Texas Business reports:  BRYAN—Construction of a facility to preserve library resources of Texas A&M University and The University of Texas System is set to begin in June near Bryan, Texas, following formal approval of a $6.3 million appropriation for the project.

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—Satterfield & Pontikes Construction Inc. recently completed construction of a new Park and Ride facility at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Victory Lakes campus in League City.

Texas Business reports: STEPHENVILLE, Texas—Tarleton facilities planning officials are gearing up for a $2.4 million construction project that will transform the western edge of the Stephenville campus—the Rome Street Redevelopment project.

Texas Business reports:  A Desoto firm won a $7.5 million Fort Hood defense project, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Michigan firm won a $9.5 million contract to build an electronic maintenance facility at Fort Bliss, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports:  An El Paso firm  won $9.8 million construction contract at Fort Bliss, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports: A San Antonio firm won a $16 million contract to build a Florida reserve center, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Fort Hood construction contract was awarded to an Alabama firm, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

Texas Business reports: DALLAS— Despite the budget crisis endured by school districts across Texas, the  Dallas Independent School District awarded a contract to Satterfield & Pontikes Construction, Inc. (S&P) to build the new Thelma Elizabeth Page Richardson Elementary School in southeast Dallas.

Texas Business reports: CHARLOTTE, N.C.— Bonsal American, Inc., an Oldcastle company, acquired the TXI Package Products business of TXI Operations, LP, a subsidiary of Texas Industries, Inc., which is based in Dallas, Texas.

Texas Business reports: PASADENA, California—Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. won a contract to provide Project Management Consulting (PMC) services for a new pipe rolling mill near Corpus Christi, Texas for Tianjin Pipe Corporation (TPCO).

Texas Business reports:  THE WOODLANDS, Texas—CB&I won a contract valued at about US$300 million, by Williams Olefins LLC for a petrochemicals expansion project in Geismar, Louisiana.

Texas Business reports: AUSTIN—The Texas Facilities Commission (TFC) awarded a Construction Manager at Risk contract to Satterfield & Pontikes Construction Inc. for the exterior envelope replacement of the Robert D. Moreton building in Austin.

Texas Business reports:  A San Antonio firm received a $30 million contract to rebuild and renovate projects in the Northwestern United States for the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

 Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON— NASA selected four Texas companies to perform architecture and engineering services at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—Satterfield & Pontikes Construction Inc. (S&P) reached a significant project milestone on its renovation of Building 427 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and will celebrate with a topping out event on March 28.

Texas Business reports: Brahman Industrie LLC, developer of a tsunami and flood shelter system, has joined forces with Houston’s Martinez Marine Design Inc and Creative Systems Inc.

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—Satterfield & Pontikes Construction Inc. finished the large rebuilding project that replaced most of Meadow Wood Elementary School in west Houston.

Texas Business reports:  DALLAS—Satterfield & Pontikes Construction (S&P) took top honors in two categories at the Engineering News-Record (ENR) regional awards banquet held recently. S&P’s Kathlyn Joy Gilliam Collegiate Academy project in Dallas and Jackson Barracks project in New Orleans were selected as 2011 Best Projects in ENR’s Texas-Louisiana region. 

Texas Business reports:  ASCO Equipment acquired the Case Construction Equipment distributorship from Heritage Equipment for the Lubbock and Amarillo markets.

Texas Business reports:  Richardson— Hill & Wilkinson received the top green building award from Education Design Showcase for the LEED Platinum-certified UT Dallas Student Services Building.

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—The greater Houston area is one step closer to reduced traffic congestion for more than 2.5 million people as the Texas Department of Transportation accelerates plans for the completion of the next phase of State Highway 99, also known as the Grand Parkway.

Texas Business reports: A Dallas firm won a $9.4 million contract to design and build an Army maintenance facility in Corpus Christi.

 Texas Business reports:  SAN ANTONIO—Trammell Crow Company and USAA Real Estate Company are building a 700,000 square foot Class A speculative distribution facility at Mountain Creek Distribution Center in Carlisle, PA.

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN, Texas––The Texas Historical Commission (THC) announced Round VII grant recipients of its nationally recognized Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program.

