Houston at a glance
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- Years in Houston
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- Years — VP Cody Whittle at ANDRES
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- Units at Parkside Residences
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- Stories — Parkside Tower
About ANDRES in Houston
Houston doesn’t wait for anyone.
The fourth-largest city in America moves at a pace that punishes firms who treat it like a side market. ANDRES doesn’t. The Houston office operates with a VP of Operations who has been with the company since 2006 — Cody Whittle, a Texas A&M graduate who earned his way from project engineer to vice president over sixteen years of continuous delivery.
When Cody was promoted to VP Operations in June 2022, it wasn’t a title change. It was a recognition of what the Houston team had already been doing: running complex multifamily and mixed-use projects in a market where subcontractor demand outpaces supply and permitting timelines vary by jurisdiction.
ANDRES has been building in the Houston market for over a decade. Not dabbling. Not chasing one-off opportunities. Building a permanent presence with permanent relationships — the same trade partners, the same inspectors, the same commitment to delivery that defines the Dallas headquarters.
The Houston metro adds more people per year than any market in Texas. That growth requires builders who understand not just construction, but the regulatory patchwork of Harris County, Fort Bend County, and Montgomery County. ANDRES does.
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Houston permitted more multifamily units than any Texas metro in 2023. The demand is driven by population growth, corporate relocations, and a cost-of-living advantage over coastal markets. But permitting in Houston isn’t a single system — it’s a patchwork of city jurisdiction, Harris County oversight, and ETJ regulations that vary block by block.
ANDRES navigates this because the Houston team lives in it. Cody Whittle and his project teams have built relationships with the jurisdictions, the inspectors, and the utility providers that control timelines. When a project crosses from City of Houston permitting into an ETJ, the ANDRES team already knows the process.
Houston’s construction market is hypercompetitive. The same subcontractors get pulled between dozens of active job sites. The same superintendents get recruited every quarter. Retention is the single biggest operational risk in this market.
ANDRES’s ESOP changes the math. Every employee-owner has equity in every project’s outcome. The superintendent on a Houston high-rise isn’t just collecting a paycheck — they’re building their retirement. That alignment produces lower turnover, fewer punch-list items, and faster closeout.
It’s not a talking point. It’s a structural advantage that compounds over time. And in a market as competitive as Houston, structural advantages are the only kind that last.
Cody Whittle joined ANDRES in 2006 as a project engineer, fresh from Texas A&M. He didn’t come in as a hire — he came in as a builder. Over sixteen years, he worked his way through every role: project engineer, assistant project manager, project manager, senior project manager, and finally VP of Operations in June 2022.
That trajectory matters because it means the person running ANDRES Houston has personally managed projects at every scale the company delivers. He’s seen what goes wrong on a 43-story high-rise and what goes wrong on a 4-story garden-style. He knows the difference between a Houston concrete subcontractor who can pour a mat foundation and one who can’t.
When developers evaluate general contractors in Houston, they’re not just evaluating a firm. They’re evaluating the person who will run their project. In Houston, that person is Cody Whittle.
