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The Nevada Chapter AGC was formed in 1939 by a group of Nevadans to replace the dangerous gravel roads in Northern Nevada with modern materials. Now the group has become known for more than building roads. AGC members have battled floods, built hospitals, parks and schools. Over 300 members strong, the Nevada Chapter strives to support the image and awareness of the construction industry and the community quality of life with “Skill, Integrity and Responsibility.”
The Nevada Chapter trains hundreds of Northern Nevada construction professional in safety, technique and business practices each year. The Nevada Chapter AGC building is located at 5400 Mill St. Reno, NV 89502. Contact AGC at 775-329-6116 or via e-mail at info@nevadaagc.org.
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The AGC is designed to create a cohesive environment in the construction field for the purpose of creating unity among members, building a professional work environment, increasing work satisfaction, and improving job performance.
On-Site Medical Services: Another Benefit of AGC Membership The Nevada Chapter AGC is proud to announce a partnership with WorkPlace Medical Services (WMS), which is designed to lower your E-Mod and reportable injuries. This new program will provide First Aid response to AGC members, allowing for appropriate treatment of sprains, strains, cuts, eye injuries and abrasions without an emergency room or doctor visit.
the peace of mind that they have been seen by a medical professional and it takes the liability out of the hands of the employer. We have partnered with WMS to reduce the contractor’s liability and ensure a high level of care for your employees, available 24/7. There is no additional cost for this program unless it is utilized by the employer. To take advantage of this program, contact the AGC office today at 775-329-6116.
Not only will WMS keep your employees working and safe, but by providing these services it will keep the Employer’s E-Mod and recordable injuries to a minimum. WorkPlace Medical Services has joined forces with REMSA Community Paramedics to provide this On-Site medical treatment of minor work injuries. This gives employees NEVADA CHAPTER – ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS
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Over $5 Million Core Construction University of Nevada, Reno William N. Pennington Student Achievement Center The Pennington Student Achievement Center is a new four-story, 78,000-squarefoot student center located at the site of the old Getchell Library. The building’s design and location presented several challenges throughout the 18-month construction period as the building sits in the heart of campus. CORE Construction provided ongoing logistics planning, which began a year prior to commencement to allow the major pedestrian pathways to remain open in order to minimize disruption.
Coordination included heavy equipment, thousands of deliveries, structural steel, cranes, massive amounts of underground trenching and utilities, tons of brick and glass and upwards of 200 workers on site daily amidst a student body of 19,000-plus.
There was construction activity on this job site five to six days a week for 18 months. The CORE team adapted quickly to unforeseen material delays, access delays within the building and throughout campus, unknown existing utility conditions, building challenges with new codes and added scope as the project progressed. University of Nevada, Reno Project Manager Scott Brown said, “CORE’s willingness to listen and decipher information from numerous campus entities helped the university create a stateof-the-art teaching facility.”
Meeting the Challenge of a Difficult Job Over $5 Million
Gilbane Building Company University of Nevada, Reno Renovation of Lincoln Hall Built in 1896, Lincoln Hall is the second oldest building on the University of Nevada, Reno campus. Originally tabbed for tear down, the historic significance of the building and community concerns directed another course of action converting the residence hall into staff offices.
project was completed to facilitate the move-in of the faculty ahead of the Fall 2016 semester. Additionally, the majority (approximately 85 percent) of the construction contingency remained and this savings allowed for additional owner additions and enhancements to the project.
The first phase consisted of interior demolition, structural upgrades to meet current codes and the construction of an interior cast-in-place elevator shaft in the middle of the historic building. The second phase consisted of architectural enhancements such as exterior masonry renovation and architectural finishes, plus mechanical and electrical upgrades.
The university’s Project Manager John Walsh commented, “The entire construction team did an outstanding job in helping to get the project through staff occupation before the start of fall semester. Additionally, as a result of sound budget management throughout the delivery of the project, the team was able to return a large majority of the contingency to the University.”
