Raytheon to Provide Open-Road Tolling in Texas

With the selection process completed, Raytheon and TxDOT will begin discussions aimed at executing a Comprehensive Development Agreement.

TxDOT Approves Raytheon

The Texas Department of Transportation and the Texas Transportation Commission recently approved Raytheon Co. as the prime contractor to develop, build and maintain open-road toll-collection systems in Texas. Once implemented, Texas' open- road tolling system will include the most advanced technology in the world and will facilitate convenient and safe travel for millions of drivers throughout the state.

With the selection process completed, Raytheon and TxDOT will begin discussions aimed at executing a Comprehensive Development Agreement. This agreement will provide all the specific terms and conditions under which Raytheon would provide the open-road toll-collection systems for designated project segments over five years. Raytheon will also be responsible for maintaining these toll-collection systems for a period up to eight years after each goes into operation.

Raytheon is an experienced supplier of high-tech open-road, free-flow electronic tolling systems in the world. Its systems are in operation on three continents, including the world's first all-electronic, open-road toll highway in Toronto. Raytheon's systems provide video tolling, transponder tolling and vehicle classification for all vehicles and allow all vehicles to use the toll road.

Raytheon's major subcontractors are San Antonio-based Zachry Construction Corp. and Arcadis, a global firm with a strong presence in Texas that will provide civil engineering services for the project. Raytheon, headquartered in Waltham, Mass., has three business units in Texas including Network Centric Systems, headquartered in McKinney.

Speed Fab-Crete Appointed to Architectural Precast Association

Speed Fab-Crete Inc., based in Fort Worth, has been accepted as a new member of the Architectural Precast Association, a national trade and certification organization. Speed Fab-Crete is the first general contractor in the state of Texas to be awarded membership.

"It is an honor for Speed Fab-Crete to be recognized by the APA as we are the first full-service builder in Texas to be accepted," said Carl Hall, vice president of operations.

"To be considered for membership, firms must have an exceptional and longstanding record in the production and quality of architectural precast concrete," Hall said. "So we are proud to be involved in this organization."

The APA was formed in 1966 to advance the interests of the architectural precast concrete industry in North America and to promote high standards of workmanship. Architectural precast concrete may be expressed in a variety of shapes, sizes, colors and textures.

Speed Fab-Crete's manufacturing plant regularly produces structural and architectural precast concrete walls, which form a building's exterior. While such work occurs at the plant, site development for the building and creation of its foundation occur simultaneously, thus accelerating the building's completion.

Sundt Relocates Texas Offices

Sundt Construction Inc.'s Federal Division has moved to new offices at 4425 W. Airport Freeway, Suite 100, in Irving. The new telephone number is 972-258-0500. The Division previously had an office in the Uptown area of Dallas.

The new office location gives Sundt employees better access to the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and its 1,600 daily flights, said Dave Fleming, operations manager--east He added that Sundt's Texas office is responsible for all Federal projects east of the Rocky Mountains, including several projects in Texas as well as work at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida; Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota; Andrews AFB near Washington, D.C.; and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

At military installations across the country, Sundt is partnering with all arms of the DOD to design and build operationally sustainable facilities of the future. Sundt's broad range of experience includes training facilities, hangars, vehicle maintenance facilities, air-traffic-control centers, flight terminals, parts distribution warehouses, dormitories and barracks. Sundt has also provided support to military families through the design and construction of more than 12,000 units of family housing.