Texas Contractor articles from October 2008

Texas Contractor archives from October 2008

Bane Machinery Represents Eco-Crusher.
October 6, 2008... Staff Bane Machinery now includes Eco-Crusher by Giberson Enterprises in their inventory. With stores in Houston, Dallas and Ft. Worth, Bane Machinery has agreed to inventory all Eco-Crusher excavator-mounted jaw crusher bucket models and...

TTC to Issue Bonds for TxDOT Highway Construction.
October 6, 2008... Staff In a late August special meeting, the Texas Transportation Commission (TTC) voted to issue $1.5 billion in Proposition 14 bonds to support development and construction projects in FY 2009. The Proposition 14 bond program authorizes...

Austin Commercial Building Project for Harwood International.
October 6, 2008... Staff Austin Commercial is the general contractor for Saint Ann Court in Uptown Dallas, the newest Class AA luxury high rise office project of Harwood International. Designed by Perkins + Will Seattle, BOKA Powell and Los Angeles-based...

HOLT to Represent Link-Belt Cranes.
October 6, 2008... Staff Brax Snyder, Manager, Worldwide Sales, Link-Belt Construction Equipment Co., has announced the appointment of HOLT Crane & Equipment as the authorized Link-Belt crane distributor in 141 selected counties in north, central and east...

Orion Marine Announces Haiti Project.
October 6, 2008... Staff Misener Marine Construction, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Houston-based Orion Marine Group, Inc., has been awarded a $30.5-million contract to build a new cruise ship pier for a private customer in Labadee, Haiti.Aa The project...

HERC Opens Lubbock Store.
October 6, 2008... Staff Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation (HERC) celebrated the grand opening of its Lubbock, TX, General Rental facility this summer. The event, which drew more than 600 people, showcased the facility's showroom and product line, which...

J.F. McCarthy's Self-Help Book for Contractors.
October 6, 2008... Staff Construction projects can go wrong for a myriad of reasons, but often because of human errors. Longtime construction manager J.F. McCarthy's newly released book, "Choosing Project Success: A Guide for Building Professionals," was...

Timely Treatments Preserve Pavements.
October 6, 2008... Staff Facing unprecedented urban growth, Texas' Bexar County protects 1,000 miles of asphalt roads with a full range of pavement surface maintenance options Protecting Bexar County's huge investment in its surface transportation...

Speed Fab-Crete Building Their Sixth Project for Everman ISD.
October 6, 2008... Staff Speed Fab-Crete, a 57-year-old full-service commercial builder specializing in design/build, has begun construction on the new $5,275,000 Dale Keeling Field House for Everman Independent School District. The 24,100-square-foot...

OSHA Regional Emphasis Program on Cranes.
October 20, 2008... Staff The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Region VI office in Dallas, TX, has established a Regional Emphasis Program (REP) covering employees in the construction industry who perform crane...

New Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute Fellow.
October 20, 2008... Staff Fred W. Heldenfels IV, president and CEO of Heldenfels Enterprises Inc. of San Marcos and Corpus Christi, TX, has been elected a Fellow of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI). PCI elects a limited number of its members...

Robroy New Associate.
October 20, 2008... Staff Robroy Industries has added a new associate, Michelle Crocker, as an executive assistant. Crocker brings to Robroy Industries a solid background in business, where she has gained diverse experience in managing relationships with...

ECC Wins Border Fence Project.(United States. Army. Corps of Engineers)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Staff The USACE Albuquerque District has awarded ECC a $23-million task order under their MATOC contract under the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection Program. The project will involve the construction of...

KBR To Build Carbon Plant.
October 20, 2008... Staff A division of KBR's Services Business Unit, BE&K, will provide full engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for ADA-ES, Inc.'s newest Activated Carbon Plant located in Red River Parish, LA. The contract is valued at...

Fluor, P2S Win NPRA Safety Awards.
October 20, 2008... Staff Fluor Corporation has announced that the company and P2S, a unit of its Global Services Group, recently received 10 awards for "Meritorious Safety Performance" from the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association (NPRA) for...

HKS Acquires London Firm.(HKS Inc. Acquires RyderHKS International)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Staff HKS, Inc. headquartered in Dallas, has finalized the acquisition of the remaining one-third ownership of London-based RyderHKS International from Ryder, Ltd., a Newcastle architectural firm. As a fully owned subsidiary, the firm will...

Burt-Watts Spreads Goodwill.(Burt-Watts Industries, Inc.)(Goodwill Industries of Central Texas)(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Staff Burt-Watts Industries, Inc., a leading Austin-based commercial general contracting firm, was selected to provide general contracting and construction management services for the finish-out of Goodwill Industries of Central Texas'...

Skanska New TX Area General Manager.
October 20, 2008... Staff Skanska USA Building Inc. has promoted Brian Freeman to area general manager for the company's Texas operations. Skanska has offices in Houston, San Antonio and Harlingen. Previously, Freeman was senior vice president for the Texas...

J.L. Steel Promotions.
October 20, 2008... Staff J.L. Steel, Roanoke, TX, has promoted Pat D. Pace to vice president, operations. Pace has been with the company since 2000 and entered as project sponsor. He soon became senior project sponsor. Pace will direct construction...

Dewberry New GIS Project Manager.
October 20, 2008... Staff The Dallas office of Dewberry recently welcomed Scott Trotter as a senior geographic information systems (GIS) project manager. Trotter is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience working within military and federal...

Highway Trust Fund $8-Billion Relief Bill Keeps State DOTs Contracting.
October 20, 2008... By Liz Moucka President Bush has signed legislation approved by Congress in September to transfer $8.017 billion to the Highway Trust Fund (HTF). The move allows state departments of transportation to pay their bills and to continue the...

Giving Nature A Helping Hand.
October 20, 2008... By Liz Moucka T.J. Lambrecht is creating a wetland environment in south Dallas as part of the Trinity River Project. Dallas' grand plan to create a community green space and recreational river from the Trinity River floodplain that...

Fort Bliss BCTs Coming On-Line.
October 20, 2008... By Liz Moucka USACE uses Product Line concept to streamline construction. The Department of the Army is currently underway with an unprecedented transformation to Fort Bliss in El Paso. The $4.1-billion military construction program...