Metalink Metals and Fence is honored to announce that we have been selected to partner with Beck Construction to provide rail, security fence and gates for the new Holdsworth Center campus along the shores of Lake Austin, directly below an Austin landmark, Pennybacker Bridge.
This 44-acre campusretreat will contain 18 buildings and is designed especially for our Texas educators, who shoulder the responsibility for educating 5.3 million K-12 schoolchildren.
We are proud to partner with the Holdsworth Center as they cultivate a pipeline of dynamic Texas education leaders. The Center will be a beautiful setting for teachers to thrive and students to excel in the classroom.
Beck is the construction manager for the project. It is designed by Lake Flato Architects and Ten Eyck Landscape Architects.
The Holdsworth Center was founded in 2017 by H-E-B CEO and Chairman Charles Butt and is named after his mother, Mary Elizabeth Holdsworth, a Texas public school teacher. Charles found a book inscribed to him by her in the 1970’s that read, “You think business is hard, you should try teaching.”
“Charles’ vision is to create a transformative environment for public education leaders – something created specifically with their needs in mind. It is designed to be a place they can be proud of and call their own,” said Kate Rogers, President of The Holdsworth Center.
The heart of the campus features a commons and natural meadow, with most of the 16 new buildings surrounding the commons. The main pedestrian walkway connects all of the buildings for easy access.
The central learning center features a 300-capacity event room, lounge and full-service kitchen, as well as interactive classrooms and seminar spaces. A library will house a book collection on education and video screens will display TED-type talks about Holdsworth participant experiences.
The 180-room residential village can accommodate participants for overnight stays. Nearby, three small casitas tucked against the hillside under the canopy of trees along the lake’s edge will house guest lecturers and visiting faculty.
Down by the water, a social hub with outdoor decks and a screened-in porch will provide space for mixing and mingling after daily activities, as well as outdoor games such as ladder golf, washers and horseshoes. A smaller, open-air pavilion will host outdoor talks and lectures. On the lake’s edge, an old dock will transform into an outdoor, two-story classroom.
The center opens in the summer of 2020.