Photos by Chad Davis Photography.

We are delighted to share the final photos from our Town of Flower Mound Library Expansion project. Design by Komatsu Architecture. Photos by Future 360 Visual Marketing.

Congratulations to our client Haltom City on the groundbreaking of their new Fire Station No. 3 project. The new 12,364 SF, three bay fire station will provide an updated facility for the fireman of the existing Fire Station No. 3. Design by RPGA Architects.

Congratulations to our client the City of Bedford on the recent groundbreaking for their Generations Park at Boys Ranch Phase Next project. The project includes a new multigenerational facility, indoor and outdoor aquatics, new baseball fields and a new event space.

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the NAWIC Builds Excellence Award for our Roanoke City Hall Project! This is a national award and is based on innovation, safety, sustainability, value and project team connections to the NAWIC organization. NAWIC is the National Association of Women in Construction. Our Controller Dena is a longtime member of NAWIC and is a past president of the regional chapter.

Superintendent Mason shared these photos originally taken by Fire Chief McCaskill of our City of Midlothian New Fire Station #1 project. This facility is on a high profile corner in the city off 287 and its beautiful design by Brinkley Sargent Wiginton Architects is hard to miss.

We recently drilled piers at our Tarrant County juvenile facility project. We are proud to partner with our protege firm, Post L Group Construction. Design by LBL Architects / HDR Joint Venture. #TeamTeamTeam

At our City of Ennis Public Safety Facility we achieved a project landmark, substantial completion in late June – two and a half months ahead of the contractual completion date! The Fire Department has moved in and is already operating out of it’s new quarters. We are wrapping up finishing touches on the building and the Police Department will be moving in soon! We are extremely proud of our work to build this combined police and fire facility designed by RBDR Architects of Waco. Stay tuned for our professional photos of the building!

We are proud of our work on The Colony’s Fire House No. 4! Design by Spurgin & Associates.

We are excited to share the progress at our Crowley ISD New Bill R. Johnson Career and Technology Center project! Design by VLK Architects, Inc.

Demolition is well underway at our Iowa Park CISD Kidwell Elementary School bond project! We are collaborating with VLK Architects, Inc. on the four-site, $19.6M bond program. Special thank you to our General Superintendent Tim for the photos.

One of our new team members recently toured our The Hills Church project with the team that built it and he shared these photos with us. He was very impressed with the construction quality and design by BOKA Powell.

We are wrapping up our work constructing the City of Ennis new public safety facility! Finishing touches are being completed inside the building and the exterior will be complete in a couple of weeks. With combined police and fire components, this 38,000 SF building will be a hub of service to the Ennis community. We are proud of our work in collaboration with the City of Ennis, RBDR Architects and the entire project team.

Superintendent Jim and PM Jayson were spotted at our Grapevine Animal Shelter project. This 13,413 SF animal shelter designed by Quorum Architects is well underway and will be complete this fall.

Our crew at the Crowley ISD Bill R. Johnson Career and Technology Education Center reached a key milestone that we have all been buzzing about (no pun intended). Our CTE Team placed this brightly colored airplane in a grand double-height space above the lecture stair area. This real plane serves as a focal point and also represents the aviation technology program offered at the school. Design by our frequent collaborator, VLK Architects.

There is a lot of action happening at our Tarrant County Juvenile Detention Center project. Superintendent Mauricio reports that electrical service from the existing building has been relocated. An existing power transformer has been replaced. We are prepping for concrete piers to be poured in the courtroom areas and soil is being treated for the court, housing and parking lot areas.

One thing we like to do here at Steele & Freeman is show meaningful appreciation. Recently, Senior Project Manager Glenn Nowell expressed meaningful appreciation for Superintendent Gene’s work on our Community Crossroads project where we are creating classrooms and a playground as well as expanding restrooms and a meeting area. Glenn said Gene “gives the project VIGOR!” We’d like to give some kudos to Glenn for doing a great job on the project as well and for living out out Fundamentals by showing meaningful appreciation to his teammate. #TeamTeamTeam

As an essential business, we are pressing on with our work to build several schools among other projects. One of the sayings you hear in our office is “The kids are coming,” because we know – the kids are coming and the schools must be ready. This year when schools re-open, the kids will be more excited than ever to get into their new school spaces and see their friends. We are proud to help make that happen. Special thanks to Superintendent Sam for this beautiful photo of a concrete pour for 600 SF of paving at our Argyle High School phase II project. #ThisIsWhyWeBuild

Here are some new exterior photos from The Hills Church expansion project. We are so proud of this collaboration with The Hills, a longterm client and architecture firm BOKA Powell. Photography by Chad Davis Photography.

Special thank you to Senior PM Brian and PM Miguel for sharing these fantastic photos of our concrete pour at Grapevine Animal Shelter and Adoption Center! Design by Quorum Architects Inc. Our team, including Superintendent Jim oversaw the pouring 270 yards of concrete to lay the foundation for this 13,000 SF facility.

Hats off to TX Whiskey Distillery and the folks at Pernod Ricard! They are using the Whiskey Ranch facility that we built for them a couple of years ago to make much-needed hand sanitizer! http://www.fortworthbusiness.com/news/tx-whiskey-has-a-new-mission-hand-sanitizer/article_0da9667a-746c-11ea-9127-bfcdafaf7dfd.html

BIDDING TOMORROW! Subcontractors: Our Iowa Park CISD multi-site bond project will bid tomorrow, Thursday April 2nd at 2PM! We are using www.buildingconnected.com to bid this project electronically. Plans, specs and a video of the pre-bid meeting are all available on our online plan room: https://steelefreeman.com/plan-room-2/

Meet Trenton (left) and Seri (right). Please note this photo was taken before the global virus outbreak and social distancing measures were enacted. Trenton and Seri recently received high praise from Superintendent Sam for their excellent work and dedication to safety on our $60M Argyle High School Phase II project. We wanted to give them a moment in the spotlight. Help us recognize these two hardworking team members!

Our pre-construction team is responsible for setting up each project for success with meticulous analysis and ideas for creative and strategic solutions. They are also the key contact for our subcontractor community, responsible for our extensive sub outreach. Our team makes it easy for our subs to understand project plans so they can provide comprehensive bids that we can compare – apples-to-apples.

Our complete and organized plans encourage more subcontractors to bid our projects which results in the best pricing options for our clients. This benefits our subcontractor network by making the process efficient so they have time to bid on more projects giving them an opportunity to grow their business.

Here is a wonderful testimonial we received from one of our subs: “Whoever organizes your plans deserves some recognition. 50% of the plan sets we encounter are single-volume PDFs with no page naming. 49% have the pages labeled in the file name. Then there’s the 1% (Steele & Freeman) who not only break them out, keep the file naming consistent, but you break it out into separate folders.

Because they’re so well organized, I can get to work right away without wasting a lot of valuable time renaming pages and breaking them into separate files. I’m sure your other trades really appreciate it. We certainly do!”
– Jeremy

Things are progressing well at our Ennis Public Safety Facility! Project Manager Nathan reports that exterior masonry is wrapping up now and we have begun conditioning the building. Floors are being polished and overhead doors will be installed next week. This new 38,000 SF combined fire and police facility has a budget of $10M and was designed by RBDR Architects.