Technip fills up another Houston office building {Energy Corridor}

Fuel Fix ^ | April 25, 2013 | Nancy Sarnoff

[thackney]

French energy services firm Technip has leased a 17-story building, adding to the space it already occupies along the Energy Corridor, developer Mac Haik announced Wednesday.

“We are experiencing unprecedented growth in our Houston office and are optimizing our resources among all segments,” David Dickson, president of Technip North America, said in a statement.

North of Houston: Aerial photos of the Exxon Mobil campus

The lease is for 428,831 square feet in Energy Tower III at 11740 Katy Freeway. The building, which was started without a tenant lined up to occupy it, is near completion.

It is part of a larger site that includes two other office buildings and an Embassy Suites Hotel. The 1.5 million-square-foot complex was developed by Mac Haik Realty. The site has room for a fourth office building.

Technip has occupied Energy Tower I since 1998 and then moved its project teams to the Energy Tower II in 2011, Dickson said.

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Energy Tower III is one of several Class A projects in the Energy Corridor submarket to recently begin construction. It will be a twin tower to Energy Tower II, with 17 stories, 450,000 square feet and Gold LEED certification. Construction officially began on the building in August last year and is slated for completion in January 2014.

A future Energy Tower IV office building will complete the 2 million-square-foot development project, which will then be rebranded as “The Gateway to the Energy Corridor.”

Technip to occupy Mac Haik's Energy Tower III
http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/breaking-ground/2013/04/mac-haiks-energy-tower-iii-secures.html

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Not a big meaning for politics, just wanted to share the growing job market in Houston, Texas for energy business.

http://www.energycorridor.org/

Nearly 800,000 employed persons and more than 33% of all Houston area architects and engineers live within a 30 minute commute zone of The Energy Corridor

[humblegunner]

Remember when I had to go to Alabama and get all those containers moved?

That was for Technip.

[thackney]

Traffic ping

[thackney]

I used to get a paycheck from them a few years ago.

[humblegunner]

It was a neat facility they had there on whatever island that was.

They welded up and plastic coated long runs of pipe for sub-sea use.

Then these ships with huge reels on them.. I mean huge... would ROLL THIS PIPE UP onto the reels and haul it out.

It was fascinating.

[humblegunner]

Here they are, as a matter of fact:

Technip Vessels

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Interesting - as a side note I was not aware Mac Haik was involved in this - I just know him as a chevy dealership! We bought our daughters car from that dealership years ago.

[thackney]

If I remember correctly, some property used to be Mac Haik car dealership. There was a school on the East side that was also torn down years ago to make room. Unless I am confusing this site with the Aker Marine tower that went up around then.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I live in the suburbs and rarely venture into the ghetto called houston - so I can’t help you with that. I like the clean, new, landscaped surroundings of my “area”

[thackney]

I don’t live near the Energy Corridor, but I have worked in it for years.

[Eaker]

Very cool.

I watched them build Energy Tower II from the very start.