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The Industry’s Newspaper www.constructionnews.net H (210) 308-5800 H Volume 17 H Number 9 H SEPTEMBER 2019
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Post-Tension Services of Texas’ Justin Zuckerbrow
Jason T. Merritt, recently promoted to Sr. Vice President at Admiral Glass Company, is excited about the next 35 years.
wo years into co-owning PostTension Services of Texas, Justin Zuckerbrow is still caught off guard when someone calls him “boss.” “Sometimes, I have to pinch myself and say, ‘It’s my company.’ Sometimes I don’t even think it’s my company, because I’m just working hard,” Zuckerbrow says. “People say, ‘Hey, boss,’ and I think, ‘Oh, yeah, I guess I am!’” One thing that he always knows for sure is his work in post-tension. “I have a rich family history being in construction,” Zuckerbrow says. “My father started in construction after moving from New York in 1977; he met my mom and I was born in 1978. He was already in the post-tension business at that time, which was really new tech-
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roudly celebrating 32 years of operations providing architectural, engineering and building enclosure consulting services across the globe. Conley Group was founded by Bill Conley in 1987. Conley Group delivers successful restoration, repair and remediation for client’s facilities both public and private. Conley Group has performed evaluation, design, and management on over 6,500 roofing and waterproofing projects representing over $2.7 billion in completed remedial construction in 34 states and 19 countries worldwide. The original construction value of the Dallas Municipal Building at 106 Harwood was reported at around $400,000 before furnishings. Today, the building is in the final stages of a $14,000,000 exterior restoration. Constructed in 1914, the 106 Harwood building falls under two periods of historical significance ac-
nology at that time. I’ve been around it all of my life.” After earning a Business Management degree from Ouachita Baptist University in 2001, Zuckerbrow worked in sales at Acme Brick and Suncoast Post-Tension. He then served as Vice President of Business Development for Tella Firma and focused on the commercial market. Still, he dreamed of striking out on his own in the industry. With his dad’s business partner’ son, Derek Tuttle, he founded Post-Tension Services of Texas. “I went back to my roots of what I really know: post-tensioning,” Zuckerbrow says. “I have so many contacts and relationships that I had cultivated over the years, from residential to multi-family.” continued on Page 14
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n 1984, Les Craft opened a commercial and residential glass and glazing company in League City. He knew, after working in the glass and glazing industry for years, that he could create a new and better kind of company. Thirty-five years later, Admiral Glass Company has grown to nearly 300 employees and multiple Texas locations. The company eventually headquartered in Houston but kept the original League City location for small commercial, residential and auto work. “Nowadays, we prefer large commercial work; major projects, utilizing unitized curtain wall, over storefronts,” Senior Vice President Jason T. Merritt explains. “We opened a satellite branch in Austin about five years ago, which
made it easier to manage our work in the Austin area. Since then, the Austin location has grown; it now has fabrication capabilities as well and houses about 14 office and shop employees. Plus, any work we do in the San Antonio area is done through the Austin office. As we continued to expand, we opened a Dallas facility 14 months ago; it is just an office space with no fabrication. We opened that office to house project managers and estimators working on projects in the Dallas area. Nick Lindsay is the General Manager of the Austin branch location, and he oversees Dallas as well.” The company also boasts two other divisions based out of its Houston office. “We have an interiors division that continued on Page 14
Historic icon refurbished cording to the Texas Historical Commission and the National Register of Historic Places. Additionally, the building is nationally recognized as the site of the 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald assassination. Following his arrest for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald was taken to the 106 Harwood Municipal Building for processing. On Sunday, November 24, Jack Ruby shot Oswald in the basement of the Municipal Building as he was being transferred to the Dallas County Jail. The City of Dallas launched a substantial adaptive reuse effort for the historic Municipal Building in downtown Dallas. Clad in Indiana limestone and decorative terra cotta ornamentation, the 100-plus-year-old Beaux-Arts style structure will continue for many years to come, as it becomes the new home for the University of North Texas Law 106 Harwood
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