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Above and Beyond: Two Large Crane Owners Step up Safety Protocols 03/01/2010 Hanging more than 200 ft over a jobsite in downtown Kansas City, Mo., James Hague doesn’t seem to notice the tiny people and equipment below his feet. Hanging from a full-body harness, James Hague uses a dial gauge to check the play in a J.E. Dunn tower crane’s turntable in downtown Kansas City, Mo. |
| 03/01/10 | No Walk in the Parq: Complex Renovation Turns 1920’s Hospital into Boutique Hotel Crews are busy revamping Albuquerque’s Memorial Hospital into the unique, 73-room Hotel Parc Central, which is located at the gateway to downtown. |
| 03/01/10 | Tempe Gets a Makeover: Library, Museum Revamped for the Modern Era While modest in budget, the Tempe Library and Historical Museum renovations bring new life to old buildings. |
| 03/01/10 | Wiseguys Return to Las Vegas: New Mob Museum Takes over Historic Federal Courthouse A $50-million museum in downtown Las Vegas will examine America’s cultural fascination with organized crime and it’s impact on the city. |
| 03/01/10 | A Banner Year for Hospitals: Arizona Health Care Construction Continues to Have a Pulse Despite the recession, health care projects have been healthy in the Phoenix area.Two Banner Health hospitals were completed in the last two quarters of 2009: the Cardon Children’s Medical Center in Mesa and Ironwood Medical Center in Pinal County. |
| 03/01/10 | Vegas on a Health Kick: VA Builds New Medical Complex in Southern Nevada The U.S. Dept. of Veteran’s Affairs is betting big on Southern Nevada. The federal agency in charge of soldiers’ health is building its first new hospital in more than 20 years. The 1-million-sq-ft building is going up at 6900 N. Pecos Road in North Las Vegas. |
| 01/01/10 | McGraw-Hill Construction is Forecasting Mixed Numbers for the Southwest According to analysts at McGraw-Hill Construction, the parent company of this publication, residential construction will be higher in 2010 in all three states, with Arizona at nearly $4 billion and Nevada rising to $1.4 billion. Both multi-family housing and single family home construction will see increases over the previous year, but will be nowhere near the levels seen in 2006 and 2007. |
| 12/01/09 | Southwest Contractor's Best of 2009 Awards Honors Top Design & Construction in the Region It was a daunting job for this year’s judges to narrow down the almost 350 entries received via our new online entry system to the 64 winners you’ll read about in the pages ahead. |
| 12/01/09 | How Green Is Our Valley? As the 28,000 attendees of the Greenbuild 09 conference depart from Phoenix today, I'm struck by how active and vibrant our green building community is in the Southwest. |
| 11/01/09 | Green Building Special Report As the largest green building convention in the world descends upon Phoenix, a multitude of large and small sustainable projects are underway in the Southwest. |
| 11/01/09 | Green Las Vegas With two of CityCenter’s hotels receiving LEED gold, Smith Center pursuing silver and Nevada Solar One expanding, Southern Nevada has gone green. |
| 11/01/09 | Chandler Green A multitude of projects are going for LEED certification in Chandler, including the 131,000-sq-ft city hall. |
| 11/01/09 | UNM Takes LEED In just a few short years, UNM has gone from having no sustainable projects to adopting a stringent energy efficiency policy for the entire campus. |
| 11/01/09 | Maricopa Court Tower The $350-million Maricopa County Court Tower will provide 14 stories of much-needed courtroom space in downtown Phoenix. |
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