June 2013
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building of the FMTV Tactical Vehicle
Manufacturing Facility for the U.S. Army, an
endeavor which saw Synchro partner with
Stewart and Stevenson to develop infrastruc-
ture allowing for vehicle assembly operations
and a 1.25 mile test tract on a 50-acre com-
plex near Sealy, Texas. The test track includ-
ed variances in grades and elevated slopes
which make pouring concrete a real chal-
lenge says Hancock. The company actually
began designing the layout for the facility
before it had even secured the contract with
the U.S. Army. Hancock says they wanted to
come to the table with a clear and compre-
hensive display of how the property would
perform, which ultimately meant months of
work with no assurance of compensation. As
Hancock says, “In today’s world, you won’t
get an architect or construction team to re-
spond without some kind of guarantee of
pay... but we believed in the project and what
we could bring to it.”
Synchro also served as the design builder
of what became the world’s largest indus-
trial paint manufacturing facility, a project
undertaken for Hempel, a Danish company
