Houston has been the coporate headquarters of Fisk since 1913 when John Fisk began the company. Electrical installations and service, along with security system installations and structured data cable installations are the primary services Fisk provides in the Houston area.

Please see our list of representative projects completed by the Houston office.

Contact Information

111 T. C. Jester Blvd. (77007)
P. O. Box 4417 (77210-4417)
Houston, Texas
Phone: (713) 868-6111
Fax: (713) 865-9420
Toll Free: (866) 757-FISK (3475)

Wayne McDonald, Senior Vice president
James Madget, PE, Vice President, Client Relations
Ted Robertson, Operations Manager, Commercial
Tim Sabo, Operation Manager, Service

Highlighted Projects

Fisk Houston Does Research

Fisk Houston is scheduled to finish the electrical construction for The Methodist Hospital Research Institute building in July of 2010. The 440,000 square foot facility contains high end teaching and administrative support space, BSL-2 wet research labs, an animal vivarium, the Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation and Education (MITIE) physician training center, complete with four operating rooms and eighteen surgical device training suites, a cyclotron, and imaging via 3.0T, 7.0T, 9.4T and 11.7 T MRIs.

Planning began in the fall of 2003 when physicians and researchers at The Methodist Hospital in Houston conceived the idea of an interdisciplinary research facility without the usual departmental boundaries. In conjunction with remodeling of 100,000 square feet of existing research space at Methodist, the new facility has attracted internationally recognized scientists from across the country, who are bringing teams of investigators, new technologies, and clinical trials that will benefit patients in Houston and all over the world. Methodist currently has more than 700 clinical trials underway.

The spirit of collaboration has already yielded exciting new approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and infectious diseases. Harvey Builders is the General Contractor. The Architectural team includes WHR Architects, KPF Associates, and CO Architects. Haynes Whaley is the Structural Engineer and Affiliated Engineers are the MEP Engineers. The Owner is The Methodist Hospital Research Institute and the Developer is Jacobs Facility.

Fisk Houston Accepts Vertical Challenges

The addition of eight floors to an existing twelve story medical research building in the heart of the Texas Medical Center, while keeping all activity in the existing building in operation, takes an enormous amount of planning, organizing, coordination, and teamwork. Fisk Houston performed an important role in this challenging endeavor. The vertical expansion of the Feigin Center is the first project of the Texas Children’s Hospital Vision 2010 expansion program now underway. More than 200,000 square feet of space was added for research laboratories, clinical research offices, and a simulation training center. The new 20-story building sets the tone for the Texas Children’s Hospital campus.

Feigin Center is a vivid example of adaptive reuse of an existing building. It was constructed originally as a clinical building then converted to a 12-floor research building and now expanded to a 20-story medical research building. The original building design included easily convertible floor plans, generous floor-to-floor heights, and ample structural support, which allowed eight floors to be added.

Extensive use of computerized Building Information Modeling Systems (BIM) by Fisk and the rest of the design and build team proved to be a valuable tool that  saved time and money for the project. The existing electrical riser closets were not large enough to handle the increased electrical loads for the new floors. Fisk used BIM to identify and coordinate new riser locations in the most efficient configuration while taking into account the needs of mechanical, architectural, and structural systems. All this expansion, as well as renovations in the existing lower floors, was accomplished while keeping the building in operation – including elevators, exhaust systems, air handling systems, lighting, and power.

Fisk was able to rely on experience gained earlier with this same team from the vertical expansion of the Texas Children’s West Tower where fifteen floors were added to an existing five story hospital building in the Texas Medical Center.

Completion of the Feigin Center vertical expansion provides a world-class research facility that will house more than 120 investigators involved in nearly 800 research projects and clinical studies in areas including cancer, genetics, neurology, cardiology, neonatology, diabetes, asthma, and infectious diseases. At the expanded facility, researchers will focus on studies that will rapidly translate novel cell and gene therapy protocols directly from the laboratory to the patient. This center will also serve as a site for specialized education and training. The lives of many children will benefit from the knowledge gained at this state-of-the art research facility.

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