Two Firms Selected as Owner's Reps for Nogales Project

Faithful+Gould and Atkins Water were selected to serve as client representatives for the City of Nogales on a wastewater treatment plant expansion on the Arizona/Mexico border.

Nogales Selects Client Representatives

Faithful+Gould in Phoenix and Atkins Water have secured a $3.7 million contract to serve as the client representative for the City of Nogales, AZ during a $50 million upgrade to the Nogales International Wastewater Treatment Plant. The city chose a design-build delivery method for the upgrade project, recognizing the need for a strong project management team to serve as its representative, in addition to overseeing the work of the actual design-build team selected.

The preferred option for replacing the existing wastewater treatment lagoons is a treatment process known as the Modified Ludzack-Ettinger (MLE) system.
Experts from Faithful+Gould and Atkins already have conducted an internal review to identify potential risks and challenges facing the city. Next,

Faithful+Gould and Atkins will provide technical assistance for selecting the design-build team and negotiating contracts. Over the next three years, both companies will be involved in design review, on-site construction management and facilitating communication between stakeholders.

Originally constructed in 1943, the Nogales International Wastewater Treatment Plant was designed to support a population of 20,000. Although the plant has been upgraded, enlarged and enhanced, today it serves a population of more than 350,000. Additional upgrades are necessary in order to meet the regulatory standards.

When completed in October 2009, the newly expanded plant will provide treatment for 14 million gallons a day and meet necessary nitrogen and total suspended solids limits.

Homes & Son Begins Construction on Medical Office Building

Landmark Project in Gilbert Breaks Ground

The Weitz Company has broken ground on Rome Towers, a multi-story mixed use project at Pecos Road and Rome Street. With several mid-rise, high-rise and high-density projects planned, this new core forming in central Gilbert along the Pecos Road/Market Street corridors, and bounded by the Loop 202 freeway to the South and East, will serve the rapidly expanding south and southeast Valley.

Rome Towers is the geographic centerpiece of the Spectrum at Val Vista, the master-planned community that is at the heart of the new urban core. Rome Towers offers the only mid-rise ownership experience in this new corridor, intended for a corporate headquarters or a regional presence.

Rome Towers is a mixed-use development comprised of two Class-A office towers, a retail shopping center and plaza, an elaborate open-air lobby and an integrated parking structure. Standing five-stories and approximately 85 feet tall, this future Gilbert landmark will provide in excess of 105,000 sq. ft. of premier office condominium space on the 2nd through 5th floors.

The ground floor retail plaza will serve the offices above, the Pecos Road corridor as well as thousands of new nearby residences with approximately 24,000 sq. ft. of service and specialty retail. Project completion is scheduled for late second quarter of 2007.

The project team includes developer Rome Towers, LLC, A Xomsa Company, The Weitz Company as contractor, Patrick Hayes Architecture, architect, and Carl Walker Inc., parking structure architect.

Summit Builders Commences Work on Summit at Avondale

Summit Builders Construction Company has commenced site work at The Summit at Avondale located on Avondale Boulevard immediately south of the I-10 for developer, Avalon Commercial Corporation of Phoenix.

The project will ultimately consist of a five-story Class-A office building encompassing 150,000-sq.-ft., a multi-level, 1,000-car parking structure, retail components, high-end restaurant and a 250-room, 4-star hotel. Project completion is anticipated for early to mid 2008.

Terminal 4 Retail Renovation Completed Ahead of Schedule

The Weitz Company has announced that the retail renovation of Sky Harbor Terminal 4 is substantially complete and ten months ahead of schedule.
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport's Terminal 4 handles about 75 percent of the airport's passenger traffic. In an effort to accelerate the schedule, Weitz re-evaluated the preliminary phasing plan created for the work in the Terminal area. Weitz proposed re-delineated work areas in order to allow work to occur in multiple areas at once without affecting the functioning of the airport operations. Ultimately the new phasing and sequencing plan was accepted and allowed the work in the Terminal to be substantially completed ten months ahead of schedule.

This $25 million Terminal 4 Retail Renovation of over 128,500 sq. ft. created space for 21 retail tenants and added freestanding and wall merchandising units.

The lobby design features dramatic lighting against a backdrop of overhanging cliff projections mimicking a canyon floor. The retail spaces conform to the motifs as if they were carved out of the canyon wall.

Special care was taken with the tile and stone elements. There were 45 different types of Italian porcelain floor tile in 12 different patterns, plus four special waterjet cut floor feature accents. Twenty different types of wall tiles were used throughout the project. Two different types of native Arizona sand stone from the Chino Valley area were used on the walls at various locations and as column wraps.

The team for this renovation was the City of Phoenix Aviation Department (owner), Abacus Project Management, Inc (owner's representative), The Weitz Company (general contractor), Minnesota Architectural Alliance (design architect), TranSystems Corporation (construction administration architect) and SI Partners Inc. (retail consultant).

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