Sundt has been awarded a student housing project at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) – the company’s first job for the university. The 100,000-square-foot dorm will house between 300 and 400 students and is the first in a series of projects that will add 2,000 dorm beds to the nearly 100-year-old campus. It is being built using the Construction Manager at Risk delivery method.
The multi-story building will sit atop a hilltop overlooking an existing softball complex colorfully dubbed “Helen of Troy Field.” Its design, created by Mijares Mora Architects and KSQ Architects, is consistent with the Bhutanese-inspired architecture that characterizes the rest of the 22,600-student UTEP campus. Construction will begin in the spring of 2013.