a:27:{s:9:"weblog_id";s:1:"4";s:8:"entry_id";s:3:"851";s:6:"sticky";s:1:"n";s:14:"allow_comments";s:1:"n";s:16:"allow_trackbacks";s:1:"n";s:10:"entry_date";s:19:"2010-03-31 02:38 PM";s:15:"expiration_date";s:0:"";s:23:"comment_expiration_date";s:0:"";s:8:"category";a:2:{i:0;s:1:"6";i:1;s:2:"92";}s:9:"author_id";s:1:"4";s:10:"new_weblog";s:1:"4";s:6:"status";s:4:"open";s:14:"trackback_urls";s:0:"";s:18:"versioning_enabled";s:1:"y";s:5:"title";s:33:"Two McCarthy Buildings Win Honors";s:9:"url_title";s:33:"two_mccarthy_buildings_win_honors";s:6:"submit";s:6:"Update";s:11:"field_id_26";s:33:"Two McCarthy Buildings Win Honors";s:11:"field_ft_26";s:4:"none";s:11:"field_id_31";s:0:"";s:11:"field_id_44";s:148:"McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.  was honored recently with two prestigious national awards for superior collaboration and construction excellence.";s:11:"field_ft_44";s:4:"none";s:11:"field_id_28";s:18:"McCarthy, Aon, AGC";s:11:"field_ft_28";s:4:"none";s:11:"field_id_29";s:3945:"<p>McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.&nbsp; was honored recently with two prestigious national awards for superior collaboration and construction excellence. Both awards were presented during the 91st Annual Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) convention in Orlando, Fla. The AT&amp;T Performing Arts Center Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre received an AON Build America Award for Best New Building Project, and the Mission Hospital Patient Care Tower received a Marvin M. Black Excellence in Partnering Award.</p>
<p>\"Headquartered in St. Louis, McCarthy brings a unique blend of local and national construction expertise to our community,\" explained McCarthy President and Chief Operating Officer Derek Glanvill. \"We are honored to have two projects recognized this year by the national AGC. These projects serve as outstanding examples of McCarthy\'s commitment to construction excellence and collaboration. It is exciting not only to celebrate these individual project successes, but more fundamentally to be able to share and apply these best practices on local projects here in our region.\"</p>
<p>Designed by REX/OMA, Joshua Prince-Ramus (partner in charge) and 
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas, the Wyly Theatre is the 
world\'s first and only high-rise theatre and is one of two new venues in
 the AT&amp;T Performing Arts Center in the heart of downtown Dallas.  
Constructed by McCarthy, the 12-level, 80,300-square-foot multi-form 
theatre, completely rethinks the traditional arrangement of a theatre\'s 
parts. This vertically-stacked theatre houses unique materials from 
across the globe and boasts the capability to transform into three 
different seating configurations -  thrust, proscenium and flat floor - 
made possible by a series of lift platforms that raise and lower.</p>
<p>The project required a contractor willing to take on the architects\' 
revolutionary design vision, one that many critics said would be 
impractical to construct. McCarthy successfully built this theatre that 
not only opened to acclamations nationwide throughout the arts 
community, but that will also be the source of many conversations in the
 A/E/C community for years to come because the building process resulted
 in many \"firsts\" in construction. The Wyly Theatre officially opened in
 October 2009.</p>
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<p>Designed by RBB Architects Inc., the new four-level patient tower at 
Mission Hospital features a patient-centered design along with 
next-generation advancements in healthcare technology and seismic 
building safety. The Mission Hospital Patient Care Tower project team 
tackled numerous challenges and overcame all of these through a spirited
 partnering approach coupled with an integrated project delivery method.</p>
<p>As a result of this collaborative team effort, the project was built 
with exceptional quality and was delivered on-time, within budget, and 
with zero claims. Throughout design and construction, the 
94,000-square-foot Patient Care Tower project encountered a host of 
potential budget and schedule threatening challenges such as unusually 
complex mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems and the very 
stringent seismic requirements for California healthcare projects. 
Beyond those, additional complications entailed: multi-level connections
 to the existing hospital; a tight site adjacent to the existing 
operational hospital; a highly complex building skin; complicated bridge
 construction, as well as the design and installation of the latest 
Imaging equipment technology. The success of this project was optimized 
through the team\'s collaborative partnering efforts, including reaching 
out to all of the stakeholders from the crafts workers to project 
executives, end-users, and ev<br />en the local community. The project was
 completed ahead of schedule and opened in November 2009.</p>
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