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The Beck Group is a company that provides architecture, construction, sustainability, virtual building, and technology services. The company is based in Dallas, Texas.It has regional offices in Atlanta, Austin, Carolinas, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Mexico City, Monterrey, South Florida, and Tampa. [3]
During construction in 1958 a stack of steel beams tumbled sixty feet to the basement level, killing one worker and injuring two others. [1] Despite the setback, the building opened for business in June 1960 and featured a curtain wall and masonry exterior and attached 7 story parking garage. [ 2 ]
The Margaret McDermott Bridge is a conventional concrete pier-and-beam freeway bridge [3] with cable-stayed bike lines over the Trinity River in Dallas, Texas.It replaced the late-1950s to early-1960s Interstate 30 (I-30) bridge, which reached its end of life. [1]
Lindal Cedar Homes (est. in 1944) is an American manufacturer of prefabricated post-and-beam homes. Since 1950s it is the largest North American manufacturer of prefabricated cedar homes. [6] In the 1960s it was the largest US manufacturer of A-frame houses. The company operates as a third-generation, family-owned private company.
The company is re-branded as Balfour Beatty Construction. [ 3 ] Balfour Beatty Construction has embarked on a series of acquisitions including Charter Builders in 2006, R.T. Dooley [ 19 ] and SpawMaxwell in 2009, [ 20 ] Barnhart and Charter Builders in 2010, [ 21 ] and most recently in June 2011, Howard S. Wright.
The company, first known as Trinity Steel, was founded by C. J. Bender in Dallas in 1933. W. Ray Wallace, an engineering graduate of Louisiana Tech, worked for Dallas's Austin Bridge Company in 1944 before joining the company in 1946 as its seventeenth employee. At the time Trinity Steel manufactured butane tanks in a Dallas County mule barn.
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Double tee structure is an alternative for short to medium spans between 40 and 90 feet (12 and 27 m). There are many standards such as double-tee beam of Texas Department of Transportation and the Northeast Extreme Tee (NEXT) Beam of the Northeast. [8] A benefit of using double tees for bridge replacements is to shorten the construction time.