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01 Jun

Posted at 09:26h in News, Project Milestone, United Team

As the 2020-2021 school year at Swope Middle School approaches its end, exterior work on the roofing and interior work on school facilities continues full steam ahead.

“This summer will be a busy time for construction at the school,” said Casey Gunther, Operations Manager at United Construction. “With finishes to the new gymnasium and roofs starting to take shape, we are poised to move forward with Phase 3 of the project: demolition, new classroom construction and existing facility remodel. I am honored to work alongside my United colleagues and our Washoe County School District, architectural, safety and engineering partners as we hit major milestones on the schoolgrounds.”

Interior framing in the new gymnasium has begun, and drywall will be installed in the coming weeks along with finishes to the basketball hoops, bleachers, wood flooring, paint and lockers. Consequently, demolition of the existing gym will take place in mid-to-late June. Site workers are also preparing to demolish the library to make room for the new kitchen as well as demolish and remodel the band/choir rooms. Outside, neighborhood residents can enjoy the metal canopy close to completion.

Completion of the PVC Membrane Roofing system over the gym marks a significant project landmark. The roof supports four HVAC units (two in the locker rooms and two in the fitness room) that will heat and cool the building. Skylights will also be installed that will amplify natural light into the entire area, which is “a welcomed addition to the typical industrious gym environment,” said Gunther.

In the meantime, residents can expect an increase in traffic through both the west side of the property (Sherwood Drive and Balsam Street) and the east side (Keele Drive).

Photo Credits: Ryland Sweigard

14 May

Posted at 12:46h in News, Project Milestone, United Team

Community Health Alliance (CHA) is a network of high-quality community medical centers across Northern Nevada providing comprehensive health services to a wide variety of populations, especially those who are underserved. United Construction is honored to be the construction partner for CHA on the renovation of their Oddie Boulevard clinic in Sparks.

The clinic remodel includes expanding into the adjoining tenant space to build more exam rooms, a brand new nurses station, and an expanded waiting room. Nurses have officially moved into their newly constructed station, and patients are enjoying the improved, welcoming waiting areas. Assistant Superintendent Justin Brunner is overseeing the progress of the project on-site, and his team members are excited to be in the field constructing the new-and-improved facilities to help CHA serve even more Nevadans with affordable and quality healthcare.

Featured above you will see an example of part of a new exam room at the clinic. See below for a before-and-after photo array of one of the exam room hallways inside the clinic on Oddie Blvd. For more information on Community Health Alliance, visit their website at www.chanevada.org.

     

06 May

Posted at 09:38h in News, Project Milestone, United Team

Swift progress is afoot at the Dassault Falcon jobsite on the Reno Tahoe International Airport grounds. The 10,978 sf, two-story addition – designed by Dave Eckes and overseen on-site by Pete Brunner – will feature parts storage, locker rooms, records storage and a second-floor training/event room, avionics work room, engineering, conference room and quality assurance department.

Site workers have poured the concrete for the stairs, installed girders, closed all big footings and are getting closer to finishing the siding of the expansion. Elite Safety is doing regular safety inspections, and the site continually gets a clean bill of health.

Dassault Falcon employees expressed much excitement to the United Construction team over the progress of the addition. Dassault looks forward to having extra space for comfortable storage, changing areas and meeting rooms.

Project completion is currently scheduled for the end of June.

About Dassault and UCC’s Relationship
Dassault is a French based aircraft manufacturer of business and corporate jets. The United Construction design-build team also delivered the existing building used by Dassault. United delivered it in 1996 as an aircraft maintenance hangar for Reno Air.

30 Apr

Posted at 11:15h in News, Project Milestone, United Team

Tenancy has begun at 4141 Distribution Circle in North Las Vegas, one of our projects we’ve turned over with Dermody Properties after an aggressive 7-month schedule.

Justin Williams, who was project manager until handing off the project to Dane Horton in March, said it’s been a great project. “Thanks to the father-son team of Kerry and Colton Brock, the job went smoothly. We transformed a 20-year-old portion of the building with new finishes and systems, and we roughly doubled the warehouse space to a total of about 226,000 square feet.”

“Our expansion and renovation greatly increased the function and value of 4141 Distribution Circle, and helped re-position the building to a more modern and desirable warehouse/distribution facility,” said CEO Michael Russell.

The new warehouse is keeping Dermody Property representatives busy talking to interested tenants. In the photo above, you’ll see a shot highlighting the transition from the existing building to the expansion.

12 Apr

Posted at 10:19h in News, Project Milestone, United Team

“As Uline shipped its first package today from its new Reno Fulfillment Center, I want to salute the United Construction team that kept and met our promises. Uline, at nearly a million square feet, is one of the most complex and aggressive projects we’ve ever delivered. Uline required an intense amount of customer service, and our team did an amazing job of responding to Uline’s highly detailed needs and expectations.”

