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08 Oct

Posted at 09:17h in Community, News

We had a fantastic time at the 7th annual Northern Nevada Construction Career Day, hosted by the Nevada Chapter AGC! Held on October 3rd at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center, this event brought together more than 1,600 middle and high school students from Northern Nevada. Through hands-on activities, interactive exhibits, and insights into education, training, and apprenticeship opportunities, students got an exciting glimpse into the possibilities of a construction career. We’re proud to support the next generation of builders and leaders in our industry!

19 Aug

Posted at 08:49h in Community

We had an incredible evening at one of our favorite annual events, The Children’s Cabinet Art of Childhood! The night was filled with delicious food, great company, and the excitement of both silent and live auctions. Our team was thrilled to see the Grocery Market playhouse, crafted by United Construction, raise an impressive $4,250 at the auction!

 

This event holds a special place in our hearts, as it directly supports The Children’s Cabinet’s vital mission of keeping children safe and families together. The generosity of everyone involved helped raise a total of $947,500, making a significant impact on the lives of those in our community.

 

We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who attended, participated, and made this evening a huge success! Your support truly makes a difference. We also want to express our sincere gratitude to the United Construction team members who helped with the playhouse, including Chris Bennett, Leman Jones, Amanda Kneisel, Shelby Cox, Ariel Mooney, Jeremiah Bergara, Mark Duran, Mark Davis, Van Amsden, Marshal Hoffman, and Gladiss Hernandez. Your efforts are deeply appreciated!

24 Jul

Posted at 09:00h in Project Milestone

We are excited to update you on the progress of the first phase of our Reno AirLogistics Park project. We have accomplished a major milestone with the first wall tilt on July 8th and 9th on our 470,000-square-foot cross-dock concrete tilt-up Building 2. This milestone showcases our team’s dedication and hard work maintaining the schedule, advancing us towards our envisioned completion of a state-of-the-art logistics facility. The team is set to begin the second half of the building tilt on Friday, July 26th.

 

Additionally, the first phase includes the expansion of Moya Boulevard and the construction of a new half-mile, four-lane section extending onto Airport Property, along with reconfiguring the Industrial Circle intersection. We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Michael Dermody, Pearce Dermody, and John Ramous from Dermody Properties; Aurora Ritter and Mark Berg from RTAA; Art Sperber, Joel Grace, Kitty Jung, and Jennifer Cunningham from the RTAA Board of Trustees; and Ken Rice, Mark Story, and Michael Russell from United Construction for their onsite visit on July 8th to witness the wall tilt.

04 Mar

Posted at 10:30h in News

On March 2nd, Dermody Properties and Locus Development Group as the project Developer team and United Construction as the Design-Builder were honored with awards for NAIOP Northern Nevada Industrial Park of the Year (Park at McCarran) and Industrial Build-to-Suit of the Year (Building 1 Ames). Since the NAIOP CRE Awards event was not held in 2023, the 2024 event was held to recognize projects completed in 2022 and 2023.

With the sheer size and scale of this development, United Construction people drove this project to successful completion over the 2-1/2-year project development timeline. This project was designed and built during the pandemic and broke ground just as supply chain issues started causing long lead times for various equipment and materials and the subsequent unpredictable material cost escalations.

Our deepest thanks and appreciation go to Locus Development Group (Joel Grace) and Dermody Properties (John Ramous) for selecting United Construction as their Design-Build partner on this remarkable project. We also thank the Ames, InnoPak, Candle Science and Fidelitone companies that occupied all the buildings as initial tenants.

Numerous United Construction team members who were responsible for successfully delivering these facilities deserve our utmost recognition include Audrey Mackey, Carrie Dyer, Casey Gunther, Jeremy Kearns, Chuck Brown, Dylan McAninch, Pete Brunner, Paul Laird, Sandy Penny, Catherine Bernauer, Chris Bennett, Keith Deutscher, Glady Robinette, Ken Rice, Leman Jones and Mark Byars.

United Construction has over 45 years’ experience designing and building industrial and manufacturing facilities, and for the Park at McCarran development was able to assemble the best project management/control team, consultants, vendors and subcontractors to successfully navigate and mitigate the project regulatory, permitting, schedule and financial challenges that were encountered on the project. This is what United Construction always does best, day in and day out for and with our customers.

Congratulations everyone!

11 May

Posted at 09:37h in News

Thank you to Nevada Business Magazine for celebrating the accomplishments of outstanding local companies in our community at the Nevada Business Awards luncheon! Congratulations to all of the 2023 Nevada Business Award finalists and winners of this prestigious award!

05 Apr

Posted at 09:49h in News, Project Milestone

Congratulations to CAE on the official opening of your aviation training center in Las Vegas! The 150,000-square-foot facility is the first CAE training center to open on the West Coast and currently houses seven flight simulators, with plans for one more simulator to be installed in the future. This facility is expected to train over 2,500 pilots annually and has created 75 highly skilled jobs in the region. We were honored to be on CAE’s team for this project and excited to attend the ribbon-cutting celebration for the opening of this world-class facility here in Nevada!

