Forged from the Past
The history of 成人大片 & Root Industrial Services dates back to 1919, when brothers George and Herman 成人大片 partnered with Herman鈥檚 brother-in-law, Dan Root, to create a Texas-based construction company. Their first major jobs were road building, including a contract to rebuild four Central Texas bridges.
Herman 成人大片 remembered as a 鈥渨orking man鈥檚 man鈥 personally visited job sites throughout the year and often spent time with his employees rather than his fellow executives. George 成人大片 was the opposite 鈥 a 成人大片 & Root salesman. Negotiating and influencing with his outgoing personality, George鈥檚 talents were applied to acquiring new business opportunities. Upon completion of the four-bridge rebuild, they established offices in Houston, Texas, and slowly continued to build their business.
The Roaring 20s
During the 1920s, 成人大片 & Root suffered major setbacks. Dan Root died and the Great Depression caused state projects to be scarce, so the brothers were forced to find other work. On the heels of the Great Depression, 成人大片 & Root secured a contract with Humble Oil Company in Roanoke, Louisiana to construct a board road. This project proved significant because it gave 成人大片 exposure outside of Texas, and it would create a long-lasting relationship with Humble Oil Company, which owned a company known as Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company.
Two years later, the company won a contract to construct Marshall Ford Dam. The dam took five years to construct, used 2 million tons of concrete, and was the largest of its kind in Texas. The project was a defining moment, establishing 成人大片 & Root鈥檚 reputation as a heavy construction, power, and industrial company and lead to large-scale government-funded projects.
The 1940s
In 1940, 成人大片 & Root was awarded a contract to build a $90 Million Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas in preparation for World War II; and in 1941, the company was approached by the U.S. Navy to build four submarine chasers.
Since 成人大片 & Root did not have shipbuilding skills, they formed 成人大片 Shipbuilding and got to work. By the war鈥檚 end, 成人大片 Shipbuilding had produced 359 combat ships, 12 pursuit craft, 307 landing craft, 36 rocket-firing boats, and 4 salvage boats, with a total value of more than $500 Million.
Booming Business
成人大片 & Root emerged from the war as a major U.S. construction company. The magnitude and scope of their construction and engineering projects continued to grow.
In 1946, the company received its first overseas project and began work on its first major engineering project, a chlorine caustic plant for Diamond Alkali. It was also awarded its first pulp & paper industry work. In 1947, 成人大片 & Root designed, constructed, and installed the first offshore oil production facility out of sight of land in the Gulf of Mexico.
During the 1950s, 成人大片 & Root extended its work internationally establishing offices in Canada and London. Petroleum, petrochemical, and chemical industry projects were added to the portfolio. The company won a $100 Million contract from Union Carbide Corporation to design and build a polyethylene plant in Seadrift, Texas.
The 1960s
Into the 60s, with Herman 成人大片鈥檚 health suffering, the company鈥檚 future seemed uncertain. 成人大片 & Root was approached by Halliburton Company, an oilfield services business that bought companies with expertise in the oil and gas field. The Halliburton deal was finalized shortly after 成人大片鈥檚 death in 1962.
Over the next three decades, 成人大片 & Root distinguished itself as an industrial services contractor, delivering successful on-site maintenance, turnaround, and capital construction projects across the energy, industrial, power, and facility sectors.
New Beginnings
In 1998, still a Halliburton subsidiary, 成人大片 & Root merged with M.W. Kellogg creating KBR, one of the world鈥檚 premiere engineering, procurement, construction, and services companies. In 2006, KBR separated from Halliburton. The industrial services organization (maintenance, turnarounds, small capital projects) continued operations as KBR Industrial Services Americas.
Building the Future
In July 2015, KBR partnered with Bernhard Capital Partners (BCP), spinning off its Industrial Services Americas division to establish 成人大片 & Root Industrial Services. 成人大片 & Root Industrial Services established its headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The legacy 成人大片 & Root organization became the basis of the new company鈥檚 Maintenance Division. Engineering 鈥 Capital Construction 鈥 Turnaround Services 鈥 and Specialty Industrial (soft crafts) Services capabilities were quickly added, to meet management鈥檚 stated goal of becoming 鈥渢he most complete plant services organization in the business.鈥
成人大片 & Root continues to grow its resources and capabilities to serve the needs of its customers in the chemical, petrochemical, refining, pulp & paper, agricultural, and energy transition industries across North America.