05 Nov United Construction stays on successful trajectory
Northern Nevada Business Weekly has recognized our CEO, Michael Russell among the top ten local leaders. The distinction recognizes the gains he helped shape at United Construction during a year of challenges.
GROWING LEADERSHIP
United is well poised to meet the demands of our strong industrial construction market thanks to Russell’s and our Executive Team’s efforts to grow leadership. Since early 2019, Russell and UCC leaders have promoted internally and recruited wisely to place strong leaders in these key roles: President, Operations Manager, Field Operations Manager, Senior Project Manager and Operations Administrator. Retooling leadership has led to increased skill, technology and collaborative project delivery expertise.
COLLABORATING WITH CUSTOMERS
While UCC has a long history of delivering speculative industrial projects, Russell saw an opportunity to deliver more build-to-suit projects. He has mentored project leaders to aspire to exceptional customer service and works with leaders to identify the goals and challenges of those who will work in the facilities we design and build. Russell emphasizes team collaboration throughout UCC to enhance the rapport we have with customers, trade partners and consultants. We are achieving exceptional customer service for clients like ULINE, our largest build-to-suit ever. ULINE has exacting expectations for state-of-the-art facilities that meet high standards for operational excellence. The 900,000+ sf facility we are constructing in Lemmon Valley reflects their high standards.
STRENGTHENING PRECONSTRUCTION
The Executive Leadership and Russell also focused on strengthening the preconstruction team to better serve our customers’ needs. Our design and estimating team already has veteran leadership. We needed the horsepower it takes to deliver three million square feet of industrial construction or more annually. UCC expanded its preconstruction team to include six estimators and four architects. Our teams can managed large, phased design-build project requiring multiple designers and estimators working in sync to meet aggressive schedule. These projects are designed and permitted in phases, and the preconstruction and project management teams are achieving earlier start dates and earlier move-in dates. E-commerce customers have aggressive needs now more than ever in our COVID Environment, and our team is well positioned to assist our customers now and into the future.
GETTING PROJECTS ON THE FAST TRACK
By collaborating with an experienced team, Russell continues to be UCC’s accelerator for getting projects on their optimum trajectory for success. He leverages his depth of development experience to advise build-to-suit customers on strategies that enhance their long-term operations. As one of the executive leaders at United, he promotes positive stakeholder involvement by fostering relationships, facilitating communication and collaboration, keeping stakeholders active in decision-making, dealing fairly with all stakeholders, mentoring teams and facilitating teamwork.