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Bush 4141 Locomotive & Marine One Helicopter Pavilion
Limestone / Granite / Marble / Pavers / Benches
DBI contributed the masonry, stonework and hardscape for the Bush UP 4141 Locomotive & Marine One Helicopter Pavilion at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas. The exhibits opened at a June 12, 2024 celebration marking the 100th anniversary of George Herbert Walker Bush’s birth. UP No. 4141 is a custom-painted locomotive 315,000-pound locomotive that Union Pacific donated as a tribute to President Bush. Also in the building is the Marine One helicopter that President Bush used while in office.
Freedom Place at Old Parkland N. Campus, Dallas
Brick / Limestone / Boulders
Approximately 230,000 wood mold bricks were laid in a full Flemish bond pattern, including numerous specially-shaped bricks. Used in 1904 on the Old Main Hospital and restored in 2008, Indiana limestone was chosen due to its enduring longevity.
Turtle Creek Offices, Dallas
Granite / Custom Marble
Also known as the Perot family offices, this project included all facets of stone installation from the exterior vertical Indiana Limestone; interior vertical and horizontal surfaces consisting of Indiana Limestone, Valders Dove Grey Limestone; and all vertical and horizontal exterior hardscape surfaces consisting of Virginia Jet Mist granites and Texas Leuders Limestone.
Old Municipal Building - Renovation and Restoration (UNT Law) Dallas
2020 International NSI Pinnacle Award Winner
Marble Restoration
Exterior remediation was performed, including patching, repairing cracks, removal and cataloguing of damaged pieces for fabrication of replacements, and refinishing. Also included was interior remediation and recreation of original elements, including refurbishment of numerous stairways and replication of the lobby's grand staircase.
Dallas Country Club
Fitness Center
Limestone / Brick / Cast Stone
Located just north of downtown, the Dallas Country Club Fitness Building was completed in 2023, featuring a special blend of Leuders limestone laid up in full bed mortar, trimmed out with cast stone water tables, window surrounds, arches, sills, caps, and copings. Full-bed brick is utilized in several different patterns. Thin brick veneers, installed in latex mortars, are featured between the stained wood trim elements in the gables, as well as the chimney stack.
All materials, colors, patterns and bonds complement the main club, completed nearly a decade prior by DBI.
RH Gallery
CMU / Cast Stone / Granite / Marble
Opening in 2021, the three-story RH Gallery is a showcase of design. DBI installed 4,200 concrete masonry units for the project. DBI also installed the cast stone base, sills, copings, the feature fountain in the rooftop restaurant, and all the granite fountain spillover pieces, plus 130 Bluestone Pedestal Pavers on the rooftop patio. DBI’s fabrication team created 23 Carrara Select Marble and 14 Ceasarstone countertops that DBI’s team installed throughout the luxury home store and design gallery.
Houston Museum of Natural Science
International NSI Pinnacle Award Winner
Stone Houston + Travertine + Granite
Since 1909, the Houston Museum of Natural Science has played an integral part in the city’s cultural and educational fabric. While there have been many renovations since its conception, the most recent consisted of adding roughly 230,000 square feet of space for a paleontology exhibit. This expansion used vein-cut travertine from Mexico with a complementary granite base, totaling roughly 21,000 square feet for the exterior stone skin.
Hall of State, Dallas
Brick / Limestone Restoration
In 1936, the Hall of State was built in commemoration of Texas’ statehood. To bring it back to its former glory while maintaining historical integrity, DBI repaired cracks, stone mortar joints, parts of the plaza deck and limestone treads, and restored approximately 95,000 square feet of Cordova Cream Limestone, removing decades of carbon and biological staining, as well as remediating extreme damage.
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​DBI received the 2022 Pinnacle Award for Excellence from the Natural Stone Institute for the Hall of State restoration.
Private Office Building - Dallas
Granite / Brick / Copper
Mesabi Black Granite boulders are used as planters atop a large, tessellated pattern with a broken granite inlay pattern. This material flows into the interior stairs as the coping, treads, risers, strikers, trough, rail caps, and landings. The second floor features a large open office with the floor made up of the small broken granite inlay pattern, all hand cracked and set, to match the intricate waterjet pattern that flows onto the second-floor deck and onto the outdoor patio, which features a cubic block waterfall and a serpentine granite bench wall that adds an organic focal point. The cubic cap from the waterwall transitions to solid countertops including a sink area under the covered deck. The project incorporates significant detail from the decorative brick and block masonry to the stone hardscape. DBI also furnished and installed the ornamental copper panels.
SMU Cox School of Business
Brick / Cast Stone / Marble / Pavers
Carefully matching the existing Collegiate Georgian architecture, DBI helped connect the Fincher building at the center and the Maguire and Crow buildings on either side. In addition, two Gatehouse buildings formed a new David B. Miller Business Quadrangle. Overall, the project involved 70,000 sq. ft. of new brick and cast stone finishes, as well as repair and renovation of 40,000 sq. ft. of existing masonry. Over the years, DBI has completed more than three dozen projects at SMU, including the George W. Bush Presidential Center; Annette Caldwell Simmons Hall; Caruth Hall; Meadows Museum Sculpture Garden & Fountains; Perkins School of Theology; Crum Basketball/Tennis Facility; Dedman Sports Center; Doak Walker Plaza; Moody Coliseum; Ownby Stadium; and Perkins Hall.
Trammell Crow Center – Renovation, Dallas
2019 International
NSI Pinnacle Award Winner
Marble
A 50-story skyscraper utilized 175,000 square feet of polished and flamed granite faced precast on the exterior and handset marble meticulously set throughout the interior lobby. The original stone materials were removed and replaced during an extensive remodel of the lobby, entryway, and sitework over a 10-month period while the building remained open.
Church of the Incarnation, Dallas
2016 UMCA “Golden Trowel Awards” Category Winner
Brick / Cast Stone
The Church of the Incarnation utilized 4,700 square feet of Concrete Masonry Units (CMU), often referred to as architectural block; 46,000 modular faced brick; and 31,000 square feet of cast stone in the three-building expansion. The exterior masonry is comprised of five different brick blends to match the pre-existing Neo-Gothic architectural design. Ornate interior cast stone features were constructed, such as a two-story-tall altar, cast stone columns, stone pedestals with arches, and engraved name plates.