Construction Begins on Forsyth Pointe Mixed-Use Development in Missouri

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Construction has started on Forsyth Pointe, a mixed-use development in the central business district of Clayton, Missouri, the county seat of St. Louis County. McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. is the construction manager overseeing all construction work, including the delivery of self-perform concrete services on the cast-in-place building foundations, elevator cores and parking structure. Developed by US Capital Development and totaling nearly 1 million square feet, the Design-Build project includes two Class A office towers—the east tower at 10 stories and 265,000 square feet and the west tower at eight stories and 210,000 square feet—with more than 20,000 square feet of … Read more

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Construction Milestone Reached on Plano ISD Fine Arts Center Project

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An important milestone in the construction of the Plano ISD Fine Arts Center, located in Plano, Texas, has recently been reached with the completion of the project’s architectural concrete walls. The tall and carefully designed walls are focal points that the rest of the center’s design was largely based upon. McCarthy Building Companies, the general contractor, is self-performing the concrete work in this facility that features a 1,500-seat multi-purpose performance hall with an upper-level balcony and lower-level orchestra pit, a 250-seat studio black box theater, a rehearsal studio for music and dance and a visual arts gallery. The concrete package … Read more

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History Unearthed at San Pedro Creek Culture Park

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It’s common for Texans to “Remember the Alamo!” with the Spanish mission being by far the most storied landmark in San Antonio, if not the entire state. However, there are many other parts of San Antonio’s 300-year past that also bear remembering. Sometimes it just takes some digging—with historical records or, in the Sundt-Davila joint-venture project team’s case, a Cat 308 mini excavator—to bring them to the public’s attention. During earth work on what will be a public entertainment plaza, part of Phase 1.2 of the San Pedro Creek Culture Park project, the project team recently uncovered the foundation of … Read more

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Joint Venture Begins Construction on Port of Entry Modernization, Expansion Project

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Atkinson/Clark, a joint venture of Guy F. Atkinson Construction and Clark Construction Group, recently began on the Otay Mesa Land Port of Entry Modernization and Expansion project. Being developed by the U.S. General Services Administration, the project will help modernize and expand California’s busiest commercial truck border crossing to address dramatic growth in traffic volumes. One of three ports of entry for commercial and pedestrian travelers between San Diego and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, the Otay Mesa Land Port of Entry processes 1 million trucks, 6.6 million vehicles, 3.6 million pedestrian travelers, $18 billion worth of exports and $34 billion worth of … Read more

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Virtual Mock-Ups, VR Lead Way to Delivery of Medical Examiner Facility

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Construction has been completed on a new 32,000-square-foot, single-story medical examiner facility, located in Olathe, Kansas. The building was designed to increase autopsy rates to meet appropriate national benchmarks, create a high-functioning facility that can be known for excellence and leadership, facilitate National Association of Medical Examiners accreditation by meeting scientific requirements and provide reliable data for public health to identify trends and emerging diseases. The project team included construction manager McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., PGAV Architects, SmithGroup JJR, Henderson Engineering, McClure Engineering and Confluence. The facility will have a staff of eight, including toxicologists, a medical death investigator, autopsy … Read more

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