| February, 2004 - Lewisville/Flower Mound Business Journal
NORTEX MODULAR OFFICE MOVING TO LEWISVILLE
By GREG RUSSELL
They’re on a progressive course from Irving to
Lewisville — locked and loaded to start building on a
fast track.
Nortex Modular Space, primarily of Highland Village,
is set to move its sales and operations office to
Lewisville’s Riverview Industrial Park (at the
intersection of Highway 121 and Huffines Boulevard)
specializing in the sale, leasing, rental or repair of
custom modular office and classroom buildings and
“Fold-A-Way” metal buildings. Planned opening day is
April 1.
“To fit the customer’s exact needs,” explained owner
Jim Attrell about his six-year-old business. “Though
the product is relocatable, it doesn’t look that way
after it’s all said and done; it doesn’t look or feel
like it’s relocatable. We use a lot of masonary and
fiber cement flooring systems — so the product is
considerably of a higher quality than what you’d see
in a modular building.”
Modular buildings are best explained, by the way, as
buildings composed of standardized units for easy
construction or flexible arrangement. Nortex’s trick
is to build them with materials you’d often associate
with non-modular buildings, such as fire-rated vinyl
sheetrock, fiber cement flooring, Stucco exteriors,
commercial-grade membrane roofing and concrete decks
and ramps.
They build — then lease — those mobile or modular
buildings to commercial and industrial customers,
holding a Supply Schedule Contract with our
government’s General Services Administration. All
told, the annual revenue of Nortex was $8,000,000.00
in 2003.
And from a sales standpoint, Lewisville makes a
proper venue as any. “Denton County and Collin County
are two the fastest growing counties around,” Attrell
added. “Lewisville’s Industrial Park is sitting right
at that threshold. Churches, private schools,
universities and colleges are our main focus
marketplaces and we feel that those markets, with the
residential growth that is currently taking place, is
taking off. And we want to be ready for it.”
Added to that, Nortex is relocating for an ironic
reason: their original Irving office wasn’t
constructed modularly. So when people drove past it
they were either confused or tended not to notice; it
had a way of not standing out. “We want to actually
work in and display what it is we sell,” Attrell said.
“Our standards are significantly higher than what’s
currently available today.”
Free design consultation is provided on all projects.
Added to that, any project of any size can be
completed in less than 90 days — often less than 60
days. Turnkey projects with professional, on-site
full-time project and construction management is the
standard Nortex operating procedure. They also provide
relocation services.
The Nortex owners have a combined 40 years of
experience in this business — ranging in location from
the Arctic Islands to the Texas Gulf Coast, and from
California to Florida. Nortex is a member of the
Modular Building Institute, the Associated General
Contractors, the Associated Building Contractors, and
is certified as a DBE by the North Central Texas
Regional Certification Agency. They are also a State
of Texas certified HUB.
The company website (www.nortexmodular.com)
summarized these services:
• Free Design Consultation: Included with every
purchase or lease of their building products is free
design consultation and assistance. With over 31 years
of experience, they can perform an assessment of
customer needs and design a building to meet that
exact need — usually within 48 hours.
• General Contracting Services: Every building
project requires the expertise of a contractor who can
provide foundations, steps, handicap ramps, utility
connections, fire alarm systems, sprinkler systems and
interior and exterior finish out. Nortex uses the most
qualified sub-contractors who are insured, licensed
and bonded. In many cases, they’re able to utilize
sub-contractors that customers recommend, or would
prefer.
• Repair, Renovation and Maintenance: With a lease
fleet of mobile and modular office and classroom
buildings, Nortex routinely repairs, renovates and
maintains their own lease fleet. The Irving customer
service center is still open for business and can
provide a wide variety of services to.
• Relocation of Buildings: Their experience field
personnel are capable of relocating almost any kind of
mobile or modular office or classroom building.
• Custom Buildings: No two customers are alike and so
it’s the Nortex belief that every customer should have
the opportunity to select their own finish materials
and exterior and interior design — and to do so at a
cost that is fair and reasonable.
Recent customers, their website also noted, include
the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Secret
Service, the City of Dallas, the U.S Veterans
Administration, the U.S. Army, the Rayzor Ranch in
Argyle, the Creekwood Christian Church in Flower
Mound, the Christ Presbyterian Church in Flower Mound,
the Yorktown Baptist Church in Corpus Christi and the
U.S. Department of Corrections. Attrell, personally,
has handled numerous projects in the Metroplex,
including the churches listed above. In most examples
above, Nortex Modular Space took the projects through
the entire building process — from conception and
design; to obtaining the building permit and ordering
the materials; to manufacturing and site preparation;
and finally, the delivery, setup and finish-out.
For more information, contact Jim Attrell at (972)
492-4040. |
