URS Corporation announced that the company’s Washington Division (formerly Washington Group International) has entered into an alliance agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to provide engineering, procurement, construction, startup, and commissioning services for combined-cycle and simple-cycle gas turbine projects throughout TVA’s system under the long-term agreement. The first project will begin this month at [...]

Axis Technologies Group, Inc. announced today that Kirchhoff Construction will join the company as an efficiency advocate in energy saving partnering. Kirchhoff, a leader in innovation, recently installed in their own facility the energy efficient lighting fixtures by Crescent/Stonco, a division of the Genlyte Group, Inc. that is equipped with the Axis Dimming/Daylight Harvesting [...]

Located in the center of the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex and within ten miles of two major airports, the city of Flower Mound has become one of the fastest growing cities in Texas.
In response to this growth, Flaherty Development recently completed the new 651,000 SF Cornerstone 1 Distribution Center in Flower Mound’s Lakeside Industrial [...]

Located in the center of the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex and within ten miles of two major airports, the city of Flower Mound has become one of the fastest growing cities in Texas.
In response to this growth, Flaherty Development recently completed the new 651,000 SF Cornerstone 1 Distribution Center in Flower Mound’s Lakeside Industrial [...]

Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center has joined sister facilities St. Joseph Hospital-Orange and St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton in the construction race.
St. Louis-based McCar-thy Building Cos., which has a Newport Beach office, started work earlier this month on a $67 million, four-story, 95,000-square-foot critical care building for the Mission Viejo hospital.
Mission, Orange County’s fifth-largest [...]

Not only is the Goldman Sachs building at 30 Hudson St. in Jersey City the tallest in the state. It is also distinguished by its design and use of wood products and energy-saving measures that help protect and sustain the environment.
That helps make the financial giant a leader in building construction and in corporate [...]

UK construction giant Balfour Beatty has signed a contract with National Grid for a new five-year alliance, likely to be worth approximately £550 million, to upgrade and develop the electricity transmission network in the eastern half of England. There is an option to extend the alliance for a further five years. The alliance contract, which [...]

Participant in the infrastructure build-up to the soccer World Cup Murray & Roberts Construction is re-evaluating its business processes and systems and consolidating its resources, driven by an expect-ation that the current boom in the civil engineering and construction sectors will continue well beyond 2010.
“It is to the overall benefit of the economy that our [...]

The future of the University General Hospital system will bear the mark of Houston’s Chinatown.
The choice of this growing neighborhood for the company’s second location was based on market research indicating it will be in an underserved area.
And this choice will leave a lasting imprint because the culture in this area has helped inspire a [...]

SmartLabs, Inc. smartlabsinc.com (http://smartlabsinc.com) announces that the SmartLabs Design INSTEON-enabled lighting control system has been selected for the Best Buy ConnectedLife.Home entertainment and home automation bundle for builders. The ConnectedLife.Home bestbuybusiness.com/bbfb/en/US/adirect/bestbuy package available from Best Buy For Business includes a Hewlett-Packard z560 Digital Entertainment Center, LifeWare digital entertainment and automation software from Exceptional Innovation, [...]

State officials have terminated a contract with the nonprofit organization hired to help launch the My Safe Florida Home program, stating the agreement improperly escalated from $457,000 to $2.9-million.
The Department of Financial Services informed the nonprofit Federal Alliance for Safe Homes, or FLASH Inc., on Jan. 17 that it was “legally impossible to proceed further [...]

Australian group Leighton Contractors will team with the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority, Maunsell Australia Pty Limited, SMEC Australia Pty Limited and Coffey Geotechnics Pty Limited to deliver a portion of the “Accelerated Southern Hume Duplication Package”, a New South Wales and Australian Government funded initiative. The $300 – 400 million package of [...]