Strong words of positivity from United’s Operations Manager Casey Gunther, as we complete our work at Uline’s new facility in Northern Nevada and employees begin shipping out products.

Uline is the largest shipping supply company in the world. They have 12 buildings in three countries including Canada, Mexico and the USA. This facility is just over 900,000 sf that features three separate tenant improvements. The main office is nearly 16,000 sf while the separate Warehouse Managers Office is a two-story office structure.

Uline has extremely high standards when it comes to their building – those standards which are set by the owner Elizabeth Uihlein as they try to keep each of their facilities set up the same.

For instance, Nick Crawford, the Superintendent on the project, gave a few examples of Uline’s high standards of excellence:

  • “The entire ceiling structure was painted with three coats of paint! While we had originally allotted two coats of paint for each 100,000 sf, we ended up adding an additional coat of oil base paint to the scope. Uline accelerated the painting contractor by paying all the overtime it took. So this meant three coats of paint on the ceiling structure totaling over 3,150,000 sf of paint.”
  • “The facility has a lot of racking, as one would expect for a warehouse, with some of the racking requiring in-rack fire suppression. The facility has a large automated UPS conveyor system In the UPS area. It also has an automated shrink wrap machine for shrink wrapping full size pallets in their bulk shipping area. The facility is equipped with a unique Sackett Battery charging station. This Sackett system is a fully automated battery charging station with 120 battery capacity for warehouse equipment charging needs. Given the facility operates 20 hours a day, the demand for batteries is more then we have seen in the past.”
  • “This project also has a generator that supports full power back up. In case of a power outage the Uline facility can fully operate with no down time. These are the things that made this project unique and challenging for our project team.”

The new Uline center sits at 8800 Military Road in Reno.

13 Jan

Posted at 07:57h in News, Project Milestone, United Team

 

Digging the dirt today are Tina Iftiger, Chief Commercial Officer, and Darren Griffen, President/CEO of the Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority along with Dassault’s Michael Montgomery and United Superintendent Pete Brunner. The ceremony marked the beginning of the expansion of the Dassault Falcon building at Reno Tahoe International Airport. United Estimators Greg Park and Jami Evanson supported the project through preconstruction, while the United team leading the project through to completion consists of Pete Brunner, Project Managers Casey Gunther and Robert Felstead, and Project Administrator Glady Robinette.

Designed by United Design Manager David Eckes with assistance from local architect Fred Graham, the 11,000 sf, two-story addition will feature parts storage, locker rooms, records storage and a second-floor training/event room, avionics work room, engineering, conference room and quality assurance department. United’s in-house architects designed the expansion. Completion is set for late June.

Dassault is a French based aircraft manufacturer of business and corporate jets. The United design-build team also delivered the existing building used by Dassault. United delivered it in 1996 as an aircraft maintenance hangar for Reno Air.

18 Oct

Posted at 14:43h in Project Milestone

Thanks to the United Team in California for capturing this stunning shot of our tilt last week in Vacaville. Once completed, the building will feature 252,160 SF of Class-A industrial space with 36’ clear height and extra parking to accommodate e-commerce companies.

28 Aug

Posted at 15:08h in Project Milestone

United Construction was honored to help LUX dynamics celebrate the groundbreaking of their new manufacturing facility in Reno, NV earlier this month.

As the Design-Build Contractor, United Construction is providing in-house architectural design and construction management for the new 51,050 square-foot, tilt-up facility. The building will feature 28’ clear-height ceilings and a 5,724 square-foot mezzanine offering flexible expansion options. Click here to read more about this project. 

 

21 Aug

Posted at 16:58h in Community, Project Milestone

Great job to our project teams for wrapping up expansions at Fremont and Mark Twain Elementary in time for the first day of school.

Over the past year, our superintendents worked closely with each school to manage construction on active campuses. It looks like they made quite an impression on the kids. In honor of completing the projects, we’d like to share what students observed during the building process. Some of our favorite takeaways are that construction is hard work, safety is key, the proper equipment and education are important, and “you have to be good to others.”

Thanks to our UNITED TEAM for successfully completing both projects while setting a positive example for the students!

United Construction is grateful to partner with the Carson City School District and Van Woert Bigotti Architects for these important projects in our community.

20 Aug

Posted at 11:05h in Project Milestone

Check out the recent slab on grade pour for LogistiCenter at Speedway in North Las Vegas. As the Design-Build Contractor, United Construction is grateful to work with Dermody Properties on this exciting project.

This building will feature 251,800 SF of available space (divisible at 24,300 SF), 32′ of clear height, 52 dock doors, 8 grade-level doors and 182 car parking spaces and will be ideal for warehouse, distribution and manufacturing operations.

 

LogistiCenter at Speedway, North Las Vegas, August 9, 2019 from United Construction on Vimeo.