construction science

A safety education lab for Francis Hall, future home of Texas A&M’s Department of Construction Science, will be built with a $150,000 contribution from Marek Brothers Systems, Inc., a Houston-based builder. An $8 million renovation of the historic building is scheduled for completion in fall 2014.

A new office suite in Francis Hall, future campus home of the Texas A&M Department of Construction Science, will be realized by a $250,000 gift from the department’s Construction Industry Advisory Council.

Beam-by-beam construction progress of the Arts and Humanities Building at Texas A&M was captured by Jeff Haberl, professor of architecture at Texas A&M, who photographed the construction site once a week from a perch on the fourth floor of Langford A.

Nominations for 2013 College of Architecture Outstanding Alumni Awards, which annually recognize former students of exceptional accomplishment, are being accepted through Feb. 22, 2013.

Every spring and summer 2012 graduate from Texas A&M’s Department of Construction Science has an industry job, noted a Jan. 4 Houston Chronicle article.

Residents will soon be able to boat from their home to work, restaurants and shops at Towne Lake, a masterplanned community in suburban northwest Houston that Peter Barnhart ‘95, a former Master of Science in Land Development student at Texas A&M, is helping to develop.

On Nov. 2, five groups of Texas A&M construction science students took field trips to various destinations around Texas to investigate the latest construction, material production and manufacturing practices.

Two hurricanes and a snowstorm buffeted Texas A&M third-year construction science student Nathan Atkins during his internship, but he said the experience has given him complete confidence that he’s ready to graduate and enter the “real world.”

Construction science students at Texas A&M will soon learn to accurately estimate the cost of construction projects in a state-of-the-art lab funded by a $250,000 gift from San Antonio-based Joeris General Contractors.

Facilities, the world’s leading scholarly journal in the facility management field, begins its fourth decade with new co-editor Sarel Lavy, associate professor of construction science at Texas A&M. He and fellow editor Joseph Lai of Hong Kong Polytechnic University replace Edward Finch, who held the editor's post 18 years.

A new, $250 million stadium to house Baylor Bears football will be designed with the help of a building information modeling system coordinated by Ken Stone ‘11, a Texas A&M construction science former student. “It should be a very exciting project because the design team is 100-percent on board,” said Stone, an engineer with Flintco, LLC.

Ethical quandaries surrounding a hypothetical bidding scenario were identified and resolved by third-year Texas A&M construction science students in recent presentations made before a panel of visiting industry professionals as part of a classroom competiton.

Engineers, educators and policymakers recently gathered to discuss challenges facing the Americas at a policy forum hosted by the Pan American Academy of Engineering organized by Jorge Vanegas, president of the academy’s policy forum.

Students from all four departments at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture will join in a weeklong charrette early next semester to create unifying, practical and affordable proposals in two areas along one of College Station’s main thoroughfares.

A forum, a workshop and a number of special exhibits were staged this fall to usher in the Texas A&M College of Architecture's “Year of Diversity” and more events, arranged by the college’s diversity council, are in the works.