KCI Technologies - Tue July 12, 2022
KCI Technologies Acquires Texas-Based Company AmChel
KCI Technologies Inc. , a multi-disciplined engineering firm with offices throughout the United States, has announced the acquisition of AmChel Communications Inc., a Texas-based telecommunications firm....
Uvalde Leader News - Tue July 12, 2022
H-E-B Pledges $10M for Robb Elementary Construction
H-E-B chairman Charles Butt and the Butt family, as well as H-E-B stores, have pledged a combined $10 million donation for the construction of a new elementary school in Uvalde. "Our first store in Uvalde opened in 1959 and Uvalde people are our people," Butt said in a press release....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Tue July 12, 2022
Colorado River Constructors Rebuild U.S. 290 in $674M Job
According to the U.S. Census estimates, Austin showed one of the largest population gains of any metro area in the United States. The city grew by more than 53,000 people in a single year, representing the fourth largest increase in the country....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed June 29, 2022
Billion-Dollar Upgrades Press On at George Bush Intercontinental Airport
Construction teams are making significant progress on the $1.3 billion upgrades to George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) in Houston. The IAH Terminal Redevelopment Program (ITRP) is the largest capital development program that the city has invested in the airport since it opened in 1969....
TxDOT - Wed June 15, 2022
Crews Begin Interstate 10 Widening Project Near El Paso
Officials with the Texas Department of Transportation El Paso held a press conference recently to discuss the new construction project to widen Interstate 10. The goal of the project is to "improve capacity, operation, circulation and safety" along the interstate, according to a statement....
CEG - Tue June 14, 2022
South Star JCB Breaks Ground On New Lewisville Facility
The visibility of the JCB brand in the Lone Star State is on the rise recently thanks to entrepreneurs like Chris Meinecke and a unique effort on the part of JCB to recruit new dealers in key markets. Meinecke's company, South Star JCB, broke ground recently in Lewisville, Texas, on what he said will be the flagship location in the Dallas-Fort Worth area....
U.S. House of Representatives - Tue June 14, 2022
U.S. House Approves $31B Solution for Ike Dike; Vote Next
Committees in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have approved the biennial Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), which would authorize a long list of water infrastructure projects, including the $31 billon Ike Dike megaproject to protect the Texas coast around Galveston from rising waters....
FLUOR - Tue June 14, 2022
Fluor Receives Half-Billion Dollar Contract for I-35 Project
Fluor Corporation (FLR) announced recently that it was awarded a construction contract for the Interstate 35 (I-35) Capital Express South project in Austin, Texas, by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)....
Water & Waste Digest - Tue June 14, 2022
Conroe Set to Bring $60M Water Treatment Facility Online
The brand new Central Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Conroe, Texas, is a $60 million project that will officially come online in the spring of 2022, and is the largest single public works project in the history of the city of Conroe....
Joe Jancsurak – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Tue June 14, 2022
Crews Complete Moody Center at University of Texas
When she was asked for the vision that drove the design and development of the newly christened Moody Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Laura Brodersen responded, "To create something uniquely Austin."As lead project architect, Brodersen and her team from the Austin offices of the international architecture, design and planning firm, Gensler, together with general contractor AECOM Hunt, said to be the nation's large builder of sports facilities, took this vision to a different level, literally....
