“Atlanta's strength as a national leader in healthcare, research and education directly correlates with those markets where McCarthy has developed a national reputation for construction innovation and excellence.”

— Mike Bolen, CEO/chairman, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.

McCarthy Opens Atlanta Office
Atlanta, Georgia

With the opening of a full-service McCarthy office in Atlanta, McCarthy continues to strategically expand its community-based business to better serve clients from coast to coast. This is the first McCarthy office to be opened since 1997 when the company opened a full-service office in the Las Vegas market.

“We have carefully analyzed various regions and cities that would provide the best possible opportunities for matching our areas of building expertise with the needs of prospective clients,” said Mike Bolen, McCarthy's chairman and chief executive officer. “That analysis clearly showed that the Southeast region of the United States, and Atlanta, specifically, offer the best prospects for growth, especially given the size and demand for services in our core markets of healthcare, bioscience/research and education.”

Kevin Kuntz, a 22-year McCarthy veteran, is leading the Atlanta office. Starting as a young engineer, Kuntz has held a variety of positions during his career with McCarthy including Assistant Superintendent, Project Manager, Corporate Total Quality Management Director, Project Director and most recently Senior Vice President.

Over the last 20 years, the firm has completed more than 70 projects with a construction value of nearly $1 billion in the Southeast. Currently, McCarthy is finishing up the $160 million Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. The new laboratory will house more than 450 scientific personnel working in Biosafety Levels 2, 3 and 4 laboratories. Biosafety Level 4 labs are the highest bio-containment laboratories in existence, and the new Level 4 lab at the Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory will double the CDC's existing Level 4 capacity.

“McCarthy's roots as a community-based builder go back to 1864,” commented Kuntz. “The values of honest, up-front communication, integrity and respect have always been McCarthy's foundation, and though some might call these ‘old fashioned,’ we believe these will continue to set McCarthy and our employee-owners apart in the marketplace to clients and partners. We are excited to call Atlanta home and look forward to continuing to develop relationships with members of this exciting community.”

McCarthy's Atlanta office will provide the complete range of preconstruction and construction services to clients. For more information on McCarthy's Atlanta operations, please contact:

Kevin Kuntz or Mike McIntyre
2100 RiverEdge Parkway, Suite 1010
Atlanta, Georgia 30328
770/980-8183 (phone); 770/980-8363 (fax)
atl@mccarthy.com

“McCarthy knows parking. Their national project experience and knowledgeable staff were critical factors in the firm's selection for our project.”

— Bud Fischer, manager, NPW 2930, LLC

North Park Parking Structure
San Diego, California

Construction is underway on a new $7 million, 149,000-square-foot parking structure with ground floor commercial space in the North Park area of San Diego. Developed by NPW 2930, LLC, the 388-car, six-level structure will serve movie-goers of the North Park Theatre, currently undergoing renovation. “The North Park Theatre was envisioned as the catalyst to North Park redevelopment,” commented Bud Fischer, manager of NPW 2930, LLC. “This parking structure is the key to the entire enterprise's success. We have great faith in McCarthy's ability to deliver the project on schedule and within budget to make this development come together successfully.” The project is scheduled for a November 2005 completion. As one of the nation's leading parking structure builders, McCarthy has completed parking for more than 220,000 cars nationwide and for more than 65,000 cars in California alone. Architect: International Parking Design, Irvine.

“McCarthy's construction management process enabled our design team to do things right the first time. It was a true pleasure to see how the best hospital builder in America can bring things together.”

— Laureen Tanner, R.N., M.S.N., president and CEO of Ranken Jordan

Ranken Jordan Pediatric Rehabilitation Center
St. Louis, Missouri

The only sub-acute pediatric hospital in the Midwest, Ranken Jordan provides 24-hour transitional medical treatment for children who require additional care after being discharged from a hospital. Having outgrown its previous facilities, the Center was designed and built to integrate the medical and emotional needs of patients and their families. The $20 million, 60,000-square-foot facility is a composition of five masses (each housing one of the Center's departments) grouped around an interior courtyard, creating a “Kids Village” — an indoor/outdoor play space that includes a basketball court, baseball field, and water-spray area. Further building on its whimsical design, the facility's exterior features a rollercoaster-like design with a rounded metal clad architectural element that engages each mass and comes together to define the entrance. “It was clear from the very beginning that the McCarthy team viewed this as a true labor of love, and the results and rave reviews we've received speak for themselves,” said the Center's Laureen Tanner. The facility's complex design made it challenging to enclose the building and ensure an absolute water-tight environment, issues mitigated by the use of McCarthy's formal Building Enclosure Program. Architects: Lighthouse Architects, Inc. and 527 Architects, P.C., both of St. Louis.

“Our students and community deserve schools that are safe, technologically advanced and a reflection of high standards, and we appreciate that those are goals shared by the staff at McCarthy.”

— Dave Patton, interim associate superintendent, DISD Construction Services

Dallas Independent School District
Dallas, Texas

Construction is underway on the new $24 million Jack Lowe Sr. Elementary School and a new middle school at Vickery Meadows for the Dallas Independent School District (DISD). The 218,000-square-foot project combines the two schools on one site, sharing some amenities but with separate entrances from adjacent streets. Featuring a concrete-pier foundation, structural steel framing, and a brick veneer exterior highlighted by stucco and metal panels, the schools are expected to be completed in June 2006. This is McCarthy's third project currently underway for DISD. The firm also is constructing the new $40 million Emmett J. Conrad High School in Dallas and completing the $9 million renovation of Sunset High School. Architect: Brown Reynolds Watford Architects, Inc., Dallas. Program Manager: Jacobs/Pegasus, Dallas.

