Austin Construction News August 2019

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Hearts of glass

Jason Bauder, owner of Can Do Plumbing

Aubrey and Summer Dougherty, owners of Capital Glass Distributor

ason Bauder is one of those guys who didn’t have the Aha! moment or lightning bolt down from the heavens to tell him to get into plumbing. When he was younger, he needed a job and a place to stay. He worked at a golf course and then by an HVAC/plumbing outfit. “I didn’t know if this is what I’m going to do,” Bauder said of plumbing. “I just kept doing it.” He kept doing it. While working for this HVAC/plumbing business, Bauden said he had gotten his apprentice license but wasn’t getting his hours logged. “There was no defined career path,” he said. All the while, “I kept hearing these old people say, ‘Man, if you get your license, you’ll make something of yourself,’” he said.

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ounded in 1967 by Leo Joeris in San Antonio, TX, Joeris General Contractors has built a reputation in the commercial construction industry on the foundation that Joeris laid that everything depends on trust. Joeris General Contractors built both Phase 1 (Elementary) and Phase 2 of Austin Achieve (High School). The two-story elementary school features 77,000sf of space for students to learn, create and play. The school has 30 classrooms, multiple science labs, a music room, student union, and a college-ready center to prepare students for college. The school has two playgrounds and a full-size soccer and football field as well as a multi-purpose space. Phase 2 of the Austin Achieve School New Campus project includes construction of a new secondary school building on the campus site. The building is approximately 56,500sf on two floors. The work included various components for

Bauden climbed the plumbing ladder. “I wanted more so I kept going.” He eventually got his masters license in 2006. “That year, I was the youngest master plumber in Austin,” he said. Bauden’s first plumbing company was Cut Above Plumbing, but he sold it in 2009 and moved to Michigan for a while. Upon coming back to Texas, the Cedar Park native started Can Do Plumbing. His wife Jessica does all the paperwork and office work. Bauden is a oneman show when it comes to the handson plumbing. “The only thing I haven’t done,” he said, “is a hospital and a private complex hotel. However, Bauden is wanting to phase out being the hands-on, servicecontinued on Page 14

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roken glass isn’t usually a good thing, but in the case of Capital Glass Distributor, it was because CGD was born out of another glass company’s demise. The husband and wife team of Aubrey and Summer Dougherty have had more than one business venture prior to CGD. “We’ve owned a roofing company; we’ve owned a construction company,” Aubrey said, “and my wife said to me, ‘Pick something,’ instead of doing all these different things.” The Doughertys knew of another couple that owned a glass distribution business that was going to cease to exist for personal reasons. Aubrey, heeding Summer’s advice, “Shut down [our] electrical company and started up this one.”

Capital Glass Distributor officially began in May 2015. The other company wrapped up all its standing orders but left word with its customers that CGD was standing up. “They were going out of business and we just purchased the equipment and right away opened up another [company] that was very similar to what they were doing,” Summer said. “We’ve grown organically, all on our own,” she added. In other words, CGD hasn’t used any investors or banks to grow. “We make residential insulated glass units,” Aubrey said. “We buy the products raw. It comes in on big, 4,000lb racks of glass.” continued on Page 14

Placed-based learning

Aerial view of Austin Achieve

the new building including steel frame, metal stud walls, brick veneer, roofing, site work, paving and landscaping and MEP systems. In addition to the academic building, the scope included a sports field and spectator stands positioned in a courtyard between the Primary School (Phase 1) and the Secondary Academic Building. The building was constructed as a traditional slab-on-grade, steel structure with five feet of select fill. The exterior features multiple materials including cost-effective HardiePlank® and HardiePanel® siding, Lueders limestone rock applied using a field pattern of two, four, and eight-inch patterns, and “knot wood” siding that is intended to look like wood siding but isn’t actual wood. A RhinoBond® roof system was installed per the project team’s recommendation. This unique roof system was mechanically fastened and allowed for flexibility of instalcontinued on Page 14


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