After over 40 years in the construction industry, we have grown up with the technical tools that have changed our previously slow-moving construction industry. Imagine being initiated into this industry at a time when your tools of the trade were your office phone, a yellow pad and a pencil. That was it. Architectural was hand-drawn and the copies were blue and had a chemical smell. All builders wore jeans and cowboy boots. In Tarrant County, there were about 600 builders registered.
Elizabeth and I had lived in a sailboat in Boston Harbor in 1983-84 and had been in the burgeoning high-tech industry there. Elizabeth spent years in California and I was raised in Texas. We came to Arlington to build houses together. It was hot so tennis clothes seemed appropriate. I had a mobile phone (not a CELL phone as they weren’t invented yet), and a 24k Radio Shack Model 100 with which I could make lists or write letters then immediately print them since there was no memory to save. Elizabeth began with her mind full of ideas – which was the beginning and the foundation of our business.
In the years that followed we have designed & built hundreds of homes, commercial buildings, remodels and renovations, institutional projects, and a large downtown development (Trinity Bluff in Downtown Fort Worth.)
The concept of recording our projects always seemed too expensive to slowdown and undertake because we have been steadily busy in good cycles and during the downturns in the market. In our fortieth year, we have decided to record some of our finest work as we endeavor to continue to create new product born out of a vast experience.
So, celebrating our fortieth anniversary in the business in Spring, 2024, we began referring to our endeavor as” Tom and Elizabeth 4.0.” We are investing in the photography of a few of our finest works. In the months to follow and, we pray, for years to come, we plan to publish photography in our Web-site to celebrate the projects as well as the relationships/friendships that we have developed over the years. Protecting the privacy of our clients of course in the process. There are several on the site newly downloaded and many more to come.
