After 36 years in business, Ramtech has pursued getting the “Ramtech” name registered with the United States Trademark Office, whenever the name is used in the context of modular buildings or modular construction. After a long, arduous and expensive process, we were granted Registration Number 5,315,557. The registration was issued on October 24, 2017. You may ask, “Why wait 36 years to get your name registered?” The answer is that up until this time, the Ramtech name has never been used in an advertisement by our competition.

Last year, a competitor of Ramtech initiated a pay-per-click campaign where whenever someone searched “Ramtech Building Systems, Inc.”, an ad would pop up asking the question, “Looking for Ramtech?, Try__________”. We view this campaign as a deliberate attempt to confuse and divert potential customers that are specifically searching for Ramtech, to go to another site. This approach to marketing lies within an ethical grey area that we won’t condone and would never practice ourselves; therefore, we feel we must do whatever possible to counter the efforts of that competitor. Our belief is that by registering the Ramtech name, potentially misleading campaigns such as this that use our own brand against us will be taken down by Google and Bing.

Ramtech abides by the Modular Building Institute’s Code of Ethics as well as the Code of Ethics prescribed by the Better Business Bureau, achieving the rating of A+ with the BBB. Since 1982 we’ve thrived under the same ownership and management team. We’ve never been removed from a project, never had our bonding company intervene in the completion of a project, never filed bankruptcy, and have never faced litigation associated with a construction project or the running of our company. These are claims that very few in the construction industry could make, and they are the cornerstone for a reputation and brand name that we’re proud of and will make every effort to protect.

To our friends in the modular industry, we encourage you to run a search using your company’s full name to see if this same ad campaign is being employed against you. Many of you will be surprised. If so, I encourage you to consult legal counsel and confront this company in an effort to stop this practice.

We are pleased to announce that Matt Slataper has joined Ramtech in the role of Vice President. Matt comes to Ramtech from the Houston area where he served as a Vice President in J.P. Morgan’s Investment Banking division. In his new role at Ramtech, he will bring his experience to all areas of Ramtech’s operations with a particular focus on business development. Matt joins Ramtech at a pivotal time as we seek to grow our pier and beam and slab-on-grade permanent modular construction business. Matt’s experience, perspective, and business acumen will be essential as we move forward to position the company for growth in new markets and by expanding our product offerings and developing strategic partnerships. Matt has spent the last 12 years in finance, most recently focused on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets advisory within the oil and gas sector. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and a BBA from Southern Methodist University. He and his wife Tiffany have two children and plan to relocate from Houston to the west side of the Metroplex.

Ramtech is pleased to announce that Kyle Kelley has joined RBS’s project management group to assist in all service and repair work on all Ramtech-built modular buildings. Kyle has spent 17 years working for RMD, the manufacturing division of Ramtech, in all of the plant’s departments with a majority of his time in plumbing where he earned a Texas journeyman’s plumbing license. Kyle will assist the construction superintendents on specific job sites when there are tasks that don’t fall under the subcontractors scope of work, and he will also perform pre-start site visits when applicable to help the project managers determine what equipment, personnel, and pricing will be needed for smaller construction jobs. He will report to Randy Van Zandt, Ramtech’s V.P. of Construction. Please join us in welcoming Kyle to the RBS team.

Ramtech is pleased to announce that Carl Crisp has joined our project management group as a site superintendent. Carl comes to Ramtech with over 16 years of extensive experience working in several aspects of the commercial modular construction industry. Carl began his career with Archer Daniels Midland in Kansas working with industrial coatings and hazmat related activities.  In 2000 he joined Resun Leasing, at the time one of the country’s largest modular leasing companies. As a site supervisor for Resun he worked on the modular school building phase of the multiyear rebuilding project for the Houston Independent School District, along with several projects associated with the rebuilding efforts in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, the Pelican Bay Super Max prison in California, and as a site inspector of the modular buildings that were used during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah.  In 2007 Carl then joined Satellite Shelters’ Houston branch office as the operations manager where he was responsible for overseeing the fleet operations in three Texas locations and one in Louisiana. In his tenure at Satellite he was responsible for the installation of over 70% of the modules used in the build-out of ExxonMobil’s headquarters facility in Spring, Texas.  Carl is a native of Galveston, Texas where he lived for several years prior to starting his career. Carl will report to Randy Van Zandt, Ramtech’s Vice President Construction and is currently overseeing the finish out of the Deweyville ISD project. Please join us in welcoming Carl to the Ramtech team.