Texas Contractor articles from January 2009

Texas Contractor archives from January 2009

The Beck Group New Safety Director.(Beck Construction Co. has appointed Tim Kuykendall )(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Staff Tim Kuykendall has joined The Beck Group as corporate safety director. For the past several years, Tim has helped Beck in a safety consulting role. Tim recently retired at the rank of captain from the city of Grand Prairie fire...

WALTER P MOORE Names New Principals.
January 5, 2009... Staff WALTER P MOORE has announced that Matt Feagins, Jennifer Salgado, P.E., Abhijit Shah, P.E., LEED AP, and Ken Zarembski, S.E., have been named principals of the firm. A national engineering and consulting firm, WALTER P MOORE...

SHW New Design Leadership.(SHW Group Inc.)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Staff SHW Group has announced that Jim Luckey, AIA, LEED AP, formerly principal of Smith Group and lead design architect in their Chicago office, has joined the firm as the new director of design. Luckey will work in concert with Jeff...

Texas Association of Builders Names Executive Director.
January 5, 2009... Staff The Texas Association of Builders has announced that M. Scott Norman Jr. has taken the seat of executive director. Norman was named as executive director for the association of over 12,000 statewide members and associates after...

Texas Law Firm Welcomes Two Attorneys.
January 5, 2009... Staff Shannon, Gracey, Ratliff & Miller, LLP, one of Texas' oldest and most respected law firms, welcomes two attorneys to its ranks, Patrick S. Richter and Chris W. Fitzgerald. Patrick S. Richter joins the Austin team as a partner and...

HKS Names Chief Sustainability Officer.(HKS Inc.)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Staff Kirk Teske has been named HKS's chief sustainability officer, responsible for promoting LEED accreditation of employees and the sustainable design of the firm's projects worldwide. In his new role, Teske will be leading HKS in...

HKS Hires VP/Director.
January 5, 2009... Staff HKS, Inc. has hired Jack Ford AIA, ISDA, as vice president and healthcare design director in HKS's Dallas office. With 30 years of experience in a wide variety of architectural services, Ford specializes in programming, master...

HOBAS Pipe New VP.
January 5, 2009... Staff HOBAS Pipe USA, the leading manufacturer of centrifugally cast, fiberglass-reinforced, polymer mortar pipe systems, has promoted Kimberly Paggioli, P.E., to the position of vice president - Marketing and Quality Assurance. ...

2009 - Bad News and Good News.
January 5, 2009... by Liz Moucka President-elect Barack Obama has given indication that he will be a proponent of infrastructure construction as a method of creating jobs and improving the economy. It worked during the Great Depression of the 1930s; everyone...

Twenty-Two New Bridges For Texarkana.
January 5, 2009... By R. G. Pickard Austin Bridge & Road is expanding I-59 on Texas side of Texarkana. Austin Bridge & Road, LP, of Irving, TX, is currently about halfway through a $153-million expansion and renovation project on Interstates 59 and 30...

Mobile Field Software.
January 5, 2009... By Josh Kanner A Revolution in Construction Field Work Explained Using mobile devices and software in the field is not a new development for the business world. Package delivery drivers no longer carry packing slips that customers need...

Texas Contractor 2009 Forecast.
January 5, 2009... By Liz Moucka, editor The Lone Star State will weather the recession better than most other states. The economy certainly has people worried in Texas. There is pain with real jobs being lost, and there is worry about what is yet to...

Texas Highway Funding.
January 5, 2009... Staff Interview with Amadeo Saenz on TxDOT construction and maintenance spending in 2009 Spending on highway construction and maintenance projects in Texas could reach $4 billion in 2009, if the Texas Department of Transportation...

Hill & Wilkinson Passes Safety Milestone.(Hill and Wilkinson Inc.)(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... Staff Plano-based Hill & Wilkinson, Ltd., whose general contracting business in Texas has nearly doubled in the past five years, has passed a safety milestone with more than 2 million consecutive hours worked without an OSHA Recordable...

