(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.