HISTORY OF C CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.

C Construction Co., Inc.’s history dates to 1916 when Allen M. Campbell founded a general contracting organization to service the building needs of a diverse client base that would stretch across the country. For almost a century, C Construction has built the homeland; changing skylines, constructing retail centers and schools, strengthening military facilities, and adapting to and succeeding in a developing global economy. Continuity of key administrators, effective recruitment of skilled personnel, vision, creativity, resourcefulness, hard work and Divine guidance have resulted in one of the nation’s strongest, most capable corporate entities participating in the construction industry today.

It was in the mid-1920s when builder Allen M. Campbell moved to Texas to construct the city of St. Augustine’s courthouse and City Hospital in Nacogdoches. The discovery of large oil reserves in the fields of east Texas gave the state’s already stable economy an even brighter economic future. Upon completion of these two projects in 1928, Mr. A.M. moved his wife and three young sons from his home in Covington Silver, Tennessee to Tyler, Texas. The promise of a bright future in construction lay ahead.

It wasn’t long before Mr. A.M. formed a partnership with Hugh White of Tyler, and in 1932 the firm of Campbell and White was launched. Over the next five years, Campbell and White turned its expertise to successfully completing projects in Tyler such as the Crescent Laundry plant, The Nunley Apartments, James S. Hogg Middle School, Oran M. Roberts Junior High School, and Front and Beckham Shopping Center.

The late 1930’s saw the formation of Allen M. Campbell Company (AMC), which Mr. A.M. structured for performance on privately held contracts, as well as furthering contracts on publicly held projects. Campbell And Kay was also formed as a joint venture with Luther Kay of Tyler to construct highways. This joint venture extended the Campbell reach from Texas to Oklahoma to California and Florida.

Gordon Campbell, Mr. A.M.’s eldest son, joined the company in 1933, after graduating from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering, and serving a four-year tour of duty with the United States Air Corps. Gordon was introduced to the construction industry at the age of six, when he served as the water boy on the Nacogdoches City Hospital project and continued to work for his father on succeeding projects. In the years following the end of World War II, Gordon led AMC into a new phase of construction technology: that of military installations.

The company began contracting for the Armed Forces at Alamogordo, New Mexico and later at numerous bases throughout the United States. Unique among their many projects is the significant Trestle Test Stand ET ALIA located at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, constructed to test the effects of Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) on large aircraft in simulated flight mode. The simulator was constructed of wood, a material that would not conduct electricity, so that the structure would have minimal impact on the EMP environment created to test the aircraft. The Trestle Test Stand also had to be sufficiently high above the ground to avoid ground interference with the EMP current in order to simulate the inflight environment. As such, the Trestle Test Stand was constructed with a raised test platform and of wood glue-laminated trusses connected with wood bolts. The Trestle is twelve stories tall and 1,000 feet long and is said to be the largest all wood structure in the world.

AMC became Allen M. Campbell Company, General Contractors, Inc. in 1958 and at its sale in 1979 maintained offices in Tyler, Jacksonville, North Carolina, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, with successful performance on over $400 million in civil and military construction work. Contracts ranged from under $100,000 to $28 million, and were performed in 15 of the southern United States.

In 1966, while AMC was busy with projects individually valued over $10 million, Gordon Campbell And Associates, Inc. (GCA) was formed to pursue and build projects valued up to $6 million. In 1977, Bryan P. Rossman, a Building Construction Technology graduate from Texas State Technical Institute in Waco, Texas, and then 25 years old, was recruited to GCA for contracts administration. By 1980, Mr. Rossman had successfully administered over $16 million in contracts and was named President of GCA. He effectively dissolved GCA in order to form C Construction with A.C. Davis of Dallas and Gordon Campbell, and one year later C Construction Co., Inc. was incorporated.

Since 1981, military and civilian contracts totaling in excess of $675 million have been successfully completed by C Construction Co., Inc. Mr. Campbell retired in 2002, and Mr. Rossman now serves as President and Chief Executive Officer. For over three-quarters of a century, C Construction has grown with technological and global economic changes, proving its competitiveness, adaptability, solvency, expertise, and proficiency in management strategies.

With over 275 years of combined construction experience in the executive staff, C Construction has performed as Program Manager, Design Builder, Construction Manager, and General Contractor. Clients include Bank of America, Wal-Mart, Haverty’s Furniture, Lockheed Missile and Space, Otaka, Inc., The University of Texas System, Stephen F. Austin University, Texas A&M University System, All Saints Episcopal School System, Holiday Inn, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, East Texas Medical Center System. C Construction also pursues and performs prime contracts for several branches of the Armed Services of the United States Department of Defense.

Project experience is diversified and includes flight simulator facilities, weapons storage facilities, multi-story professional office buildings, restaurants, hospitals, golf resorts, higher education facilities, dormitories, fleet vehicle maintenance shops, 501C3 projects, and warehouse and storage depots.

Says Mr. Rossman, “C Construction’s mission as a professional practitioner of all contract delivery systems is to achieve and exceed our client’s expectations by maintaining an excellent reputation and a proven management system that produces a quality project, on time and within budget, while educating the full spectrum of participants into the construction industry. C Construction has received many commendations, awards of excellence, and recognition for outstanding performance on completed jobs: we plan to continue to do business in that manner into at least the next century!”

With each commercial, industrial, educational, retail, or military project earned, C Construction’s goal remains the same; maintain an excellent reputation and a proven management system that produces a quality project, delivered safely, on time and within budget.