Midland Safety Conference Almost Here.(Conference news)(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... Staff The Midland Regional Safety Conference is scheduled for Tuesday, January 27, 2009, at the Midland Center in Midland, TX. This year's theme is "Safety Awareness!" This training seminar is provided by a unique partnership between...

RSC Opens New Corpus Christi Store.(RSC Equipment Rental )(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... Staff RSC Equipment Rental (www.RSCrental.com ) has opened a new store on South Padre Island Drive in Corpus Christi. The new 11,000-square-foot store will allow RSC to better serve its growing base of customers in the industrial and...

Warrior Group Sells Miller Building Systems to Mobile/Modular.(Company overview)
January 19, 2009... Staff The Warrior Group has announced that Mobile/Modular Express, Inc., headquartered in Edgewood, MD, purchased the assets of Miller Building Systems, Inc. (MBSI). Terms of the private transaction were not disclosed. Warrior Group,...

SHW Group and Gilbane Building Instrumental in School Award.
January 19, 2009... Staff Andy Dekaney High School in Houston, TX, has won the prestigious 2008 Caudill Award, the highest architectural honor awarded at the Texas Association of School Boards' and the Texas Association of School Administrators' annual...

TCEQ Accepting TERP Applications.
January 19, 2009... Staff The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's Texas Emissions Reduction Plan program is now accepting applications for two types of grants designed to reduce air pollution: Emissions Reduction Incentive Grants fund replacement,...

New TxDOT Website.(Website overview)
January 19, 2009... Staff TxDOT's new website has been restructured to provide a new look at a new URL, www.txdot.gov . Contractor information previously located under the Business heading is now found under the Business with TxDOT link. Road Construction &...

Sprague of HKS Awarded.
January 19, 2009... Staff Joseph G. Sprague, FAIA, FACHA, FHFI, has been presented The Center for Health Design 2008 Changemaker award. Sprague is a principal and director of health facilities at HKS, Inc. His work has been widely published and he is a...

Hanson's Clifford Hahne Honored.
January 19, 2009... Staff Clifford Hahne, president of Hanson Pressure Pipe and South Central region president of Hanson Pipe & Precast, both divisions of Hanson Building Products North America, recently celebrated 25 years with the company. Awarded and...

NPCA Honors Joan Blecha.
January 19, 2009... Staff Joan Blecha, Southeast region president of Hanson Pipe & Precast, was presented the 2008 Robert E. Yoakum Award by the National Precast Concrete Association (NPCA). According to Ty E. Gable, president of NPCA, Blecha was chosen for...

Robertson Joins McCarthy Building.(McCarthy Building Companies Inc. Texas Div.)(Marc Robertson )(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... Staff McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. has hired Marc Robertson as the preconstruction director for the firm's Texas Division, where he will be responsible for developing bid strategy, leading and executing the entire bid process for both...

WALTER P MOORE Honors Mark Williams.(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... Staff Mark E. Williams, Ph.D., P.E., has been chosen as the 2008 recipient of WALTER P MOORE's "Javier F. Horvilleur Outstanding Young Engineer Award." This award is presented annually to one young structural engineer at WALTER P MOORE to...

Key Construction Builds Corgan-Designed HQ For CIGNA.
January 19, 2009... Staff CIGNA and CMC Realty Group, along with local Plano and Collin County officials and other dignitaries, celebrated the groundbreaking of CIGNA's new regional headquarters in Plano, TX. Named CIGNA Pointe, the 210,000-square-foot...

CK Construction Builds With La Fe.
January 19, 2009... By Liz Moucka El Paso contractor realizes the value of relationships and personal values. When friends come together to start a business, it can be a test of the friendship or an advantage multiplied exponentially. CK Construction,...

H&E Equipment Opens New Dallas Facility.(Company overview)
January 19, 2009... Staff H&E Equipment Services celebrated the grand opening of their newly constructed crane facility in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex last November 6. The event kicked off with a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony, after which attendees...

Rewarding Safety With A Tangible Reminder.
January 19, 2009... Staff Custom keepsake coins have helped to raise awareness of safety among workers at TECO Peoples Gas - while lowering accidents and workers' compensation claims. The custom coins are given out selectively at meetings or training events....