Monstrous tower cranes required 22 cement trucks each to fill the massive footings that stabilize them. Each crane’s swing has to be vast enough to completely cover each planned building.


Irving Convention Center, which already averages hosting more than 300 events annually. Connell further states that the location near the convention center also provides a major opportunity for convention-goers and conference attendees to stay longer and enjoy the amenities, and gives an alterna- tive to having to drive somewhere to grab lunch. A Westin headquarters hotel is also expected to start construction in 2017 and open in early 2019.


MAKING THE PROJECT WORK


As a public-private partnership (P3) with many moving parts, patience and assembling a team that knows how to make it work are crucial, Noah says. Team members include Gensler as architect of record, Skanska USA Building Inc. as general contractor, the city, and the developer. Gensler’s Barry Hand, Principal in Charge and Studio Director of The Irving Music Factory project, explains that the artist-friendly district is intended to amenitize and then catalyze new development in Las Colinas.


Because this project is a P3 venture, the city, developer, de- signer and contractor had to push through multiple hurdles to turn this idea into reality. After an earlier team failed to bring the idea to realization, and legal and political struggles burdened the project with a certain stigma in the market, the current team restarted the project with a new development agreement, programmatic mix and layout.


The design was completed and bid to the market during a very busy North Texas construction market. An aggres- sive budget for a big project—coupled with complications involving highly expansive soils, unprecedented seismic activity, and higher-than-normal rainfall—caused several periodic pauses during construction, Hand says. Ultimately, adjustments were made to overcome each challenge, and construction roared ahead in a perfect-for-construction dry, sunny Texas summer.


A project of this scope calls for Skanska USA Building to use tremendous muscle to make this feat possible. Mon- strous tower cranes required 22 cement trucks each to fill the massive footings that stabilize them. According to Lazes, the reach of each crane’s swing has to be vast enough to cover each planned building completely. Evidence of the amphitheater, restaurants and movie theater began taking shape by early fall 2015. Vertical construction on The Irving Music Factory’s 17-acre site began in summer 2016 with


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