About Argent

Thirty-two years of light and structure.

Argent started in 1994 with two glaziers, one truck, and a conviction: the glass line is the one trade everyone sees, forever. We've hung 2.4 million square feet since — and we still walk every elevation at close-out.

The Story

From one truck to six states.

1994

Founded in Dallas

Ray Argent Sr. and two crews take on storefront and glass replacement work across DFW.

2003

First curtain wall

An eight-story stick-built job nobody else wanted on a tight downtown site. Finished nine days early.

2011

Fabrication shop opens

42,000 sq ft in-house fab ends our dependence on broker lead times — and doubles our QC standard.

2018

Unitized capability

Factory-glazed module line comes online; Argent starts competing for high-rise envelopes.

2026

380 projects and counting

38 cities, 6 states, one crew standard — and the next generation of glaziers in our apprenticeship program.

NGA MEMBER

AGMT-CERTIFIED GLAZIERS

OSHA 30 SUPERVISORS

LICENSED · TX OK AR LA NM KS

Safety

The number we're proudest of.

Glazing is high work with heavy glass. Our record isn't luck — it's a full-time safety director, AGMT-certified installers, and a stop-work authority every apprentice holds from day one.

0.68

EMR, 3-year average

Lost-time incidents, 6 years

Field staff OSHA-10 or higher

Toolbox talks a year — every crew

Leadership

The people who answer the phone.

Ray Argent Jr.

PRESIDENT

Started on a suction cup at sixteen. Runs the company the way his father ran a crew: show up, tell the truth, finish the wall.

Maria Kovak, PE

VP, PRECONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING

Fifteen years of curtain wall engineering. If your architect has a hard detail, Maria has probably already drawn it twice.

Tom Whitfield

DIRECTOR, FIELD OPERATIONS

Owns the schedule and the safety record. Twenty-two years in the field; his crews' average tenure is nine.

"People drive past buildings we glazed twenty years ago and they still look right. That's the whole business plan."

RAY ARGENT JR. · PRESIDENT