Medical Arts Pavilion in Lufkin, Texas

The Medical Arts Pavilion is a new medical office building adjacent to the hospital. It was a shell space that will accommodate future medical professionals as tenants.

Problem: A competing entity was also building a medical office building in Lufkin. That building would be in direct competition with our project. It was extremely important to the owner of our project to be completed early enough to lease out this building before the competing MOB was complete.

Solution: Crist Industries, Inc. delivered an accelerated structural steel frame schedule. The detailing of structural steel began while the structural construction documents were being completed. The structural construction documents were finished early. We started erection of the structural steel three days after the architectural construction documents were complete. This accelerated the job by ten weeks and got the project on a schedule to be completed before their competition.

Owner's Response: "We are very pleased with the process and would encourage others to consider it." Joe Fredenberger, Chief Financial officer, Memorial Health Systems of East Texas.