Henry Bartell Zachry (1901–1984), also known as H.B. Zachry and Pat Zachry was the

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and former

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and chairman of H.B. Zachry Company, the parent company of Zachry Holdings Inc. and Zachry Construction Corporation. He earned a degree in civil engineering from

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in 1922 and, after a brief career with the Texas Department of Transportation, founded the H.B. Zachry Company in 1924. Zachry's firm constructed the

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Hotel in

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using modular construction in a record 202 working days, the upper decks at

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in 1979, built part of the

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, laid roads in

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and

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, erected dams in the United States and Canada and ventured into the Sinai to construct modular housing for peacekeeping troops. In 2001, he received the Carroll H. Dunn Award of Excellence from the

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.Construction Industry Institute
. Retrieved February 26, 2014. He is the namesake of the Zachry Engineering Education Complex at

References

External Resources

Interview with Bartell Zachry, July 29, 1994, University of Texas at San Antonio: Institute of Texan Cultures: Oral History Collections, UA 15.01, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.
American businesspeople Texas A&M University alumni 1901 births 1984 deaths {{US-business-bio-1900s-stub