Lincoln Tech's Houston Campus Earns a Silver APEX Award for the Building Itself
The trades campus on South Lockwood Drive trains students for the construction economy - and this week the firm that built it took home the Houston AGC's Higher Education honor.
Lincoln Tech's Houston campus has been recognized for an industry award in design and construction, the company announced November 10. O'Donnell/Snider, the Houston-based firm that built the campus, received a Silver APEX Award from Houston AGC, the local chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America, in the association's Higher Education category.
The campus, at 2000 South Lockwood Drive, is a conversion of a former Amazon facility, built by O'Donnell/Snider in 2025 and opened earlier this year. It holds approximately 100,000 square feet of classroom and training space for programs in automotive service, welding, HVAC-R and electrical fields, and sits on I-45, minutes from I-69, as Lincoln Tech's second facility in Texas.
'Building a campus to meet the needs of a diverse group of students, training for future careers in an equally diverse range of industries, is no small feat,' Lincoln Tech President and CEO Scott Shaw said in the announcement, crediting Adam Boak and the O'Donnell/Snider team. Boak, the firm's senior project manager, said the award 'reflects the commitment, collaboration, and execution of the entire project team.'
Architect Gary Musciano of Herbst-Musciano Architects contributed to the design that turned the former distribution facility into a purpose-built technical training environment. For Houston, the award lands as recognition of a building whose whole purpose is workforce: students training in the same skilled trades the city's construction economy hires from.
