The design/build collaboration for ...

The design/build collaboration for the GTE Telephone Operations World Headquarters (GTE Telops) was not unlike a marriage. however unlike many marriages, it was a union that required little counseling.

Several Dallas firms were brought together by dint of GTE Realty Corporation, the growth arm for GTE, to build 22 million-sq.-ft. headquarters in Irving, Texas. GTE extracted a guarantee form the team members that the facility would be abundantly operational 24 months after the start of design.

The devise was precipitated by a massive corporate restructuring that merg seven of GTE