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Over $5 Million Q&D Construction, Inc. Washoe County Regional Medical Examiner’s Office
Replacing a 50-year-old facility with an accredited Washoe County Medical Examiner’s Office combined the creation of a modern workspace with respect for the community it serves. Q&D Construction, Inc. worked diligently with the Medical Examiner to build a new facility that is a dramatic contrast from the stark, cramped and poorly ventilated office where more than 1,000 examinations are conducted a year. There is now ample space to work, the latest in autopsy tools and technology, the best equipment available, and a welcoming and productive office. This project had a very demanding start-up routine including laboratory equipment, piping and services, power
requirements, ventilation, balancing, specialty lighting, cold rooms, and building controls. The space is designed to be nationally accredited. A key challenge was the incorporation of a “hard-ceiling” room for examinations and the integration of all of the building infrastructure into that environment The Q&D team planned ahead for all start-up and testing activities, establishing lines of communication with vendors, holding regular commissioning meetings, and getting feedback from subcontractors. The budget was pre-approved and set by the County through regulatory channels, so the team had to fit the project requirements into a tight budget.
Meeting the Challenge of a Difficult Job Under $5 Million
Gilbane Building Company Wa She Shu Casino Gilbane took a complex and budget sensitive project from concept to occupancy in nine months fighting unique weather conditions that required quick planning to overcome wind, rain and snow. All of these different weather patterns came at times when the project team was trying to perform critical-schedule activities. Ultimately, they provided design-build services on the roughly 15,000-squarefoot single-story Wa She Shu Casino in Gardnerville, which boasts a 4,600-squarefoot gaming floor and a full service kitchen and restaurant that seats 80 guests. Other areas incorporated into the overall facility space include a separate bar area, food preparation area, back of house facilities, and a loading dock and receiving area. NEVADA CHAPTER – ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS
The project was a unique partnership between an Alabama-based tribe with gaming management experience and the local Washoe Tribe. With the project client cross-county, Gilbane’s extra care in project management paid off with good project morale, safety and efficiency. Greg Dye, of subcontractor Brigg’s Electric, said, “Working with Gilbane’s design team early in the planning phase resulted in a cost efficient, expandable and readily constructible design which provided Poarch Creek Gaming with a highly functional, purpose built gaming facility.”
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Meeting the Challenge of a Difficult Job Under $5 Million
GuiDenby, Inc. Salvation Ten
Salvation Ten wasn’t just simply the conversion of 7,500 square feet of retail/ warehouse space into urban housing, but the fulfillment of an idea that a blighted area can be reborn through imagination and attention to detail. The site’s location a former thrift store represented several challenges including an active local transient population, heavy traffic, safety and security concerns, and incomplete or non-existent utilities mapping. Mid project changes caused by new city requirements, despite already approved plans, and a change in cabinet fixtures did not phase GuiDenby who finished the project within the owner’s time frames. The execution encompassed new energy efficiency codes,
structural requirements for new use, and design elements that turned on the “welcome home” sign. The 10 small apartments were constructed in a 10-month schedule from design contract to construction completion. The one and two-bedroom apartments feature high-end appliances, roll up doors and front patios. The site was also redesigned to accommodate parking and shared landscaping. The two end units include large side yards, one facing the street and the other facing the back alley. All 10 units were rented within four days of being made available.
