CONSTRUCT WITH CONFIDENCE
CAPCO'S Team -
A PROVEN TRACK RECORD OF PROJECT SUCCESS
ABOUT
Specializing in Design Build Projects
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CAPCO's main focus is offering its domestic and international clients owner's representative services, construction management, contract administration and general project management from design through construction for complex and unique projects. The majority of our projects involving owner's representative and construction management services are funded by public or private investors, have fixed budgets, and finite and/or expedited construction schedules. We serve a critical role regarding project oversight, reporting, schedule monitoring, certification of progress payments, and we act as a project facilitator to make certain projects are delivered on time, on budget, and to the performance standards specified in the contract. We provide our services to industrial, heavy civil engineering, criminal justice, commercial, land development, and public clients. Projects range from water and wastewater system design, petro-chemical and industrial facility improvements, environmental remediation in the petro-chemical and mining industries to large scale prison and criminal justice facility design.
PROJECTS
For a more comprehensive list of projects
INDUSTRIAL/ HEAVY CIVIL ENGINEERING
CRIMINAL JUSTICE/ COMMERCIAL
Alvaredo, Texas
CAPCO’s president, Chris Cuny, P.E. served as the owner’s Independent Representative for the City of Alvarado, the Prairielands Public Facility Corporation, and the Bond Trustee for the oversight of this 800 bed design/build facility. The facility housed a series of ground up buildings that included state of the art detention and microwave detection equipment, and a separate administration and processing area from the 800 bed housing units. The project also included miles of offsite infrastructure such as water and wastewater treatment plant upgrades provided with the design, construction and financing of the facility.
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The project was designed and constructed within the original 15 month project schedule.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Chris Cuny led a team of engineers and designers to assess and provide a solution to a bulk fuel spill from a leaking above ground storage tank. This involved a major international oil company’s bulk fuel facility leak that had seeped into the groundwater on the banks of the Rotterdam River.
The solution involved the design, manufacturing, shipment, and installation of a specific closed in mobile processing plant that would essentially wash the contaminated material and remove the fuel by use of a proprietary surfactant. Mr. Cuny was responsible for the oversight of the design of the equipment. He established a relationship with a local Dutch environmental firm, and negotiated with the Dutch Environmental Agencies and the Rotterdam Harbor master for the appropriate permitting of the equipment and the process for cleanup.
During the Bosnian Serbian Conflict in the early 1990’s, Mr. Cuny of CAPCO was hired to assemble and manage a team of consultants to design, manufacture, and install a water supply system (treatment and distribution) for 15 Million Gallons Per Day (MGD) for the City of Sarajevo during the civil war. The Serbian Siege had rendered the city’s water treatment plant inoperable. The emergency system necessitated that the design, manufacturing of components, transportation to Sarajevo, and installation in a safe location were to be completed within a 6 month period.
Three separate 5.0 MGD portable water systems were manufactured in Houston, Texas and transported by C-5 military aircraft from Houston to Split, Croatia. They were then loaded into twenty-one C-140 military cargo planes and flown from Split into Sarajevo at night to avoid shell fire. The components were designed for quick offloading (less than 5 minutes for each skid mounted unit) and transported into a nearby tunnel under Bosnian control for assembly. The entire system was installed and completed during the Serbian siege of Sarajevo and within the 6 month time frame and served in some capacity the city’s 500,000 residents.
Components of this system are still currently operational, and the former Mayor of Sarajevo has stated that this system basically saved the city from surrender to the Serbians as it was the only source of clean drinking water during the conflict.
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
CAPCO’s personnel were part of the design build team that constructed a 2000 detainee bed facility for the Department of Homeland Security – Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The unique aspect of this project is the fact that it was designed and constructed within a 90 day schedule and within the original budget. The federal government sought to move quickly with a program called the Secure Border Initiative. A large part of that plan was to build a facility capable of retaining and processing large numbers of illegal aliens from countries other than Mexico.
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Eighty-three (83) days after US Customs and Immigration Enforcement signed the contract with Willacy County and the Design Build Team, the 53 acre, double-fenced facility was complete and operational.
Harlingen, Texas
McLendon-Chisholm, Texas
CAPCO was hired by a major North Texas Developer to design and construct a solution for an 1100 home residential and mixed use project containing 1100 single family residences, an elementary and middle school, as well as significant commercial development. CAPCO on behalf of the developer and the City of McLendon Chisholm, designed and constructed a 1.5 Million Gallon Per Day (MGD) Lift station and a seven (7) mile pressure force-main with pressure relief valves, electro-magnetic meters to measure and monitor flows, and SCADA controls to serve the development. CAPCO secured all permitting from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and the Texas Department of Transportation (TX-DOT) and secured all easements necessary for the project.
