This bond program consisted of a scheduled 18 months of renovations to five Alamo Heights ISD school campuses and upgrades for the district headquarters. Both the high school and junior high school had major renovation work as well as new additions. One of the main plans of school officials was to have all of the utilities in these campuses updated to be modernized and energy efficient. This also included all windows to be replaced for better energy efficiency. In the first part of this phasing plan, renovations were completed on the Robbins Academy and Howard ELC campuses. These renovations included complete interior removal and total modernization of the buildings. At Howard, the air conditioning system and windows were replaced with new energy efficient ones. All lights and the roof were also replaced. It was important to carry out all construction tasks on occupied campuses, while not disrupting normal school operations. The second part of the phasing plan consisted of the junior high school being upgraded and two additions being added, new fine arts building and a new science building. At the high school, major renovations were done in the auditorium and gymnasium. Being that school was still in session during this project, these renovations and additions were especially challenging to execute by coordinating certain tasks by student holidays and activities. The renovation of the auditorium at the high school was one of the most unique challenges because the original structure was built in the 1940s and needed major steel reconstruction.

In addition to all these projects, at the Robbins Academy we reconstructed drains, installed new concrete, surfaces, coats, caulking and striping on 12 tennis courts. Also, part of the Alamo Heights Jr. School project included resurfacing, re-coated, re-striping six (6) existing tennis courts.

This project received the 2007 American Subcontractors Association Outstanding Project Over $10 Million.

Hays Consolidated Independent School District wished to upgrade their current athletic stadium to include a new synthetic playing field, new running track, a new press box, and the addition of new seating. While a stadium addition and renovation upon itself is not such a difficult task, the challenge on this project was that construction could not begin until May of 2002 and the facility had to be complete and back in operation in time for the home opener on September 18, 2002. The initial plan included adding approximately 500 new seats to both the home and visitors side of the stadium. This plan required complicated and extensive rework to the existing facility and required significant field fabrication, which would be subject to weather delays. During preconstruction, Bartlett Cocke General Contractors made the suggestion of reversing the home and visitor sides of the stadium and in lieu of adding onto both areas of seating, that it might be most efficient to totally demolish and rebuild the existing visitors side. That way a majority of the steel fabrication could take place in the shop and the existing press box would not be removed just in case it was needed for the start of the season. We were able to complete the playing field upgrade, running track upgrade, press box addition, and stadium seating addition before the start of their first home football game on September 18, 2002.

The Jack C. Hays High School project is the second phase of a major campus demolitions, renovations, additions and upgrades. The project consisted of the addition of a new two-story, 68,254 SF administration, library and classroom building; A new 42,091 SF Athletic Building consisting of a double court practice gymnasium, locker rooms, dance studio and classrooms connecting the existing field house to an existing theatre; A new field house for visiting teams; a new Auto shop and miscellaneous other upgrades. Other renovations included new ceiling grid and tile and HVAC to the existing cafeteria, storage and offices for the Band Hall, renovate the old library to the new rifle range, classrooms and locker rooms for the campus ROTC, Fire alarm upgrades, switch over from propane to gas at the kitchen and boilers, power consolidation of several separate services to be now run off of one single campus service.