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Volume 15
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MAY 2015
Hull lotta love
Adventures in architecture
L-R: Dan Snyder, vice president; Rick Hull, president and owner and Philip Cooke, general manager
A college friend Paige Wilburn and Rick Price go fishing in the Bahamas.
ick Hull, president and owner of Hull Supply Co., has a fierce work ethic, love of family and a zest for the outdoors and that passion has led to his company’s 30th anniversary. “I’m surrounded by really good people,” Hull said. “I’ve built this business because I hired good people and I’ve taken care of them. “I’ve had people that have been here since the beginning. It goes back to karma: You treat people right and they stick around.” Hull Supply is marking the 30th anniversary with a bigger version of its annual customer appreciation event in May. “I enjoy getting our customers to-
gether and showing them how much we appreciate their business,” Hull said. “In honor of our 30th year, our entire staff will be at the event. We’ll close our regular operations for the day (May 7) so that we can celebrate our customers. We’ll have lunch and an afternoon mixer. “ Throughout the day, Hull Supply will offer continuing education classes and will have a showcase and mobile showrooms with all the latest technological advances in doors, frames, hardware and access controls. Over the years, Hull Supply has expanded to meet the full complement of materials for Divisions 8 and 28. “Improving efficiency and customer
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ick Price, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP, didn’t grow up knowing he’d be an architect, but after a school assessment test determined that it might be something for him to consider, he took the career suggestion and ran with it. Today he is the owner of Red Arc One. Price opened his firm in 2003. In the early days, he shared an office with a good friend. “My friend, his business partner and I shared an open room,” he said. “All the desks were facing one another. We had our own projects, but we also collaborated together. “If they had work that they couldn’t take on and I could, then I’d pick up a project there, and it was the same for
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them.” 2015 has been very exciting for Red Arc One as three commercial clients have opened their doors this year to the greater Austin area. Price says he especially likes working with clients who enjoy the collaborative process. “I am inspired by every book I have ever read, every building and place I’ve ever been,” he said. “If there is an opportunity to expand upon what I have seen, I try to improve upon the experience.” He enjoyed visiting and exploring the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth with a friend. continued on Page 17
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eneral contractor Hoar Construction completed the Lakeway Regional Medical Center in 22 months. The 271,000-sf, 145-bed acute care facility is part of a 54-acre development. According to superintendent Paul Griggs, the hospital has 58 private patient beds, an 18-bed adult intensive care unit, four pediatric intensive care beds, 15 private patient beds for pediatrics, 11 neonatal intensive care beds and shell space for an additional 40 beds. The hospital has a 23-treatment room emergency department. Diagnostic imaging includes MRI, a CT scanner, and all other major imaging services. Surgery services, for both inpatients and outpatients, include six operating rooms. The hospital provides cardiology services, obstetrical and women’s services, and pediatric services. The project also included a parking garage and surface
parking lot. “Early in design, the Lakeway Regional Medical Center team elected to prefabricate the curtainwall,” Griggs said. “Shop drawings were detailed specifically to allow panelization, and they were done early so they could be provided to the other trades associated with the exterior skin.” Griggs says an important consideration for any offsite premanufactured panelized system is to make it the core of the skin design—to build around the panelized system and push the flexibility of the products that adjoin it. In the case of Lakeway Regional Medical Center, the other elements included precast and metal panels. The curtainwall manufacturer provided the embeds for the other skin system suppliers to enable material connection points.
Lakeway Regional Medical Center
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