H.B. Zachry

Who is H.B. Zachry?

Henry Bartell Zachry, Jr., also known as H.B. Zachry and Pat Zachry, is the founder and former president and chairman of H.B. Zachry Company, now known as Zachry Construction Corporation. He earned a degree in civil engineering from Texas A&M University in 1922. Zachry's firm constructed the Hilton Palacio del Rio Hotel in San Antonio, TX using modular construction in a record 202 working days, the upper decks at Kyle Field in 1979, built part of the Alaskan pipeline, laid roads in Peru and Chile, erected dams in the United States and Canada and ventured into the Sinai to construct modular housing for peacekeeping troops.