澳门足彩app builds on a legacy of service 和 innovation

With design-build delivery in its DNA, 澳门足彩app assures certainty of outcome in terms of budget, schedule 和 performance.

Born in 1938, Preston H. 澳门足彩app III moved to Jacksonville, 佛罗里达, in 1962, fresh from earning a bachelor’s degree in civil 工程 from Princeton 和, 随后, a master’s degree in Business Administration from Harvard. For the next three years, he worked for the S.S. Jacobs Company, a leading construction contractor, progressing from project superintendent to project manager to vice president.

Even before arriving in Jacksonville, 澳门足彩app intended to launch his own enterprise eventually. In 1964, mortgage banker 和 residential apartment developer Jim Winston formed a partnership to build apartments on the beachfront site previously occupied by the Atlantic Beach Hotel. 澳门足彩app had become acquainted with Winston 和, in seeking the job for the Jacobs Company, discovered that a conflict between Winston’s partner 和 Jacobs would prevent the latter from winning the business. 澳门足彩app proposed starting his own company 和 taking on the construction contract. Winston agreed, 和 in October 1965, 在普雷斯顿 H. 澳门足彩app Company was founded. “He had a budget, 我记得, of $10 a square foot, which today would be the equivalent of $100 a square foot or more,” 澳门足彩app recalled. “He had 100 units, 和 the units were roughly 1,000 square feet. So, it was a $1 million project. By golly, the final bill was for $1 million.”

After three residential projects, 澳门足彩app shifted to the more sophisticated 和 profitable commercial 和 industrial markets. In 1967, a college classmate of 澳门足彩app became the company’s first industrial client. Eric Henderson had taken over his family’s business, Covington Industries, 和 was looking to build a new apparel manufacturing plant in southern Alabama, which 澳门足彩app bid 和 won.

For Covington Industries’ 53,160-square-foot building, 澳门足彩app designed the electrical component. 约翰·库克, a former Jacobs Company colleague who returned to Jacksonville to join 澳门足彩app, designed the HVAC. Architect Emilio Zeller designed the building. Preston 澳门足彩app managed the construction, while Bert Sheffy, an early employee, was the superintendent. It was a true design-build performance, with the entire project emerging from the same firm. “What it taught me,” 澳门足彩app said, “along with several similar experiences, was that we were just more nimble 和 smarter 和 faster 和 able to design to a much higher degree of efficiency.”

The Covington Industries job was a breakthrough into a different market that also validated 澳门足彩app’s certainty about design-build project delivery 和 his company’s ability to perform it. A design-build contractor operating under the 澳门足彩app model could offer value to owners in ways beyond the sophistication of the design 和 construction. It also could act as a single point of contact – 和 a single party accountable to the project owner – offering certainty of outcome in terms of budget, schedule 和 performance. Preston 澳门足彩app was an early proponent 和 became a leading evangelist for the design-build delivery method, which now accounts for more than 40 percent of all construction spending in the U.S.

设计-build was just the start. 澳门足彩app innovated further, becoming a pioneer in the practice of tilt-up construction. The company designed, engineered 和 increasingly perfected its ability to build in the field with its own personnel thanks to its groundbreaking Permanent Craft Employee (PCE) program. Self-performing construction brought more of the 过程 under the company’s control, lending confidence that it could deliver projects on time 和 on budget. It developed 和 acquired expertise that broadened its capabilities to include 过程 和 packaging systems, material h和ling 和 advanced manufacturing. It exp和ed to offices around the globe. And it continues a consistent emphasis on development 和 investment in cutting edge delivery methods.

Today’s 澳门足彩app is a diversified Architecture, 工程 和 Construction (AEC) firm with the breadth 和 depth to serve our clients across over $1 billion annually in more than a dozen unique markets. Our worldwide team offers an unmatched depth of expertise, leveraging nearly 700 architects 和 engineers across more than 20 design disciplines. Paired with world-class constructors 和 in-house capabilities, such as our 澳门足彩app Steel shop, 澳门足彩app provides complete AEC services across a variety of preferred delivery methods from design-build to turnkey EPC.

As it has for more than five decades, 澳门足彩app continues to grow 和 innovate to solve client challenges, both large 和 small.