Fugro Consultants Expands Nondestructive Testing Services with Second Location

We have expanded our Nondestructive Testing (NDT) Services with the opening of a second location off Highway 290 in the Brittmoore-Tanner Business Park, 10831 Train Court, Houston, Texas 77041, 713-937-0029. The new location provides an additional 22,000 sq. ft of testing area with 10-ton crane lifting capability. Mr. Phil Zaragoza manages the new facility and the original facility located in Pasadena, Texas.

Fugro Consultants offers NDT services to clients in the petrochemical, metal fabrication, construction, and utility industries. Our testing equipment detects surface and subsurface discontinuities in material by using techniques that do not damage or destroy the items being examined. NDT plays a major role in fabrication and construction by providing a means of checking adherence to applicable codes, specifications, and standards — without significantly interfering with construction, operation, or project schedule.

2009 Texas CEC Engineering Excellence Awards

Fugro Consultants served on project teams for four of the Texas Council of Engineering Excellence Awards. The Texas CEC honors and recognizes outstanding achievements within the engineering industry.

Silver Medal Winner: Fort Bend County Levee Recertifications
Prime Firm: Costello, Inc.

Gold Medal Winner: Vogel Creek Master Drainage Plan and Channel Improvements
Prime Firm: CivilTech Engineerng, Inc.

Gold Medal Winner: Bayport Terminal Complex Phase I Container Yard Design
Prime Firm: Klotz Associates

Gold Medal Winner: Graving Dock, Ingleside, Texas
Prime Firm: HDR / Shiner Mosele

The Trinity Parkway project is part of the Trinity River renewal project in downtown Dallas, Texas. This $1.2-1.8 billion project involves a number of interrelated projects including flood protection, environmental management, recreation facilities, transportation, and community/economic development.

The goal of the parkway is to relieve traffic congestion in the I-35 corridor and the area known as the "mix-master" where I-35 and I-30 come together in downtown Dallas and provide vehicular and pedestrian access into the park.

Fugro is performing geotechnical levee engineering services to support USACE standards. The entire project is over 12 miles long and the section that affects the levees is approximately 5.5 miles

Fugroconsultants.com Wins SMPS Award

Fugro Consultants, Inc. received a 2009 Marketing Design Award from the Houston Chapter of the Society of Marketing Professional Services (SMPS). Our website received the second place award and was showcased at the Houston SMPS Design Award Gala on May 8, 2009. Marketing pieces are judged on audience appeal, creative impact, writing, and visual appeal.

The Society for Marketing Professional Services was created in 1973 by a small group of professional service firm leaders who recognized the need to sharpen skills, pool resources and work together to create business opportunities. Together they created SMPS to help tackle the day-to-day complexities of marketing in a time when marketing was barely acknowledged as a separate component of professional service firms. Today, the national association has 53 chapters and a membership of 6,000+ marketing and business development professionals from architectural, engineering, planning, interior design, construction, and specialty consulting firms located throughout the US and Canada. Together, these professionals contribute support for the SMPS mission: "To advocate for, educate, and connect leaders in the building industry."

Fugro Consultants, Inc. has named Blake Cotton, P.E., LEED AP®, to the position of Vice President and Principal of the firm. In this capacity, Blake recently relocated to New Orleans where he assumed primary responsibility as Program Director for FFEB JV. Fugro Consultants, Inc. is the lead partner of a joint venture that is performing geotechnical studies for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District. The 3-year, $100 million contract is to provide geotechnical studies and related services to the design of storm protection enhancements throughout the New Orleans District.

A Fugro employee since 1992, Blake served as Engineering Manager for Fugro’s Houston office before becoming Baton Rouge Branch Manager in 2003. Blake possesses in-depth knowledge of levee design-construction, bridge and highway foundation design, and coastal protection. He understands the issues surrounding soft soil environments and application of appropriate methods for sampling, testing and engineering analyses.

A licensed professional engineer in Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, and Texas, Blake holds both a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering and a Masters of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas in Austin. He is a member of Louisiana Engineering Society, National Society of Professional Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineering, American Society for Testing Materials, and the American Institute of Architects.