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Volume 19
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JANUARY 2016
Structurally stronger
Addition to division
Some members of the new Barker Structural leadership team following its rebranding and acquisition of Cutler Gallaway Services L-R: Chris Barker; Tom M. Gallaway, PE; Earl G. Cutler, PE (standing); Kris Barker, PE
The Cadence McShane team is leading the way at the general contractor’s new San Antonio office. L-R: (bottom row) Ron Wood, Lexy Stecker, Surbhi Usrey, Kevin Cummings, (top row) Don Watkins, Srinath Pai Kasturi
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ith the recent acquisition of Cutler Gallaway Services in San Antonio, Barker Structural has emerged as a new brand with new specialties and a new location at 303 Pearl Parkway. When Kris Barker and his wife, Chris Barker, who is also his partner in the business, moved to San Antonio in 2011, they opened bd Structural Engineers with Chris as the majority owner. The new office was part of Barker Drottar Associates in Las Vegas. Both companies offer the same services and specialize in the structural design of buildings. In October, the firm acquired Cutler Gallaway Services and its three staff
members, including Earl Cutler, who came on board as vice president. Subsequently, the firm rebranded so that both offices will be doing business as Barker Structural. The legal entities remain intact and solvent. “Mr. Cutler has tremendous experience in the type of projects that we design,” says Kris Barker. “In fact, he has more experience in some specialties, such as post-tensioned concrete, precast concrete and foundation repair. He’s really a specialist in those three areas, so I’ve been enjoying working with him and absorbing knowledge from him.” Barker adds that Cutler knows a lot of continued on Page 24
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hile celebrating its 30th anniversary, Cadence McShane Construction Company opened its fourth office, breaking into the San Antonio market with a location at 3512 Paesano’s Parkway, Suite 300. The expansion broadens the general contractor’s Central Texas Division, which also includes the Austin office. Srinath Pai Kasturi, vice president and general manager for Central Texas, oversees the San Antonio office, which opened Oct. 1. Kasturi started with the company as an intern in 2001 and joined full-time after graduating from college. He earned his master’s degree in construction management from the University of Oklaho-
ma, and then, he was offered a job at the corporate office in Dallas. After spending 10 years there, starting as a project engineer and working his way up to vice president, he relocated to Austin. “It has been one of my personal objectives to broaden the Central Texas Division to include San Antonio,” says Kasturi. “So, since I moved to Austin in 2012, that’s been one of the things that I’ve always wanted to do, and we were finally able to achieve it as a team here.” Currently, he has five people working in the San Antonio office with all of the administration, including accounting and human resources, supported from continued on Page 24
A crowning achievement
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n renovating the Ozuna Building for Palo Alto College, Crownhill Builders helped bring the college’s educational environment to a higher standard. At a cost of $1.4 million, the project started in early February and was substantially completed in August of last year. The scope of the Phase II renovation covered approximately 20,000sf with the bulk of the work on the first floor of the two-story building and two bathrooms in an active library on the second floor. The renovated space included multiple offices, break room, a children’s library, an executive conference room and the Legacy Room, which is a flex space with lots of round tables and a warming kitchen. The Legacy and executive conference rooms share an interesting feature – curved glass walls with an applied lasercut window film pattern. The executive conference room also has unique pieces in the wall system –images applied to the
Crownhill Builders renovated Palo Alto College’s Ozuna Building, blending a modern yet classic look with color and character, as illustrated by this executive conference room.
laminate panels. The school’s board members selected photos that showed some of the college’s history. Each room has its own special qualities. The project incorporated several different unique finishes, including paint colors and wall surfaces. One example is the Fry Reglet system, which is a type of wall cladding with an aluminum framing system and laminate panels. Another example of a type of wall built into this project is FabriTrak, a fabric wall system. There were also multiple ceiling finishes. One was a metal finish. One used in the Legacy Room was a box finish of assorted sizes and depths to create a very interesting ceiling with some acoustical properties. There is also a Starbucks coffee shop with some round wall fixtures and round light fixtures that give the coffee shop something of a retro look. continued on Page 24