Texas Contractor articles from December 2004

Texas Contractor archives from December 2004

ICF Construction.(insulated concrete forms)
December 6, 2004... By Debi Pfitzenmaier Environmentally friendly and economically sound construction method makes strides into the commercial market. Even the blazing Central Texas sun can't wilt the green in one particular corner of southeast Austin....

Fugro Consultants.(Roy R. Grant appointed)(Brief Article)
December 6, 2004... Staff Fugro Consultants LP, a Geotechnical and Construction Materials Engineering and Testing firm, is pleased to announce Roy R. Grant , P.E. has joined their office as a senior materials engineer. Mr. Grant has over 30 years' experience...

Dynapac.(Yvette Avila has joined the Dynapac Compaction, Paving & Milling)(Brief Article)
December 6, 2004... Staff Yvette Avila has joined the Dynapac Compaction, Paving & Milling team as their marketing specialist. Avila has two years of marketing experience in the home-building construction market. She will office in the Metso Dynapac U.S....

C&B.(Andrew Gemperline has joined Carter & Burgess Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 6, 2004... Staff Transportation specialist Andrew Gemperline , P.E., has joined the Dallas office of Carter & Burgess as a senior program manager with the Transportation Programs Division. Of his 16 years of experience, more than 10 were spent with...

PMK Division of C&B.(Laurie Brigman has joined Pelton Marsh Kinsella, a division of Carter & Burgess Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 6, 2004... Staff Laurie Brigman has joined Pelton Marsh Kinsella (PMK), a division of Carter & Burgess, as the senior manager for business development and marketing. Brigman, who was vice president of business development for a prominent audiovisual...

HDR.(Carmen Abad-Fitts of HDR Inc. awarded)(Brief Article)
December 6, 2004... Staff HDR employee Carmen Abad-Fitts has been selected to receive a National Women of Color Technology Award for her accomplishments in advancing technology and science. Abad-Fitts, assistant department manager for HDR's San Antonio...

HOLT CAT.(Holt Cat Power Systems Division has announced several new appointments )
December 6, 2004... Staff Bob Stratton, vice president and general manager of the HOLT CAT POWER SYSTEMS DIVISION (PSD), has announced several new appointments in their Irving, San Antonio and Corpus Christi stores. Donna Saunders has been named service...

New Products.
December 6, 2004... Staff Leica Geosystems Staff Leica Geosystems has introduced a new license-free spread-spectrum integrated radio module, which has been developed by Intuicom specifically to provide a high-performance RTK data link for the Leica...

AGC of Texas.(Safety and Pavement Preservation Seminars of Associated General Contractors of Texas)
December 6, 2004... Staff 21st Annual Equipment Show features machinery for the highway and utility markets. The Safety and Pavement Preservation Seminars were huge successes this year. The Safety Conference was sponsored by the AGC of Texas Safety &...

Champion Industries.(Volvo Compact Motor Graders)(Brief Article)
December 6, 2004... Staff This past July, Champion Industries LLC acquired Volvo Compact Motor Graders, a Charlotte, N.C., manufacturer. "We had always hoped that if Champion or Volvo decided to divest itself of this line that they would talk to us first,"...

Memorial Hermann Medical Plaza.(Brief Article)
December 6, 2004... Staff D. E. Harvey Builders is the general contractor for the Memorial Hermann Medical Plaza in Houston, which was designed by Kirksey Architects. Haynes Whaley Associates provided structural engineering, Walter P. Moore, the civil...

Boyken International.(Boyken International opens Dallas office)(Brief Article)
December 6, 2004... Staff With the acquisition of Dallas-based Project Services Group of Good Fulton & Farrell Architects (GFF), Boyken International has opened a Dallas office at 16614 Davenport Road. The Project Services Group was created five years ago and...

3W Equipment Co.(Brief Article)
December 6, 2004... Staff William "Woody" Woodall has announced that he has established 3W Equipment Co. as a distributor of crushing and screening equipment to the aggregates industry. Woodall, who has many years of experience in this market, will be serving...

Huckabee & Associates.(Christopher M. Huckabee awarded)(Brief Article)
December 6, 2004... Staff Christopher M. Huckabee, AIA, CEO of Huckabee & Associates, Inc. of Fort Worth, was recently awarded the PSMJ CEO-of-the-Year Award in the small firms category. Huckabee & Associates, organized in 1967, is an educational...

Boyken International.(Howard L. Templin appointed)(Brief Article)
December 6, 2004... Staff Howard L. Templin , AIA, was named director of Boyken International's new Dallas office after five years with GFF's Project Services Group. Boyken International recently acquired the Project Services Group of Good Fulton & Farrell...

