At the peak of construction, the McCarthy crew will be erecting30 to 35 pre-cast concrete panels per day, Chris Peck, Texasdivision vice president for the St. Louis-based firm, tellsGlobeSt.com. The 360,000-sf design/build parking facility will besituated on the far eastern quadrant of the campus and next to thenewly christened 508,000-sf Baylor Sciences Building. The garagedelivers in August 2004.

The East Campus Parking Facility, with 1,170 spaces, is afour-story design with the look of an office building with adetailed exterior facade. McCarthy's Gary Akin is the projectdirector; Carl Walker Inc. of Dallas is the architect andengineering firm.

"As Baylor continues to enhance its campus environment, parkingstructures are being located on the outer edges of campus, openingthe interior for malls and foot traffic," Akin said in a pressrelease. The West Campus Parking Facility, which is nearingcompletion, is a four-level design with 1,195 spaces. It stands atthe intersection of University Parks Drive and Dutton Avenue.