Project lead for General Contractors
From Los Angeles Business Journal (TX):
Jacobs Awarded Construction Management Contract on two projects in San Antonio
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. said Tuesday that it received a contract to provide program management services for the design and construction of two large health care facilities in San Antonio, Texas.
From Dallas News (TX):
Cities, school districts find they can build more with less as construction costs fall
Cities and school districts are saving millions in building costs because the slump in commercial construction has created a more competitive bidding market and reduced the cost of materials, such as concrete. The Texas Transportation Department recently said it would be able to do more road projects with federal stimulus money because winning bids came in under budget.
Project lead for sub-contractors
From the Houston business journal (TX):
Construction under way on new XL Parts warehouse
XL Parts started construction this week on a new warehouse that will allow the automobile parts supplier to expand its industrial space by 27 percent….
» Read more: Construction under way on new XL Parts warehouse
Good news out of Texas..
From Star Telegram (TX):
Dallas-Fort Worth new home construction up
The pace of new home building in Dallas-Fort Worth picked up the third quarter from the previous quarter, but is still down from last year’s level, according to the latest numbers released today by Dallas-based real estate research firm Residential Strategies…
Another project put back on the shelf…
From the Austin business journal (TX):
TxDOT drops Trans-Texas Corridor altogether
It faced problems from the very beginning, but in the end the Trans-Texas Corridor proved no match for lawmakers and state residents who opposed the plan that they said infringed on property rights and was a project few wanted….
Potential Project Lead for Sub-Contractors. CM/GC is unknown
From El Paso News Tree (TX):
El Paso companies finding it hard to tap into $4.6 billion Fort Bliss expansion
As of August, $1.77 billion in contracts had been awarded in connection with the expansion at Fort Bliss, and of that $357 million or 20 percent has gone to El Paso companies.
» Read more: El Paso companies finding it hard to tap into $4.6 billion Fort Bliss expansion
Sometimes demolition is the only way to move on…
From the Associated Press/SF Examiner (TX):
Sinking Texas Gulf Coast condos to be demolished
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Touted as the Texas Gulf Coast’s most luxurious tower and later ridiculed as the “leaning tower of Padre Island,” an incomplete 31-story condominium project on South Padre Island will be demolished, its developer announced Monday….
» Read more: Sinking Texas Gulf Coast condos to be demolished
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After many years in dealing with the construction industry, we decided it was time to show the world how the construction industry really exists.
So we created blogmycontractor.com
Call it therapy or kind words of wisdom.
The point of this blog is to show the world (via an architects’ view) on how certain contractors perform. There are some good ones & some very bad ones. As architects, it is our hope we will help you sift through the vast amount of information to help you find the right ones….
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