Speed Fab-Crete will have a role in construction of a new Westside Stadium For TCU following last year's demolition of the old facility.
New Stadium For TCU Rose Bowl Champions Will Include Arched Facades By Speed Fab-Crete
While most of the new $105-million-dollar Westside Stadium for Texas Christian University will be poured-in-place concrete, Speed Fab-Crete has been chosen to provide precast, arched facade wall panels, produced off-site, to form an attractive exterior appearance for all new entrances to the football field.
Austin Commercial General Contractors of Dallas awarded Speed Fab-Crete the project to produce the wall sections off-site at its plant, and truck the units to the stadium for erection by crane. The job involves making 153 pieces of precast concrete to form the arched panels and 56 other wall sections to form a new service area of the stadium. Most of the sections will be about 8-inches thick.
Speed Fab-Crete's President, David Bloxom, and Senior Estimator Russ Byrd, who attended TCU, were key executives in achieving the local contract. First installation of the panels is slated in June. The total stadium makeover will include private suites, spacious fan hospitality rooms, a party patio atop added levels of seating above the existing north end zone, and a visitor's locker room accessed by a field tunnel. A new, expanded press box and an emergency operations command center will be in the northwest portion of the stadium. The facility will not be totally finished until the start of the football season in 2012.
Picture 1 L-R, Perry Ginn, Regional President, American National Bank of Texas, David Bloxom, President/Partner, Speed Fab-Crete, Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief, Carl Hall, VP Plant Operations/Partner celebrate company's 2011 Small Business of the Year Award
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce Selects Speed Fab-Crete Small Business of the Year
Speed Fab-Crete Design-Build General Contractors has been selected the 2011 Small Business of the Year by the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce.
The award was announced at the recent Fort Worth Mayor's State of the City function, an event annually spearheaded by the chamber.
Speed Fab-Crete, a 60-year-old Texas construction industry leader, was a finalist for a second consecutive year in the category of companies with 51 to 150 employees. Despite a lackluster economy, Speed Fab-Crete has maintained its annual work force of about 100 employees, half of whom live in Fort Worth.
Along with an on-site visit of the company's office and facilities, the chamber's judging criteria for the awards included: business growth and performance; sound business strategies and practices; customer service; innovative business approaches; community involvement and contribution and employee relations.
Along with being a Fort Worth-based general contractor, Speed Fab-Crete also operates a precast concrete manufacturing plant, whose products include 6-inch-thick concrete wall panels for buildings, highway retaining walls and modular, arched bridges. The latter two meet TXDOT specifications. With an 8-inch-thickness, the concrete wall system recently won approval by FEMA for construction of community public shelters, capable of withstanding maximum winds of 250 miles per hour.
Speed Fab-Crete's manufacturing facility also is a certified plant by both the Architectural Precast Association and National Precast Concrete Association for meeting highest industry standards. The plant consists of 130,000-square-feet of casting beds and a new state-of-the-art Voeller batch plant with two mixers and capacity for three different cements.
Another North Texas GM Dealer Chooses Speed Fab-Crete For Re-branding Of Storefronts
Speed Fab-Crete Design-Build General Contractors has been chosen by the James Wood Auto Group of Decatur and Denton, Texas to perform General Motors' re-branding of three building storefronts, including new interior finishes.
The major renovation projects will meet rigid specifications by General Motors as part of a national makeover of the automaker's marketing image for all its dealership vehicle products.
Two buildings of James Wood's Chevrolet and GMC dealerships in Denton, and a combined Chevrolet and GMC dealership building in Decatur will undergo the image updates. The James Wood Auto Group has been serving the DFW Metroplex 30 years.
The work will involve makeover of the building exteriors, including a prominent entry element, and complete renovation of sales offices with new GM product graphics.
The firm of Callahan & Freeman is the project architect, who modified a GM prototype design for application by the local owner.
Speed Fab-Crete Chosen To Convert Buildings For New School Campus For Arlington Classics Academy
Speed Fab-Crete has been chosen Construction Manager to convert several existing buildings into a new charter school campus for Arlington Classics Academy in Arlington, Texas.
The remodeling project will involve extensive interior renovation of four existing buildings at 5200 South Bowen, formerly occupied by a church and another school. Most of the buildings will be converted into primary and middle school classrooms. A prominent 3-story castle-like building will become the new campus library, and also contain classrooms and science laboratories. An existing residence will be made into administrative offices.
Callahan & Freeman Architects is the project designer. Instead of a groundbreaking, a "wall breaking" was held January 21, 2011 when a group of the school's students, slinging hammers, signaled the start of demolition and renovation work. The campus is to be ready for classes in August.
City of Fate, Texas, Choose Speed Fab-Crete for Design-Build and Precast Concrete Construction
The Fate, Texas, City Council has approved a design-build contract with Speed Fab-Crete for a $1,610,000 fire station. The growing town is in Rockwall County, east of Dallas, off Interstate-30.
The new two-story building, served by volunteer firemen, will be 9,200-square-feet in downtown Fate on a restricted site, previously occupied by the city's old fire station, which was a metal building. Completion is planned for next January.
The exterior design, by Callahan & Freeman Architects, will have a nostalgic appearance to showcase Fate's past history. The facility will be a combination of brick and cast stone arches over Speed Fab-Crete's precast concrete wall panels. The first floor will have four large bays for fire fighting vehicles, offices, and storage rooms. The second floor will contain living quarters, a kitchen and training and day rooms. Adjacent to the second floor will be an outdoor gathering area.
Downtown Dallas Freeway Deck Park to Include Precast Concrete Planter Boxes by Speed Fab-Crete
Creation of a one-of-a-kind deck park over busy Woodall Rogers Freeway, also known as Spur 366, in downtown Dallas, Texas, will include unusual precast concrete "trench panels" made by Speed Fab-Crete and resembling large planter boxes.
The Fort Worth, Texas-based company will produce more than 900 custom-made precast concrete sections, totaling 8,300-lineal-feet, to help form 5-acres of green deck space above the freeway. The park will occupy three blocks, providing a new pedestrian link between downtown Dallas and Uptown.
Most of Speed Fab-Crete's contract will be for more than 6,500-lineal-feet of the 9'x10' so-called "trench panels." This most common panel component for the job will be fabricated with 1,434 pounds of steel reinforcing bar (rebar) of number 4, 5 and 8 diameters. Once concrete is poured into the form, each panel will weigh about 16,000 pounds for delivery to the project site.
When installed, the U-shaped "trench panels" will be supported on prestressed, concrete, box beam ledges of the huge freeway deck. The special sections essentially will take on the appearance of elevated planter boxes four feet below deck level. The openings will be prepped with a foam void to lesson the panels' final weight. Each trench then will be filled with 212 yards of soil to enrich a variety of 3,200 plants, shrubs and trees as landscaping features and carry utilities planned for the elevated park.
Archer Western Contractors, LTD of Arlington chose Speed Fab-Crete to fabricate, pour and deliver the trench panels from its manufacturing plant in Kennedale, Texas.