The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents are naming the new hotel and conference center at the College Station campus after a former student.

The regents unanimously voted to name the buildings after Doug Pitcock. The 1949 graduate made a name for himself in the construction world, later becoming the co-founder, partner, president and CEO of Williams Brothers Construction, a company he built into one of the nation’s largest highway construction firms.

Below is the press release from Texas A&M: