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Features - August 2005

A Victory for Dallas

The W Dallas Victory Hotel and Residences, slated to open in spring 2006, will rise 33 stories above Dallas' up-and-coming master-planned urban development known as Victory Park. Full Story>>


Texas Construction's Top Specialty Contractors

Texas Construction's annual Top Specialty Contractors list shows that several firms moved up in the rankings this year and 10 firms were added to the list. But overall revenue reported for 2004 was about the same as a year earlier. Full Story>> Top Specialty Contractors List>>


River Beds

With the completion of the new Riverwalk Suites Hotel, San Antonio will offer more accommodations to its many visitors on some of the city's choicest real estate and one of Texas' most popular tourist destinations -the River Walk. Full Story>>


Science Projects

Biotechnology is the manipulation of living organisms (as through
genetic engineering) or their components to produce (usually) commercial products. Nanotechnology is the art of manipulating materials on an atomic or molecular scale especially to build microscopic devices (as robots). And it doesn't take a microscope to see the role construction is playing in these high-tech, scientific study areas.
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Pedal to the Metal

From a distance it may look like a large barn in the middle of a field. But don't look for longhorns to roll off the line when production starts at Toyota's new truck manufacturing plant in San Antonio. Full Story>>

 

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