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Editor@parkingtoday.com Carl Walker Inc. recently completed
major projects in Kentucky and Michigan. In Louisville, the firm assisted the Parking Authority of River City with criteria development and reviewed design progress submittals for its 700-space parking structure at the $238 million KFC Yum! Center, the new home of the University of Louisville basketball programs and venue for a variety of other sporting events. In
Dearborn, in collaboration
with Beckett & Raeder Inc., the firm conducted an intensive campus parking and infrastructure improvement project at Henry Ford Community College, developing a renovation plan for the vehicular portion of the campus, its pedestrian spaces and connection to the campus interior. Also, Carl Walker is a key member of the Jacobs-led design team recently awarded the contract for a 7,793-space, $175 million parking structure at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Part of a $1.9 billion terminal redevelopment plan, the five-story structure will feature more than 3 million square feet, a pedestrian bridge, and a parking guidance system. It will be built in three phases, with the entire project slated to be completed in 2014. Dur-A-Flex Inc. has named
Alessandro Machado Jesus as its International Strategic Marketing Manager. David Hughes, VP of Marketing, Research and Development, said, “Alessandro joins us with an excellent background in polymer adhesives and sealants, as well as multilingual skills. Additionally, his extensive global marketing and strategic planning roles will be crucial to Dur-A- Flex as we continue to grow, look at new markets and pursue our drive to expand.” Walker Parking Consultants has
announced the formal opening of its Abu Dhabi, UAE, office in the Ali & Sons Business Centre, 15 minutes from City Centre. Hakam Dib will continue to manage operations there. The firm has been in Abu Dhabi since May 2011, but in a temporary office suite. Walker currently has projects underway in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, UAE, in Cairo and Istanbul, and in Doha, Qatar. For more information, contact Dib at
hakam.dib@walkerparking.com. Transportation Equipment Sales
Corp. (TESCO), one of the largest bus distributors in the nation, notes that its recently completed acquisition of Great Lakes Coach allows
the company to further expand its presence in the Michigan Parking Today
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market. Bud Graham, TESCO President, said the second-generation, family-owned company is able to meet the transportation needs of nearly every market segment, with an inventory spanning small paratransit vans to full-size coaches. The Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware Chapter of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) has awarded High Concrete Group grand prize honors, Architectural Concrete/Precast Cladding, for its work on the Millennium Science Complex at Pennsylvania State University.
The four-story, 292,000-square-foot, $190 million academic building features cantilevered architectural precast cladding finished with brick veneer. A signature feature of the LEED-registered building, from RV Architects and Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., is a large cantilever and skylight opening over a plaza and garden at the main entrance. The biennial ACI competition recognizes excellence in conception, originality, and applicability of concrete in the built environment.
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