This project was designed, constructed and commissioned in a 14 month schedule with no change orders or delays to the original schedule.
CAPCO was responsible for the design and construction of a 1 Million Gallon Per Day (MGD) wastewater treatment plant to serve an existing and new criminal justice facility located in Otero, New Mexico. CAPCO’s role included oversight of all design, actual construction of the plant, installation of all equipment, and permitting and commissioning the plant through the New Mexico Department of Environmental Quality.
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The entire project from the issuance of the notice to proceed with design through construction and commissioning was completed in 12 months, with no change orders.
Otero County, New Mexico
CAPCO personnel designed and managed decontamination cleaning and inspection of 23,000 linear feet of underground sewer piping and concrete channels at an active oil refinery located in the gulf coast of Texas.
The project involved the identification of hazardous and non-hazardous process sewer systems and the ultimate removal and classification of the removed sediments from the sewer systems. Sediments and sludges were removed from within channels, sewer pipes, junction boxes, and manholes, by rodding, hydro-blasting, and jetting. Upon completion the wastewater system was inspected by remote controlled in-line video cameras and certified as clean. Reports were submitted to state and federal agencies for proper closure recordation.
Gulf Coast, Texas
Alvaredo, Texas
CAPCO is serving as the owner's representative for a potential tire recycling facility that will utilize waste tires as a source to be converted to bio-diesel. Excess carbon from the process will be converted for re-use as carbon black.
This facility is currently under design and modification for secondary review regarding financial feasibility.
Port Arthur, Texas
CAPCO’s personnel were part of the design/build team involving the re-design and re-construction of a refinery wastewater and storm water management system. The re-design involved the enclosure of open conveyance ditches to prevent storm water intrusion and associated regulatory implications. The design and ultimate construction allowed for the closing, environmental remediation of the active storm water ditches while simultaneously installing the necessary piping system to handle the plant's storm and wastewater needs.
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Following the segregation of the storm and wastewater, the 26,000 tons of contaminated ditch sediments and sludges were consolidated into one area for treatment. The material was chemically solidified, stabilized, and subsequently deposited into an onsite non-hazardous waste landfill. The contaminants in the waste that were treated to a non-hazardous state included: Lead, Chromium, Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylene.
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Rockwall, Texas
Chris Cuny, P.E. of CAPCO served as the lead design consultant for the design and construction of the 7 story, 80,000 square foot Trend Tower Class “A” Office Building and accompanying 4 story attached parking garage in Rockwall, Texas. As the lead design consultant, Mr. Cuny was responsible for the oversight of all architectural and engineering aspects of this project including, mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil engineering design.
Mike Harling
Owner
Municipal Capital Markets
" Our firm had provided funding for a large scale criminal justice construction project that came to a halt due to an environmental protest from a local resident. Chris went to Washington and negotiated a solution with the legal staff at the United States Marshall Service. He followed through and oversaw the completion of an expanded environmental impact study. He accomplished in 4 weeks what could have taken 6 months and saved the project hundreds of thousands of dollars. He's our go to guy now for civil engineering and environmental services. "
Kendall
Phinney
President
Hale Mills Construction
" We have built over 30 projects with Mr. Cuny. CAPCO was hired by our firm to oversee the design and construction of an onsite waste water treatment plant, ground storage tank, emergency fire protection pumps, and controls for a 1100 bed facility in New Mexico. CAPCO was not only able to design and construct these improvements within 12 months, but they also were able to successfully obtain the regulatory permits and commissioning from the State of New Mexico in that same time frame. Every single project with them has been completed on time and within the original design and construction budget! "
Terry Millican P.E.
Owner
FMI Internarional
" I received a call from Chris Cuny stating he was in Paris and had an emergency water project he wanted us to construct. After I took his call I understood that this would be a project of a lifetime. It involved the design, construction, and installation of an emergency water treatment plant for the city of Sarajevo. The plant was built in modular components in Houston, Texas, delivered to Split, Croatia, flown in twenty-one C-130 cargo planes, and installed in tunnels at night (to avoid sniper fire) in the middle of the Bosnian/Serbian Civil War. Chris' guidance and foresight throughout the entire project were critical in that project's success. "
Russell Phillips Owner
Sterling One Properties
" Chris and his staff just simply get it. They understand the realities of having to deliver a project on time and on budget. They always deliver for us. "
CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
CONTACT
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#2 Horizon Court Suite 600
Heath, Texas 75032
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Email: chris@capcocm.com
Telephone: (469) 402-7700
Fax: (469) 402-0700
