Our April 12th groundbreaking required a very special type of hardhat as we broke ground on Williamson County’s newest fire station.
This new 10,500 square foot Williamson County Fire Station #2, set to open Spring of 2019, will be located at the southwest corner of Ronald Reagan Boulevard and Elizabeth Park Boulevard. This station will expand WCESD#4 into the rapidly growing Santa Rita Ranch development area to better serve those region.
Battalion Chief Anthony Lincoln served as the master of ceremonies. Chris Ruebusch with PGAL, as well as Ed Horn, who sold Williamson County the land, spoke at the event.
The station will feature:
2 1/2 bays to accommodate 10 firefighters and medical staff
Dayroom
Kitchen
Laundry
Offices
Conference room
Watch offices
Medical treatment room
Workout space
Generator for emergency backup power
Detention area for water runoff and treatment
The site was obtained from the developer of Santa Rita Ranch, Wilshire Homes, owned by Mr. Horn. As part of the agreement, the station will be designed to complement the new Santa Rita Ranch community center across from the site on the other side of Ronald Reagan Boulevard. The fire station, along with the planned community soccer fields adjacent to the site, will create a civic node within the overall master plan.
We would like to extend a huge thank you to those involved in coordinating the groundbreaking ceremony, all of the attendees, as well as PGAL Architects.
In a true showing of camaraderie over skill, The Sabre Scramble, our annual employee golf tournament, was held Wednesday, April 4th at ShadowGlen Golf Club. As usual, we had a blast at this year’s team building exercise, with each team comprised of employees from various Sabre departments. Awards were bestowed upon the first place team and the worst place team, dubbed “Dead Ass Last.” Individual awards were given for the longest drive as well as the closest to the pin.
Sabre Commercial has been honored as the National Champion in our division for the Associated General Contractors Construction Safety Excellence Awards (CSEA). This award is presented by Willis Towers Watson during the annual National AGC Convention. It has been established as the commercial construction industry’s elite Safety Excellence Awards Program, created to recognize companies that have developed and implemented premier safety and loss prevention programs.
This is our second time to win this prestigious award, which we won in 2016. We couldn’t have achieved this without the hard work of our dedicated employees and subcontractors.
The numbers are in and Sabre Commercial has been recognized as a winner in the Austin Business Journal Fast 50 Award. In order to qualify, companies must have experienced dramatic revenue growth during the past three years. All companies are then ranked based on percentage revenue growth. Boasting 38.03% average revenue growth over the last three years, Sabre was ranked 18th place in the large business category.
No stranger to the award, this our fifth time to have placed in the last six years.
Congratulations to all the other winners out there, some of whom we’ve partnered with for various ventures in the past.
To see more about the award, check out the Austin Business Journal article HERE.
Sabre is building out the fifth floor at Seton Medical Center Hays to make room for more patients, and Superintendent Hal Anderson is running a tight job site. The Sabre Watch recently toured the Kyle construction site with Hal and Assistant Superintendent Colton Stabeno.
Hal said the project, which involves building out the fifth floor to accommodate a new nursing station, an infusion suite, 30 additional patient beds and space for 60 hospital staff, has already overcome a few challenges.
“We have limited access to the elevators in the building, since there are only two to the fifth floor that have to be available to patients and staff,” said Hal. “We made our early deliveries by crane, through an opening we created. Now we have the buckhoist to get our workers and materials up here.”
As we toured the 27,000-square-foot site, Hal took us through the safeguards and technical expertise needed to accommodate the highly complicated mechanical, electrical and telecommunications systems of the hospital. The site was meticulously clean and organized, from protocols to keep workers from tracking dirt, to protecting cables from paint drippings and debris.
Seton Hays completion is scheduled for late November, and the fifth floor should be ready to receive its first patients the first week of December 2018.
Sabre Commercial recently completed The Range, a $9.6 million indoor shooting facility located near IH-35 and William Cannon in Austin. The 52,000-square-foot, two-story tilt-wall building houses five indoor shooting ranges with a total of thirty-seven lanes, three classrooms, and a full service retail and gunsmith shop.
