“Building for the future” is the apt motto for Fronza & Francis, LLC (F&F). F&F is a women-owned minority professional services firm currently hard at work on the IAH Terminal Redevelopment Program (ITRP) at Bush Intercontinental Airport. F&F was established in 2014, evolving from a predecessor firm started in 2001, and is now a growing 15-employee company that serves private and public sector businesses.

The company specializes in Program Management, Construction Management, Consulting and Diversity Management Services, and Project Controls. Esther Francis, Executive Director of F&F, has always been intent on building for the future. As an 8-year-old working with her carpenter father on roof scaffolding (long before stringent OSHA enforcement she hastened to add), she “fell in love” with construction. As she has continued to achieve professionally, as is the case with many small business executives, Esther has worn and continues to wear many hats - Project Executive, Project Manager, Superintendent, Move Manager, and Quality Manager to name a few.

“Our greatest success to date,” said Esther, “is being a part of one of the winning teams, as a Subconsultant to the Parsons team, for the ITRP Program Management Support Services.” The company is currently providing staff for the roles of Quality Manager, Lead Scheduler and Senior Estimator on ITRP, overseeing the PMO and International Terminal Redevelopment Projects and eventually the FIS and Enabling Utilities Landside projects.

Esther said that the expectations of the F&F team is driven by the desire that ITRP is fully successful in achieving the HAS strategic priorities. “We expect to help achieve ‘opening day fresh,’” she said. F&F is intent upon providing the highest-quality services to the Airport’s project and operations team and in turn to the traveling public.

F&F has enjoyed a successful alliance with HAS that has afforded them opportunities to work with some award-winning, leading program management firms in the industry, including Parsons and other industry heavyweights such as Manhattan and Faithful & Gould. “Our firm,” she continued, “has benefited tremendously from the global experience and knowledge learned from these alliances, and our particular use of that knowledge separates us from other sub-consultants in the industry.”

F&F’s relationship with HAS has also opened doors for business relationships with major carriers such as United and Southwest Airlines; the company has also established solid business ties with many other public and private sector entities: universities, medical centers, and churches among them.

Esther fondly recalled that F&F’s core team members began providing professional services at IAH in 2006 when the predecessor firm was hired by United to work on the Terminal C Renovation Project. Multiple projects and multiple successes at IAH have followed in the ensuing years.

“We are proud of what we’ve accomplished here and continue to work toward,” she said. “The skills of our people, professional ethos, trust and unparalleled solutions give us the edge to develop and maintain long-term relationships with first-rate clients such as HAS. Our work at HAS allows us to keep right on building for the future.”