AUI Contractors Wins 2006 Summit Award From QUOIN Chapter of American General Contractors.FORT WORTH, Texas Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas, 18th-largest city in the United States[1], and voted one of "America’s Most Livable Communities. -- AUI (Attachment Unit Interface) The network interface used with the original Ethernet. See 10Base5. 1. (tool, product) AUI - Adaptable User Interface. 2. (networking) AUI - Attachment Unit Interface. Contractors recently received first place in the 2006 Summit Awards competition for its City of Murphy, Texas Murphy is a suburb of Dallas, Texas, located to the north east, within Collin County. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the city population was 3,099. About Murphy is a small, fast-growing community with a history that goes back to the early 1900's. , entry in the traditional construction in Category D for projects valued at between $10 million and $30 million. AUI also received a merit award Category DB3 for its work on the Dallas Intermodal Terminal owned by Union Pacific Railroad Union Pacific Railroad, transportation company chartered (1862) by Congress to build part of the nation's first transcontinental railroad line. Under terms of the Pacific Railroads Act, the Union Pacific was authorized to build a line westward from Omaha, Nebr. . The Summit Awards Program was sponsored by QUOIN quoin In architecture, both the external corner of a building and, more often, one of the stones used to form that corner. These stones are both structural and decorative in that they often differ in jointing, colour, texture, or size from the masonry of the adjoining walls. , a chapter of American General Contractors based in Dallas-Fort Worth. All first place winners now advance to a statewide awards competition sponsored by AGC AGC Automatic Gain Control AGC Automotive Glass Cartridge (fuse) AGC Associated General Contractors AGC Associated General Contractors of America AGC Atypical Glandular Cells AGC Attorney-General's Chambers . AUI's work for the City of Murphy was valued at about $17 million and encompassed a municipal complex built on 27 acres of land that included four buildings with about 100,000 of total square feet: City Hall, Police and Courts Building, Fire and Rescue, and Public Works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. . Construction began in November 2003 and was completed in April 2005. The Union Pacific project was valued at about $77 million and was completed in 2005 on a 365-acre tract of land located 12 miles south of downtown Dallas Downtown Dallas is the main business district in Dallas, Texas (USA), located in the geographic center of the city. The area officially termed "downtown" is bounded by the downtown freeway loop: bounded on the east by I-345 (although known and signed as the northern terminus of on Interstate 45 within the city limits of Hutchins and Wilmer, Texas. Accepting the Summit Award for AUI were Tony Rader, Sam Hanson, Ross Loughmiller, and Jennifer Collins. Also present to receive this award was Gary Roden, an architect with Aguirre Corporation who worked with AUI on the City of Murphy Project. "Winning a 2006 Summit Award is significant for AUI Contractors in that we are being recognized by our peers for quality in construction. We've passed muster among a panel of five or more tough judges who know the construction business inside out," commented Tony Rader, AUI's Construction Group manager. As a full-service general contractor, AUI has served the public and private sector and completed more than 700 construction projects since 1983. AUI acquired Pyramid Building Systems in 2004 to expand its design/build capabilities and better serve its commercial/industrial clients. AUI serves civil, municipal, transportation (trucking and rail), industrial and retail customers. AUI also is engaged in projects that include office buildings, streetscapes, interior renovations and finish-outs, historic renovations and rehabilitations. AUI's commercial services include design-build construction, construction management services, and facilities development. The company's civil services include site development, road construction, heavy civil contracting projects, parks and trails development. Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, AUI has approximately 300 employees and annual revenues of $120 million. AUI is a member of The Associated General Contractors Associated General Contractors of America is the nation's oldest and largest trade association representing the construction industry. It was formed in 1918 following a request by President Woodrow Wilson. of America (AGC), The Texas Building Branch of the AGC; The Texas Heavy, Highway, Utility, and Industrial Branch of the AGC; QUOIN, The Dallas/Fort Worth/East Texas Branch of the AGC; Associated Builders & Contractors; Society of Commercial Realtors; the Better Business Bureau; and many other business and professional organizations. For more information on AUI, please visit www.auigc.com. |
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