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Under $5 Million Q&D Construction, Inc. Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center Cath Lab #3
Working in a fully operating healthcare facility is challenging. Q&D’s Cath Lab #3 team planned and built a new room and services adjacent to a fully functioning cardiac operating room and cardiac intensive care unit. Plus, the two existing Cath labs needed to remain in 100 percent operation to accommodate installation of the latest in robotic cardiac catheterization equipment that protects both the patient and the medical technologist. The schedule was one major driver and challenge: the need for the adjacent rooms (OR’s, ICU and other cath labs) to remain in service at their max capacities during construction and equipment installation. Q&D’s conscientious and careful approach 6
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extended to work outside the main construction zone. Tie-ins, core-drilling and major power connections required shutdowns and work arounds with varying work hours. Kent Choma, P.E, Director of Facilities for Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center, said, “The team assembled by Q&D Construction amazingly completed the project on schedule and on budget with no unexpected service interruptions to our facility. The key to this was continuous communication between Q&D, the facility project team, department leaders in all adjacent and affected departments and the many physicians using the adjacent Cath Labs.” NEVADA CHAPTER – ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS
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Meeting the Challenge of a Difficult Job
Q&D Construction, Inc. Silver Legacy Sports Book The Silver Legacy Sports Book project included the removal of the existing 20-year-old casino sports book and bar. It was replaced with a new 8,200-squarefoot, state-of-the-art sports book and bar, operated through the SL in partnership with William Hill Race & Sports Book. Working together, the Q&D team built a technologically complex space with multiple layers of equipment, casework and regulatory coordination, containing long-lead and custom millwork items, from napkin-sketch to open-for-business in just 90 days. They had to work around many constraints including little parking and delivery access directly to the site, multiple closures of the main delivery
route entrance, and an active hospitality environment with guests and amenities just outside the work area. To work around the parking constraints, the team scheduled deliveries at off hours and staged materials in the space in bulk to work around closures. The highceilinged space was walled off with a 16foot tall barrier to control dust, noise, and keep a neat appearance for casino guests. The new Race and Sports Book has two state-of-the-art, high-definition LED walls each measuring an impressive 27 feet wide by 9 feet high, making sports fans feel as if they were on the 50-yard line at any football stadium in America.
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Under $5 Million Clark/Sullivan Construction Nevada Museum of Art Sky Room
Nevada Museum of Art’s new 4,800-square-foot Nightingale Sky Room is the region’s premier venue for programs, social and business gatherings, and special events. The facility features a full banquet kitchen and floor-to-ceiling windows providing a spectacular panorama of the Truckee Meadows, which opens to a patio area. Construction of the addition to the award-winning NMA building had to consider the protection of collections worth millions of dollars. This meant maintaining exacting parameters for temperature, moisture, and security. NMA brought back renowned Architect Will Bruder for the Sky Room. The Clark/Sullivan team provided a real time digital collaboration platform to meet the
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aggressive schedule as he worked virtually from Arizona. The museum remained operational during construction and as the museum compiled the highly ambitious Tahoe Exhibition. To replicate museum conditions for the show, the construction team had to shut down 100 percent during courier visits, which totaled 15 working days. The construction team worked to reduce waste and that meant that light fixtures, hardware, and pavers removed in the demolition of the original roof and plaza were repurposed in needy homes. Clark/ Sullivan also recommended a smaller, lighter, less expensive mechanical solution that reduced the structural solutions, saving money in the mechanical and steel scopes.
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Meeting the Challenge of a Difficult Job Under $5 Million
Granite Construction Company NDOT #3636 Lovelock Overlay
This project included placing new asphalt and shouldering on approximately 12 miles of a two-lane frontage road along Interstate 80 from the Toulon Exit to Lovelock, NV. Also included was a seismic retrofit of the bridge columns at the Toulon overpass. The primary function of this road is to provide access to Interstate 80, and as a frontage road to the City of Lovelock and neighboring farms. Project specifications required final surface with defects less than 160 inches/ mile. However, degradation at the surface, sub-surface failures and deteriorating roadway shoulders created an extreme challenge as the project only called for placing 2 inches of new asphalt over the chip sealed roadway under the existing condition.
Granite proposed repairing the shoulder first and then doing special repairs on the areas showing the greatest subsurface issues. They employed the latest in placement technology equipment which included a computerized guidance system, helping remove irregularities from the surface and controlling mat thickness automatically. The resulting pavement surface resulted in a 3,000 percent improvement over the preconstruction existing surface condition. NDOT Resident Engineer Larry Boge acknowledged, “All of the improvement to the road is owing to Granite taking the effort required to improve the ride.”