Texas Business reports: A San Antonio firm won a $9 million contract to build a commissary, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  FORT WORTH—FWT LLC, a manufacturer in the design and fabrication of custom steel structures for the utility and telecommunications industry, plans to expand into Ohio through the purchase of a plant in the Village of Hicksville.

Texas Business reports:  LUBBOCK—Texas Tech University Rawls College of Business students return this week to a “greener” side of the fence as they enter a new building -- focused not on the landscaping, but on the environmentally acclaimed architecture of the new facility.

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON— Satterfield & Pontikes Construction Inc. completed $36.7 million in upgrades at several Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District campuses in northwest Houston.

Texas Business reports:  Satterfield & Pontikes Construction Inc. completed construction of three new Walmart Supercenters for about $37.8 million in Corpus Christi.

Texas Business reports:  An El Paso firm won a $19.4 million contract to build an army barracks, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—GreenWorld Restoration LLC (Greenworld) acquired intellectual property from Solaris Home Systems LLC (Solaris), a Florida Limited Liability Company, and the related manufacturing assets from Assistance Services International (ASI), a Mexico Corporation.

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—McCarthy Building Companies Inc., a Texas builder for 30 years, won the $24.9 million Wellborn Road Grade Separations project, marking McCarthy’s first project with The Texas A&M University System.

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—The Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, will begin work this month on a major redesign.

Texas Business reports:  HILLSBORO, Texas—Gate Precast Company has been selected by the Balfour Beatty / McCarthy joint venture design build team to provide a thermally efficient, pre-insulated, brick inlaid architectural precast concrete exterior wall system for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ replacement hospital at Fort Hood.

Texas Business reports:  SHERMAN—Austin College began the construction phase of its new IDEA Center, a science building designed for interactive learning and interdisciplinary studies.

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—KBR won a two-year contract extension for maintenance and construction services at three of Shell's Houston, Texas research centers: Westhollow Research Center, Bellaire Research Center and Gasmer Research Center. 

Texas Business reports:  A New York firm bought three Austin road building firms.

Texas Business reports:  An ambitious class of Texas Tech University landscape architecture students hopes to take its design concepts for the first African-American museum in West Texas from the drawing table to an actual East Lubbock landmark.

Texas Business reports:  COLORADO CITY—When the Colorado High School football team plays its home games, the school's new artificial turf field benefits the area in two ways: by conserving water and generating revenue.

The Lower Colorado River Authority's facility located on Lake Austin Boulevard is looking toward a more green building as costs rise. Photo by Lizzie Chen.

AUSTIN — One of the hottest summers on record and the prospect of higher electricity bills are giving a push to the green building movement in Central Texas.

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) recently announced winners of its 2011 Design Awards, and Satterfield & Pontikes Construction’s (S&P) National World War II Museum Phase IV Expansion project took top honors in the Public/Institutional category.

Texas Business reports:  An Austin firm won a $6.8 million contract change to design and build several projects at a U.S. base in the Horn of Africa, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  WACO—AT its annual Homecoming meeting today, the Baylor University board of regents approved $120 million in capital improvements, the largest investment in construction on the Baylor campus since the Baylor Sciences Building in 2004.

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—William P. Hobby Airport began a $6 million capital improvement project to its ticket-level entrance ramp that will impact thousands of customers who travel through Houston's second busiest airport.  

Texas Business reports:  JLG Structures, Inc. recently received LEED Gold certification for its   corporate office building in northwest Houston. The design and construction of the company’s 5,200-square-foot headquarters building earned 43 of 69 possible points under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) New Construction 2.2 guidelines to earn the Gold designation.

Texas Business reports:  A Desoto joint venture won a $7.2 million contract to build a military aerial cargo facility, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports: A Temple firm won a $33.8 million contract to build barracks in Missouri, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. 

Texas Business reports:   A Texas firm won a $45.8 million contract to build an airman dormitory, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  An El Paso firm won a $21 million contract for repair at an Ohio National Guard Base.

Texas Business reports:  Five Wichita Falls firms won an $81 million contract for construction at Sheppard Air Force base, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  Satterfield & Pontikes Construction Inc. (S&P) recently completed construction of the new $12.2 million Almeda Elementary School for the Houston Independent School District.

