Texas Contractor articles from November 2007

Texas Contractor archives from November 2007

Martin Asphalt.
November 5, 2007... Staff Martin Asphalt Company has taken delivery of 40 new asphalt rail cars from TRINITYRAIL's Longview assembly facility. Each 25,300-gallon-capacity car incorporates two innovative features: critical flow control valves relocated to the...

Walter P. Moore.(new office at El Paso)(Brief article)
November 5, 2007... Staff Walter P. Moore has opened a new office in El Paso. Managing the new office is Lourdes (Lulu) Cardenas, P.E., who has played a significant role in engineering El Paso's traffic and ITS infrastructure for more than 20 years. At Walter...

McCarthy.
November 5, 2007... Staff McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. has hired Corey McCutchan as MEP manager for the firm's Texas Division. In this role, McCutchan will be responsible for leading the effort in coordinating mechanical, electrical and plumbing trades...

Blastrac.(appointment of Spencer Murphy )(Brief article)
November 5, 2007... Staff Blastrac, a leader in surface preparation technologies, announces that Spencer Murphy is now a company sales service technician overseeing the full line of Blastrac and Sawtec equipment in Texas and Louisiana. Prior to becoming the...

Walker.(Walker Parking Consultants appointed Casey Wagner as managing principal for Houston office)(Brief article)
November 5, 2007... Staff Walker Parking Consultants has announced that Casey Wagner, P.E., has been named managing principal for its Houston office. As managing principal, Wagner oversees client relations and the production of all projects involving new...

TxDOT.(Texas. Department of Transportation appointed Amadeo Saenz)(Brief article)
November 5, 2007... Staff Amadeo Saenz has been named the new executive director of the Texas Department of Transportation by the Texas Transportation Commission. He becomes the 19th person to head the transportation agency since it was created in 1917....

CEC.(Civil Engineering Consultants appointed Kimberly Cornett, Juan Rodriguez and Thomas J. Hurst)(Brief article)
November 5, 2007... Staff Civil Engineering Consultants (CEC) welcomes three new employees. Kimberly Cornett, P.E., has joined CEC's Development Division as a project engineer. Cornett has 11 years of experience in residential and commercial land development...

3i Construction and MYCON General Contractors.
November 5, 2007... Staff The Allen Group, developer of the Dallas Logistics Hub (The Hub), a 6,000-acre logistics park in Southern Dallas County, has selected two Dallas-area contractors for the construction of its first two spec warehouse/distribution...

Advantage.(United Site Services, Inc. acquired Advantage of Houston )(Brief article)
November 5, 2007... Staff United Site Services, Inc. (USS), the nation's leading provider of portable restroom services, emergency response sanitation, temporary fence, erosion control, power, and storage, recently acquired Advantage of Houston and 10 other...

B-C Equipment.(Sakai America's contract with B-C Equipment Sales, Inc.)(Brief article)
November 5, 2007... Staff SAKAI is pleased to announce the appointment of B-C Equipment Sales, Inc. as an authorized dealer in Southern Texas. SAKAI offers a full line of high-quality, high-productivity vibratory soil compactors, seven 4,000-vpm vibratory...

McCarthy Builders.
November 5, 2007... Staff The University of Texas System Board of Regents approved the $293-million expansion plan that will add nine floors to its 12-story Alkek patient tower at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and increase the number of patient beds by 70...

M.W. Elliott.(contract with Tigris II Ltd. )(Brief article)
November 5, 2007... Staff Tigris II Ltd. has begun construction on a $9.2-million apartment complex tentatively named Arden Ridge Apartments between Arden Road and I-27 in Amarillo. M.W. Elliott Construction has been retained as the general contractor for the...

CEC/Puig Engineering.(Company overview)
November 5, 2007... Staff Puig Engineering of Laredo, Texas, with its staff of nine, has been acquired by Don Durden, Inc. dba Civil Engineering Consultants (CEC), of San Antonio. Puig Engineering, LLC, founded in 2004 by Laredo native Jeffrey G. Puig, P.E.,...

D.E. Harvey.(D.E. Harvey Builders Inc's office building)(Brief article)
November 5, 2007... Staff Construction has begun on the first phase of Beltway Lakes, the newest "green" Class "A" office destination to be developed in Northwest Houston. The first phase of Beltway Lakes includes a distinctive 165,000-square-foot, six-story...

G.L. Barron.
November 5, 2007... Staff Fort Worth-based design-builder G.L. Barron and representatives of the North Side Baptist Church in Weatherford recently broke ground on a new, state-of-the-art children's facility.

Controlling Aggregate Fines.
November 5, 2007... By Carl Emigh Terex Finlay 883 tracked reclaimer just right for TriStar Aggregates in South Texas. TriStar Aggregates, Inc., Pawnee, Texas, needed a lot less fines and a lot more overall production to get maximum productivity from...

Submersible Pump Maintenance.
November 5, 2007... By: Stephanie Morgan, Technical Writer Stop water from drying up your operations. Article supplied by Godwin Pumps In construction operations, water can be your worst enemy. With high heads weighing heavily on pump shafts at great...

