Office Spotlight: Corpus Christi, Texas

Check out the latest office spotlight on Halff’s office in Corpus Christi, Texas!

Halff has offices in multiple states, each providing a unique experience for its employees. Discover what makes the Corpus Christi office stand out.

About Halff’s Corpus Christi Office

The Corpus Christi office opened its doors in January 2020 with Chris Caron and retired Vice President Kent Belaire laying the groundwork for the thriving office.

Today, the Corpus Christi office is led by Operations Manager Robert Scholz providing services from:

• • • Land Development
    • Planning
    • Public Works
    • Right of Way
    • Surveying
    • Transportation

A few notable projects from the Corpus Christi office include the following:

1. Floor & Decor Cedar Park

Floor & Decor in Cedar Park, Texas, is an 80,000-square-foot commercial flooring and fixtures store/warehouse. The Halff Corpus Christi team provided full civil engineering construction documents, including site plan, erosion and sedimentation control plan, grading plans, parking lot layout and paving plans, dimensional control, water distribution plans, wastewater collection system plans and storm sewer plans. Halff also provided construction phase administration services and landscape architecture design for the project. The site has over 200 parking spaces, truck docks, sidewalks, and ADA accessible routes and parking.

2. Harbor Bridge Parks Mitigation

This project involved project planning, conceptual design and preliminary design report to conduct park planning, needs assessments and conceptual design for four existing parks, associated trail connections and trailheads at each end of the new harbor bridge, known as the Harbor Bridge Parks Mitigation Project, as well as a preliminary design report for those improvements for the City of Corpus Christi. The goal was to link the parks together and provide a destination character for the future bridge trailhead.

3. Starlite Lane

The Starlite Lane Reconstruction project consists of a 1.4-mile full depth reconstruction of Starlite Lane from Violet Road (TxDOT FM 24) to Leopard Street, including traffic signage and striping, accessible pedestrian routes, and street lighting along the entire length of the project. The existing roadway is located in northwest Corpus Christi and is a part of the Bond 2022 program. Starlite Lane also includes the full replacement of underground storm sewer and utilities including water, wastewater and gas. Services included survey, drainage analysis and modeling, reports, subsurface utility engineering (SUE) and utility coordination, pavement assessment and more. Halff provided full surveying and SUE services for this contract, utilizing in-house resources and company-owned equipment, inclusive of vacuum trucks. This allowed Halff to expedite services to the city without additional subconsultant markups.

Fun, Service and Volunteerism

Employees in the Corpus Christi office keep tradition alive and well from planning fun office outings to their participation with Halff Community Initiative. Many also hold or have held leadership roles in professional organizations:

• • • Ajia Fielden was selected as the new president for the Coastal Bend chapter of the Water Environment Association of Texas/Texas American Water Works Association in 2023.
    • Amanda Jonas was approved for volunteer proctoring for the National Society of Professional Surveyors CST exams in January.
    • Dalanie Mathisen received her real estate license in 2023 to become a right of way specialist.
    • Evan Montgomery is secretary of ASCE Corpus Christi Chapter.
    • Marissa Montoya became a senior right of way agent in 2023.
    • Robert Scholz serves as the chair elect of the ACEC Corpus Christi Chapter.

One of the beloved traditions employees in this office partake in is spending a summer evening at the baseball field watching the Corpus Christi Hooks!

Aside from catching a game, they get together for holiday potlucks, host happy hours, try their luck at bingo nights and even take fishing trips! The activities are endless at the Corpus Christi office.

You can always count on Corpus Christi to step in and help their community out! Whether it’s beach cleanups, helping food banks or volunteering at the Ronald McDonald House, they find a way to give back with their HCI involvement.

If you learn anything about the Corpus Christi office from this spotlight, it’s that they truly know how to have a great time.

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