Founded in 1976 by two union carpenters—Frank Martin and Frank Harris—Las Vegas-based general contractor Martin-Harris Construction considers its first priority to be the well-being and success of its 353 employees.

“我们在公司的底线中找到了成功，而不是最高线，”四年前从父亲担任公司领导的盖伊·马丁（Guy Martin）说。“我们的座右铭是：‘玩得开心，赚钱，’。”

马丁每个星期一早上都会更新公司，作为其中的一部分，他坚持知道是否有人受伤。如果是这样，他打电话给雇员的家人，以确保受伤的工人得到照顾。

“We build people through our projects,” Martin says. “We make sure our people are very successful during this season in their life, and we want them to view this time [at Martin-Harris] as a blessing in their career.”

Support for its employees is matched by the firm’s attention to the needs of its clients. While Martin-Harris operates throughout the Southwestern U.S. (Nevada, Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas), providing design-build, CMAR, design-assist and design-bid-build services in a wide variety of market sectors, “we never travel to a location [from which] we cannot get home office support within four hours,” Martin says.

多样化的投资组合

该公司的市场专业知识包括医疗保健，工业，办公室，教育，多户家庭，特殊用途，酒店，公共工程和零售项目。新利18备用网址尽管打电话给拉斯维加斯回家，但承包商并不依赖城市的酒店走廊或地带的收入。

“我们喜欢在轻型商业和工业领域的地带上工作，并且始终有我们正在建造的两三所学校。这种多样性使我们能够在不断变化的环境中如此灵巧地工作。”马丁说。

该公司将其工作分为三本商业。承包商的核心业务集团的范围从多户家庭到工业仓库，公园，学校和教堂，项目的规模通常从300万美元到8000万美元不等。新利18备用网址当前的例子包括Red Rock的Adobe，一座4200万美元，四层楼，308个单元的公寓楼和学位，UNLV University Park学生住房，2600万美元，五层楼的木制学生住房复杂的226个单位。

The firm’s major projects group tackles unique work outside key market centers. While these projects are not always large, they are often focused on complexity. “This group is a collection of assets we deploy very strategically,” Martin explains. The major projects group is currently building the Las Vegas Convention Center Phase II Expansion, working in a joint venture with Turner Construction as part of a $2.1-billion program. It also is building the 140,000-sq-ft Las Vegas municipal courthouse through a $56.3-million public-private partnership.

同时，一个特殊项目小组以高强度，短期的重点新利18备用网址解决工作，包括翻新和所有市场领域的租户改善。最近，该小组在赌场内为永利，宫殿和帕克米高梅（Palazzo）和公园米高梅（Park Mgm）完成了重复工作，并在麦卡兰国际机场（McCarran International Airport）以及UMC和Sunrise医院的LAX和医疗保健项目中完成了工作。新利18备用网址

马丁说：“这些项目的人们在那种环新利18备用网址境中蓬勃发展。”该集团每年有100多个项目的年收入为4新利18备用网址000万至6000万美元。

“We build a lot of apartments and hotels and bring lean principles and innovation to those projects,” Martin-Harris COO Paul Toplak says. “And we partner with our subcontractors to raise the bar. It’s very fulfilling. We feel this is an area where our firm has more time and patience and has impacted the industry in a positive way.”

导航变更

当大流行迫使公司开始远程工作时，马丁·哈里斯（Martin-Harris）从30％的远程劳动力升至91％。“没有人为此做好准备，”马丁说。“这是启发或瘫痪的[承包商]；它以真正的马丁·哈里斯（Martin-Harris）形式启发了我们，我们的人民继续做任何事情。”

Nevada has lately relaxed its social-distancing restrictions, and the contractor is fully open today with key protocols in place. To prepare for this “new normal,” the firm conducted a thorough office reopening program phased over a three-week period.

The contractor treated its office like a jobsite, performing a job-hazard analysis and taking steps to eliminate or mitigate risks. OSHA and CDC preventative measures were applied to hallways, coffee stations, restrooms and the reception area. “Any place where social distancing is not practical or guaranteed, we treated as a job hazard and wrote a plan for it,” Martin says.

在会议之间要求房间一个小时的空缺，清洁并消毒，并允许机械系统足够的时间恢复。公司领导人举行了虚拟会议，以培训所有90名办公室工作人员的潜在危害。

托普拉克说：“我们的第一个关注点是如何确保人们的安全。”“我们的第二个关注点是使他们受雇。”当马丁·哈里斯（Martin-Harris）无法找到工作地点的便携式洗手站时，承包商提出了制定它们的计划，然后与行业同行分享了这一过程。

“The pandemic has confirmed our commitment to our people and our partners. It has reinforced that we need to be leaders,” Toplak adds. “As the world changes, we are figuring out how to be at the forefront of that change.”

Martin served on the Nevada governor’s commission to help the state work through how to keep construction as an essential activity during the pandemic shutdown. “We were able to share our ideas and strategies with the governor’s office and OSHA to keep our tradesmen and women working and safe,” he says.

他认为大流行以两种主要方式改变了行业。首先，在他所说的简短游戏中：“租户改进，脱衣舞购物中心，所有者依靠其业务服务的现金流来支付这笔费用的任何项目都被推迟了。”

他说：“这是一种纯粹的经济影响，它将随着工作部门的回来而迅速纠正自己。”

On the flip side, any projects that can be bid, built and commissioned within a nine-month period are not seeing much of an impact. “We have a robust schedule and backlog. Money is still out there and flowing,” Martin adds. “The greatest challenge is that developers outside of Vegas are hampered by travel restrictions and can’t physically get here right now. They’ve just hit pause; they haven’t changed their plans.”

The Human Element

为了致力于持续争取劳动力多样性，马丁·哈里斯建筑公司（Martin Harris Construction）的劳动力中有40％以上是千禧一代的一部分。该公司还合作创建了STEM 101课程，用于行业培训和教育，并扩大了该计划的教育范围，包括拉斯维加斯的青年发展和社会创新部。

“They aren’t just a general contractor; they’re a partner,” notes Keith Earnest, executive vice president of VanTrust Real Estate, a frequent Martin-Harris client that has built more than 4 million sq ft of industrial warehouse and fulfillment projects with the firm since 2016.

“Today’s warehouse is not just a guy cruising around on a forklift,” Earnest notes. “It takes a Martin-Harris contractor to be able to execute these [more elaborate] buildings.”

马丁·哈里斯（Martin-Harris）最近在北拉斯维加斯（North Las Vegas）建立了丝芙兰（Sephora）的区域配送中心，这是一座耗资3700万美元，713,366平方英尺的倾斜工业建筑，其中设有以员工为中心的仓库。承包商与客户协同工作，以确保一个有大休息室，宽敞的休息区，小吃店和厨房的人类友好空间，使仓库更像是办公室环境。

“关注人类元素始于盖伊的父亲弗兰克（Frank），这在他们在领域的工作，与客户的沟通方式以及他们在社区中产生的积极影响。”“马丁·哈里斯（Martin-Harris）团队在我们的每一步中都与我们同在，因为我们在不到四年的时间内发展了超过400万平方英尺。他们对细节和关注客户满意度的关注确实使他们与众不同。”