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Features - August 2006
Top Specialty Contractors - Break through Mid-Decade Slump

This year’s Top Specialty Contractors list shows the state's specialty contractors gave a stellar collective performance for the annual ranking, with 126 firms reporting overall in-state revenue of more than $3.7 billion in 2005. Full Story >>

Top Specialty Contractors List >>

Prime Times

Texas Specialty Contractors Benefiting From Healthy Economy. It's good times in the construction business in the Lone Star State, as our roundup of Texas' top specialty contractors attests.
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Spotlight on Concrete

Concrete continues to shape projects around the state, from a deluxe parking facility in Houston and an expanded heart hospital in Clear Lake to a water-treatment plant in North Texas. And it remains the choice material for highways including new roads and structures along the Central Texas corridor, where liquid nitrogen looks like the cool solution for beating heat problems with concrete. Full Strory >>

More Related Stories:

Garage Mahal:
University of Houston Ramps Up with New Parking Facility. Full Story >>

Refined Design at Clear Lake:
Hospital Adds Two Floors After Fourth Level Complete. Full Story >>

Concrete Forms and Secures:
North Texas Plant Takes Water Treatment Indoors. Full Story >>

Beating the Heat:
Concrete Gets Even Cooler Thanks to Liquid Nitrogen. Full Story >>

Canvassing With Concrete:
Ribbons of Concrete Roads Wind Through Central Texas. Full Story >>



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