Structure Tone Southwest Earns National Excellence in Construction Award

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Structure Tone Southwest’s work on Vitol’s new Houston, Texas headquarters has earned the company a National Excellence in Construction Pyramid Award from Associated Builders and Contractors in the “Commercial” project category. Designed by PDR, Vitol’s sophisticated new 60,000-square-foot Houston, Texas office included challenging custom features from a construction point of view, ranging from raised flooring to house data infrastructure and fluted columns, to a double-height, custom ceiling and a specially commissioned architectural sculpture built onsite during construction. ABC’s Excellence in Construction awards program is the industry’s leading competition, developed to honor innovative and high-quality merit shop construction projects, with an … Read more

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Northwest Light Rail Extension Receives Alliant Build America Awards

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TEMPE, Ariz. – The Northwest Light Rail Extension was recently honored with two 2017 Alliant Build America Awards during the Associated General Contractors of America Annual Convention. The awards honor AGC members who build the nation’s most impressive construction projects ranging across the building, highway and transportation, utility infrastructure and federal and heavy divisions. The Northwest Extension was honored in the New Highway and Transportation category and in the Marvin M. Black Partnering Excellence category. Sundt/Stacy and Witbeck, a joint venture of Sundt Construction, Inc., and Stacy and Witbeck, completed the 3.2-mile extension to the Valley Metro light rail system … Read more

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PREMIER Design + Build Group Leads Construction of 650,000-SF Distribution Center

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ITASCA, Ill. – The latest addition to Commerce Farms Industrial Park in Lebanon, Tennessee will be a distribution facility built for businesses in growth mode. Commerce Farms V will be a 650,000-square-foot speculative standout industrial building in a massive 145-acre park that already hosts four other fully leased warehouse facilities. HSA Commercial Real Estate is developing the project and, as the project’s general contractor, PREMIER Design + Build Group, LLC will ensure that their vision becomes a reality. The facility will occupy 41 acres of the 145-acre park and be located at Highway 109 near the busy I-40 and I-40 … Read more

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Linbeck Group Constructs Project for The University of Texas at Austin

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HOUSTON/Austin, Texas – Linbeck Group, LLC, has begun building Austin by Ellsworth Kelly, the artist’s gift to the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin. Deemed by some his most monumental work, Linbeck is constructing the project that includes the installation of 18 pieces of art each designed by the internationally acclaimed artist. Austin, titled for the city in which it is located, is the first and only freestanding building the artist designed. It will be the keystone of the Blanton’s permanent collection and is positioned at the fulcrum point between the University of Texas proper … Read more

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Lifting Gear Hire to Build Momentum on Lift & Move USA Careers Program

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Lifting Gear Hire will host the fifth Lift & Move USA careers event at its Bridgeview, Illinois facility in the Chicago, Illinois area on May 3 and it is expecting more than 800 students and veterans to attend. Lift & Move USA aims to inspire and educate the next generation of drivers, mechanics, welders, crane operators, safety specialists, CAD design engineers and riggers (ironworkers). As many as 2,000 students and veterans have already benefitted from the program and the LGH event in May promises to be one of the largest yet. Host company LGH, which rents a wide range of … Read more

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