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Speed Fab-Crete Owners with one of the company's new anti-polluting Mack tractor rigs. Left to right, Jim Barton, David Bloxom, Jeff Spedding, Carl Hall, and Ron Hamm.
On-site Cookout. Our 10th anniversary cookout on site brings together about 130 company office, plant and field employees, members of Callahan & Freeman Architects, customers, subcontractors, suppliers, and city and state government leaders.
Grilling Chefs were owners and staff of Frank Callahan (in the middle with wife, Patty, to his left) & Chuck Freeman Architects. They annually celebrate a design-construction relationship with the five owners of Speed Fab-Crete.
Speed Fab-Crete Celebrates 10 Years
Under Current Ownership
Speed Fab-Crete Design-Build General Contractors celebrated a 10-year anniversary in April under ownership consisting of five equal "hands on" partners.
Speed Fab-Crete is considered a purist among America's general contractors who specialize in using the design-build contract method for construction. The company has specialized in design-build since 1951. Currently, Speed Fab-Crete has the most number of officially "Designated Design-Build Professionals" in the southwest, awarded by the Design-Build Institute of America.
Design-build has become an increasingly popular contractual method by which architectural, engineering and construction services are performed under a single contract with the building's owner.
Since 1989, Callahan & Freeman Architects, led by Frank Callahan and Charles Freeman, have been the design member of Speed Fab-Crete's team. Together, these firms have accomplished a variety of design-build applications, ensuring that owners get in their buildings on time and in budget.
An employee management group, led by David Bloxom, purchased Speed Fab-Crete in 1998. While Bloxom is President of the firm, the other principals and department vice-presidents are Jim Barton, purchasing, Carl Hall, plant, Ron Hamm, sales director, and Jeff Spedding, operations. At the time of purchase of the firm, each of these individuals had been a supervisor of his department for years.
Collectively, the owners now have more than 150 years of management experience promoting and producing various facilities with the Speed Fab-Crete precast concrete wall building system. The firm also is celebrating 57 years as a construction industry leader, based in Fort Worth, and the Speed Fab-Crete plant is considered the oldest, continually operating precast concrete manufacturer in the Southwest.
The firm's 10th anniversary also marks Speed Fab-Crete's receiving a major grant to replace five aging diesel vehicles under the Texas Emissions Reduction Program (TERP).
The $388,000 grant, by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, allowed Speed Fab-Crete to acquire four 2008 Mack semi-tractor trucks and a John Deere front wheel loader.
By upgrading to newer, less polluting vehicles, Chief Fleet Mechanic Bud DeRago noted that the state agency said Speed Fab-Crete will prevent 47.4 tons of nitrogen oxides from polluting North Texas skies. The trucks will be used to deliver trailers with precast concrete walls to form a building's exterior. The loader will help to mix raw materials in the company's batch plant for pouring of the wall panels.
Speed Fab-Crete is a Green Advantage LEED Certified Builder with the U.S. Green Building Council. This "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design" accreditation allows the company to offer environmentally responsible design and construction to meet and exceed "Green" expectations. Also, Speed Fab-Crete's management and project supervisors include individuals who are Green Advantage Certified Builders or Job Superintendents.
The firm promotes a whole-building approach by offering environmentally friendly facilities in these areas: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, durable building materials and air quality control. Also, the Speed Fab-Crete concrete wall building system is considered a sustainable product because the components include recyclable materials.
Texas Construction Magazine ranks Speed Fab-Crete 116th among its top 130 general contractors in the state for 2008. The firm holds 8th position for top Steel Erection/Fabrication Contractors in Texas. Based on annual sales, Speed Fab-Crete regularly appears in the top 20 lists of Dallas-Fort Worth general contractors by area business publications.
Speed Fab-Crete began in 1951 as the Dave Bloxom Construction Company. It evolved into Speed Fab-Crete, which built its first building in Fort Worth in 1962.
The firm moved to Kennedale in 1978 and is now one of the city's largest businesses and industrial taxpayers. Presently, the company has a work force of more than 130 team members.
Industry and community affiliations include:
- American Concrete Institute
- Associated General Contractors, Quoin Chapter, DFW
- Design-Build Institute of America
- (Speed Fab-Crete's President, David Bloxom, is a second year
President of DBIA's Southwest Chapter)
- Architectural Precast Association
- U.S. Green Building Council
- Construction Research Center, University of Texas at Arlington
- Association of Religious Builders of America, founding member
- Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
- South Tarrant County Chamber of Commerce
Speed Fab-Crete Ranks Among Top 20 Building Contractors in Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
Speed Fab-Crete ranks among the top 20 building contractors in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (the fastest growing area in the United States). This position was accomplished recently when new management initiated sweeping improvements to make the company more progressive and competitive in a changing marketplace.
In 1998, an employee management group, led by the company's president, purchased Speed Fab-Crete from its founder. The new owners expanded the plant's manufacturing and storage capacity, enlarged the company's cabinet and mechanic shops, added state-approved highway retaining walls to its precast concrete product menu, and acquired various new vehicles and equipment for "working smarter."
David Bloxom continues as president of Speed Fab-Crete. His co-partners are Jeff Spedding, vice president of operations; Jim Barton, vice president of purchasing; Carl Hall, vice president of plant operations; and Ron Hamm, vice president of sales.
Collectively, the five officers have more than 140 years of management experience marketing and producing various facilities constructed with the Speed Fab-Crete building system. In 2005, David became certified as a "Designated Design-Build Professional" by the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA). DBIA is a national organization founded in 1993 to promote the design-build project delivery method throughout the construction industry. Currently, Bloxom is serving as the elected President of the Southwest chapter of the DBIA, which includes Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico, and has about 200 members.
Two members of Speed Fab-Crete's sales team, Ron Hamm and Mitch Hanzik, are newly-accredited Green Advantage Certified Builders. They have knowledge of the latest in "green" building practices, technologies and techniques.
Today's environmentally conscious client prefers structures which are energy and water efficient, durable and disaster resistant, and healthier and environmentally friendly.
Speed Fab-Crete's buildings meet and exceed such expectations in today's state of the art construction techniques! The structures are composed of unique precast concrete walls produced in a manufacturing plant environment for 56 years.
The inherent composition of Speed Fab-Crete's precast concrete wall building system provides natural advantages for sustainability.
Read more about the environmental benefits of precast concrete production.
Speed Fab-Crete, in only a few years, with an exceptional management team of design-build professionals has vaulted a signature name in the construction business to new record status.
At the turn of the century Speed Fab-Crete celebrated 50 years of service in the American construction industry. The company excels in all building project delivery systems and offers self-performing technicians for 60% of the work elements.
Today Speed Fab-Crete is highly respected as a premier precast concrete products manufacturer and a fully-integrated, design-build general contractor with proven construction management expertise.
In each relationship, Speed Fab-Crete considers itself a partner with the customer to listen to, to understand, and to meet his or her problems, priorities and expectations!
