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Development kept local with new R&D center
By Andrew Snyder, Staff Writer
Encore Wire—a publically traded manufacturer of copper electrical building wire and cable based in McKinney—has plans to build a new 13,000 square foot research and development center at its corporate campus, and the company has kept the project local by hiring MYCON General Contractors, also of McKinney, for construction work. The building is expected to be finished late this year and is being built to LEED Platinum standards.
The LEED rating system grades facilities according to five categories: sustainable sites, water efficiency, materials and resources, energy, and atmosphere and indoor environmental quality. To meet platinum standards the new R&D center will use solar energy, solar water heating, recycled materials, rain water harvesting, and environmentally friendly paints and coatings.
Building to LEED standards is a specialty of MYCON, which also worked on an IESI facility which opened in McKinney last year as the first privately funded single-stream LEED certified material recycling facility in North America.
Dallas architecture firm PageSoutherlandPage, who also designed Encore Wire’s corporate headquarters, was chosen to work on the new project. Vice President Michael J. McCoy said the firm is pleased to be working with MYCON on the new center.
Pictured are renderings of the new R&D facility.
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