| (May
2008) Hensel Phelps was awarded the $34 million DASH
Bus Operations and Maintenance Facility by the City of
Alexandria General Services Division. This is the first project
the City of Alexandria has contracted using the design-build method.
The robust facility will house approximately 98 buses while providing
maintenance facilities for 10 buses simultaneously and administrative
functions for the City of Alexandria DASH bus service. The project
is required to obtain a LEED® Silver certification at completion.
Substantial completion is scheduled for September 2009.
(May 2008) The Secure
Connector project at San Francisco International
Airport was awarded to Hensel Phelps on December 13, 2007,
starting the clock on a 365-day design and construction schedule
required to open the facility in time for the 2008 holiday travel
season. The $16 million design-build project consists of a 350-foot-long
pedestrian bridge that connects the Airport’s international
terminal to one of its domestic terminals within the secured perimeter.
The project is being built within a few feet of existing gates and
aircraft, above an active airport operations roadway, and connects
to the international terminal 60 feet above grade.
(May
2008) Kaiser Permanente selected Hensel Phelps over eight
other general contractors for the new Anaheim Medical Center
project in California. The selection and initial work authorization
allows the Hensel Phelps team to begin preconstruction services
for Kaiser to develop the project schedule and target budgets. The
main project will consist of a 434,000 SF, six-story hospital with
262 beds. In addition, the project will include a 30,000 SF central
utility plant, a 170,000 SF hospital support building, a 1,660-car
parking garage, and associated site work for the 27-acre campus.
Kaiser Permanente will open the doors for service in April 2013.
(May 2008) At the 9th Annual
“Austin Safety Training Consortium”
safety awards banquet, Hensel Phelps received the Sponsor
Company Award, Perfect Record Award (for zero accidents
on host company projects), and the Trade Category Award
(for general contractors).
(Apr
2008) The Mobile District of the US Army Corps of Engineers
awarded Hensel Phelps the $212 million design-build Southern
Command Headquarters in Miami-Doral, Florida. The 600,000
SF headquarters building will provide space and support for nearly
3,000 personnel dedicated to monitoring and reacting to issues of
narcotics trafficking, homeland security, and all other defense-related
missions in Central and South America. Project completion by September
30, 2010 is critical as the various agencies comprising the Southern
Command are currently housed in an aging headquarters building and
nine leased office spaces throughout the Miami area.
(Apr 2008) The Baltimore Mayor’s
Office of Minority and Women-Owned Business Development and the
Baltimore City Small Business Resource Center recently recognized
Hensel Phelps as their 2008 Majority Firm: “Partnering
for Success” of the Year at the City’s 1st
Annual Small, Minority and Women-Owned Business Award Breakfast.
The purpose of the awards breakfast was to recognize outstanding
achievements of small, certified minority and women-owned firms
doing business with the City of Baltimore. Hensel Phelps was given
the award for its corporate culture in assisting and mentoring small,
minority and women-owned firms to learn new techniques and build
capacity within their development projects.
(Apr 2008) Hensel Phelps’
dedication and perseverance to SAFETY continues to receive recognition
from the US Army Corps of Engineers. Hensel Phelps was recognized
and awarded for its exceptional participation in the “Operation
Reward Safety and Excellence through Safety” program
at the fourth annual Safety Awards Banquet held in Dallas. The projects,
located at Fort Bliss, White Sands Missile Range and Fort Hood,
accumulated a total of 1,120,925 total-to-date workhours with no
lost-time accidents.
(Mar 2008) Hensel Phelps
proudly received the 2008 AON Build America Award
in the “New Building Construction” category for the
Samsung Fab A2 project. The mega project consisted
of the major addition of a new chip factory on Samsung’s 300-acre
Austin, Texas campus. The AON Build America Awards are highly competitive
and viewed as the most sought-after honor within the construction
industry, recognizing the nation’s premiere projects from
across the country.
(Mar
2008) Hensel Phelps received notification that it was the
successful bidder on the $369 million Defense Information
Systems Agency (DISA) Headquarters Building in Ft. Meade,
Maryland. The new headquarters will provide enough space for the
relocation of more than 4,200 DISA employees. The DISA is a combat
support agency responsible for planning, engineering, acquiring
and supporting global net centric solutions to serve the needs of
the U.S. President, Vice President, the Secretary of Defense, and
other Department of Defense components. This challenging design-build
procurement required the design of a one-million-square-foot campus
on a long and narrow site with substantial grade changes. The headquarters
building will provide the US Army Corps of Engineers with a state-of-the-art,
energy efficient headquarters with sustainable attributes to minimize
the facility’s impact on the environment and achieve LEED®
Silver certification.
(Mar 2008) Hensel Phelps partnered
with Carrier Johnson Architects to win an extensive design competition
for the $32.8 million Clinical Lab Building located
at the UCI Medical Center campus in Orange, California. This is
Hensel Phelps’ tenth project with the University of California
at Irvine and it consists of a five-story, 60,000 SF exposed concrete
structure. The project will be LEED® certified and completed
in late 2009.
(Mar 2008) The U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, Fort Worth District, has selected Hensel Phelps as
their design-builder for a major complex at Fort Sam Houston in
San Antonio, Texas, where the enlisted medical training of all branches
of the U.S. military will eventually be consolidated. The $140 million
contract (Task Order #1) is for the construction of two 1,200-person
dormitories on the Medical Education and Training Campus
(METC) that is planned for the Post as a result of the 2005 Base
Realignment and Closure law.
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