Business Facilities

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Port Houston’s Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ #84) is one of the busiest in the nation. Read: Greater Houston: Greater Growth On The Texas Gulf Coast at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Construction Junkie

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Via Twitter // Houston Fire Department. Yesterday afternoon, the Houston Fire Department responded to an emergency call involving a partially collapsed building on the West side of the city. Technical Rescue Team is actively responding to a #buildingcollapse in West Houston.

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Houston New York Construction News 97

ENR Construction

MARCH 8, 2022

An effort to bolster flood control in northeast Houston through improvements to the Lake Houston dam have been scaled back due to financial constraints on the project. Houston officials say that the length of proposed floodgates will need to be reduced by half to meet the project’s budget.

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Houston Budgeting Budget 85

ENR Construction

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The Houston Airport System is currently accepting bids for the design and construction of Taxiway Lima, which could break ground as early as this summer and be completed next year.

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Houston Airports Bidding Design 85

ENR Construction

AUGUST 25, 2020

Houston First Corp., which owns and operates the George R. Brown Convention Center, has installed three mobile units of a new coronavirus-killing air purifier in the center’s new 5,250-sq-ft broadcast facility.

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Houston Mobility 91

Business Facilities

MAY 7, 2021

Houston’s diverse workforce, along with the city’s commitment to its Climate Action Plan, were among the key factors driving NRG’s decision. Read: NRG Energy Relocating Headquarters To Houston at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Houston Plans Texas Green 73

Construction Dive

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The controversial highway widening project, one of Texas’ largest infrastructure efforts, is expected to take 18 years to complete.

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Houston Texas Infrastructure 169

ENR Construction

AUGUST 8, 2023

Dodge offers data on projected 2023 construction starts in the Houston area.

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Houston Texas Construction 69

Construction Business Owner

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The root of the labor problem and how C3 in Houston is changing it.

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Houston 168

ENR Construction

MARCH 8, 2023

Federal Highway Administration officials say the agreement to end a civil rights investigation into the proposed I-45 North Houston Highway Improvement Project includes design changes to reduce its neighborhood footprint.

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Houston Agreement Design 81

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The Houston Ship Channel Bridge project will resume after design concerns halted work.

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Houston Design 74

Construction Dive

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Louis to Denver, Houston and Des Moines, aviation projects are taking off, boosted by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

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St. Louis Airports Houston Denver 157

ENR Construction

MAY 4, 2023

The Houston Zoo's new Galapagos Islands exhibit, which opened in early spring, highlights the delicate balance of an ecosystem.

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Houston Engineering Design 74

Construction Dive

APRIL 15, 2024

The Texas Central project would connect Dallas and Houston using Japan’s Shinkansen bullet train technology. Amtrak announced its involvement in August.

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Texas Houston Dallas US 138

BD+C

APRIL 5, 2018

City leaders in Houston are considering new floodplain rules that would require buildings to be built above the 500-year flood level. Houston has experienced three “500-year floods” between 2015 and 2017. The current building code requires buildings to be able to withstand a 100-year flood.

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Houston 72

Construction Dive

APRIL 26, 2023

A University of Houston-led team has upgraded its earlier system, which can track where objects and people are even as line of sight breaks.

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Houston Safety 147

Business Facilities

JANUARY 31, 2020

Read: Houston Company To Build Commercial Segment Of NASA Space Station at BusinessFacilities.com. Axiom Space will build a privately funded platform that will attach to the International Space Station. The project will cost up to $2 billion and create approximately 1,000 jobs.

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Houston Commercial Defense Texas 67

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Federal transportation officials will allow sections of the controversial $10 billion effort to reconstruct I-45 through downtown Houston while continuing to assess possible Civil Rights and environmental violations.

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Houston Transportation 69

Business Facilities

JANUARY 8, 2020

Read: $1B Ammonia Plant Coming To Greater Houston at BusinessFacilities.com. The investment by Gulf Coast Ammonia LLC, Air Products, and Eastman Chemical Company will build the world’s largest single-train ammonia synthesis loop in Texas City, TX.

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Houston Texas Products News 60

Construction Dive

JULY 11, 2023

Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and Houston are expanding their airports with work by Hensel Phelps, Whiting-Turner, JE Dunn and others.

