Texas Contractor articles from October 2006

Texas Contractor archives from October 2006

Recycling Database.
October 2, 2006... Staff Waste management firms which recycle construction and demolition (C&D) debris may not be expert marketers of their own services. But the federal government has now made online marketing a lot easier for C&D waste recyclers thanks to...

Texas Contractor.
October 2, 2006... Staff To help you get your day started we have added the ACP Contractor Weather Channel to our website. Now all you have to do to know what to expect from Mother Nature is go to www.acppubs.com and in the upper left hand corner you'll see...

TTI.(Texas Transportation Institute)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Staff The Texas Transportation Institute's Internet website was completely revamped last month. "It is truly a state-of-the-art site that is interactive, dynamic and can be updated minute by minute," said TTI's Chief Information Officer...

Lone Star Steel.(Industrial Energy Saving Assessment)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Staff The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that they have conducted a three-day Industrial Energy Saving Assessment (ESA) at the Lone Star Steel facility in Lone Star, Texas. This is part of the comprehensive national energy...

Chesapeake Energy.
October 2, 2006... Staff Drilling for natural gas in North Central Texas has reached boom stage. Though gas deposits were discovered in the Barnett Shale decades ago, natural gas producers didn't have the tools needed to break through the ultra-hard rock to...

CEC.(appointments of Mary Hoang, Randell J. Smith and David A. Costales in Civil Engineering Consultants )(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Staff Civil Engineering Consultants (CEC) of San Antonio has announced three new employees. Mary Hoang , E.I.T., and Randell J. Smith , E.I.T., are recent graduates from Texas A&M University and have both joined CEC's Development Division....

C&B.(appointment of Kenneth L. Davis as senior consultant in Carter and Burgess Inc)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Staff Kenneth L. Davis , P.E., has joined Carter & Burgess as a senior consultant for projects related to Fort Worth and the surrounding areas. Davis comes to Carter & Burgess with 25 years of experience, most recently serving as director...

Teague Nall and Perkins.(appointment of Scott A. Gibson as project engineer)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Staff Teague Nall and Perkins, Inc. (TNP) is pleased to announce the addition of Scott A. Gibson , P.E., in the firm's Fort Worth office. A licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas, Gibson's project experience encompasses civil...

Perpetual Pavement.(The Perpetual Pavement Concept)
October 2, 2006... By R.G. Pickard Their Second Project Proves TxDOT's Waco District Has Embraced The Perpetual Pavement Concept. Two years ago, Texas' first contracted perpetual pavement project was completed in the Waco District on Interstate 35 on the...

Flooring For Active Feet.
October 2, 2006... Staff Fort Worth branches of the Texas Boys & Girls Club of America choose epoxy aggregate flooring. Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) serve some 4.6 million boys and girls nationwide, and over 7,000 in the eight Fort Worth...

Ditch Witch For The Aggie At Heart.(Riviera Telephone Company Inc.)
October 2, 2006... Staff The folks at Riviera Telephone Company, Inc. have loved their Ditch Witch equipment for three generations. It was a love affair that began in the early 1970s when Cliff Jackson, one of the first Ditch Witch equipment dealers in...

Beck Group.(achievements and awards)(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Staff The Beck Group has received a 2006 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area. The Families and Work Institute, with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,...

CCT.(The Cement Council of Texas )(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Staff The Cement Council of Texas is pleased to announce the addition of Matthew W. Singel , P.E., as its director, Soil-Cement/RCC Programs. Singel's responsibilities with the council will be to expand the use of cement in soil...

LANWalton.(appointment of Lamar Urbanovsky as director of educational program management)(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Staff Lamar Urbanovsky has joined LANWalton as its director of educational program management where he will provide leadership for a diverse group of clients including public and private school districts, community colleges and...

Bobcat.(Bobcat Company)(Associated Supply Co.)(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Staff Bobcat Company, a business of Ingersoll Rand, has recognized two Texas dealers with 40-year service awards for their exemplary service in providing customers with Bobcat[R] compact equipment. Associated Supply Co. (ASCO) of...

Capital Excavation.
October 16, 2006... Staff The new County Road 453 bridge over Battleground Creek near Coupland, northeast of Austin, was recently honored as a winner in Portland Cement Association's (PCA) Tenth Biennial Bridge Awards Competition. The competition, instituted...

Hill & Wilkinson.
October 16, 2006... Staff Hill & Wilkinson, Ltd. has recently been awarded six construction contracts for both new construction and renovation projects in the North Texas region. Among these are the new 84,000-square-foot Medical Center at Calloway Creek in...

United Rentals.(United Rentals Inc)(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Staff The United Rentals branch in Edinburg celebrated their grand opening September 28 at their new 1702 South Expressway 281 location. Two customer service branches share the facility, offering general construction rentals and trench...

CompGroup AGC.(Texas Mutual Insurance Company)(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Staff Directors of CompGroup AGC have received $2.67 million in group dividends on behalf of the membership of their registered purchasing group, which offers workers' compensation insurance to general and subcontractor members of the...

PB.(Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc)(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Staff The Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS) recently honored four employees of Parsons Brinckerhoff. Janette Sadik-Khan, national transit market leader at Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) in New York, was recognized as the WTS International...

Dunaway Associates.
October 16, 2006... Staff Dunaway Associates, a Fort Worth-based consulting firm offering civil engineering, landscape architecture, environmental, surveying, and water resources services, has recently strengthened its services to clients with the addition of...

C&B.
October 16, 2006... Staff Marvin Fisher has joined Carter & Burgess as a program manager for Building Programs in Fort Worth. Fisher will support the firm in program management, financial planning, land development planning, facility operations, and...

All Up From Here.(Mario Sinacola and Sons Excavating)(McKinney Drilling )(Desert Steel )
October 16, 2006... By Liz Moucka, Editor Mario Sinacola & Sons shape the groundwork for the new Dallas Cowboys stadium in Arlington. General contractor Manhattan Construction and their excavation team recently celebrated "bottoming-out" of the new Dallas...

Do You Dig Performing Arts.
October 16, 2006... By Liz Moucka, Editor Thos. S. Byrne leads a team of excavation and substructure experts in the beginnings of Dallas' new Performing Arts complex. A dream 25 years in the making is in excavation stage on the northeast edge of downtown...

Cinco Ranch's Man-Made Brook.(Terra Brook Cinco Ranch)(M. Hanna Construction)(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... By Liz Moucka M. Hanna Construction recently completed a site development contract with a complicated water quality pond on the Terra Brook Cinco Ranch project west of Houston. Turner, Collie, Braden designed the pond for the Cinco...