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29 Oct

Posted at 11:36h in News, Project Milestone

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22 Oct

Posted at 09:21h in News, United Team

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11 Oct

Posted at 09:31h in News, United Team

How do we employ Value Engineering? At United Construction, we work directly with our clients and the design team (both internal and external) from the very start of the project to maximize the construction budget. Our philosophy is simple: we focus on adding value to the project at all stages by maintaining or reducing project costs while not sacrificing on quality and program. A great example of us taking full advantage of Value Engineering can be seen within our work on the Prim Library at Sierra Nevada University (formerly Sierra Nevada College), pictured above. We worked closely with the school and...

01 Oct

Posted at 08:46h in News, Project Milestone

This Fall will welcome swift and notable progress at Swope Middle School, as both expansions and new construction continue to go smoothly and efficiently. “With the new season comes new milestones at Swope,” said Casey Gunther, Operations Manager for United Construction. “Students and staff will be excited to learn that several facilities will be ready to use in the coming weeks, including the new gym. We look forward to even more progress as Fall continues on.” Site crews have completed excavations at the location of the new two-story classroom building. Workers continue to make progress as the underground utilities are near...

30 Sep

Posted at 11:38h in Community, News, United Team

United Construction had a lovely time supporting Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northern Nevada (BBBSNN) at one of their annual Big Chefs Little Galas last weekend. We were a proud sponsor of the event, which raised funds for BBBSNN's mission: "To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth." During the pandemic, caring for our community's children at-risk is even more important, and every dollar raised at the gala is going to help BBBSNN "match at-risk youth with caring adult mentors to help ignite, inspire, and empower their potential." Cheers to children! ...

22 Sep

Posted at 08:26h in Community, News, United Team

In recognition of their vast talents and commitment to our team, United Construction is honored to announce that two of our project administrators are being promoted, effective next Monday, September 27. Carrie Dyer will be our newest Project Engineer, while Audrey Mackey will be our next Operations Administrator. Carrie began her career with us in September 2019, exactly two years ago. First serving as a Project Administrator, she was integral to several of our key Northern Nevada and Northern California projects, including Swope Middle School Phases 1-3, Berkley International, LogistiCenter at Vacaville and more. With a wide variety of both project...

13 Sep

Posted at 14:48h in Community, News, United Team

Today, September 13, marks the beginning of Construction Appreciation Week in the U.S. This commemorative week "recognizes the dedicated, hard-working men and women instrumental in the development of our infrastructure." As a leading design-build construction firm in Nevada, we are proud United team members who have given our tireless efforts to many projects that have helped our communities, from public schools and community health clinics to distribution centers and aircraft services buildings. We will be featuring many of these projects, along with the teams that aided us along the way, throughout this week on our Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter pages. From September 13-17, we encourage our supporters...

08 Sep

Posted at 16:04h in Community, News

United Construction's site crew at Hamilton Reactor Way welcomed 3rd and 4th graders from neighboring Nevada Sage Waldorf School this morning for a short, educational field trip. Superintendent Chuck Brown first took the children through a visual timeline of the site's construction milestones with several photos showcasing the project's start to its near-finish. He then showed the children the different aspects of the site and explained them more in detail, from the pavement and trench to the pump and culvert. To finish off the trip, the kids put on a hard hat and high-vis vest, hopped into the seat of...

27 Aug

Posted at 13:41h in News, Project Milestone

As WCSD settles into the beginnings of the 2021-2022 school year, United Construction and their subcontractors are hard at work making way for more new and remodeled classrooms and buildings at Swope Middle School. “It is exciting to see the students and staff at Swope begin to use the new-and-improved facilities this school season,” said Casey Gunther, Operations Manager for United Construction. “We are all beginning to see a ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ in terms of the phased construction process, and we look forward to continuing the remodels and moving forward with work on the new building...

23 Aug

Posted at 10:05h in Community, News, United Team

Several of our Reno team members had a wonderful time celebrating The Children’s Cabinet at the Art of Childhood fundraising gala, which took place at The Club at Rancharrah on Friday, August 20. The Children’s Cabinet is heavily intertwined in our culture at United Construction, with Michael Dermody founding the nonprofit in the 1980s and Michael Russell sitting on the Board of Trustees for over a decade. We love to support such a vital organization for children and families in our community, and we were honored to be a Bronze Sponsor. The Children’s Cabinet was able to raise $517,000...