Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
ANDRES
Chairman & CEO: 15+ years
HCB Contractors
Executive Vice President / Division Manager: 14 yrs.
Hayman Andres General Contractors, Inc.
President: 15 yrs.
Henry C. Beck Company
Project Engineer - Chief Estimator: 6 yrs.
For over 40 years, Gil Andres has been keeping his clients happy. His secret: treating their money as if it were his own.
Early in his career, executives at the Henry C. Beck Company quickly saw Andres’ extraordinary ability to manage the costs of a project so they named him Chief Estimator. In this, his first of two tours with Beck, Andres oversaw such projects as the 20-story Beck Building in Shreveport, LA, the eight-story Blue Cross/Blue Shield Building in Dallas, and the landmark Dallas Theatre Center.
In 1961, Andres co-founded Hayman Andres General Contractors, Inc. As president, Andres developed many long-term personal relationships with his clients. For example, during the course of the sixties and early seventies, Hayman Andres would complete no fewer than seven projects for Baylor Hospital in Dallas. Hayman Andres constructed a wide variety of buildings, from the 16-story Dallas Federal Savings Building to the Park Cities Baptist Chapel. The firm also renovated the 17-story First National Bank in Downtown Dallas.
In 1976, Andres returned to Henry C. Beck as the firm’s executive vice president. Over the next 15 years, Andres was responsible for work on many of Dallas’ most significant structures, from the Crescent and the 60-story Momentum Place (now Bank One Center) to the Adolphus Hotel renovation and the 60-story Fountain Place. He also was responsible for work completed in the firm's offices in Indianopolis, Houston, and Chicago.
But when the North Texas economy stalled and construction brought to a standsill in the late 1980s, Andres decided the time was ripe to pursue a course he and son Wade had contemplated for some time. One that would allow both of them to relate more closely to clients.
In 1990, he and son Wade Andres formed Andres Construction Services. They sought to create a firm that would remain relatively small to ensure the partners could maintain close contact with clients, delivering quality projects at competitive costs. Satisfying those clients would be the firm’s number one objective.
As the chairman of Andres, this respected veteran of numerous Dallas building booms never lets Andres personnel stray from this objective.
In 2002, Andres was presented with the Construction Industry Lifetime Achievement Award by QUOIN/Associated General Contractors of America, Dallas/Ft Worth Chapter.