Texas Business reports: Texas State University-San Marcos will break ground for its new Center for Research Commercialization at a ceremony at 4 p.m. Wednesday.

Texas Business reports:  One of the most highly anticipated building projects in ACU's history becomes a reality today when the Royce and Pam Money Student Recreation and Wellness Center officially opens.

Texas Business reports: STEPHENVILLE—In a matter of minutes the Campus Corner, a popular hangout for Tarleton students in the 1930s and 40s, became a pile of rubble this week when a crew demolished the structure as part of an expansion of the Tarleton Alumni Center.

Texas Business reports:  A Dallas-area firm won a share of a $75 million contract with two other contractors to provide construction design and planning for the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—KBR won a contract from Zeon Chemicals (Zeon) to provide construction management and construction services for its Nitrile Rubber Plant Expansion project in Pasadena, Texas.

Texas Business reports: A San Antonio firm won a $646,000 contract to refurbish second floor corridors at a Kerrville veterans’ hospital, according to Federal Business Opportunities.

Texas Business reports:  DALLAS—The Dallas Business Unit of Satterfield & Pontikes Construction Inc. (S&P) recently completed construction of the Kathlyn Joy Gilliam Collegiate Academy in south Dallas.

Texas Business reports: HOUSTON—Satterfield & Pontikes Construction Inc. won 10 Wal-Mart projects totaling nearly $80 million this year.

Texas Business reports:  Fifteen Texas firms will share a $20 million contract for National Guard projects, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  AUSTIN—Satterfield & Pontikes Construction  Inc. (S&P) recently completed an extensive $10 million renovation of Jesse H. Jones Hall on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.

Texas Business reports:  An Austin firm won a share of a $40 million military construction contract with seven other contractors, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  Baylor University will build a $7 million indoor tennis practice facility, university officials announced.

Texas Business reports:  A Virginia firm won a $25 million contract to build a training center at Lackland Air Force Base.

Texas Business reports:   A Tuscola firm won a $9.4 million contract for base engineering services to be provided at Dyess Air Force Base, according to an award notice by the Federal Business Opportunities website.

Texas Business reports:  HOUSTON—NASA selected five firms for awards under a $400 million solicitation to perform large general construction projects.

Texas Business reports:  When an area has the same number of square miles as Dallas (340), one should expect a large number of roads to be paved.

A Gatesville firm won a $32.5 million Fort Hood paving contract, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports: Dallas—The Dallas Independent School District has awarded an $9.5-million contract to the Dallas Business Unit of Satterfield & Pontikes Construction, Inc. (S&P) to perform extensive renovations to Comstock Middle School, Burleson Elementary School, Thompson Learning Center, and Douglass Elementary School.

Texas Business reports:  Langston Construction Inc., a Ceco Building Systems builder in Lufkin, Texas, was recognized for achieving $250,000 in annual sales in 2008 at the recent Ceco 2011 National Business Meeting in Tampa, Florida.

Texas Business reports:  Arlington—A new, landmark gateway welcoming visitors to The University of Texas at Arlington is rising at UTA Boulevard and South Cooper Street.

Texas Business reports:  Lubbock—Texas Tech University broke ground on Wednesday on a new $45 million, 178,000-square-foot residence hall designed by BOKA Powell LLC, a designer of university housing and dining facilities. 

Fort Bliss

Texas Business reports: Fort Worth—A California firm won a $65 million piece of the $5 billion Fort Bliss expansion program.

Texas Business reports:  A Plano firm won a $14 million contract to build and renovate warehouses for the Israeli defense department, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) expanded its testing and investigative capabilities with the recent completion of its new crime lab in northwest Houston.

Texas Business reports:  An El Paso firm won a $457,000 contract to building the Midland probation offices.

Michael and Karen O’Connor Building,Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Texas Business reports:  The Dallas Business Unit of Satterfield & Pontikes Construction Inc. (S&P) recently completed construction of the new 76,000-square-foot Michael and Karen O’Connor Building on the campus of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

Kent R. Hance Chapel.

Texas Business reports:  The Texas Tech Chancellor gave at least half of a $3 million chapel to bear his name, the Kent R. Hance Chapel.

