Articles: BenchMark 2000 No. 4

Cloaking the F-22
Because only the best would do for the world’s most advanced fighter aircraft and the star of the U.S Air Force livery, the aeronautics company asked Burns & McDonnell to design and build a $29 million, high-security, high-tech coatings facility that’s more environmentally controlled than many laboratory clean rooms.

Denver, Colorado: Metro Wastewater
Burns & McDonnell recently incorporated both in a project for Denver’s Metro Wastewater Reclamation District.

Military Utility Privatization
In the past, military bases were small cities that provided “residents” everything from dining and dry cleaning to water, wastewater, gas and electric service.

Rubber Plant Growth
Burns & McDonnell’s Nofsinger process division recently completed modifications to Goodyear’s Natsyn plant in Beaumont, Texas, that allow Goodyear to produce more of the synthetic rubber for its own products and to sell to other companies.

The Right Blend
We’ve learned from more than 100 years of designing infrastructure facilities that while they are important and necessary, there are certain types of facilities that nobody really wants to see.

What's Behind these Walls?
What is that on the cover? Hard to tell, isn’t it? It could be a park, a swimming pool or an office building.