Rackspace, a San Antonio, Texas-based Web hosting company, needed to consolidate its headquarters in 2007 after rapidly growing from a few hundred local employees to 1,800. The company considered new sites in North Carolina, Washington, Virginia and Austin, Texas before the small, San Antonio-area City of Windcrest, population 5,100, alerted Rackspace to the vacant, 1.2 million sq. ft. Windsor Park Mall. Windcrest officials convinced the company that the former shopping center could be redesigned to potentially house 6,000 employees as well as Rackspace’s data center and Internet technology operations.Workstage, a developer based in Grand Rapids, Mich., contracted to convert the mall, and has renovated more than 600,000 sq. ft. About one-fourth of Rackspace’s workforce, now numbering 2,000, has moved into the facility.

Dallas Cowboys New Stadium

Dallas Cowboys New Stadium is the working title of a new stadium being built in Arlington, Texas for the NFL 's Dallas Cowboys. It will replace Texas Stadium, which opened in 1971, as the Cowboys’ home. It is scheduled to open before the 2009 NFL season and will accommodate 80,000, with the possibility for expansion to 100,000.

Technology at CES: On-line Interaction

CES has a business system replacement to incorporate a web based solution for internal order fulfillment.

This is the first step towards allowing customers to directly link into Childress via a web browser to place and track their own orders.

Beyond this, CES is researching the incorporation of various engineering programs into this web site for use by the consumer.

Emergency Response Team
Houston, Texas

Childress Engineering Services, Inc. (CES) dispatched teams of consultants to assess storm damage attributed to the storm event known as Hurricane Ike which struck several highrise buildings on September 13, 2008. CES conducted field investigations to document the storm damage.