Articles for Chamberlin LTD

By Dr. Jim Hoff, Research Director, Center for Environmental Innovation in Roofing When the U. S. Green Building Council initiated the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building program in 2001, one of its primary objectives was to "transform the built environment." Now, 10 years on from the introduction of LEED, the evidence for this transformation have become obvious. Ten thousand LEED buildings have been certified and over 100,000 ...

The Hipolito F. Garcia Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse has seen many ups and downs in its lifetime. It was built in the mid 1930s as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Federal Public Works program during The Great Depression as a means to relieve widespread unemployment by generating jobs through its construction. In addition to creating job opportunities, the building housed local federal agencies and helped to streamline San Antonio's growing postal needs. The ...

Bill Lawson Operations Manager - Roofing & Sheet Metal Houston, TX Bill is one of our favorite Yankees, and we are not talking about the baseball team because he is a diehard Mets fan. Bill began his career in the roofing business in New York straight out of high school and has been "living the roofer's dream" ever since he joined Chamberlin 14 years ago. On the ...

By: Ken Ollinger RRC, RRO, CCCA, Austech Roof Consultants, Inc. A decade ago the desire of most knowledgeable owners, designers, and contractors was to "keep it off the roof." Finding that eliminating unnecessary foot traffic and equipment such as satellite dishes, antennas, piping, etc., was the first step in extending the roof's useful service life, great efforts were ...

The Houston Food Bank has been serving Harris and 17 other southeast Texas counties since 1982. At In their first year they delivered about one million pounds of food to community distribution programs. In 2010 the Food Bank dispersed 70 million pounds of food and fed 137,000 individuals each week through its charitable network of food pantries, shelters and nutrition programs. With an admirable goal of increasing its output to 120 million pounds of food annually by 2018, the Food Bank ...

Bryan Payne Estimating Manager - Waterproofing & Caulking Dallas, TX Over the last 12 years, Bryan Payne has worked his way up from a project coordinator to estimating manager and has become one of the most award winning project team members to boot. Matter of fact, he has helped Chamberlin rack up five national project awards for outstanding ...

We think so. Chamberlin has been using an employee badging system for many years as a means to provide proper and obvious identification of our team members on high security projects and in clients' occupied buildings. Our badges also display the types of craft and safety training the employee has completed ranging from OSHA 10-Hour certification to scaffolds and more. Each badge includes a photo of the employee, their title and craft. These features provide an extra ...

Hi there. Chamberlin Man here. If you live in the southern states, you know now is the time to get your emergency plan in place for a potentially active hurricane season. One thing to check off your list is setting up emergency response services with a responsible roofing contractor - like the Chamberlin team! You know better than I that a serious storm can do heavy damage to the roof and exterior walls of your building. And, the folks at Chamberlin are equipped to help you ...

By: Bill Coltzer, Jr., AIA President, Zero/Six Consulting, LLC If you've participated in the construction of high performance buildings, you're probably familiar with the term "commissioning," although the term has an ever growing range of meanings. In short, commissioning verifies building systems ...

The 1616 Woodall Rodgers complex near Victory Park in Dallas is made up of two eight story towers. The south tower of the building was constructed in 1978, and in 1992 the adjoining north tower was built. The campus has more than 260,000 square feet of office space, an atrium lobby, a data processing center, two levels of underground parking, an employee fitness center and a cafeteria. In 2004 the building became vacant and remained so until 2009 when Oncor, a ...

By: Alfredo E. Bustamante, PE, CDT and Gary R. Searer, PE, SE with Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. Building owners often need to access the exterior facade of their buildings, whether for maintenance, window washing, repairs, or construction. The most common means of accessing the facade of tall buildings is the use of powered platforms or scaffolds, which can be either building- or contractor-supplied. The purpose of this article is to ...

Restoring and reusing an existing building is an exemplary act of sustainability in the built environment. It reduces construction waste and sometimes can be extremely cost effective. For the City of Houston, it made economic and environmental sense when they chose to renovate an 86-year-old former rice warehouse near downtown to consolidate their Administration and Regulatory Affairs (ARA) and Public Works and Engineering (PWE) permitting operations under one roof. This new Central ...

Paul R. Hay Superintendent - Waterproofing & Caulking Austin, TX "Paul is as calm and cool as the center seed of a cucumber," describes Waterproofing Senior Project Manager, Pat Halaszyn, "that's why Chamberlin employees and clients alike enjoy working with him." As a waterproofing superintendent, we were curious to know how Paul handles the occasional twists and turns of overseeing large waterproofing projects throughout central and south Texas. Here's a ...

By: Mitzi Roadcap Senior Consultant, Curtainwall Design & Consulting, Inc. The majority of those in the construction industry have sat through at least one presentation or read at least one article that discusses the issue of how to build a more energy efficient building; how to manage condensation and water infiltration; how to enhance ...

Great Hills Baptist Church is a dynamic congregation with a 300,000 sq. ft. sanctuary and education facility near the Arboretum in northwest Austin, Texas. With two Sunday morning worship services, Wednesday services, group meetings and a pre-school ministry, the church is constantly buzzing with activity. Though their facility is only 20 years old, the congregation has been together for over 60 years. In the 1980s the church members built their current meeting place on Jollyville Road ...

By: Richard J. "Jeff" Gish, P.E. Senior Associate, Terracon Consultants, Inc. In recent years, the waterproofing consulting industry has witnessed an increasing demand for air infiltration and water penetration testing of the building envelope and glazing systems. This article will focus on field testing of installed fenestrations, storefront and curtain walls systems, and sloped ...

Oral Roberts University (ORU) is a charismatic Christian university founded by evangelist, Oral Roberts, in 1963. Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the university has an enrollment of over 3,500 students and offers more than 65 undergraduate programs. In 1981, Oral Roberts developed several buildings just south of ORU's main campus to make up the City of Faith Medical and Research Center. The campus consists of three buildings: a 60 story clinic, a 30 story hospital and a 20 ...

Guest Column By: Edward G. Britt, Jr. President and Partner of Bowen, Miclette & Britt, Inc. With rising premiums and shrinking coverages, owners and contractors have described the current general liability insurance environment as the "perfect storm." But this is by no means the first perfect storm. The fact is, over the past 20 years the construction industry has seen some tumultuous times in both cost of insurance and in scope of insurance coverage.  ...

Cats may have nine lives, but who has heard of a skyscraper having two lives? That is exactly the case in Ft. Worth, Texas. Chamberlin's restoration team is hard at work in downtown Ft. Worth. Their task: to restore a landmark and give it new life through a complete metamorphosis. The Bank One office tower at 500 Throckmorton and Fourth Street in Ft. Worth was damaged by a tornado that rocked downtown and destroyed several buildings in its wake in March of 2000.  ...

David Neal, Vice President, Dallas, TX One of Chamberlin's most valued and influential team members, David Neal is respected by all those who have the pleasure of working with him. Time and again his actions prove his honest, knowledgeable and professional character. For those who may not know David, here's a glimpse into how he works and his capabilities. Education: TexasA&M University- Bachelor of Environmental ...