OUR HISTORY TIMELINE

Construction EcoServices (CES) is founded in Houston, a full year ahead of the EPA’s March 2003 issuance of the Texas General Permit (TGP) which implemented Stormwater Pollution Prevention (SWPPP) requirements.

CES invests in significant market research to fine tune its business model through dozens of conversations with General Contractors’ Superintendent, Project Managers and Executives, as well as state and local regulators.

CES officially launches Construction Compliance Services (CCS) March 2003. Initially offering, what one ‘old-timer’ construction superintendent called his ideal scenario, is a “one back to pat or one neck to wring” turnkey SWPPP model.

CES begins a still-standing partnership with the Association of General Contractors (AGC) to provide a bi-annual 3-4 hour training program teaching the ever-changing and ongoing regulations, nuances and issues associated with construction activity compliance. To date, this program has educated over a thousand General Contractor personnel at the AGC alone.

CES is recognized as the clear market leader in construction compliance (SWPPP) services in the greater Houston region.

CES begins looking at the wave of the future, Low Impact Development (LID), or as it would later become more commonly known, Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI). This marks the beginning formation of a new CES department, System Solutions.

With due diligence on LID/GSI and stormwater systems complete, the System Solutions (SYS) business unit is officially launched. The initial focus is on underground detention and various devices that provided stormwater quality treatment. In keeping with the turnkey model, CES’ System Solutions team offers full installation services, design assistance, component assembly assistance, and product-only sales.

CES brings longtime healthcare professional to build and lead Safety program….

Attendees included stakeholders from both sides of the isle, local board members from the ASCE, ACEC, AIA, ASLA, USGBC, GHBA, the Harris County Director of Operations and Infrastructure Division (now County Engineer), City of Houston’s then City Engineer and representatives of several other interested professional organizations and NGOs. In total, 24 key local stakeholders attend. This meeting results in the formation of the Houston Land/Water Sustainability Forum (HLWSF), an all volunteer organization founded by CES to offer education and insight into LID/GSI to our region’s professional design community as well as city and county staffs.

In the 24 months following it creation, the HLWSF developed and presented more than seventeen educational events for local design professionals and developers. The events range from two hours to two days, featuring LID experts from around the country. It becomes clear that LID practices can work here and that the economic, flood mitigation and environmental benefits are worth pursuing.

The HLWSF LID Design Competition, requires integrated teams of design professionals design real projects on real properties and discover for themselves the economic and environmental outcome of these practices. The end result was unanimous; the region’s most significant engineering, architecture and landscape architecture firms, conclude that projects designed with LID practices are better for their clients economically and better for the environment. It is a huge success.

CES replicates its effort at ‘raising the tide’ for LID/GSI in Houston in the same non-commercial, community-benefit approach, through CES-organized Land/Water Sustainability forums in Dallas-Forth Worth and Austin and San Antonio, each of which, along with New Orleans holds their own Design Competitions. As hoped, this public service effort sheds positive light on CES as not only leaders and innovators, but as experts in new practices.

CES/HLWSF receives the Sustainability Award From the Citizens Environmental Council

CES launches the Post-Construction Compliance Services (PCS) business unit, offering property owners and property management companies their own turnkey set of compliance services adapted to Post-Construction needs, but similar to those offered for Construction sites in their comprehensive nature.

In 2012, CES aligns itself with the “Value Added Reseller” (VAR) Network for Convergent Water Technologies. The network consists of a group of geographically disbursed stormwater-focused companies operating on a collaborative basis, in distinct, exclusive territories. As a member of the VAR Network for Convergent Water Technologies, CES now has exclusive access, within its territory, to a pipeline of innovative technologies developed or acquired by Convergent.

Harris County adopts the Low Impact Development (LID) Design Guide initially developed by a committee involving CES, the HLWSF and County leadership. This creates vast new opportunities for the company, as CES is seen as the most capable and experienced in advising on and executing on, these new design techniques.

Six of the world’s largest oil companies begin building campuses in Houston, CES is awarded the stormwater work on all six projects.

CES is recognized by the Houston Business Journal as the Largest Houston-Area Environmental Company as a result of its number of active projects.

CES is recognized by the International Erosion Control Association as its Contractor of the Year

One of CES’s two founders retires in mid-2016. Upon his departure, a new leadership team is formed. Directors are appointed in each of the company’s three existing departments, with the addition of a Director of Business Development and a Director of Safety and HR.

CES embarks on a Cultural Development effort leading to a sea of change in the culture of the company over the next 18 months. Principles from The Oz Principle, Change the Culture Change the Game and The Culture Code are adopted into CES cultural beliefs.

CES begins organizational shifts to close sales and operational gaps between its three key business units. By breaking down silos, each department now leverages the other unit’s expertise as a key asset. Sales and growth goals are met and CES moves into a new stage of expansion.

CES opens satellite office doors in both Central and North Texas.

CES wins all three of Central Texas’ major construction projects – The Texas Capitol Expansion Project with JE Dunn, The FC Stadium with Austin Commercial and the “Capstone Project”.

CES makes a major investment in its Accounting Department, adding a CFO, Assistant Controller, Accountant, and an Assistant Accountant to its existing team. Processes are put into place to ensure customer services, billing, invoicing, inventory and HR are vastly improved.

CES and Harris County Precinct 4 start testing two new game changing innovations – smartPOND and the EGRP.

CES receives 1st place award for ABC of Greater Houston’s Excellence of Construction Competition

CES receives 1st place award for EPA Region 6’s Outstanding Green Infrastructure and Low Impact Development Project Competition

CES wins Profile Products’ “Project of The Year” over all other projects worldwide for our work on a Hurricane Harvey restoration project in Houston, Texas. After more than 12 feet of water flooded the Buffalo Bayou near Houston’s premier performing arts center, Construction EcoServices employed Profile’s GreenArmor^™ System to reinforce and revegetate the banks of the Bayou. A few months after application, Tropical Storm Imelda once again flooded the site and tested the solution. When the water receded, the slopes were still intact, and the green solution proved a winner.

In the space of 90 days, CES wins all three of Central Texas’ major construction projects:  The Texas Capitol Expansion Project and the “Capstone Project” with JE Dunn, and FC Stadium with Austin Commercial.

CES and the rest of the world hunker down for a tough year.

 

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CES opens fourth office. Now offers more comprehensive services to the growing Central Texas market.

In an amazing comeback from a very slow seven months to start the year, CES roars back to post record breaking months in three of the final five months of 2021. In spite of COVID-19, supply chain disruptions and labor shortage, CES exceeds it’s ‘stretch’ goal for the year.

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