Founder Experience

Proven on projects where failure wasn't an option.

As your independent owner's representative, the expertise protecting your custom home was forged on $20B+ of mission-critical construction across seven states — hyperscale data centers, major international airports, and advanced healthcare facilities. Now it answers to one client: you.

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Salt Lake City International Airport North Concourse at sunset

$20B+ delivered · 7 statesMission-critical project delivery

Founder Richard Batson in safety gear on an active large-scale construction site, a long tilt-wall building behind him — Richard Batson, founderOn site at an active hyperscale data center

Founder-led · Nearly a decade of complex builds

If it holds up on a hyperscale build, it will hold up on yours.

With Cross Timbers, you hire Richard Batson directly. He's spent nearly a decade managing complex, high-stakes construction programs — hyperscale data centers, healthcare, aviation — where budget control, schedule discipline, contractor coordination, and quality verification were non-negotiable. The projects below are his professional background; that same discipline now goes to work on your custom home, with the founder's full attention on your project.

Why this matters for your build

Most homeowners don't lose money because they chose a bad dream — they lose it because scope, allowances, schedule, builder contracts, and quality controls weren't managed early enough. Cross Timbers brings professional construction oversight to your custom home before those issues become expensive.

Renovated and expanded 1940s historic single-story home with brick chimney, large windows, and a carport in College Station, Texas

Residential · Historic Renovation

1940s Historic Home — College Station, TX

Preconstruction & Owner Advisory · College Station, TX

Led preconstruction and owner advisory for the renovation and addition of a 1940s home — shaping the budget, scope, design direction, and contract structure so the owner could make confident, informed decisions before committing to build.

For your home: the best time to protect a project is before construction starts. Cross Timbers helps homeowners set clear scope, realistic budgets, and coordinated decisions before costly surprises show up in the field.

Design & engineering: RBJ Architectural · Gessner Engineering

Owner's Representative · Mission-Critical Campus

Stargate Abilene Data Center Campus

Senior Project Manager & Owner's Representative · Crusoe · Abilene, TX

Richard is currently an independent owner's representative on Stargate Abilene, one of the largest AI data-center builds in the country — providing owner-side oversight of the work and keeping the developer's leadership informed on progress, budget, and risk.

For your home: this is the exact owner's representative role Cross Timbers provides for homeowners — independent oversight, clear reporting, contractor accountability, and disciplined control of budget, schedule, scope, and quality.

Hyperscale Data Center

QTS Hyperscale Data Center Campus

Lead MEP Project Manager · Fort Worth, TX

As lead MEP project manager for Adolfson & Peterson, he managed the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing scope on QTS's hyperscale data center in Fort Worth — coordinating the design, schedule, and trades through to handover.

For your home: homes are smaller than mission-critical facilities, but the risks rhyme — unclear scope, weak coordination, missed details, cost drift, and quality issues found too late. Cross Timbers brings that same disciplined oversight to your build.

ENR 2026 Top 400 · #66

Hyperscale Data Center

Confidential Hyperscale Data Center Campus

Lead MEP Project Manager · Plain City, OH

As lead MEP project manager for Ryan Companies, he managed the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing scope on a confidential data center in Plain City, Ohio, from early design coordination through startup.

For your home: strong construction management isn't just getting the work done. It's making sure the work is coordinated, properly priced, documented, reviewed, and verified before the project moves forward.

ENR 2026 Top 400 · #33

Meta hyperscale data center campus in Eagle Mountain, Utah

Hyperscale Data Centers · Multi-State Program

Meta Hyperscale Data Center Program

MEP Project Manager & Quality Manager · UT, IL & MN

As MEP project manager and quality manager for Mortenson, he managed the full mechanical, electrical, and plumbing scope and quality program for Meta's data centers across Utah, Illinois, and Minnesota.

For your home: quality shouldn't depend on what a homeowner happens to notice at a walkthrough. Cross Timbers helps verify the work throughout the build — including the systems and details that will be hidden behind walls, ceilings, and finishes.

ENR 2026 Top 400 · #10

Dell Children's Medical Center North Medical Office Building, Austin, Texas

Healthcare

Dell Children's Medical Center — North MOB

MEP Project Engineer · Austin, TX

As MEP project engineer for JE Dunn, he managed the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing scope on a medical office building at the Dell Children's campus in Austin, from design through handover.

For your home: a well-run project depends on disciplined communication between owner, architect, builder, engineers, and trades. Cross Timbers keeps those moving pieces organized and aligned before problems get expensive.

ENR 2026 Top 400 · #21

Aviation · LEED Gold

Salt Lake City International Airport — North Concourse

MEP Project Engineer · Salt Lake City, UT

As MEP project engineer for Austin Commercial, he managed the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing scope on the airport's North Concourse — along with the baggage-handling system and passenger boarding bridges. The concourse opened ahead of schedule and under budget.

For your home: large projects succeed because schedule, budget, coordination, and quality are actively managed. Cross Timbers brings that same discipline to custom homes, so you're not left managing the process alone.

ENR 2026 Top 400 · #41, with JV partner Okland (#59)

Breadth of experience

Sharpened in every sector that can't afford mistakes

Mission-critical, aviation, healthcare, federal, and beyond — delivered hands-on, on the ground, across seven states.

Mission-Critical Data Centers Aviation Healthcare Federal Science & Tech Higher Education Hospitality

Everywhere Richard has worked

Nearly a decade of hands-on delivery, mapped from the field.

Hover a marker for the project · 7 states · 12 locations

Enterprise skill → homeowner benefit

What a $20B career does for you

Enterprise capability

What it means for your custom home

Project controls & scheduling

A realistic timeline that's actively managed — and delays caught while there's still time to recover.

Budget & cost management

Independent budgets and allowance scrutiny that keep your project from drifting past what you agreed to.

Contractor coordination

Architect, builder, and trades kept aligned to one plan, with one organized point of accountability.

Commissioning & quality control

Verification that the work is right at every milestone — including the parts you'll never see again.

Risk management

Problems anticipated and planned for, instead of discovered the expensive way.

Owner-facing leadership

Complex decisions explained in plain language, with honest counsel on every trade-off.

How it applies to your home

The same discipline, now on your side of the table.

Cross Timbers helps homeowners building custom and luxury homes apply the same planning, oversight, and contractor accountability used on complex commercial construction programs — so the discipline that protected mission-critical projects now protects yours.

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