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05 Apr

Posted at 09:49h in News, Project Milestone

Congratulations to CAE on the official opening of your aviation training center in Las Vegas! The 150,000-square-foot facility is the first CAE training center to open on the West Coast and currently houses seven flight simulators, with plans for one more simulator to be installed in the future. This facility is expected to train over 2,500 pilots annually and has created 75 highly skilled jobs in the region. We were honored to be on CAE’s team for this project and excited to attend the ribbon-cutting celebration for the opening of this world-class facility here in Nevada!

27 Mar

Posted at 10:00h in News

We are honored to announce our CAE TI project has won a NAIOP Southern Nevada Spotlight Award in the Industrial Tenant Improvement category! Congratulations to CAE and our fantastic partners that made this project a success, including:

  • Dermody Properties (Developer) project team led by John Ramous and Jim Nass
  • The United Construction preconstruction team of Mark Duran, Keith Deutscher, and Paul Laird, and construction team of Dane Horton, Wendy Orcutt, Audrey Mackey, Michael Richardson, Chris Casanova, and Colton Brock
  • CAE Team led by Danny Neubarth, Ash Zare, and Jestina Mahon
  • Figurr / JL Richards Team (CAE programming Architect / MEP Engineers ) led by Keith Johnson Figurr, Rick Rubin Figurr, Bogdan Burzawa M/P Engineer, and Harminder Matharu Electrical Engineer
  • Forbes Linchpin Structural Engineers
  • The design-build contractors:
    • Helix Electric
    • Gallagher Plumbing
    • Air Design Systems
    • Shambaugh & Sons
    • Southern Nevada Drywall
  • Standout subcontractors – Southern Nevada Drywall, Helix Electric, and Air Design Systems

 

The CAE TI project is located in the LogistiCenter at Sunset Road building located at 6550 South Bruce Street, right next to the Las Vegas airport. CAE is a Canadian-based full-service commercial pilot training company with training facilities in over 35 countries. The 150,000-square-foot Las Vegas facility houses training/flight simulators, classrooms, and administrative support spaces. CAE started operations in the facility Q4 of 2022 and currently, there are seven simulators, with plans for one more simulator to be installed in the facility.

Congratulations team for winning this award and delivering this world-class facility here in Nevada!

24 Mar

Posted at 11:02h in News

Congratulations to our Design Partner, Van Woert Bigotti Architects, and our Trade Partner, Kemper Masonry, for the LifeChurch project being featured on the cover page of Concrete Masonry Association of California and Nevada’s CMU Profiles in Architecture! Check out the featured article on page 4 of the winter 2023 issue of this publication. This phased project included a multi-purpose gymnatorium with a worship center and recreation court for basketball and volleyball, and a two-story child center featuring outdoor and indoor recreation areas, classrooms, and a conference/multi-purpose space. We are honored to have been a part of the project team as the general contractor for this CMAR project. Congratulations team on this wonderful achievement! View the article here – https://issuu.com/unitedconstruction1978/docs/winter_2023_cmu_profiles_in_architecture.

08 Mar

Posted at 14:22h in News, Project Milestone

On 3/6/23 United Construction obtained the Certificate of Occupancy for the Hamilton Company Clean Room Project located on Edison Way. The Hamilton Company Clean Room Project consisted of a 3-story, 64,916 square-foot concrete tilt-up and steel framed structure with a state-of-the-art clean room located on the first floor. The building will include injection molding machines and packaging automation for medical-grade pipette tips. The capital investment for the building and equipment signifies Hamilton Company’s continued and significant investment in northern Nevada.

The Hamilton Company Clean Room Project was managed by a fantastic team of United Construction professionals that delivered the project under budget and on schedule. Construction of the project was led by Superintendent Nick Crawford and Assistant Superintendent Justin Brunner, Project Manager Robert Felstead, Project Engineer Harlee Annis, Project Administrator Yajaira Medina, Accounts Payable Ariel Mooney, and Preconstruction Project Manager Zach Caron. The Hamilton Company project representative was Brian Slenker who helped lead the project to a successful delivery.

Nick Crawford discloses “This project started with the razing of two older buildings at the site, then the construction of a new 3-story building on a tight land-locked site with an existing drainage channel running beneath it. There were numerous logistical challenges on this site, including lifting 90-ton concrete wall panels with a 330-ton crane on a very tight site, none of which would have been made possible without the great work of our United Construction Team and our local engineers, designers, and subcontractors”.

