McCarthy Grows Aviation Portfolio with Helisim Project

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McCarthy Building Companies is working with HPM Leadership and Airbus Helicopters Inc. and Helisim (a French joint venture of Airbus, Thales AVS and DCI), to build a helicopter pilot simulation training center in Grand Prairie, Texas. The Helisim Simulation Center is the company’s first helicopter training facility in North America and serves as its North American headquarters. McCarthy broke ground in May 2019, topped out last month and is expected to complete the project March 2020. The 18,000-square-foot training facility will house two helicopter flight simulators, the first Level D full-motion flight simulators in North America for Airbus H145 and … Read more

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Ground Broken for Columbus Crew MLS Stadium

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Ground was recently broken for the new downtown Columbus Crew Major League Soccer Stadium, located in Ohio and set to open in July 2021. Turner Construction Company and joint venture partner Smoot Construction Company are providing the Design-Build services for the 460,000-square-foot facility, which will serve as the home to the Columbus Crew Soccer Club. With the new owners, project team members and a number of city officials on stage at the groundbreaking ceremony, as well as nearly 4,300 Black & Gold fans in attendance, the festivities were held at the stadium’s new location, which will move the team from … Read more

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New Natural Resources Headquarters Tops Out

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The New Natural Resources Headquarters project in Sacramento, California topped out with its last piece of structural steel at 344 feet. The 22-story office tower will be the new headquarters for the State of California Natural Resources Agency. The project team included Turner Construction Company and Design-Build partners, AC Martin; members from Turner Engineering Group and design consultants, trade partners and owners group. The project, which will be Sacramento’s tallest building since 2009, broke ground one year ago, and has been making an impression in the city ever since. Turner has been ensuring minimal impacts to the busy downtown community, … Read more

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5 Ways to Prepare for a Design-Build Project

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By Joe Putnam Imagine this: You’re finishing up a successful project, and your vice president walks in with a new opportunity. This one will use Design-Build – your first with that delivery method. How do you prepare for it? Is it any different, or is all that fuss just for the preconstruction teams to hammer out? Design-Build doesn’t change your role as a superintendent, but it does affect how you go about working with your team and other contractors on a jobsite. Here are five ways to prepare for that Design-Build job. Input is important, especially early Every time you … Read more

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Progressive Design-Build Water Treatment Plant Project Underway in Texas

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In order to meet the needs of a growing population and to shift from reliance on groundwater to surface water as the source for its drinking water, the city of Houston and four regional water authority partners are undertaking a 320 million gallons per day $1.765-billion Design-Build expansion of the Northeast Water Purification Plant. It is the largest progressive Design-Build water treatment plant project underway in Texas and in the United States. McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., through the Houston Waterworks Team, was awarded three separate contracts on the project—the early works central plant foundations package, which broke ground in June … Read more

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