Texas Contractor articles from April 2008

Texas Contractor archives from April 2008

Charter Builders.
April 7, 2008... Staff Charter Builders, LTD is serving as the construction manager for the new Northwest ISD Byron Nelson High School in Trophy Club, Texas. Corgan Associates, Inc., one of the top U.S.-based architectural and interior design firms, has...

TCEQ on Rock Crushers.(Texas Commission on Environmental Quality)(Brief article)
April 7, 2008... Staff The TCEQ is publishing a proposed revision to permitting in the Texas Register, replacing the current permit by rule for rock crushers with a new standard permit for permanent rock and concrete crushers. The standard permit would...

HKS.
April 7, 2008... Staff HKS, Inc., headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is expanding its presence in the Dallas/Fort Worth area with the opening of its Arlington office in the Chase Bank Tower, 500 East Border St., Suite 670. Nasser Gittiban directs the office's...

Road Machinery.(Metso Minerals)(Brief article)
April 7, 2008... Staff Road Machinery LLC, the Komatsu distributor, is now the exclusive distributor for Metso Minerals in Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas. Metso Minerals produces an extensive line of crushing and screening equipment for rock and...

SHW.(SHW Group Architects)(Brief article)
April 7, 2008... Staff Dallas-based SHW Group has been selected to design and engineer a new 32,000-square-foot education facility for Michigan State University (MSU) in Dubai, making it the first American university to have a presence in the Dubai...

Boyken Named Project Manager for Texas' Sunnyvale Medical Center.
April 21, 2008... Staff Boyken International, Inc. has been engaged as the project manager for the Texas Regional Medical Center at Sunnyvale, Texas, by developer Cottonwood Partners Management, Ltd. In addition to the owner's representative services,...

Skanska Names New VPS: Ronnie Howe, Jr., Houston; Scott Cannon, San Antonio; Marty Massey, Harlingen.
April 21, 2008... Staff Ronnie Howe, Jr. was promoted to vice president of operations, responsible for oversight of Skanska's Houston office. Prior to his appointment as vice president of operations, Howe served as project executive for the Texas market,...

Bob Moore Safety Director Tapped for QUOIN Post.(Brief article)
April 21, 2008... Staff Dino Sideris , safety director for Bob Moore Construction, has been elected vice chairman of the Safety Resource Leadership Group for QUOIN, the north and east Texas chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC)....

Corgan Picks Four New Associates.
April 21, 2008... Staff Harper Hicks has been named associate of Corgan Associates, Inc. Hicks joined Corgan in 2000 and has been in charge of coordinating consultants, creating construction documents and managing architectural interns. Her architectural...

Quoin/AGC Host Simulated Bid Contest.(QUOIN's Education and Research Foundation)(Brief article)
April 21, 2008... Staff QUOIN's Education and Research Foundation recently hosted the ASC/QUOIN Region V Student Competition, an event in which university teams simulate a bid situation. The students are given project information and are then allotted 16...

Cherry Crushed Concrete Opens Houston Plant.(Cherry Crushed Concrete has opened its fourth stabilized materials plant)(Brief article)
April 21, 2008... Staff The Stabilized Material Division of Cherry Crushed Concrete has opened its fourth stabilized materials plant in the greater Houston area on a 56-acre site in Fort Bend County. The new plant, geographically situated to service Fort...

Honeywell's Fire-Lite Alarms Launches New Website.(Website overview)
April 21, 2008... Staff Fire-Lite Alarms, part of Honeywell's Life Safety Group, has launched their new FireLite.com website featuring a clean design and intuitive navigation of product information, industry news and technical documentation. Developed to...

Thomas Signs Pact with Singapore Technologies Subsidiary to Produce Loaders In China.
April 21, 2008... Staff Thomas Equipment Inc., with multiple locations in Texas, has entered into an agreement in principle for the production of Thomas skid-steer loaders with Singapore Technologies (ST) Engineering's Guizhou Jonyang Kinetics (GJK)...

Orion Marine Buys Subaqueous Specialty Dredging Services.(Orion Marine Group, Inc. has acquired Subaqueous Service, Inc.)(Brief article)
April 21, 2008... Staff Orion Marine Group, Inc., a leading marine specialty contractor serving the heavy civil marine infrastructure sector, has acquired substantially all of the assets and business of Orlando, Florida-based Subaqueous Service, Inc....

TDIndustries Picks Johannsen, Moore to Head North Texas, Houston Regions.(Rodney C. Johannsen has been promoted to president of the TDIndustries)(Brief article)
April 21, 2008... Staff Rodney C. Johannsen has been promoted to president of the TDIndustries' North Texas region. Johannsen joined TDI in 1988. He has more than 35 years of experience and, most recently, has been involved in leading TDIndustries' projects...

Bovis Names Lindstrom VP Operations.
April 21, 2008... Staff Bovis Lend Lease is pleased to announce that Donnie Lindstrom , a Texas native, will serve as vice president and director of operations for the Dallas areas. He has 30 years of experience in the industry. Lindstrom has previous...

Dough Childers to Head Morris Architects Urban Studio.
April 21, 2008... Staff Morris Architects, a 70-year design firm with offices in Houston, Orlando, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro, recently elevated Doug Childers , AIA, to the position of principal directing the firm's Urban Studio. A community leader and...

Linbeck Names Nicholas Chambers Houston Marketing Manager.
April 21, 2008... Staff Linbeck welcomes Nicholas B. Chambers as marketing manager for the Houston region. In his position, he will work with new and existing clients to develop relationships for future projects, design collateral materials and manage...

Editor's Report.
April 21, 2008... By Liz Moucka You may be saying "I'm just the contractor. I don't care where the money comes from, just as long as I get paid." Recently, a lot of contractors have started worrying about where the money comes from when TxDOT (Texas...

Dallas Cowboys Stadium.
April 21, 2008... By Liz Moucka Manhattan Construction, along with Rayco Construction and 3i Construction, leads an impressive playlist of contractors giving rise to the Dallas Cowboys' new home in Arlington. "The history and tradition of Texas Stadium...

Highway Bonds 101.
April 21, 2008... By Liz Moucka TxDOT's top administrators explain highway bond programs in the Lone Star State. "Texas has two bonding programs," explained James Bass, chief financial officer of TxDOT, "the Texas Mobility Fund and Proposition 14, our...