27 Mar

Posted at 10:00h in News

We are honored to announce our CAE TI project has won a NAIOP Southern Nevada Spotlight Award in the Industrial Tenant Improvement category! Congratulations to CAE and our fantastic partners that made this project a success, including:

  • Dermody Properties (Developer) project team led by John Ramous and Jim Nass
  • The United Construction preconstruction team of Mark Duran, Keith Deutscher, and Paul Laird, and construction team of Dane Horton, Wendy Orcutt, Audrey Mackey, Michael Richardson, Chris Casanova, and Colton Brock
  • CAE Team led by Danny Neubarth, Ash Zare, and Jestina Mahon
  • Figurr / JL Richards Team (CAE programming Architect / MEP Engineers ) led by Keith Johnson Figurr, Rick Rubin Figurr, Bogdan Burzawa M/P Engineer, and Harminder Matharu Electrical Engineer
  • Forbes Linchpin Structural Engineers
  • The design-build contractors:
    • Helix Electric
    • Gallagher Plumbing
    • Air Design Systems
    • Shambaugh & Sons
    • Southern Nevada Drywall
  • Standout subcontractors – Southern Nevada Drywall, Helix Electric, and Air Design Systems

 

The CAE TI project is located in the LogistiCenter at Sunset Road building located at 6550 South Bruce Street, right next to the Las Vegas airport. CAE is a Canadian-based full-service commercial pilot training company with training facilities in over 35 countries. The 150,000-square-foot Las Vegas facility houses training/flight simulators, classrooms, and administrative support spaces. CAE started operations in the facility Q4 of 2022 and currently, there are seven simulators, with plans for one more simulator to be installed in the facility.

Congratulations team for winning this award and delivering this world-class facility here in Nevada!

24 Mar

Posted at 11:02h in News

Congratulations to our Design Partner, Van Woert Bigotti Architects, and our Trade Partner, Kemper Masonry, for the LifeChurch project being featured on the cover page of Concrete Masonry Association of California and Nevada’s CMU Profiles in Architecture! Check out the featured article on page 4 of the winter 2023 issue of this publication. This phased project included a multi-purpose gymnatorium with a worship center and recreation court for basketball and volleyball, and a two-story child center featuring outdoor and indoor recreation areas, classrooms, and a conference/multi-purpose space. We are honored to have been a part of the project team as the general contractor for this CMAR project. Congratulations team on this wonderful achievement! View the article here – https://issuu.com/unitedconstruction1978/docs/winter_2023_cmu_profiles_in_architecture.

08 Mar

Posted at 14:22h in News, Project Milestone

On 3/6/23 United Construction obtained the Certificate of Occupancy for the Hamilton Company Clean Room Project located on Edison Way. The Hamilton Company Clean Room Project consisted of a 3-story, 64,916 square-foot concrete tilt-up and steel framed structure with a state-of-the-art clean room located on the first floor. The building will include injection molding machines and packaging automation for medical-grade pipette tips. The capital investment for the building and equipment signifies Hamilton Company’s continued and significant investment in northern Nevada.

The Hamilton Company Clean Room Project was managed by a fantastic team of United Construction professionals that delivered the project under budget and on schedule. Construction of the project was led by Superintendent Nick Crawford and Assistant Superintendent Justin Brunner, Project Manager Robert Felstead, Project Engineer Harlee Annis, Project Administrator Yajaira Medina, Accounts Payable Ariel Mooney, and Preconstruction Project Manager Zach Caron. The Hamilton Company project representative was Brian Slenker who helped lead the project to a successful delivery.

Nick Crawford discloses “This project started with the razing of two older buildings at the site, then the construction of a new 3-story building on a tight land-locked site with an existing drainage channel running beneath it. There were numerous logistical challenges on this site, including lifting 90-ton concrete wall panels with a 330-ton crane on a very tight site, none of which would have been made possible without the great work of our United Construction Team and our local engineers, designers, and subcontractors”.

Michael Russell United Construction CEO adds “Congratulations to our team for obtaining the Certificate of Occupancy for the Hamilton Company Clean Room project! The new 3-story high-tech facility will support and enhance Hamilton’s development, manufacturing, and customization of precision measurement devices, automated liquid handling workstations, and sample management systems business. We are honored and proud to have been selected by Hamilton Company for this important design-build commission, and to deliver this project with Hamilton Company as our third major project working together, previously completing several other site improvements, building, and tenant improvement projects on Hamilton’s campus over the last 10 years. Thank you Hamilton Company for selecting United Construction for this amazing project, and the United Construction project team for achieving this huge project milestone.”

26 May

Posted at 09:30h in News, Project Milestone

The month of May marked an especially productive timeframe for the construction team at Swope Middle School. Site crews have reached completion or near completion on several aspects of both the interior and exterior of the new two-story classroom building and the existing classroom building.

“We are proud of the immense progress our team has made thus far at Swope,” said Casey Gunther, Operations Manager for United Construction. “This work is a testament to the dedication of our subcontractors, partners, and Washoe County School District.”

The roof atop the new classroom building is finished, and the building is dried in as well. The mechanical, electrical, and plumbing rough-ins are also substantially complete. Thanks to the quick work of our site crews, almost all walls and soffits are completely covered with drywall. Our team is now in the process of taping and texturing the interior walls, which will be followed by paint. On the exterior of the building, the areas in the north courtyard have been excavated for the six above-ground planters that are planned to be built. After the footings for the planters are poured, the forms will be stripped, and the concrete masonry units (CMUs) will be installed.

On the northwest corner of the new gym, the pad for the new chiller unit has been prepped for the concrete slab to be formed and poured. Crews have been working on the HVAC system in the attics of the existing classroom building after school every day, installing new duct work and mechanical equipment.

Concurrent with the physical work on site, United Construction has been meeting with their key subcontractors to plan the sequencing of all work planned to be performed during summer break.

Photos by Ryland Sweigard