SpawGlass has been building in Texas since 1953, when Louis Spaw and Frank Glass put up their cars as collateral to start the company in Houston. It’s now 100 percent employee-owned, with nine offices across the state and about 700 team members, by the firm’s own count. The work spans general contracting, construction management and design-build, plus civil, building services and consulting groups, for higher education, healthcare, civic and commercial clients. In Austin, SpawGlass is the contractor on the UT Tower Restoration, the $70 million exterior overhaul of the University of Texas Main Building designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects.
Nine Texas offices, with the addresses
If you are trying to work out which SpawGlass office would run a job, the contact page is unusually direct about it, listing each by region with a street address and a local number. Austin is at 1111 Smith Road. Brazos Valley is at 4030 SH-6 South, Suite 300 in College Station. Corpus Christi is at 1675 FM 665. Golden Triangle is at 350 Pine Street, Suite 310 in Beaumont. Houston is at 13800 West Road. New Braunfels is at 615 Oxford Drive, Suite 101. North Texas is at 3000 W. Loop 820 South in Fort Worth. San Antonio operates from 9331 Corporate Drive in Selma. South Texas is at 3008 W. Spur 54 in Harlingen.
That spread — Beaumont to Harlingen, Fort Worth to Corpus Christi — is what the company means by its trademarked line, Texas Builder, Trusted Expertise.
Four operating groups, and work after handover
The business is organised into named divisions rather than a single contracting arm: Advise and Consult, Building Services, Civil, and Equipment and Supply, each with its own section. The stated scope is every phase of construction, from initial advising and consulting through post-occupancy, facility maintenance and renovations — which is a longer relationship than a general contractor usually describes, and the Building Services group is what carries it.
Seven market sectors are published: civic, education, healthcare, corporate environments, aviation, retail and mixed use and hospitality, and arts and cultural.
1953, two cars, and employee ownership
The founding story is specific. In 1953 Louis Spaw and Frank Glass set out to form their own construction company with determination and few resources, and committed their cars as collateral to get it off the ground. Spaw’s line about his partner is the one the company still quotes: “He was living by the same ethical standards that I was.” The firm is now 100 percent employee-owned, with employee ownership maintained as a section of its about page alongside culture and safety.
Five core values are published as the SpawGlass Way: build trust, be professional, live teamwork, be passionate, and think like an owner. The firm frames its mission as providing the absolute best construction experience, and keeps a proven-process page setting out how it delivers against that.
Two features on the site are worth knowing about. A work-in-progress section carries live progress updates and photographs by project, which is a practical reference for anyone tracking a current job. And a community spotlight runs alongside it, with recent coverage of rural healthcare work at the Burton-Southern Clinic and a featured project at the City of McAllen’s Quinta Mazatlan Center for Urban Ecology.
The company has approximately 700 team members. It runs a TeamWorks newsletter and a subcontractor channel, and links Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube from its own pages.
