Centex completes new Orange County Public School Project, Discovery Middle School, ahead of schedule and under budget.FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 1997-- Centex also awarded another Orange County Public School Project Centex Rooney Construction Co. Inc. is earning straight A's in the Orange County Public School District. Centex was issued "The Certificate of Substantial Completion," for Discovery Middle School, a $17.7 million, 158,000 square-foot middle school built to accommodate approximately 1,200 students. Said George Hack The source code of a program (noun); writing the source code of a program (verb). The phrase "nobody has a package for that; it must be done through a hack" means someone has to write programming code to solve the problem because there is no pre-written software that does it. , senior administrator, construction management, Orange County Public Schools, "For the first time ever in the history of Orange County Public School construction, a new school has been completed under budget and ahead of schedule with a possible return of hundreds of thousands of dollars to Orange County Public Schools." He added, "This is an example of how construction management at-risk can work." Construction of Discovery Middle School began Dec. 12, 1995 and was completed Feb. 14, 1997, nearly one month ahead of schedule. Centex Rooney also was awarded a contract to build Corner Lake Middle School, a $20.9 million dollar project, approximately six miles east of Discovery Middle School in Orange County. Joe Goss Joe Goss was born on November 5, 1837 in Northampton, England. Although he rarely scaled more than 160 pounds, the clever and aggressive Goss routinely fought men both bigger and heavier than himself. , Centex's project manager in Orlando said, "The design of Corner Lake is the same as that of Discovery, but it's a little larger, about 167,000 square feet." Corner Lake Middle School is scheduled for completion in July 1998. The earth work for Corner Lake, which includes clearing the land, has just begun. Said Hack: "Centex's performance with Discovery Middle School is thoroughly known to the district and I believe that's why they were awarded the Corner Lake Middle School project. With the Discovery School, Centex volunteered a lot of quality items ranging from aesthetics aesthetics (ĕsthĕt`ĭks), the branch of philosophy that is concerned with the nature of art and the criteria of artistic judgment. to plumbing. They're dedicated to providing quality work." Centex Rooney Construction Co. Inc., a 64-year-old Florida-based builder, is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale with regional offices in Miami, Orlando, Fort Myers Fort Myers, city (1990 pop. 45,206), seat of Lee co., SW Fla., on the Caloosahatchee River, near the Gulf of Mexico; founded 1850, inc. 1905. It has a tourist trade and light industry and is a shipping point for citrus fruits, winter vegetables, flowers (especially , and Jacksonville. Centex Rooney, Florida's largest general contractor A general contractor is an organization or individual that contracts with another organization or individual (the owner) for the construction of a building, road or any other execution of work or facility. and construction manager, is a subsidiary of Centex Construction Group, a division of Centex Corp. Dallas-based Centex Corp., a New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. company (symbol:CTX CTX Context (Management; Tandem) CTX Centex Corporation (stock symbol) CTX Centrex CTX Cyclophosphamide CTX Corporate Trade Exchange CTX Cytoxan CTX Cholera Toxin CTX Clinical Trial Exemption ), also is one of America's largest home builders and single-family mortgage originators. CONTACT: Centex Rooney Construction Co. Larry Casey Phone: 954/771-7122 Fax: 954/776-4857 |
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