Leaders and clients of Linbeck, an internationally renowned construction company, challenged the status quo while highlighting company innovations from past and present at “Get Ready for the Disturbance,” the 29th Annual John Miles Rowlett Lecture, a half-day event that took place Feb. 8 at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas.
The public lecture, which drew of crowd of more than 600 attendees, annually highlights a distinguished firm from the design, planning and construction industries and was sponsored by the CRS Center for Leadership and Management in the Design and Construction Industry at the Texas A&M University College of Architecture.
The lecture garnered many positive reviews. One attendee wrote that the lecture underscored the “importance of working together, collaborating, and teamwork.”
“Linbeck seems to really genuinely care for their employees’ and clients’ happiness,” said another. “Teamwork is what makes or breaks the deal and success stems from working with the client.”
Another post-lecture review noted that Linbeck demonstrated “that building teams is more important than maintaining departments.”
The 2008 distinguished firm, Linbeck, is a privately held nationwide facility solutions company that offers a variety of services including program management, project management, and construction management services. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the company employs almost 300 people with offices in Dallas/Fort Worth, California, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and South Carolina. During the past three years, Linbeck has executed more than $2 billion in projects.
Founded in 1938, the company’s long-term client base includes leading academic institutions, major health care providers, biomedical and pharmaceutical companies, renowned cultural institutions, and various global, industrial and commercial entities.
Highlighting the 2008 Rowlett lecture were presentations by Charles (Chuck) L. Greco, Lindbeck president and CEO; Leo E. Linbeck, Jr., senior chairman; Leo E. Linbeck, III, chairman; and Russell K. Tolman, former president and CEO of Cook Children’s Hospital, one of Linbeck’s client companies. The four-part lecture explored topics titled “First, Question Everything;” “Collaboration in Action;” “Better Thought, Better Work;” and “Joining the Movement.”
The John Miles Rowlett Lecture Series was endowed in 1979 through a grant to the Texas Architectural Foundation from the founders of CRS and Mrs. Virginia Rowlett. Its goal is to bring speakers of national and international significance to the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University. The original firm of CRS was established in 1946 by William W. Caudill and John M. Rowlett, professors of architecture at Texas A&M University. The firm’s archives are housed in the CRS Center at the Texas A&M College of Architecture.
