LIVINGSTON, TX-Sam Houston Electric Cooperative Inc. will have a new home by April 2011. The utility provider is building a new corporate headquarters on the same site as its existing headquarters at 1157 East Church St. The building has a price tag of $7 million.
Cadence McShane Construction Co., the general contractor, has broken ground on the 50,793-square-foot, build-to-suit office headquarters. Designed by Kirksey Architecture, the one-story office building will house the Cooperative's member services operations.
The company maintains 6,000 miles of power lines and serving more than 51,000 members. The utility provider operates two branch offices, in addition to its Livingston headquarters.
“The existing building has been there 30 or 40 years with phases added on,” says Dan Delforge, vice president with Cadence McShane’s Houston office. “A portion of their existing building had been turned into office space that was small and cramped. It needed to be updated, and they looked at doing renovations, but decided a new building made more sense.”
The office facility will feature a masonry and stone exterior, while the interior will include 30 private offices and eight open workstation areas. It will also offer three meeting rooms, seven conferences rooms, a board room, as well as kitchen and break areas and a wellness center featuring men’s and women’s locker rooms.
Constructing the new headquarters is uniquely challenging because the Cooperative wanted to stay it its existing 35,000-square-foot building until the new building is complete, Delforge says. “We had to demo part of the existing building to begin construction of the new headquarters,” he tells GlobeSt.
Delforge explains that two-thirds of the new headquarters will be situated on land surrounding the existing facility. The remaining one-third will replace the razed portion of the existing building. “We’re working 10 feet away from them, and we had to break apart the electrical and plumbing to demo part of the building and to keep part of the building usable.”
Cadence McShane will also complete site work that includes a covered walkway, perimeter fencing and outdoor lighting, in addition to a surface parking lot offering 143 stalls.
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