Audubon Engineering moves Houston corporate office 7 miles up Beltway 8
In another west Houston headquarters move, engineering, procurement and construction company Audubon Engineering Company LP has just started occupying 71,879 square feet at 3505 W. Sam Houston Parkway N. for its new primary corporate office.
Audubon, one of Houston’s largest energy engineering firms, completed the move last weekend. Its new office building, 8 West Centre, is about 7 miles north along Beltway 8 from its previous main Houston office at 10205 Westheimer Road, where it occupied about 60,000 square feet.
The company was looking for better amenities, according to Joshua Brown, managing director at Newmark, which represented Audubon in the lease transaction.
“(Audubon) decided that relocating to a building with an ideal existing build-out already in place would outweigh the challenges of performing a major renovation to its former Houston corporate office,” Brown said in a statement.
Besides Brown, Newmark’s Reggie Beavan and Audrey Selber represented Audubon. CBRE’s Russell Hodges and Bubba Harkins represented the landlord, Azrieli Group, a Tel Aviv-based real estate and holding company. The lease was signed in late summer, according to Brown.
Audubon’s communications manager did not respond to emails seeking comment.
The four-story office building at 3505 W. Sam Houston Parkway N. was built in 2013 and has 227,045 square feet of rentable space with floor-to-ceiling windows. Amenities include a full-service café, a fitness center and an outdoor courtyard with seating. Tenants can park in an adjacent parking garage.
The building, which is also the headquarters of Helix Energy Solutions, will change its name from 8 West Centre to Audubon Plaza in the coming months, the company said in a press release.
The move was necessary due to employee growth. Overall, the company employs nearly 2,000 engineering, technical, field and administrative professionals, Audubon said.
The building it vacated, West8 Tower, is an 11-story, 261,471-square-foot office tower at Westheimer Road and Beltway 8 in Westchase. It was built in 1979, according to a listing by Avison Young.
The leasing agent for that building, Brad Sinclair, did not respond to requests for comment before deadline.
“Our company has grown considerably in recent years, with major expansion of both personnel and service offerings,” CEO David Robison said in a statement. “Moving to 3505 West Sam aligns our corporate office with who we are today — and who we will be in the decades to come.”
Audubon has three other locations in Houston, at 1250 Woodbranch Park, 12261 FM 529 and 12301 Kurland Drive. In addition, it has locations in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Colorado, California, Mexico and Colombia.
Audubon, founded in 1997 in New Orleans, is a group of six affiliated companies operating in the energy, renewables, power and utility, infrastructure, and industrial markets.
The move is the latest in a number of recent company relocations in west Houston.
A week ago, Houston-based Baker Hughes Co. (Nasdaq: BKR) completed its headquarters move from the Greenspoint area into 130,000 square feet of office space in Energy Center II, at 575 Dairy Ashford Road in the Energy Corridor.
Houston-based Mattress Firm announced in April that it is relocating its corporate headquarters to Westchase, leasing 55,855 square feet in Reserve at Westchase, at 3250 Briarpark Drive.
Last November, Apache Corp. (Nasdaq: APA) leased 118,000 square feet to expand its offices in One Briarlake Plaza at 2000 W. Sam Houston Parkway in Westchase and make it the Houston-based company’s new headquarters.
In July 2022, Virginia-based engineering and construction firm Bechtel Corp. announced it will move its local offices from Uptown to Parkway Property’s CityWestPlace campus in Westchase.
And in March of last year, Canada-based energy infrastructure giant Enbridge Inc. (NYSE: ENB) announced it was moving from the Galleria area to the Energy Center Five building at 915 N. Eldridge Parkway in the Energy Corridor.
Other significant company leases in the Energy Corridor since last year include Fluor Corp. at 737 N. Eldridge Parkway; Fugro at 13501 Katy Freeway; Kiewit Corp. at 585 N. Dairy Ashford Road; and Technip Energies at 15377 Memorial Drive.
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