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San Antonio Airports Houston Dallas 139

Construction Business Owner

MARCH 1, 2024

Planning for the Future: The Northeast Transmission Line ccapoccia Fri, 03/01/2024 - 17:47 In just two years, 60% of the drinking water supply in the Houston, Texas, area — more than 500 million gallons per day (mgd) — will come from surface water. By 2034, the percentage is required to rise to 80%.

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Plans Houston Texas Roads 156

Viewpoint Construction Technology

MAY 5, 2015

At our Connect 2015 Users’ Conference (our 19th annual) a few weeks ago, we honored three companies as finalists for our Innovator Awards: Houston, Texas-based Pieper-Houston Electric L.P.; Cameron, Texas-based EBCO General Contractors Ltd.; and Seattle, Wash.-based based Unity Electric Contractors and Engineers.

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Innovation Houston Seattle Texas 130

BD+C

JULY 18, 2019

The 550,000-sf historic Barbara Jordan Post Office in Houston’s downtown Theatre District will soon become POST Houston, a mixed-use development that will include a concert venue, restaurants, bars, an international market hall, flexible co-working space, and, according to project developer Lovett Commercial, a rooftop park and farm that will be one (..)

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Houston Commercial Office 72

Construction Dive

MAY 8, 2019

A construction blunder during part of the facility’s $1.2 billion overhaul has left an $18 million administration office without water service.

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Houston Airports Office Construction 123

Construction Dive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The Kirksey Architecture report said labor and tariff concerns will significantly impact construction costs in one of the country's hottest markets.

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Houston Office Architecture Construction 116

Construction Equipment

JANUARY 8, 2021

announced it has acquired the assets of Houston-based Champion Rentals Inc. Herc Holdings, a reading North American equipment rental supplier operating at Herc Rentals Inc., Champion is a full-service general equipment rental company comprising approximately 100 employees and four locations…

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Houston Equipment 62

BD+C

JUNE 21, 2019

Central Automotive Group’s Central Houston Nissan recently opened on a 16-acre parcel along the 610 loop and celebrated its grand opening June 12. A car dealership whose owners are calling it the largest Nissan outlet in the country recently opened in Texas where, as is well known, everything is said to be bigger.

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Houston Texas 63

Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Texas Central Partners is pressing on with the Dallas-to-Houston line and will appeal a court ruling that denied it railroad designation and land rights.

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Texas Railroad Houston Dallas 134

Construction Dive

MARCH 28, 2023

The Federal Highway Administration halted the highway project two years ago to investigate potential civil rights violations.

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Houston 118

Construction Dive

AUGUST 10, 2020

The court found that the risk policy for a Houston office building did not cover damage to the windows caused by slag from welding operations by subcontractor Milestone Metals.

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Risk Houston Office 135

Safety Services Company

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

We’re excited to support the Houston Sky High for Kids Banquet and Sporting Clay Tournament! Event Details: What: Sporting Clay Tournament benefiting Sky High for Kids When: Saturday, Sep 26, 8am – 1pm Where: Greater Houston Sports Club (6700 McHard Rd, Houston, TX 77053) Cost: $200/individual ($800 for a team of 4).

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Houston Safety US Industrial 62

Construction Dive

OCTOBER 2, 2018

More than $100 million of construction renovations to the historic Astrodome will have to wait until after the Texas city's annual rodeo.

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Renovating Houston Texas Construction 101

Construction Dive

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Phoenix, Dallas and Orlando also topped the Associated General Contractors of America's list, which noted job increases in 78% of 358 U.S.

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Construction Dive

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Once the final 52.5-mile mile piece is completed in 2022, the 184-mile parkway will be the largest highway loop in the U.S.

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Houston 102

Construction Dive

JANUARY 21, 2020

Bankruptcy Court in Houston today. The struggling energy construction giant announced it will file a prepackaged restructuring plan at the U.S.

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Bankruptcy Houston Plans Construction 117

BD+C

AUGUST 24, 2020

has been converted into a 17-story, 286-unit apartment building in the heart of downtown Houston. The redevelopment came on the heels of several unsuccessful attempts to turn the building into a hotel in the years following Texaco’s relocation to the Houston suburbs in 1989. Dallas-based Provident Realty Advisors, which led the $99.5

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Houston Dallas 111

Construction Dive

MAY 30, 2019

Charles Williams and five others submitted false invoices to The Beck Group during a Houston hotel project with help from a construction manager.

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Houston Management Construction 116