Texas Business reports:  The Dallas Business Unit of Satterfield & Pontikes Construction Inc. (S&P) was selected to build a $3.5 million Walmart Market in Midwest City, Oklahoma.

Texas Business reports:  Austin—ClimbTech, a maker of safety products for the industrial, commercial construction, military, and mining industries, introduced a series of new products aimed at these markets that use the company’s patent-pending technology.

Texas Business reports:  Austin—Motion Computing, a provider of tablet PCs and supporting mobility solutions, announced that Texas-based commercial contractor SpawGlass has implemented Motion F5v Tablet PCs as part of its enterprise-wide building information modeling (BIM) adoption strategy.

Texas Business reports:  BBVA Compass announced plans for the construction of a new eco-efficient corporate office building in Houston located at 2200 Post Oak Blvd.

Texas Business reports:  Satterfield & Pontikes Construction Inc. (S&P) began work at Bellaire High School to construct a new science wing and perform renovations to the existing school building.

Texas Business reports:  Texas Christian University’s (TCU) Mary Wright Admission Center in Fort Worth was one of the most significant construction projects of 2010, the Associated General Contractors of America recently announced.

Old Well Pulley. Photo by Karnegie Musa. Copyright 2011.

Texas Business reports: A recent grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) means residents of Fort Bend County, Texas, will no longer have to contend with bad taste, odor, and color in their drinking water. 

Abilene Building Permits For February 2011

Texas Business reports:  The U.S. Census Bureau released information on buildings permits issued in Abilene during February 2011.     

Texas Business reports:  Austin—The assets of Austin-based Wilshire Homes have been acquired by MHI Central Texas LLC, an affiliate of McGuyer Homebuilders Inc. (MHI), a major private homebuilder that builds in all major Texas markets.

Texas Business reports:  Houston—The Linbeck Group LLC recently “topped out” $33 million, 197,000 square foot expansion of the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

Texas Business reports:  A San Antonio architectural firm won a $6 million contract to provide architectural and engineering services for a new U.S. courthouse.

Transit Mix Concrete & Materials Company

Texas Business reports:  Trinity Industries Inc. acquired through its subsidiary, Trinity Materials Inc.,  certain aggregates operations of Texas Industries Inc. that serve markets in Texas and Louisiana.

Texas Business reports:  An Ohio firm bought a San Antonio home building outfit as it expands its reach into the Texas market.

Ann Richards Middle School, Dallas I.S.D.

Texas Business reports: Construction has begun on the new $29.4 million Ann Richards Middle School in east Dallas.

Texas Business reports:  The North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) and Collin County announced that they have reached agreement on a framework for the development of all future turnpike projects in the county, including a tollway that will one day form a portion of a ring project around North Texas.

Texas Business reports:  Houston Ballet's new Center for Dance will open Saturday, April 9 at 601 Preston Street in the heart of downtown Houston's Theater District. 

Turkey Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility

Texas Business reports:  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $485,000 to the City of Bryan to replace the aging and deteriorating Turkey Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. 

Texas Business reports:  A new museum under construction was “topped out” at the height of its structure.

Texas Business reports:  An Austin firm won a $6.6 million order to design and build an water plant at a Navy base in Djibouti. 

Texas Business reports:  As part of the $9.4 million infrastructure contract to support the construction of the new Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center here, approximately five miles of “duct banks” are being dug beneath the grounds of the existing hospital parking area to distribute 3,500 telephones lines and fiber optic cables.

Texas Business reports:  The United States Postal Service awarded a contract not to exceed $9.5 million for architect and engineer services for the Dallas area.

Texas Business reports: A Florida firm will receive $29.6 million addition to the 2007 $556 million contract to design and build the San Antonio Military Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.  

Texas Business reports:  A Utah firm won a $41,000 contract to demolish a Coast Guard barracks building in Galveston.

Texas Business reports:  Sugar Land selected on Jan. 13 Barton Malow/Linbeck as the preferred design/build contractor for the construction of a minor league baseball stadium northeast of State Highway 6 and U.S. Highway 90A.

 Texas Business reports:  A Swiss firm bought out  the rest of a Texas materials firm.

Texas Business reports:  A Kentucky firm won an $8.4 million contract to build fuel storage structures in El Paso. 

