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Healthy Hospitals 11/01/2009 With baby boomers now in their 60s and a round of hospitals built in the 1950s outdated, billions of dollars will be spent in the United States over the next decade. |
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Hess Tower and Energy Center I & II 11/01/2009 When it opens in summer 2010, the Hess Tower in Houston, a 29-story, 845,000-sq-ft office building, will have 10 wind turbines on the roof to capture wind energy and meet some of the building’s power needs. |
| 11/01/09 | Green Team Texas leaders from the design community, academia and government will present sessions at the U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild International Conference & Expo in Phoenix this month. |
| 11/01/09 | Teaching Green Sustainable building improves performance by both students and teachers, which is a huge selling point for school boards and school districts. |
| 11/01/09 | LWPB’s Historic Office Aims for LEED-Silver LWPB Architecture of Oklahoma City wanted to go green when it opened a branch office in Norman, and it ended up going historic as well. |
| 11/01/09 | Building With Care: Texas’ Health Care Market Remains Vital Even though the recession has hurt the Texas health-care market, numerous jobs are moving forward. |
| 10/01/09 | Texas' 2009 Top Design Firms Although the number of new projects has declined due to tight financial markets and the recession, several Texas Top Design Firms finished 2008 in good shape and continue working on projects. |
| 10/01/09 | Going Up While the recession has hampered new high-rise starts, several continue rising skyward, and at least one, the $180-million, 850,000-sq-ft, 35-story, mixed-use Block 21/The W Hotel in Austin, broke ground last year. |
| 10/01/09 | Ranking of Texas' Top Design Firms In this year’s Top Design ranking, URS Corp. takes the No. 1 spot, with more than $342.3 million in Texas billings during 2008. |
| 10/01/09 | South Texas Report While parts of the region continue to recover from Hurricane Ike, one year after the storm K-12 and university work continue to be strong building sectors in South Texas. |
| 09/01/09 | Soil, Steel Issues Slow Bridge Project Even though the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has required more soil testing at the site of the future Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, construction continues on other portions of the structure, which is part of the Trinity River Corridor Project. |
09/01/09 | Intelligent Compaction Is on a Roll Nationwide research is firming up the case for "intelligent" compaction, or IC, a construction method three decades in the making that could save billions of dollars a year in potholed roads, cracked bridges, broken dams and blown-out tires. |
09/01/09 | Midcontinent Express Expands Neither the recession nor the rain could stop work on a 507-mi natural gas pipeline from Oklahoma to Alabama that was scheduled at press time to start full service this month after a whirlwind 11-month construction sprint. |
09/01/09 | Feeling the Recession - East Texas builders welcome work While not as slow as other places in the country, Houston and East Texas contractors are seeing a decline in new private projects. |
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