The Haskell Company
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Design-Build Construction |
| Founded | 1965 |
| Headquarters | Jacksonville, Florida, USA |
| Key people | Preston H. Haskell III, Chairman Steven T. (Steve) Halverson, President & CEO Greg Ferrell, EVP & COO Brad Slappey, EVP & CFO |
| Products | Design-Build, Program/Facility/Construction Management, Project Planning, Development |
| Revenue | $750+ million (2007)[1] |
| Employees | 1,021 (2007)[2] |
| Website | www.haskell.com |
Haskell is an integrated design, engineering and construction firm headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, with additional offices located in Dallas and Mexico City. The company was founded by Preston H. Haskell and has been in continuous operation since 1965.
The company advocates the design-build construction method. Haskell helped refine the model in its earliest days and has been instrumental in elevating design-build within the industry.[3]
Haskell has delivered upward of 1,500 projects with this model— featuring single-source accountability and an integrated project approach.
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[edit] Operations
Haskell performs Design/build, Construction management, Facility management, Interior design, Steel fabrication, infrastructure & real estate services for commercial, industrial & institutional facilities.
Industry segments include:
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Aviation |
Government |
Packaging |
The employee-owned company's 1,500 completed projects in 45 years[4][5] span the Western Hemisphere. Highly visible projects have included the Daytona International Speedway and Jacksonville Municipal Stadium (home of the NFL Jaguars). Regional offices are located in Pembroke Pines, Florida (Tampa); Dallas, Texas and Mexico City.[1]
[edit] Projects
[edit] QTG Gatorade Distribution Center
[edit] Tolleson AZ
This is the worlds largest LEED Gold Certified Food & Beverage Distribution Center.[citation needed] It includes a 800,000 SF beverage distribution facility with a four hundred foot long product transfer bridge. It was LEED 2.2 Gold Certified.
[edit] Gulfstream Aerospace Paint Hangar
[edit] Savannah, GA
This project is a 102,000 SF aircraft paint facility. The facility contains: one cross-draft prep booth, two downdraft paint booths, offices, shops, storage and employee amenities. It's a conventional structural steel framing at paint booths with 35’ ceilings and 51’ roof framing.
[edit] Daytona International Speedway LLC Infield Redevelopment
[edit] Daytona Beach, Florida
Daytona International Speedway, DIS, needed to undertake a number of projects to upgrade the infield of the track infield. Faced with years of disruption to its operations and wishing to make a major impact, DIS required a solution that would deliver the renovations in a single program between the Pepsi 400 in July and The Daytona 500 the following February.
[edit] Community Impact
[edit] Mentoring "Beyond School Walls"
During Fall 2011, Haskell successfully launched the Northeast Florida Chapter of Big Brothers / Big Sisters "Beyond School Walls" program. Beyond School Walls (BSW)[6] is a workplace-mentoring program. It allows companies the opportunity to give back to their communities by hosting children from the area schools at their offices.
Warren Grymes, CEO of BBBSNEFL states that Haskell "exceeded our expectations by recruiting more volunteers than any other BSW partnership."[citation needed]
[edit] Water Division Contributes to Guatemalan Village Water System
Haskell's Water Division has continued to support the World Water Alliance of Florida (WWAF), a non-profit humanitarian organization focused on creating safe water supplies, sanitation and hygiene-related facilities for rural villagers in developing countries.
Last spring, Haskell team members joined JEA, the WWA and other partners to work side-by-side with the villagers of El Rosario. They helped build a water system with an electrically powered pump, two ferro cement storage tanks, a transmission main and distribution piping. The project, was completed for $35K.[7]
[edit] Recognition and awards
The company have won awards for their projects.[8] Company founder Preston Haskell was honored with the Brunelleschi Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 from the Design-Build Institute of America.[9]
The Engineering News-Record magazine ranked Haskell No. 14 in its Top 50 Green Contractors for 2007 (US) list and 20th in its Top 100 Design/Build firms in the US (2007). Florida Trend Magazine ranked Haskell as the 39th largest privately held company in Florida for 2007[10] and the Business Journal's 36th fastest-growing private company.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Penland, Dolly: "No. 36: Haskell" Jacksonville Business Journal, July 11, 2008
- ^ Conte, Christian: "Halverson has grown Haskell's revenue, reputation" Jacksonville Business Journal, June 13, 2008
- ^ http://www.dbia.org/about/awards/brunelleschi/haskell2002.htm
- ^ Keller, Amy: "Florida Companies With Promise" Florida Trend, September 1, 2008
- ^ "TopRank Florida - Top 200 Private Companies" Florida Trend, June 1, 2010
- ^ http://www.bbbsnefl.org/site/c.buIVJgNTKjL6G/b.6538453/k.8380/Be_a_Big_Shot.htm
- ^ http://www.worldwateralliance.com/el_rosario.html
- ^ "Company Awards" Haskell Company website
- ^ "Brunelleschi Lifetime Achievement Award Preston Haskell" Design-Build Institute of America, 2002 Awards
- ^ "Florida's Top 200 Private Companies 2007" Florida Trend Magazine