Michael Russell United Construction CEO adds “Congratulations to our team for obtaining the Certificate of Occupancy for the Hamilton Company Clean Room project! The new 3-story high-tech facility will support and enhance Hamilton’s development, manufacturing, and customization of precision measurement devices, automated liquid handling workstations, and sample management systems business. We are honored and proud to have been selected by Hamilton Company for this important design-build commission, and to deliver this project with Hamilton Company as our third major project working together, previously completing several other site improvements, building, and tenant improvement projects on Hamilton’s campus over the last 10 years. Thank you Hamilton Company for selecting United Construction for this amazing project, and the United Construction project team for achieving this huge project milestone.”

28 Feb

Posted at 09:33h in Community, News

We had a wonderful evening supporting the Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows at their 43rd annual Cioppino Feed! Good times were had, delicious food was eaten, and fun auction items were won. It was great to see our community come together to raise funds to support the Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows and their mission of helping the local youth in our community.

24 Feb

Posted at 13:56h in News

Our team was honored to attend Nevada Chapter AGC’s annual SIR and Construction Industry Awards Banquet which recognizes the construction community’s outstanding citizens as well as contractor, subcontractor, supplier, and design professional award winners. Thank you Nevada Chapter AGC for a wonderful event and congratulations to all of this year’s winners!

22 Feb

Posted at 13:49h in News, Project Milestone, United Team
Stellar Aviation held a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the start of construction of our Stellar Aviation project located at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport! We are excited about this new facility which will help serve the demand for air travel as the Reno area continues to grow. The first phase of the project consists of a 5,000-square-foot stand-alone FBO terminal building and 30,000-square-foot Hangar 1, with a 5,000-square-foot attached office. The FBO building will serve as a terminal for private aircraft as well as JSX hop-on jet services. The FBO building includes a reception with open seating, a refreshments area, a canteen, a pilots lounge, flight planning, line services, catering, a rent-a-car counter, a conference room, and a staff lounge. The 28’ clear-height Hangar 1 building will have infrared heating, LED high bay lighting, aircraft ground power units, eight 500-square-foot offices, a breakroom, and restrooms. Construction is scheduled to start next month and is anticipated to be completed by the end of the year.

01 Feb

Posted at 08:25h in News, Project Milestone, United Team

Washoe County School District hosted a ribbon-cutting celebration for the renovation and expansion of Swope Middle School! After the ceremony, friends, family, and members of the community were able to tour the school to get an inside look at all of the upgrades. The 3-phase project includes a new gym and basketball courts, a new 38,000 square-foot two-story classroom building, a new multipurpose room, a 5,300 square-foot media center, a new kitchen, outdoor courtyards, and renovations to the older section of the building including an updated HVAC system. Congratulations to the project team for all your hard work! Many students will enjoy these upgrades for years to come.

30 Jan

Posted at 08:54h in News, United Team

Congratulations to our Manager of Personnel Operations, Sarah Schmidt, for being selected as a winner of Reno Tahoe Young Professionals Network’s Twenty under 40 Award! This award recognizes people for their professional accolades and community involvement in our region. Way to go, Sarah!

More about Sarah and her involvement in our community:

Since 2019, she has been on the committee for the Art of Childhood, an annual fundraiser for the Children’s Cabinet. Each year, they begin planning the event almost at the conclusion of the previous year. They are constantly coming up with innovative ways to promote, fundraise and encourage participation to raise funds for an organization that makes such a large impact on our community. This year, they raised over $700,000 for the Cabinet, surpassing all previous records. She coordinates the building of a playhouse to be auctioned off at the event, this year selling for over $3,700. She also sits on two committees for the AGC, Women in Construction, and the Construction Leadership Council. Both groups do construction and education-based community service and fundraising for the greater Truckee Meadows Area.

Sarah is very active in our community. She has been a member of the Reno Rodeo since 2015. In April of this year, she was voted onto the Board of Directors, one of only two people in Association history to unseat a sitting Director. The Board of 50 oversees association decisions for the membership of over a thousand people. In addition to being a director, she serves as the Chairman for the 50/50 raffle, which donates funds to local charities for each of the ten nights of the Reno Rodeo. Since her appointment to the chair position, they have surpassed yearly records of tickets sold, with over $162,000 in 2022. In addition to the 50/50 committee, she writes for the Reno Rodeo magazine and serves on the Legacy committee which is dedicated to preserving the integrity of western heritage while pursuing a state-of-the-art facility for the Association and regional use. The time and effort dedicated to the Reno Rodeo is huge, but the payback to our community is priceless.

26 Jan

Posted at 14:54h in Community, News

Happy 40th EDAWN! UCC team members attended the State of the Economy in Northern Nevada luncheon today, where we enjoyed celebrating their 40th-anniversary milestone and listening to presentations about the continued growth and success of our local economy. Thank you EDAWN for helping create a bright future for Northern Nevada!