The Ft. Worth Switch began construction in September of 1986. The building was initially conceived as an earth contact facility. In December of 1987, prior to its completion a second floor was added. In June of 1993 the design team lead by Mike Foss provided a two-story addition to the east of the existing building. Subsequent additions by FS&L allowed a third floor expansion over the original two-story building and the lateral expansion of 1993. In 1997 we provided design services to enclose the standby generators and designed a 6,325 SF warehouse adjacent to the existing switch. In 2000 we developed plans to provide an additional 48,255 SF of area, a two story building, capable of expanding to four stories and an expandable central plant. This expansion was completed in June of 2002 at a cost of approximately $15,000,000. FS&L, since 1993, has provided design services for the expansions of the Ft. Worth Sprint Switch for over 70,000 SF at an approximate cost of $30,000,000.

In the latest expansion we coordinated the efforts of surveyors, landscape architects, civil engineers, structural engineers and mechanical/electrical engineers. This projects was competitively bid by general contractors; FS&L issued the bid documents and held a pre-bid conference with all bidders. Subsequently we conducted a preconstruction conference with the low bidders. Our contract administration continued on an accelerated basis with the winning bidder. We met with the city and submitted permit drawings at the start of the bidding process to accelerate the permitting process. Our efforts included coordination with the city to re-plat all Sprint owned property. We provided coordination with local utilities to vacate existing easements and crate new easements. Ft. Worth was the first of the mega sites to incorporate medium voltage and the paralleling of the standby generators, information was gained and utilized on two other sites, 101 Holmes and Phoenix, both of which were FS&L administered projects.