Hard to believe the campus is only 7 years old and it looks as run down as it is.
Did we change facilities vendors?
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From my buddy who worked on the campus project, the all-in cost was around $4G. Keep in mind that included all the relo costs from FFX and other sites that were consolidated so it wasn't $4G of construction costs but still.
What was the total cost of the Campus?
I heard that the budget was multi billion dollars and top secret.
Based on their man hours on their safety announcements, I figure $2.5 billion in labor costs.
Materials cost likely many times that.
Maybe Darwood would get the message if the Valdez bell was attached to the outside of his office? He is actually running this thing aground!
Always makes me smile when I read about all the design features of the campus for employees there.
But all our operating site offices are complete sh-t holes...
Maybe we should turn 50% of the campus quads into corporate townhouses and rent them back to expats that travel to Houston for career development assignments.
The Tug Boat Captain has brought his magic touch from ruining XTO to ruining the facilities would be my speculation.
I’m sure there was a 10 year plan back then. But all 10 year plans are garbage. Just a check in the box.
Seems like only yesterday that the Houston Campus was our poster child for recruiting new and experienced hires.
History is Building the Future at ExxonMobil HQ Campus
Oil giant wants legacy of achievement and focus on people to propel it into the future.
by Thomas Mulloy | June 20, 2019 at CStoreSolutions.com
When ExxonMobil opened its 385-acre Houston campus, just north of the city in Spring, Texas, in 2015, the company planned nearly every detail with its employees in mind.
Everything from the interior design to outdoor landscaping to company history are meant to not only make ExxonMobil’s Houston campus a nice place to work for that 9,000-person workforce, but to also instill a sense of pride and belonging in a historic company doing important work.
The campus is broken into four quadrants: North, East, West and South. Or, as they’re labeled here: Nature, Energy, Wellness and Science. Building facades are color coded to match each of those designations to help employees and visitors alike know where on campus they are.
Beyond simple naming of buildings, though, the company has gone to great lengths to remove everyday worries from its workers so they can focus on doing their jobs. On campus is a retail district with a dry cleaner, barbershop and salon, child care facilities, pharmacy, fitness spaces, etc. – if there’s something people need to do as part of their everyday life, they can take care of that personal business “at work” without the distraction of trying to find time to fit it in during off hours. There’s even a bakery to handle orders for family things like birthday cakes and pastries for parties.
But beyond the convenience factors for employees, the design of each building speaks loudly about making this a pleasant place to work. It’s evident that a much time and thought went into the design of the buildings to make each a pleasant place to be. Sculptures and artifacts are peppered throughout the campus. There are 28 dining venues
COLLABORATION IS KEY
Stacey Trefts, project manager at ExxonMobil who hosted a media tour, said that the space is designed for people to “bump into each other.” By that, she meant that the company realizes that people and collaboration are its greatest assets. There are a multitude of coffee shops designed for comfort, inviting employees to gather and trade ideas and carry out small meetings.
Designers placed random conference-sized tables for larger meetings; soft furniture benches and chairs are peppered throughout for open use. All workspaces – including boardrooms – are open to any group of employees for meetings. There are no prestigious corner offices on this campus, either, Trefts said. All of the window glass space is free of office space so everyone can enjoy the views.
Company history is on heavy display throughout the campus halls with museum-style exhibits of artifacts and other items that illustrate Exxon Mobil’s role in scientific achievement as well as contribution to American pop culture. There’s a bank of old filling station signs in one corridor, a lineup of historic gas pumps in another.
The company’s contribution to racing is featured with the actual championship NASCAR and Formula One racing cars adjacent to open meeting space.
But Exxon doesn’t shy away from its complex history, either. On prominent display is the ship’s bell from the Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker that struck a reef on March 24, 1989, and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound. The ensuing environmental damage and cleanup forced the company to change the way it did things. And those changes transformed the industry. Important enough, Treft said, for the ExxonMobil board to want it recognized as a company milestone.
There’s also what employees call “The Patent Wall” a seven-story listing of every U.S. patent developed by ExxonMobil scientists and engineers since the company’s inception. Another wall on the opposite side of the building lists historic company milestones like the simple, “1974: Introduces Mobil 1 synthetic motor oil,” to the scientific, “1963: Invents three-dimensional seismic exploration.”
One can’t help but feel like you are part of something bigger than yourself while on the campus. All around, in whatever building you walk through, are reminders of the legacy the company has built through serving customers and pioneering fuel achievement.
With the thought and effort it put into this Houston campus, ExxonMobil is hoping that legacy of achievement continues long into the future.
What’s sad is it cost a ton of money to build and outfit the glass palace only to let it be kept up so poorly. I agree the cleanliness is a joke (understaffed, not their fault) and scuff marks every where
When out refinery and petrochemical plants are losing money or they are not meeting their metrics for profitability, the first edict from Dallas is to stop spending discretionary money. Discretionary money includes paint for tanks, pipes, vessels, and office buildings. We delay replacing the outdated 1960's carpet, tile, furniture, and faucets. We also stop watering the grass, replacing the grass, and we stop planting flowers and shrubs.
All operating units and even Houston based EMHC will rust away until we become profitable. Remember the mantra 18 months ago, "Cash is King."
If you want to see rundown, visit anywhere in the Fawley platform...
If you want to see run down, visit the Baton Rouge Refinery main office.
I am surprised that either Shade or Sizzle has not shutdown with the layoffs, PIP's and forced retirements in the last 18 months.
JLL is the company who handles much of facilities work. Used to be CB in earlier days. Outsourcing reigns.
May we forever remember the lunch to table delivery at Sizzle. Then there was the tandoori oven at Shade that was shutdown after a year.
The cafeterias now are a sad vestige of their former states.
Greenspoint and 800 Bell still empty and looking well maintained! Should move back there and sell the glass palace. Better yet, rent one building in Greenspoint for hot desks and let e everyone work from home! Imagine the cost savings while we transition everything to KL and BTC!
The trash cans are gone.
There’s been a cup water mark on our hub counter for two weeks. So much for “enhanced cleaning.”
Hey, everything was fine when I left. There was even a nice tree in the quad.
Wow, only in 7 years a lot has gone down hill for sure. List what was there on day 1 and is no longer there. I will list a few.
- The famous, Rex's tree is gone
- A lot of undeserving smart and good people are gone
- Cleanliness in restrooms are gone
- The coffee cups are gone
- The water machines don't work half the time
- The upscale restaurant at the training center is gone
- The care of employees is gone
- The 20 point protection in ranking process is gone
- Rex is gone and the id--t Darren is on :(
- Good, respectable salary raises are gone
- 3 of Darren's board members are gone
- Trainings are gone
- Jobs are gone (to BTC)
What else?
@chw+1eStRvsk, yeah I guess the facility is now being managed by EMITs spot dog robots instead of E&PS contracted humans. If you see the yellow spot dogs cleaning anywhere on campus thank EMIT VP for it.
Outsourced to BTC haha
It's great to know that there is one person at the HC. Last time I was there it looked like a ghost town. There was nobody there. I wonder when Dallas will put it up for sale. There are supposed to be 10,000 people working there.
It's called 'stone-washed' and it is ever new.
I heard this is our new rewilding initiative. Coming to a few dozen Yammer posts super excited about this innovative and barrier breaking initiative just before ranking starts...
Please please please tell me the cube is going green with algae. It would be the perfect evolution of the meme.
The campus has gone “green!” Green with algae covering the buildings.
Didn't you hear? EM is deploying nature based solutions now!
Yep, we're leveraging a remote and distributed cleaning model solution.
the facilities team has now operates out of india