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Synchro Building Corporation | 13 building of the FMTV Tactical Vehicle Manufacturing Facility for the U.S. Army, an endeavor which saw Synchro partner with Stewart and Stevenson to develop infrastruc- ture allowing for vehicle assembly operations and a 1.25 mile test tract on a 50-acre com- plex near Sealy, Texas. The test track includ- ed variances in grades and elevated slopes which make pouring concrete a real chal- lenge says Hancock. The company actually began designing the layout for the facility before it had even secured the contract with the U.S. Army. Hancock says they wanted to come to the table with a clear and compre- hensive display of how the property would perform, which ultimately meant months of work with no assurance of compensation. As Hancock says, “In today’s world, you won’t get an architect or construction team to re- spond without some kind of guarantee of pay... but we believed in the project and what we could bring to it.” Synchro also served as the design builder of what became the world’s largest indus- trial paint manufacturing facility, a project undertaken for Hempel, a Danish company