HOUSTON, TX – WALTER P MOORE has won an Award of Merit in the “Parking Structures” category of the 2006 Post-Tensioning Institute Awards Competition for its role in the design of the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Terminal D Parking Garage.

Completed in July 2005, the 3.1 million sq ft Terminal D Garage provides over 8,000 parking spaces and can claim a spot as one of the ten largest parking garages in North America. The 5,000 psi cast-in-place concrete, post-tensioned beam and slab structure rises eight levels above ground. At a total cost of $139 million, the garage used 1,926 tons of post-tensioning, totaling $3.3 million. The garage is state-of-the-art, and a variety of post-tensioned strategies made possible several progressive features.

The Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI) represents a community of businesses and professionals dedicated to expanding quality post-tensioning applications through research, code development and marketing. PTI is a non-profit organization for the advancement of post-tensioned, pre-stressed concrete design and construction.

A premier national firm celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2006, WALTER P MOORE provides a broad range of engineering and consulting services to public and private sector clients from an expanding network of regional offices. WALTER P MOORE (walterpmoore.com) is consistently recognized for engineering excellence and among the “best places to work” in the nation and was recently named by Structural Engineer as the nation’s “Best Structural Engineering Firm to Work For.

For further information, contact Kathleen Irwin at 713.630.7304.