Texas Contractor articles from June 2005

Texas Contractor archives from June 2005

Bob Moore Construction.
June 6, 2005... Staff Bob Moore Construction is in the midst of a 39-acre development project in Mansfield, Texas, on behalf of the developer, Kossman Development Company from Pittsburgh, Pa. Located at the corner of FM Road 157 and Highway 287, Town...

Steele & Freeman.(construction contracts)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Staff Steele & Freeman Inc., one of North Texas's leading general contracting firms, is pointing toward July 1 completion dates for two retail centers it is building in northern Tarrant County. Both have been designed by Kent Holcombe of...

Ivy Steel & Wire.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Staff Ivy Steel & Wire, a division of MMI Products, Inc., announces plans to open a second welded wire reinforcing (WWR) manufacturing facility in Houston. This additional 155,000-square-foot facility will house the latest state-of-art...

Underground Safety Training.(Greg Strudwick & Associates )(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Staff Greg Strudwick, of Greg Strudwick & Associates of Euless, recently helped train a new group of safety instructors at the NUCA (National Utility Contractors Association) annual Instructor Train-the-Trainer program at the Olathe Fire...

ACE Mentoring.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Staff The first annual ACE Mentor Program/DFW Chapter awards banquet honored local students with architectural/construction/engineering university scholarships. High school students Elizabeth Castro, Brenda Gonzales, Nancy Gonzalez, and...

Lennar.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Staff Lennar Corporation Executive Director Tom Brick can hardly believe his luck. A few months ago, Brick registered for only one give-away drawing at the International Builders' Show (IBS) in Orlando, Florida -- a chopper built by...

People.(Foundation for Pavement Preservation)(Prime Materials and Supply Corp)(Appointed William F. O'Leary as President)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Staff William F. "Bill" O'Leary , Prime Materials and Supply Corp., has been named president of the Foundation for Pavement Preservation (FP2). FP2, a nonprofit foundation established in 1992, provides resources to advance knowledge for...

Walter P. Moore.(Appointments)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Staff Biswajit Mukhopadhyay , Ph.D, P.E, has joined Walter P. Moore as senior associate and team director, Hydrology & Hydraulics in their Houston Infrastructure office. From large regional hydrologic and hydraulic modeling to...

Interface Consulting.(Appointed Amanda Johnson as executive coordinator)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Staff Amanda Johnson has joined Houston-based Interface Consulting International, Inc. as its new executive coordinator. Johnson's responsibilities at Interface Consulting will focus on supporting the firm in marketing and business...

Boyken International.(Company Profile)
June 6, 2005... Staff The construction consulting firm Boyken International has expanded its Houston office with five project managers to serve a growing number of clients and projects in Texas. Based in Atlanta with offices in Orlando, Houston and...

Galveston Causeway.(services of Dorsett Bros)
June 6, 2005... Staff New and improved design will reduce steel deterioration and widen the Intercoastal Waterway at this point. Hurricanes and tidal waves do not deter them; neither do the challenges of building at sea level. People still want to...

NationsRent Open House Week.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2005... Staff NationsRent locations in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex and Houston celebrated spring and two items of big news with a series of open houses in early May. NationsRent now represents JCB compact construction equipment, including...

Multiquip.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Staff Multiquip has opened a new distribution center in Fort Worth, ensuring quicker product delivery and greater product availability for customers throughout the Southwest. The new distribution center stocks Multiquip compaction and...

Turner Construction.(Promotion)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Staff Paul D. Little was promoted to senior vice president in charge of the Atlanta, Carolinas and Orlando offices. He was most recently vice president and general manager of the Atlanta office. Little holds a bachelor's degree in...

HOLT CAT.(Appointed Terry Beall as Safety and Environmental manager )(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Staff Terry Beall has been named as Safety and Environmental manager at HOLT CAT's San Antonio headquarters. He will oversee administration of environmental, health and safety programs at HOLT CAT, ensuring compliance with federal...

C&B.(Carter and Burgess Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Staff Carter & Burgess has begun a $30-million expansion and renovation for Prime Outlets San Marcos. The outlet, owned by Baltimore-based Prime Retail, Inc., is located on Interstate 35 in San Marcos, between Austin and San Antonio. The...

Mack Trucks.(Target Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Staff As part of a targeted marketing program developed by FreeCar Media, 15 Mack Granite[R] model mixers were wrapped with advertisements illustrating Coca-Cola's new beverage, Full Throttle. The mixers have embarked on a promotional...

Steele & Freeman.(Keller Independent School District)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Staff Steele & Freeman Inc., one of Tarrant County's leading general contracting firms, has been awarded a contract by the Keller Independent School District to build four new schools in fast growing areas of far north Fort Worth. The...

Bernard.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Staff To improve navigation and offer customers enhanced product information, Bernard[R] redesigned its website, which is now found at www.bernardwelds.com . Among the new highlights are the CustomSelect(TM) Ordering System, improved...

NAPA.(National Asphalt Pavement Association )(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Staff The National Asphalt Pavement Association has just published their Virtual Superpave Laboratory, a computer-based learning tool for training engineering students, practicing engineers and technicians in the laboratory procedures and...

Cummins.(Online Shopping for diesel engine parts)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Staff Construction equipment operators can now harness the Internet using QuickServe[R] Online to save time and get immediate access to an online shopping cart for diesel engine parts. The site covers every Cummins engine built since 1960....

RSC.(RSC Equipment Rental)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Staff RSC Equipment Rental, a long-time leader in the North American rental equipment industry, has launched its new website, "RSCrental.com ." The new, easy-to-navigate site is designed to make it even more convenient for customers to do...

C&B.(Carter and Burgess Inc.)(Appointed Mir H. Ali as manager)
June 20, 2005... Staff Mir H. Ali , P.E., has joined Carter & Burgess as manager of the Structures Group in the Dallas and Fort Worth Transportation Units where he will oversee more than 15 bridge engineers, engineers-in-training and CADD technicians. Ali...

Editor's Report.(Shortage of cement for the construction work)
June 20, 2005... By Liz Moucka Cement Market Last year, most of Texas escaped the cement shortage that plagued much of the nation -- partly because of our plentiful limestone deposits and numerous commercial suppliers, but also because of the record...

Cement Market Expansion.
June 20, 2005... By Liz Moucka Two well-known names joint venture in Houston to build one of the largest cement import terminals in the nation. Construction began in mid April on what will be the largest cement storage terminal in Texas and one of the...

Legal Focus.
June 20, 2005... By Denise Nestel How do you determine the terms of a purchase order? Step 1: What does the purchase order (P.O.) say? A general contractor complains to its vendor that the metal building, as supplied, does not conform to the plans...

McCarthy Builds Adjoining Schools.(Jack Lowe, Sr. Elementary School and Vickery Meadows Middle School)(Dallas Independent School District )(Brief Article)
June 20, 2005... Staff McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. has been awarded the new $24-million Jack Lowe, Sr. Elementary School and Vickery Meadows Middle School for the Dallas Independent School District (DISD). Construction on this new, two-school project...