Houston AGC.(appointments at Houston Chapter Associated General Contractors of America)(Brief Article)
December 6, 2004... Staff Jerry Nevlud was recently appointed by the board of directors as executive vice president of the Houston Chapter Associated General Contractors of America, Inc. (AGC). Nevlud, who has been with AGC since 2000, most recently serving...

HOBAS Donates Pipe For Research Project.(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... Staff HOBAS Pipe USA of Houston donated two large diameter branch fittings to J.F. White Contracting Company for use as part of the "Deepworker" training exercises conducted at Texas A&M University's research pool. The "Deepworker" is a...

Top Dog.(construction industry)
December 20, 2004... By Joe Dysart How Texas contractors have found a back door to top 10 status on the search engines Given that there are literally scores of ways to promote your contracting business on the web for free, actually paying for an extremely...

Editor's Report.(Editorial)
December 20, 2004... By Liz Moucka Many thanks to those of you who took part in our annual Buyers' Intentions Survey. Please take the time to study the results published in this issue. Texas Contractor and the Associated Construction Publications have been...

Financial Focus.
December 20, 2004... By Jesse Abercrombie 10 Estate-Planning Ideas For Contractors All our lives as contractors, we plan. Some of the things we plan, such as what to have for dinner or the route we'll take to work, are so trivial they require little...

PageSoutherlandPage/Austin Commercial.(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... Staff Texas Instrument broke ground Nov. 18 on their new semiconductor manufacturing complex in Richardson. The 92-acre site is expected to employ up to 1,000 people and be one of the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing facilities in...

HOLT CAT.
December 20, 2004... Staff Frank "Anthony" Martinez has been announced as the new parts manager to the HOLT CAT Victoria area. Martinez will oversee all parts department operations at the Victoria store, focusing on the development and successes of his...

Linetec.(appointments)(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... Staff Rob Seils has been named as a regional manager with Linetec's outside sales team. As a former inside sales manager with the company, he now will share and apply his knowledge of Linetec's internal systems, products and services with...

Regional NAWIC Meets In Oklahoma City.(National Association of Women in Construction)
December 20, 2004... Staff The Oklahoma City Chapter of National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) hosted 36 construction-industry women during the organization's Region 7 Annual Fall Planning Conference in late October. In addition to...

New Products.
December 20, 2004... Staff Trimble SiteVision(r) GPS System Staff Trimble introduces a new version of its SiteVision(r) GPS system to enhance performance of excavators with tilt-bucket attachments. Using dual GPS antennas to compute the position of...

Site Concrete/Holt Cat.(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... Staff Jim Owens, chairman and CEO of Caterpillar Inc. in Peoria, Ill. traveled to Texas Nov. 8 to join Peter Holt, CEO of Holt Cat, and Allyn Archer, president and COO of Holt Cat in delivering the first production model piece of off-road...

Good, Fulton & Farrell.(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... Staff The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation has selected Good, Fulton & Farrell Architects (GFF) as the architect for the center's underground parking structure that will serve patrons of the center's five venues and the...

Williams Bros.(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... Staff TxDOT awarded Williams Bros. Construction of Houston the $154.7-million contract for construction of connectors and TMS for Phase 2 of the Loop 410 interchange at US 281 in San Antonio.

Tellepsen.(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... Staff Tellepsen Builders has recently been awarded projects for Clear Creek ISD and Columbia-Brazoria ISD totaling $57 million. Additions and renovations to Clear Creek High School will include demolition of existing classrooms,...

Hill & Wilkinson.(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... Staff Hill & Wilkinson, Ltd. has been selected as construction manager to build a new $6-million, 43,000-square-foot student housing complex for Abilene Christian University. The project broke ground last month, with completion targeted...

Sterling.(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... Staff Sterling Houston Holdings ("SHH") has received final confirmation of a $58.5-million construction contract from the state of Texas Department of Transportation. Work on the contract is expected to begin early in 2005. Sterling...

HOLT CAT.(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... Staff HOLT CAT has opened a parts store in Sonora, Texas, at 707 Glasscock. This store offers a parts inventory of over 3,000 line items and 150 different types of exchange components to speed repairs and reduce downtime. Andy Sanchez has...

CONEXPO-CON/AGG.(Brief Article)
December 20, 2004... Staff The owners and producers of the CONEXPO-CON/AGG international construction and construction materials exposition have signed a new cooperative agreement with AEM (Association of Equipment Manufacturers) as sole manager. Previously,...

Legal Focus.
December 20, 2004... By Denise L. Nestel When Does A Sub's Proposal Trump The Subcontract? An HVAC bid excludes starters for variable frequency drives even though the starters are specified in Division 15. A sub proposes Acme column covers, even though the...