Contractor’s Innovation Over $5 Million
Q&D Construction, Inc. The Virginia Street Bridge
Virginia Street is a major arterial in the City of Reno and one of the focal points of the city. There for over 100 years, the Virginia Street Bridge turned well past its service life with the bridge’s historical status giving way to safety and flood-control concerns. The Virginia Street Bridge project included demolition of the former bridge, an earth-filled, reinforced concrete, dual-arch structure spanning the Truckee River, and the construction of a new, reinforced concrete, rigid frame, bowstring truss bridge. The largest team challenge was the construction schedule. Using conventional
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methods of construction, the bridge would require two spring-summer seasons for construction because the Truckee River is off-limits to construction activity from each October to the following May. Consulting with a noted accelerated bridge construction expert, the Q&D team identified this bridge as a candidate for an innovative bridge “slide.” The arches and foundations were built simultaneously, significantly reducing the critical path. Crews slid the arches into place at the end of the first season, removed the false work, and continued with construction of the deck and structures, completing it in spring of 2016 instead of the scheduled completion date of fall 2016. NEVADA CHAPTER – ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS
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Meeting the Challenge of a Difficult Job
Granite Construction Company RTIA Taxiway C Reconstruction The Taxiway C Reconstruction Project called for converting asphalt taxiways into a concrete surface. The specified start date of June 1, 2016, was chosen to complete the work prior to the winter season. However, government funding delays resulted in a July 27 project start. This severely put the project behind schedule and pushed work into winter months. The project affected Fixed Base Operations (FBOs) and private hangars, so it could not shut down due to inclement weather Granite worked to re-phase the project, moving some of the weather-sensitive work to the beginning of the schedule. Granite also accelerated the schedule so that concrete
pours would happen prior to the weather events. However, they couldn’t avoid a concrete pour in the Runway Safety Area two days prior to Christmas and saw cutting in the snowstorm on Christmas Eve.
RTIA’s Construction Manager Joe Mamola (Atkins) explained, “With the closure of Taxiway C, operations were greatly impacted...To alleviate confusion, Granite went above and beyond, providing weekly phasing plans which included the expected duration of closures, and aircraft traffic pattern exhibits to the project team, including the FAA Control Tower operators.”
Meeting the Challenge of a Difficult Job Under $5 Million
K.G. Walters Construction Rye Patch Dam Penstock Replacement With the 2016 irrigation season around the corner, the Pershing County Water Conservation District (PCWCD) discovered the failure of one of the two parallel 48 feet diameter steel penstock’s that had been in service for 80 years in the bowels of Rye Patch Dam. These are the conduits the PCWCD needs to deliver water to its customers who ranch and farm the more than 30,000 acres that sustain the Lovelock area economy and quality of life.
fabricated a steel sled moving on I-beam rails to replace the old penstock with the new. It had to support penstock averaging 20 inches in length and approximately 6,500 pounds by utilizing sections of 4 feet pipe as rollers to move the loaded sled. The demolition of the old penstock required a steel shoring system to ensure structural integrity of the Dam Control House. Plus, USDA funding required that the 1935 character of the dam be maintained.
The K.G. Walters team faced many hurdles on this project that required on-site design and off-site fabrication. Confined spaces precluded the use of heavy equipment to replace the 300 feet of steel. The team
K.G. Walters completed the project in just three months, on budget, and with no lost time accidents or incidents.
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Sierra Nevada Construction, Inc. North McCarran Blvd. at North Virginia Street Intersection Project The North Virginia at North McCarran intersection is one of the busiest intersections in the Reno-Sparks area and has appeared on the top 10 high crash locations list numerous times. The needed widening and flow improvements had to be accomplished around university activities and classes, high school graduations, and the daily commute. Plus, there were unforeseen retaining wall and underground utility issues.
project was both initial and continuous coordination with the agencies and key stakeholder involvement. This assured critical operations were conducted in an order that minimized inconveniences to both the traveling public and the stakeholders.
The project involved multiple agencies including RTC, the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT), University of Nevada, Reno, the City of Reno, and Washoe County.
Blaine Petersen, RTC project manager, said, “I am thankful for the project team I had, the project-first mentality paired with SNC’s extreme flexibility enabled a very difficult project to go as smooth as possible.”
The key to SNC’s success with the
SNC’s effective planning assured the project was completed on time and on budget.
