Road Work Continues on U.S. 93

Ames Construction recently picked up the $13.2 million portion of the U.S. 93 widening and safety improvement program, part of a long term goal to transform U.S. 93 from a two -lane road to a four-lane, divided highway.

The project includes four new bridges, with the longest span of 878-ft. Project completion is scheduled for summer 2004.

Sundt Wins CM @ Risk Projects

Sundt Construction recently announced three new public projects for Northern Arizona State University and the city of Glendale, Ariz.

At the NAU campus in Flagstaff, Sundt is renovating the school of communications under a $12 million, construction manager at-risk contract. Work recently started on the 60,000-sq.-ft. structure, which is scheduled for completion in August 2004.

The firm also won the cm at risk contract for the $7 million campus infrastructure improvement program. Sundt will team with GLHN Architects to correct deficiencies in the campus infrastructure.

In Glendale, Sundt will construct a $31 million waste water expansion, increasing the plant capacity by 5 million gallons a day. Project engineer is the Phoenix office of Malcolm Pirnie, with Wilson & Company and Nabar Stanley Brown working as sub consultants. Plans call for a December 2004 completion.

Work on Human Services Center Starts

Groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Maricopa County Human Services Campus recently took place in Phoenix. Targeted for completion in winter 2004, the $22 million campus, funded largely by donations, includes seven buildings totaling 157,000 sq.-ft.

The cm at-risk project is being designed and built by the team of BPLW Architects and DL Withers Construction. Located just outside downtown Phoenix at 11th Avenue and Jackson, the Human Services Campus brings together a collection of charitable agencies that provide much needed services to the homeless community.

Phoenix Firm Wins Church Project

Architectural Resource Team, Inc. (ART Architects), in Phoenix, has won the design competition for the City of Glendale Foothills Recreation and Aquatic Center at 59th Avenue and Union Hills. With 27 original submittals, ART Architect's design was selected from three finalists for the center.

At a cost of around $14 million, the project will contain amenities such as gymnasiums, fitness machines, running track, climbing wall, racquetball, lap and diving pools and a play pool with lazy river current and slide.

CCBG to Design Church Addition

Phoenix-based CCBG Architects has been retained to design a new sanctuary and fellowship hall at The Fountains, a United Methodist Church in Fountain Hills.

Designed in a contemporary mission style featuring a stucco and stone exterior and impressive interior wood trusses, the $900,000 addition includes a new 300-seat sanctuary that can be converted into a large fellowship hall of varying sizes. The new building also will include Sunday school and nursery classrooms.

Located on 3.5 acres, the church's campus includes a 3,400-sq.-ft. residence that will be utilized for offices and meeting rooms. Long-range plans ultimately call for the elimination of the residence when the second phase of construction is completed.

Industrial Work Starts in Tolleson

Johnson Carlier Inc. recently started construction on an 111,000-sq.-ft., $2.8 million addition to Landis Plastic's manufacturing facility in Tolleson, Ariz.

Landis Plastics, one of the nation's largest manufacturers in the injection-molded plastics industry, is building the addition in order to meet the growing demand for injection mold and thermo form plastic containers for some of the world's most famous brand names.

The architect for this design/build project is Phoenix-based, Deutsch Associates and project completion is scheduled for February 2004.

Tribe Awards Social Service Project

W. E. O'Neil Construction Co. of Arizona was awarded the design-build contract for the Ft. McDowell Wassaja Memorial Clinic, a 6,144-sq.-ft. social services addition to the existing medical facility.

Designed by Lamb Architects, the architectural concept for the addition will be rectangular in design, contrasting the rounded shaped of the existing facility. An exterior retaining wall will be constructed to maintain the curved appeal. Construction is scheduled to begin later this month with a target completion date in late 2003.