“Though we were building around some of the busiest areas of the hospital, the team's extensive planning and coordination effectively addressed patient and staff concerns before they became issues.”

— Kevin Nokels, vice president and chief operating officer, Alegent Health Midlands Hospital

Bergan Mercy Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska

Designed to deliver Alegent's patient-centered healthcare approach, major renovations and new construction recently completed at Bergan Mercy will enable patients to have all necessary services come to them, as opposed to the more traditional approach of having them go to specific services. The multi-phased $42 million project included a new 2-story, 153,000-square-foot Procedure and Diagnostic Center and a new 5-story main entrance from which the majority of patient services can now be directly accessed. The new main entry (which is a clear-span structure framed in glass) ties into two existing structures and involved significant utility relocations as well as construction of a new 200-foot central corridor, which serves as the hospital's new “hub.” “Coordination and attention to detail were absolutely the keys to our success, and made it possible for the project to be built without one lost-time injury. That's remarkable given the complexity of the job,” said Alegent's Kevin Nokels. The project was a joint venture between McCarthy and local builder Meyers-Carlisle-Leapley. Bergan Mercy is one of four hospitals being built by McCarthy/MCL for Alegent in Omaha. Architect: Leo A Daly, Omaha.

“McCarthy's ability to react quickly enabled us to open all three facilities in the same week… on time and under budget.”

— Bruce Ringwald, general manager of construction services, Arizona Department of Administration

Arizona Department of Corrections
Perryville, Tucson and Douglas, Arizona

A six-month, fast-track prison expansion project recently wrapped up for the Arizona Department of Administration (ADOA). The $24 million, 1,000-bed project required construction of identical, low-custody additions at three rural prison sites. McCarthy, as one of the nation's largest authorized Butler Builders, was able to erect eight pre-engineered metal buildings manufactured by Butler Manufacturing Co. simultaneously at each of the three sites in less than six months. “McCarthy's relationship with the building manufacturer was a key facet to keeping this fast project on schedule,” commented the ADOA's Bruce Ringwald. To facilitate communication among the job sites, McCarthy implemented the company's first satellite hook-up for information technology communications. Despite the aggressive schedule, the safety record was outstanding with zero lost time incidents on more than 388,000 man hours. Architect: Arrington Watkins Architects, Phoenix.

“We knew we could get a better handle on costs and a more aggressive schedule with one design/build team.”

— Troy Hayes, plant engineering leader, city of Phoenix

Lake Pleasant Water Treatment Plant
Phoenix, Arizona

Construction of the new Lake Pleasant Water Treatment Plant in Phoenix, the largest Design/Build/Operate water project in North America, is proceeding on schedule. McCarthy, in a joint venture with Black & Veatch Corp. is currently 42 percent complete. More than 300 tradespeople will be on site at the project's peak pouring more than 63,000 cubic yards of concrete and erecting more than 5,000 tons of steel. McCarthy is self-performing all concrete work. The state-of-the-art facility is located on a 225-acre site in northwest Phoenix and will include a raw water pump station, raw water transmission line (including a 90” pipeline), water treatment plant site and operations center. Upon completion in early 2007, the 80 MGD facility will have the capacity to provide a reliable supply of safe drinking water to 400,000 area homes. American Water Services as the prime contractor will manage and operate the facility for 15 years. Architect: Swaback Partners, Scottsdale. Engineer: Black & Veatch Corp., Phoenix.

“Our project is located on a tight urban site and the McCarthy team had recently successfully completed an equally challenging project for another educational institution in San Francisco. The collective experience of the team, combined with a competitive cost proposal, made McCarthy the clear choice.”

— Ellen O'Leary, project manager, City College of San Francisco

City College of San Francisco — New Mission Campus
San Francisco, California

Set in the urban and congested Mission District of San Francisco, McCarthy will soon begin a complicated $45 million renovation and new construction project for the City College of San Francisco. A total of 198,000 square feet of space will be built or renovated including two new buildings and a modernization/seismic upgrade of one existing building. The site is bounded on two sides by private, multi-level residences and commercial space and is being built lot-line to lot-line, which will require significant underpinning and the use of interior scaffolding. “McCarthy has brought to the table a willingness to hit the ground running. The team is proactive and adaptable to the District's needs, policies and goals as well as to the project requirements,” commented the College's Ellen O'Leary. Scheduled for a spring 2007 completion, the project includes classrooms, specialty rooms and laboratories as well as science, art, digital imaging/printing areas and radio and television studios. Other program spaces include a 50-car basement parking structure, a café, a bookstore, a courtyard between the buildings, conference rooms, multi-purpose rooms, administrative and student services offices and support spaces. Architects: Cervantes Design Associates/Kendall Young Associates, a Joint Venture in association with ED-2 International, San Francisco.

“Excavating in an area built 30 years ago can be problematic, but this project went about as smoothly as any I've seen.”

— Steve DeWolf, chief engineer, Port of Houston Authority

Port of Houston
Houston, Texas

Contracted on a hard bid basis to reconstruct the backup paving to the Port's wharves 47 and 48, McCarthy employed a two-phased approach, which allowed the wharf operator to keep its business functioning as the paving was rebuilt. Following the demolition of the existing concrete paving and excavating 36" deep to the new subgrade, McCarthy formed support shafts for the future pavement, fine graded the site, installed a filter fabric geo mat under 16" of limestone base, placed a 2" layer of asphalt, and then formed and placed the 17" deep concrete pavement. “This was one of those jobs where ‘no news was truly good news.’ We could have run into many unforeseen situations, but McCarthy was cooperative and very proactive in dealing with them before they became issues,” commented the Authority's Steve DeWolf. In addition to the paving, a new water line and storm water inlets were included in the $3 million project — the sixth one completed for the Port by McCarthy.