Dive Brief:

• The Korte Company will carry out a design-build expansion and renovation project at a U.S. Postal Service facility on Aldine Bender Road in Houston.
• The job will renovate 713,000 square feet and add 319,000 square feet to the processing and distribution center.
• Korte, which is based in St. Louis, Mo., said it will use load-bearing tilt-up concrete walls cast on-site for the expansion.

Dive Insight:

The contract is an example of finding a customer and knowing how to develop repeat business. Korte said the $42 million project is its 42nd for the USPS.