■  Freeport-Mcmoran, the copper and gold import company, hired textron, a local ship building company, to design a speed boat to be based near Freeport’s Indonesia location, where water tides shift so frequently, riverbeds can actually disappear within hours. Therefore, the boat needed to transport international clientele on land as well as water. The challenge for the Mathes Group was not only to design a high class interior to entertain and impress Freeport clientele, but everything in the boat, was required to be fixed in place due to the 70 mph boat speed. The boat was also equipped with a state-of-the-art audio/visual system for sales meetings during transport.

■  The site chosen was at the distinguished corner of Alameda Dr. Manuel Enrique Araujo y Calle Nueva Uno in the new financial district of Colonia Escalon in San Salvador. The building consists of two underground levels of parking and five floors of office space. It has been built to US standards of a Class A building. Pan American Life now occupies portions of three floors of the building. Citibank, N.A. and other Multi-national companies have purchased various floors of the building.

■  This project consists of a 710 acre peninsula on the Island of Anguilla to be developed as a golf course community with amenities on the scale of a ‘new town,’ including a 140 key 5-star Mandarin Oriental Hotel, 75 luxury villa estate homes, 450 patio homes, 140 town homes, beach clubs, restaurants, retail, and an 18 hole golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus. The scope of the planning includes site infrastructure of roads, remote parking, landscaping, wastewater treatment, power plant, wind generators and utility distribution.