FINC 677 & LDEV 664:Mighty Thor & Real Estate.

Today we had in class two visitors: Thor Thornhill and Stephen Hanz. They come from HMT Engineering & Surveying, based in New Braunfels, Texas.
(Sorry, not Mjolnhir)

Thor Thornhill worked in banking first, and then started studying at the MRE program at Texas A&M University (which was called LERE back then). He worked at USAA for 2 years, and then started at HMT Engineering & Surveying.
Stephen is the Civil Engineer of the firm, he is from class 92'. He is the civil engineer behind Schlitterbahn's water park awesomeness.

A few highlights of their presentation:

• They design the water, the streets, the drainage, conduits & anything underground.
• They hand of their plans to a contractor for their client, and then the contractor starts moving the dirt.
• They also do land surveying: As we know, there are pins buried in the ground of buildings everywhere so we can find where our property corners are.
• They do anything from commercial, residential, to water parks.
• One of their biggest projects was a Hospital Campus, a 55 acre project worth 330 million dollars.