Contractor’s Innovation Under $5 Million
Granite Construction Company NDOT #3612 Nugget Avenue
Nugget Avenue at this location serves as the primary access for fuel trucks servicing a fuel farm as well as access for several heavy-traffic businesses. The 50-day contract included the removal and replacement of the existing curb and gutter and valley gutters, a new roadway section consisting of imported aggregate base with a geotextile fabric, and a new asphalt section 6 inches in depth. Importing the aggregate base would require haul trucks to dump from the “live” traffic lane. Granite proposed to pulverize the existing roadway to 16 inches deep, remove 6 inches to accommodate a 6-inch asphalt pavement section, and
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cement treat the remaining pulverized material, grading, and compacting the material in place. This process solved the major challenges identified on the project, and NDOT approved the Value Engineering Proposal. “The proposal provided many benefits to the Department, as well as taxpayers,” said Sam Lompa, NDOT’s resident engineer for the project. “There were multiple businesses within the limits of the project, and this proposal reduced the impacts to those businesses, as well as the traveling public by completing the project ahead of schedule.”
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SPECIALTY CONTRACTORS
Meeting the Challenge of a Difficult Job
L.A. Perks Petroleum Specialists, Inc. Newmont Long Canyon – Mine & Truck Shop Fuel Systems With their reputation on the line, the petroleum system specialists at L.A. Perks overcame supply and engineering issues to deliver at the latest large mine startup in northeast Nevada’s gold country. The project at Long Canyon included the production of construction drawings, supplies and handling of material, and the fabrication and erection of structural steel supports. The build-out goal was two fueling facilities that would be providing the mine with their blood line to keep operations moving forward 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Newmont required state-of-the-art fueling for both the major equipment and the
truck shop fueling stations. Each required multiple tanks and pipe systems for the various fuels and coolants. With NASA-level engineering specs, L.A. Perks overcame a delay on the specified filter system materials by purchasing a comparable system until the specified filters were tested and fabricated. They created a modular design that allowed the spec filters to be bolted on and the temporary system moving to the truck shop fueling station.
The effort did not go unnoticed, as Newmont named L.A. Perks its February 2016 contractor of the month acknowledging schedule, work performance, job site tidiness and safety.
“Durable Concrete: Solutions that Make ¢ents” Featuring Dr. Jason Weiss of Oregon State University
D Jason Weiss is the head of Oregon State University’s School of Dr. Civil and Construction Engineering where he directs the Kiewet Ceenter for Infrastructure and Transportation. He is a construction materials expert who has performed extensive research into m ways to make concrete more durable and sustainable. w The afternoon session features Clay Slocum, pavements engineer foor the California Nevada Concrete Association. He will be discussing Design and Construction of Concrete in Parking Areas, Loocal Streets and Roads. The Sierra Nevada Concrete Association (SNCA) is an active force in promoting the use of quality concrete for all types of construction, from tilt-up logistics and manufacturing facilities to lower-life cycle cost concrete pavements for roadways and parking lots. The cost is $80 and includes a CEU/PDH certificate for 0.6/6 hours. Breakfast, lunch and a break will be provided by our sponsors.
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17th Annual Concrete Expo 2017 April 27th, 2017 • 8 am - 3:30 pm Peppermill Resort Casino, Reno, NV
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SNCA Contact Information: http://www.sierranevadaconcrete.com info@sierranevadaconcrete.com (775) 852-6551
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Nevada ChapterAGC Helping you stay on the cutting edge of the construction industry. Construction Leadership Council •
Cultivating the next generation of leaders in the construction industry.
Workforce Development •
Educating our teachers and counselors on lucrative construction careers while developing a current and future skilled workforce.
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Support towards legislative efforts benefiting the industry as a whole.
AGC Leadership Series •
Development of leadership skills and techniques and learning the roles AGC plays in the industry.
AGC Mixers •
Networking with progressive companies in the industry.
Philanthropy Involvement •
Building a better community through community service projects.
“The most important aspect of moving forward in our industry is to keep an open mind. Everything is changing, from the means and methods of construction to the manner in which we are communicating to get things built.”
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