Civic

HOUSTON — The Houston office of Turner Construction Co. has been selected by the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to construct a new church in Houston. Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church will be located at the intersection of Highway 290 and Fairbanks Road. The 18,000-square-foot building will be constructed of king-sized brick and cast-iron, and it will be topped off with three copper-shingled spires. Interior work includes vaulted ceilings with acoustical soundproofing, glass fiber-reinforced gypsum columns, and marble stone and red oak wood trim. The new church will be able to accommodate more than 1,200 worshipers. Jackson & Ryan Architects is designing the project. Completion is slated for May 2010.

HOUSTON — Lone Star College System (LSCS) has selected the Houston office of Cadence McShane Construction Co. to complete the build-out of its new campus. LSCS recently acquired the former Hewlett Packard office campus, a five-building, 1.2 million-square-foot property that is located at 20515 State Highway 249 in Houston, and plans to use it as a new campus. The school plans to use it as its new consolidate Houston campus. Construction will include extensive renovations to the building interiors, envelopes, core and shell, parking deck and immediate grounds. Once the project is complete, which is expected in June 2010, LSCS will relocate several departments from its existing administrative offices in The Woodlands, Texas, as well as its Williow Chase Center operations in Houston. The project architects are Kirksey Architecture and VLK Architects.

RICHMOND, TEXAS — The Houston office of Turner Construction Co. has completed the $66 million expansion and renovation of Fort Bend County Jail in Richmond. The expansion comprised a new nine-story, 213,000-square-foot building that adds 1,008 beds to the jail’s capacity. Additionally, 40,000 square feet of space was renovated at the jail’s existing building, including administrative offices, kitchens and laundry rooms. Turner also updated the jail’s security technologies and amenities. The two buildings are attached by a new linking connector. Atlanta-based Rosser International served as lead architect, with Houston-based AUTOARCH Architects serving as associate architect.