Texas Business reports:  A Houston firm won a multiyear repair contract for the city’s airports.

Texas Business reports: Pennsylvania-based Post Acute Medical plans a groundbreaking ceremony this week for two new hospitals in San Antonio. 

Texas Business reports:  An Odessa firm and an El Paso Firm won shares in a $34 million contract to remediate lead paint and mold from Fort Bliss.

Troops at Camp Lemmonier

Texas Business reports:  An Austin firm won a $7.1 million contract modification for building a dining room at a Djibouti camp installation, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.

Texas Business reports:  3000 Skyline Dallas, a 750,000-square-foot data center development in Mesquite, has been completed, officials announced. 

Texas Business reports:   Fry Construction, a medical imaging design and construction firm, broke ground on the first phase of a medical imaging center for scientific research. 

Texas Business reports:  A Frisco firm won a $12.7 million contract to build a health and dental clinic at Fort Bliss, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.  

Texas Business reports:  Houston’s KBR  announced that its Australian-based Infrastructure and Minerals (I&M) business unit has been awarded a contract to provide engineering design services for Australia's Liverpool Turnback project in Sydney, Australia.

Twentynine Palms Ground Array.

Texas Business reports:  An Austin firm won a $37.8 million order for design and construction of a solar power center for U.S. Marines, the U.S. Department of Defense announced. 

View from Texas Rose Garden

Texas Business reports:  The groundbreaking ceremony for the George W. Bush Presidential Center is scheduled for next week.

Texas Business reports:  Texas Sterling Construction Company was the apparent low bidder on a $91.2 million construction project in Tarrant County. 

Texas Business reports:  An Austin firm won an $11.2 million contract to build an Armed Forces Reserve Center in Bryan. 

Texas Business reports:  An El Paso firm won a $13.8 million contract to build an earth dike in Riverside County, California. 

Texas Business reports:  LCS Constructors, Inc. (LCS) broke ground for the new 19,500-square-foot laboratory facility for TPC Group (formerly Texas Petrochemicals) in Houston. 

Texas Business reports: A Dallas firm, Austin firm and San Antonio firm will share a $503 million contract to replace the Fort Hood hospital. 

Texas Business reports:  The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs moved the response date for bids for a two-story Polytrauma transitional housing to September 20.   

Texas Business reports:  Temple-based MW Builders of Texas  Inc won a $23.6 million contract for an 800-member Army Reserve Center to be built in Las Vegas. 

Texas Business Reports:  The U.S. Army is taking bids for the construction of an Armed Forces Reserves Center in Bryan. 

Texas Business reports:  The $46 million construction contract for the first facility of the Airmen Training Complex (ATC) that will be built at Lackland Air Force Base was awarded to the Balfour Beatty/Satterfield & Pontikes Joint Venture, it was announced by Merrick & Company, lead architect and engineer for the project. 

TexasBusiness.com reports:  The University Club Atop Symphony Towers, a member of the ClubCorp family of clubs, announces today that construction is under way on a $2.4 million renovation project that includes an expansion of 3,600 feet of additional space on the 34th floor of the Symphony Towers and improvements in virtually every area of the club. 

TexasBusiness.com reports:  Ewing Construction Co. Inc., Corpus Christi, Texas, won a $10,325,000 firm-fixed-price contract for construction of rotor blade processing facility at NAS Corpus Christi, the U.S. Department of Defense announced today. 

TexasBusiness.com notes this story by Paul Gately of KWTX:  GATESVILLE--Coryell County Commissioners approved a document that clears the way for the county to submit a grant application for funds to help build a new jail.

TexasBusiness.com reports: Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.) announced today that it received a contract from the Alamo Regional Mobility Authority (Alamo RMA) through Williams Brothers Construction to provide design/build services for the US 281/Loop 1604 Interchange in San Antonio.   

TexasBusiness.com  notes: On a normally quiet East Side street, a construction site buzzes with the voices of students hammering away at their last best chance. The building isn’t the only thing under construction. Dozens of high school dropouts are learning a trade and getting their GEDs or diplomas that eluded them earlier in life, reports Jennifer Hiller of the San Antonio Express-News. 

he city of Allen is on the home stretch to opening another major retail destination next year.