over two days. More than 5,850 people from 58 countries registered to bid in the Dec....
Link-Belt Cranes - Thu December 06, 2018
Ed Bell Construction Modernizes Fleet with New Link-Belt 75RT
Since 1963, Ed Bell Construction Inc. of Dallas, Texas, has been a concrete paving enterprise in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. In the early 2000s the company expanded into bridge work, utilizing an existing fleet of 50-ton rough terrain cranes and heavy haul transport trailers to mobilize its crane fleet to its fullest extent for both paving and bridge construction....
Chuck Harvey – CEG Correspondent - Wed December 05, 2018
Phase 2 of $1.28B Grand Parkway Project Begins
Work is under way on an $894 million design-build Grand Parkway Project segments H, I-1 and I-2 on SH 99 from U.S. 59 to I-10 northeast of Houston. It is considered the second phase of the Grand Parkway Project....
CEG - Wed December 05, 2018
Hugo Construction Makes the Cut — With Proper Machines
When cutting trenches for new pipelines in the Permian Basin, caliche rock combined with daunting oil company deadlines pose challenges to even the most seasoned trenching companies — so how would a relative newcomer to trenching work tackle the job?"We are out there cutting through caliche rock at a rate of 2,000 feet per day … faster than a lot of competitors," said Stephen Elliott, superintendent and part owner of Hugo Construction....
