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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 an excavator (under close and careful supervision) and each posed for a photo safely and with a smile.

We thank Chuck for sharing his wealth of knowledge with the children and teachers of Waldorf, and we also thank our subcontractor Sierra Nevada Construction for specially placing the excavator and other surrounding equipment for this fun purpose.

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 wing.”

The aforementioned building wing will be a new two-story classroom building in the location of the former gymnasium, which has been completely demolished. It will house a new resource center, math and science classrooms, a technology lab, a new teachers’ lounge and workspace, social science and language classrooms, a group room for various activities and a hub space.

In the new gym, the hardwood flooring is complete. On the floor, students can enjoy the revamped basketball hoops, volleyball courts and a scoreboard. The new fitness center will be also be ready to use in the near future.

Band and choir students will soon be able to take advantage of the new music practice rooms, as site workers near completion on the remodels. Additionally, the remodel on the kitchen facilities are now underway.

Up next for the construction team are excavations, followed by the installation of underground utilities directly after excavations are complete.