The 3-phase project included a new gym and basketball courts, a new two-story classroom building, a new kitchen, and renovations to the older section of the building including an updated HVAC system, a new multipurpose room, administrative offices, nurses clinic, and courtyard.
The Fremont Elementary School Expansion project consisted of construction of approximately 14,000 sf expansion and tenant improvements of the campus. Construction and selective demolition provided space for enrollment growth and to improve space for Kindergarten, General Education, Special Education, and Early Childhood Development, along with miscellaneous tenant improvements.
The bottom of Mount Rose Scenic Highway now features a new public charter school: Doral Academy of Northern Nevada. Designed and built to blend in with the surrounding mountainous landscape, Doral Academy’s new campus features a three-story, 54,685 square-foot facility.
The building has classrooms, specialty laboratories, an art studio, music and dance studios and indoor and outdoor areas for recreation. It was built to serve more than 600 kids in grades K-8.
As the General Contractor, United Construction collaborated closely with Doral Academy, Boyer (Owner’s Representative), and Ethos Three Architects in order to phase and expedite the project schedule so that the school could open in time for the start of the 2018 school year.
This 187,343 square-foot, environmentally sensitive school was built for the Washoe County School District. The new school prototype accommodates a maximum of 1,400 students and is comprised of five buildings, two of which are two-story plus two athletic fields. United Construction worked closely with the architect and structural engineer on the challenges and unique features of this first of its kind prototype middle school.
The school contains more energy efficient features than any other school in the district to date and uses ground source heating and cooling systems to provide heating and cooling to the school’s individual mechanical systems. A cool roof deflects radiant energy resulting in less energy required to cool the building. Skylights and day lighting windows as well as light shelves which bounce sunlight off classroom ceilings allow the building to be lit naturally thus reducing the amount of artificial light needed.
New construction for a 62,000 square-foot elementary school for the Washoe County School District. Features included a cafeteria, gymnasium, site improvements and athletic field.
This project included the construction of a new 150,000 square-foot middle school for the Washoe County School District.
Our work on the Sierra Nevada College Prim Library is an example of working with an Owner and Design Team to provide the best value. When the original competitive bids were opened the project was $1,000,000 over budget. Rather than start over, the College engaged United Construction to work closely with the owner and design team to perform constructability reviews and value engineer components of the design to find ways to reduce costs without compromising the quality of the project. This collaborative effort continued throughout the duration of the project resulting in a library that maintained its original design intent, but was completed for 8% less than the Owner’s original budget.
This project included the construction of a new middle school for the Washoe County School District. This building is an energy star design underground geothermal exchange heating & cooling with electrical motorized skylight gathering capabilities, using 30% less energy than other similar size schools.
All work was done with the confines of an operating community college. This project consisted of 40,000 SF of new construction, 60,000 SF of remodel to the existing Red Mountain Building as well as new construction of an 8,000 SF metal building to relocate the campus Plant Facility Department. These facilities are the focal point of the community college and demanded close collaboration between the Owners, Architects, United Construction as well as all subcontractors. The remodel included interior demolition of existing maintenance facility, auditorium, kitchen classrooms, science labs, fitness center and various other offices and classrooms.
The remodel portion of the project included the revamping of the facilities fire and life protection system. There was also extensive sitework regrading, custom concrete work and landscaping.
This multi-phased project included the construction of a new private middle school and campus expansion to accommodate a high school two years later. The middle school portion consisted of classrooms, library, administrative offices and gymnasium. The high school portion added a new 14,400 square-foot class room building, 2,500 square-foot locker room addition and front entry modifications of existing school building, site improvements, sheet extension and soccer field.
