Civic

MARBLE FALLS — SHW Group has completed construction on the Marble Falls High School Transitional Facility, a 3,000-square-foot facility that is designed to help 18-22 year old students with significant disabilities learn how to live independently. The site resembles a single-family home and features a living room, dining room, a full-size kitchen and a wheelchair ramp. The site supports the Marble Falls Independent School District’s Learning Independence for Everyday Life program and will serve approximately 40 special education students. The facility is entirely funded through government grants and donations from local businesses.

AUSTIN — Wind Energy Transmission Texas (WETT), a joint venture between Brookfield Asset Management and Isolux Corsan Concesiones, has finalized its $500 million construction loan with a consortium of financial institutions to build five substations and 378 miles of transmission lines in west Texas. The transmission lines will bring renewable wind energy from west Texas to the metropolitan areas throughout Texas. WETT was awarded a contract to build the transmission lines and substations by the Public Utility Commission of Texas as part of the Texas Legislature’s Competitive Renewable Energy Zone project. The construction is set to be complete in 2013.

HOUSTON — E.E. Reed Construction has broken ground on the $20 million Church Without Walls Queenston campus at 5725 Queenston Blvd. in Houston. The project will consist of a 94,000-square-foot sanctuary, a 10,000-square-foot chapel, and a 43,000-square-foot youth/children classroom building. The Church Without Walls has three locations with more than 20,000 members in the Houston area. Construction of the Queenston campus is expected to be complete in June 2012.