GATS Review.
November 5, 2007... By Liz Moucka New trucks, engines and trailers debuted at the Great American Truck Show in Dallas. The trucking industry took over the Dallas Convention Center in late August as the Great American Truck Show (GATS) brought together...

Linbeck Tops Out St. Luke's.(Episcopal Health System )(Brief article)
November 5, 2007... Staff St. Luke's Episcopal Health System recently hosted the St. Luke's Sugar Land Hospital's Tree-Topping Ceremony to mark Linbeck's completion of the building's frame. The five-story, 335,000-square-foot facility will include a hospital...

Midwest Demolition.
November 19, 2007... Staff In preparation for construction of a mixed-use development across from the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Midwest Demolition has begun bringing down the former Texaco building at 7th Street and Camp Bowie Blvd. Museum Place will be...

LATICRETE.(appointment of Kirby Davis at Laticrete Architectural Group )(Brief article)
November 19, 2007... Staff LATICRETE has appointed Kirby Davis, CSI, CCTS, to the position of Senior Architectural Specialist for its South Central USA territory, consisting of Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, parts of Alabama, and the major...

Robroy.(appointment of Jeff Riestenberg at Robroy Industries Inc. Conduit div.)(Brief article)
November 19, 2007... Staff The Conduit Division of Robroy Industries welcomes Jeff Riestenberg as National Sales manager. He will be responsible for planning, managing and directing the sales activity for Robroy's PVC-coated conduit product lines and...

Cobb Fendley.(Cobb, Fendley and Associates Inc.)(Brief article)
November 19, 2007... Staff Cobb, Fendley & Associates, Inc. will provide right-of-way acquisition professional services for the Texas Department of Transportation, Pharr District, as part of the ongoing US 83 Expressway expansion in Zapata and Starr Counties....

Click It.
November 19, 2007... Staff While we are all familiar with the Texas DPS "Click It or Ticket" seat belt safety campaign, there is another type of Click-it campaign underway for aerial construction equipment safety. Sponsored by Aerial Work Platform Training...

LAN.
November 19, 2007... Staff The VIA Metropolitan Transit has selected Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. (LAN)) as the general engineering consultant (GEC) to develop the new Fredericksburg/ Medical Center Road Bus Rapid Transit (F/M BRT) Corridor in San Antonio....

Foundation Software.
November 19, 2007... Staff Patrick Smith, Southeast regional sales manager for Foundation Software, Inc., producer of FOUNDATIONA[R] for WindowsA[R] job cost accounting system, has announced that the company has donated an accounting package valued at $10,000...

Dewberry.
November 19, 2007... Staff Harold L. Adams, FAIA, JIA, RIBA, has been named to Dewberry's board of directors, announced Sidney O. Dewberry, Dewberry's founder and chairman, and Ronald L. Ewing, Dewberry's chief executive officer. A recognized leader in the...

LAN.(appointment of Travis Pope at Lockwood, Andrews and Newnam Inc.)(Brief article)
November 19, 2007... Staff Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. (LAN) is pleased to announce the appointment of Travis Pope as government relations manager. Pope will be responsible for building relationships with growing municipalities and county governments in...

IES.(appointment of Mike Whitney at Innovative Equipment Solutions)(Brief article)
November 19, 2007... Staff Innovative Equipment Solutions (IES) of Hot Springs, Arkansas, announced the appointment of 20-year construction industry veteran, Mike Whitney, as national sales director. Highly experienced in the wheel wash equipment segment,...

C&B.(appointment of Jenny Lau at Carter and Burgess Inc.)(Brief article)
November 19, 2007... Staff Jenny Lau has joined Carter & Burgess as a project manager in the Building Programs Unit of the Dallas office. Lau formerly served as project manager/associate project designer with a nationally known healthcare design firm and has...

Editor's Report.(Editorial)
November 19, 2007... By Liz Moucka It has become noticeable that new equipment sales have been down this year. There are a number of reasons. With the push to comply with Tier III engine standards and the termination of depreciation bonuses all since the end...

Trinity River Audubon Center.
November 19, 2007... By Liz Moucka SEDALCO is transforming a former brownfield site in South Dallas into a sustainable green asset. A nature site being developed on what was once an illegal landfill along the Trinity River and Loop 12 in south Dallas has...

Shangri La Nature Center.
November 19, 2007... By Laura Berbel, Senior Project Engineer, The Beck Group Beck Group project incorporates sustainable measures for water, wood and geothermal energy. The Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center will be a world-class facility...

Lubbock's Overton Park.
November 19, 2007... Staff Garfield Traub, along with general contractors Turner Construction and Lee Lewis Construction, have broken ground on a $47-million hotel and conference center in Lubbock that will add 306 hotel rooms in the McDougal Properties...

Making The Most Of Maturity.
November 19, 2007... By Liz Moucka Mature workers could be the key to the younger generation. The labor situation has become critical. "We can't hire enough good workers, mechanics, operators..." is a sentiment heard over and over in the construction...