“The Range is one-of-a-kind,” said Sabre’s Jarrod Cady, who served as project engineer, and helped close it out as superintendent. “They have a clear focus on safety. The range walls are 7.25-inch-thick concrete panels, and the ceiling is protected by an AR-500 ballistic steel baffles system. The building also includes an advanced ventilation system that filters out harmful lead particles from the air with a full air exchange every 85 seconds.”
The ground-up project for client Patriot Entertainment includes a VIP lounge upstairs with five private meeting rooms, a VIP pistol range, a lounge with a fireplace, a billiard room and a walk-in humidor. The space boasts an advanced HVAC system, and high end finishes and casework throughout.
The Range has one of the largest inventories of weapons in the region, including tactical weapons, hand guns, shotguns and rifles. They offer an array of training classes, from beginner level to advanced courses for seasoned gun enthusiasts. The facility also features a sophisticated targeting system that offers preprogrammed multiple shooting scenarios, and custom shooting experiences created by the user. In the future, it will even incorporate cameras that exhibit shooting accuracy without reeling in targets. Even the glass retail cases displaying the guns were custom built, and include a T.V. display that can bring up the specs of each individual fire arm.
“This was an extremely unique project, mixing industrial construction with high end finishes,” said Jarrod, “We had quite a few third party vendors who were contracted through the owners, and our biggest challenge was to coordinate closely with each of them–sometimes building around them until their tasks were complete. In the end it all worked out great.”
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The original Wheatsville Food Co-op, located on “The Drag” adjacent to The University of Texas, has undergone an exciting renovation with general contracting led by Sabre Commercial.
In order to allow the grocery store to remain open throughout construction, all work was completed between the hours of midnight and 6AM. The updated space includes a refreshed catering area for their ready-made foods and salad bar as well as a showcase area for some of their in-house baked selections. The grocery store renovation included the installation of new flooring, updated interior and exterior paint, and upgraded display shelving.
Wheatsville Co-op, photo courtesy of CultureMap Austin, taken by Nicole Raney
Sabre Commercial was awarded two Outstanding Construction Awards through the Austin Chapter of the Associated General Contractors for 2016.
Westlake Dermatology, located in the Class A Lamar Central Building, received the Interior Finish Out Award for projects valued between $500,000 and $2 Million.
This 3,000 SF high-end tenant finish out is the latest in the expansion of facilities for Westlake Dermatology. The space includes exam rooms, procedural rooms and retail space.
Designed by Michael Hsu Architecture, the project had very high level of detail and was comprised of many specialty finishes. Specialty finishes included the color matched stone panels, specialty millwork items, antique glass jewelry case and radiused millwork screen tying into the recessed soffit with integrated lighting. Of particular note was the ball chain curtain within the reception area. Hanging from ceiling the floor, 40 feet of the curtain was installed by hand, strand by strand.
CHiP Semiconductor, located in Buda, Texas, received the Design Build Award for projects valued up to $10 Million.
The creation of CHiP Semiconductor’s space began in 2015. After outgrowing their Austin office, CHiP chose to move to Buda. Their new facility brings a very sought after, high-tech industrial employer to the area. The construction scope included the site planning, schematic design, design development, construction documentation and limited construction administration for the development of the new 40K SF CHiP Semiconductor office, warehouse and laboratory. The concrete, tilt-up shell building is composed of an internal steel framed structure. The collaborative process between Sabre Commercial, Fuse Architects and Pape Dawson created a successful end product that the client is excited about.
The Aggie 100 List is an award that recognizes the 100 fastest growing Aggie owned or Aggie operated businesses in the world. 2016 is the 12th year of the award.
To be considered for the award, the company must have been in business for four five or more years and have verifiable revenues of $250,000 of more for the calendar year. Other factors include the Aggie Leadership of the firm as well as the Company Character.
Sabre ranked 79 with 35% growth.
John Cyrier, CEO, is a 1995 graduate of A&M and Mark McDonald, Vice President, is a 2003 graduate.
This is the third time in four years that Sabre has been honored with the award.
This 3,000 SF high-end tenant finish out is the latest in the expansion of facilities for Westlake Dermatology. The space includes exam rooms, procedural rooms and retail space.
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