MD Anderson and Vaughn Construction, as well as the project team of WHR Architects and Haynes Whaley Associates, celebrated a significant milestone with the topping out of Mid-Campus Building 1 (formally named the Administrative Support Building) on December 22, 2009, nearly one year to the day of the record-setting MAT foundation pour. The topping out celebration took place on the 5th floor of the building. Nearly 1200 attendants were on hand to enjoy the food, presentations, and hoisting of the 21 foot and 26 foot trees on top of the building.

The 26-story, $350 million project, currently scheduled for completion in 2012, will serve as home to the various MD Anderson employees who are currently occupying eight locations around the Med Center, as well as set the precedent for development and architecture for future Mid-Campus expansion. In addition to the MAT foundation concrete pour of 17,500 cubic yards on December 19, 2008, the building used another 105,000 cubic yards of concrete, 15,000 tons of rebar and 680,000 lbs and 200 miles of post-tensioning cables.  The project averaged 385 cubic yards of concrete per day, 7 days a week, with nearly 13,000 concrete trucks visting the site over a one year period.

Every January, the Kinkaid School offers a program that enables students to pursue their own interests in lieu of the normal curriculum. “Interim term” is always the most popular and exciting time of the school year as students engage in a specialized profession or interest through either independent studies, trips abroad, or internships. As a [...]

Interning at Haynes Whaley Associates as a “wanna-be” engineer is exciting at moments, like when finding a set of plans hidden in the back corner of your office and realizing that they make some sense after only a few days of engineering; awesome at others, like when you stand at the corner of the north [...]

For several years now, Haynes Whaley has participated in the Houston Architect and Engineer’s sporting events, including basketball, softball and bowling. Everyone involved has a great time and a chance to relax and unwind after a day at the office. Employees and significant others fill the rosters and compete against other firms in Houston. Game results are posted in the [...]

Haynes Whaley recently sponsored a foursome in the San Jacinto Golf Tournament out at Battleground Golf Course. Despite the 7:15am tee-time and the bone chilling 42 degree weather, a group of HWA employees and a friend from Stewart Title (our ringer) played an amazing round of golf. We ended up with a 54 on the [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We PRACTICE THE ART OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING. Thank you — clients, partners, and friends — for inspiring us to deliver creative structural design solutions each day. This Christmas season, our Houston, Reston, and Austin offices honor you with charitable donations for three deserving organizations.
St. Vincent’s House provides social services and community outreach programs for the [...]

 Cardiovascular Systems Inc. (CSI), based in St. Paul, Minnesota, is a developer and manufacturer of devices that treat cardiovascular disease. CSI needed a Houston area facility to service their clients in the Texas Medical Center. Their move into Houston, dubbed “Project Heartbeat,” was planned as a one story, 135,000 square foot build-to-suit structure developed by the City of Pearland [...]

Have you driven around downtown Houston lately? If so, you may have noticed the construction site for a new YMCA facility located at Pease and Milam. Haynes Whaley is providing structural engineering services for this project, working with the architect, Kirksey, and the general contractor, Tellepsen. This new YMCA facility will bear the Tellepsen family name, [...]

Haynes Whaley recently attended the national conference for the Society for College and University Planning in Portland Oregon. The conference was timely as Texas seems to be gaining more and more national attention for our projects in higher education. The conference hosted valuable sessions regarding emerging trends in college and university planning and ideas about [...]

In the early morning on Sunday, July 12, 2009, a helicopter lifted the last 30 ft section of the pipe-shaped spire into the air. Two steel workers, perched high up in a temporary “crow nest,” efficiently completed the bolted splice connection before the helicopter released its precarious load. This completes the final installation of the [...]