San Antonio Construction News • Aug 2015
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L-R: Alex Ramirez, Liz Turney, Joel Turney, and Meme Perez and their fellow office team members do all the administrative work, including estimating plans, invoicing and solar bidding, for Turney Lighting & Electric at the Helotes office. –mh
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ince DBR Engineering Consultants, Inc. opened its office in San Antonio 15 years ago, the branch has taken on a variety of projects with its portfolio showing a focus on sustainability. With a particular highlight for the local branch being San Antonio’s first LEED Platinum building, Eagle Veterinary Hospital, the San Antonio office has also done San Saba Hall at UTSA, which is a 185,000-sf student residence facility, and the 274,895-sf East Village Residential Community at Baylor University in Waco. Though DBR does MEP engineering, the firm also offers LEED consulting and building commissioning L-R: Brian Uhlrich, PE, partner/operations manager for services. The firm also has a San Antonio, Austin and Corpus Christi; Randy Curry, dedicated commissioning PE, president of DBR; and Zac Morton, PE, San Antonio agent. As a firm, the offices project manager, stand in front of the cisterns for rainwater collection at Eagle Veterinary Hospital. have done approximately 60 to 70 LEED projects ranging from registered and certified all July. He is the operations manager for San Antonio, Corpus Christi and Austin. the way up the LEED ladder to Platinum. Zac Morton is the project manager Seventeen of DBR’s 118 employees for the San Antonio office, managing the are based in San Antonio with most of team of designers and overseeing projthem based in the Houston headquarects from start to completion. Jeanette ters. The firm has eight partners, six of Scarsdale, marketing coordinator, is also whom are based in Houston, one in based in San Antonio, handling the marMcAllen, and one, Brian Uhlrich, based keting for the San Antonio, Austin, Corin San Antonio. pus Christi and McAllen offices. Uhlrich started working at DBR im Founded in 1972 as David W. Day & Asmediately after graduating from Kansas sociates, the firm became Day Brown Rice State. He celebrated his 20th anniversary Inc. in 1985 and DBR in 2000. –mh with the firm shortly before the San Antonio office marked its 15th anniversary in
Leaders of Hammonds Wood Floors L-R: Allan Stettner, Marty Hammonds, Dan Klobedans, Jerrod Hammonds, Robby Hammonds
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fter starting in the wood floor business at 17, Marty Hammonds worked for the same company for 13 years before striking out on his own in 1982 as Hammonds Wood Floors. Born and raised in San Antonio, Hammonds learned a lot about construction working with his German uncle, Emil Klobedans, who was a framing carpenter, during his time off from school between the ages of 14 and 16. He took his work ethic from his uncle, who taught him, “Either you do it the right way or you do it over.” Family continues to be a big part of his life and business. He counts his marriage of more than 30 years to his wife, Sharon, and their four children, Laurie, Jerrod, Jordan and Jacob, among his greatest accomplishments. Sharon has worked for the company, and today, Jerrod works in operations. Hammonds’ cousin, Dan Klobedans, and his nephew, Robby Hammonds, also work for the company. With projects including the Plaza de Armas, the McNay Art Museum, the HEB Corporate Offices and the Capitol in Austin, Hammonds also does a lot of restoration work all over San Antonio and South Texas. They restored an 1800s log cabin in Boerne and historic homes in King William. He adds that they are doing a lot more testing for moisture problems in homes and businesses now. To stay on top of current standards and techniques, Hammonds became a National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) inspector in 2004. At 63, he is also an elder at Concordia Lutheran Church and a member of a group of businessmen called Biblical Leadership Excellence
(BLE), where he notes he received a lot of encouragement and help getting direction in business. Hammonds Wood Floors focuses on wood exclusively. The company does commercial, historic restorations, remodeling and new residential. –mh
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