Team United and their plus-ones attended the Summit Awards hosted by NAIOP Northern Nevada this weekend. We had a lovely time supporting so many commercial real estate companies and professionals who have done incredible work within our industry in Northern Nevada. We were proud to be an event sponsor this year! Thank you, NAIOP, for a wonderful event!...
Back in February, we announced that United Construction was finalist for the 2022 Nevada Business Magazine (NBM) Awards under the "Battle Born" category. To honor all of the finalists and announce the winners, the NBM hosted an upscale business luncheon at the Peppermill yesterday afternoon. Along with Design Manager Keith Deutscher and Marketing Manager Alana Ridge representing United, Northern Nevada businesses from a wide variety of industries and years in service attended the event to celebrate each other. Out of the many nominations, United was in the Top 3 under the "Battle Born" category, which recognizes companies that have been...
Aristocrat Gaming, a global gaming content and technology company, recently held a groundbreaking ceremony at our planned logistics park in Henderson, Nevada. The company will be a tenant in one of the buildings, where they will manufacture slot machines and other gaming equipment. Southern Nevada dignitaries, United Construction and their subcontractors, and hundreds of Aristocrat employees attended the event, excited to mark the beginning of the construction progress for their brand new building. KLAS Channel 8 in Las Vegas covered the groundbreaking. The video clip that aired on TV can be found here. We thank our Superintendent Kerry Brock for the logistical...
Students and staff at Swope Middle School are anticipating the completion of their brand new classroom building, as the site crews make notable progress witnessed by the Swope community. “We are approaching new milestones that will help prepare us to welcome students and staff into their revamped learning space upon project completion,” said Casey Gunther, Operations Manager for United Construction. “We appreciate everyone’s patience and enthusiasm as we shape up the expansions and renovations at the school.” In the new two-story classroom area, the on-site construction team is in the process of installing the new roof. Upon roof completion, the building...
Our Operations Manager Casey Gunther and our Talent Acquisition Manager Susan Rowland recently participated in the Employer Support of the Guard & Reserve (ESGR) Boss Lift at the Nevada Air National Guard Base in Reno. The Boss Lift is a recognition event for employers (like United Construction) who support the United States National Guard and Reserve, and the event provided critical first-hand insight into why our support of employing Guard and Reserve members is essential to our national defense. As a part of the program, Casey and Susan had the exciting opportunity to fly in a Military C-130 Aircraft and...
United Construction is officially a Top Workplace in Nevada! We are thrilled to announce that our company is a winner of the 2022 Top Workplaces awards program. In order to qualify for this program, companies must distribute an in-depth, anonymous employee survey to thoroughly analyze staff engagement levels, company perception, leadership efficiency, and many more critical points that make an organization function well. The data is in – and we are so proud to be among the greatest places to work in the Silver State. Congratulations to our wonderful employees that make United Construction the company that it is! All this...
Our Park at McCarran project and field team welcomed the NAIOP Northern Nevada Developing Leaders onsite yesterday for a tour of Buildings 1-3. We had a great time showing these young construction and development professionals the immense progress of the park, both inside and outside. They were a delight to have! Thank you, Developing Leaders, for taking the time out of your day to experience the Park at McCarran construction site! ...
As the season of spring officially begins, site crews continue to take advantage of the good weather by making great headway at Swope Middle School. “It is exciting to see the swift progress happening at the school, and we only have greater milestones in store as we embrace spring,” said Casey Gunther, Operations Manager for United Construction. “Our site crews are continuing with framing, retrofitting, HVAC installation, and many other finishes within the new classroom building, which is getting closer and closer to completion.” During the Washoe County School District spring break, crews worked in both the new two-story classroom building...
Crews are making great progress at the project site of our industrial 664,000-square-foot inventory facility in North Las Vegas. Superintendent Colton Brock is celebrating the fact that the pad subgrade is about 90% completed, and only 40,000 yards of export remain. Additionally, crushing for Type-II is currently taking place onsite. Additionally, swift progress is afoot at our logistics project in Henderson. Our work on this project will initially consist of two logistics buildings (of a four-building project). Building 1 will be 330,000 square feet, and Building 2 will be 265,000 square feet. Under-slab utilities for those first two buildings have...
United Construction Welcomes Edward Morgan as New Chief Financial Officer CFO Brad Breach to retire after serving 35 years with the Nevada-based design-builder United Construction Company (UCC), a best-in-class general contractor and design-builder serving both Northern and Southern Nevada industrial and commercial markets, has named Edward “Ed” Morgan as their new Chief Financial Officer, beginning March 7, 2022. This announcement comes as UCC’s beloved CFO Brad Breach announces his retirement after 35 years of professional service to the company. Morgan joins UCC with several decades of accounting, finance, analysis, reporting, and operations leadership experience in Colorado, Northern California, and the Truckee/Tahoe region,...