西南专业承包商正在从艰难的大流行年中恢复过来，尽管材料成本，交付延误和劳动力短缺仍在困扰着他们。新利18备用官网登录许多人还担心三角洲变体的传播。
The 30 largest firms in ENR Southwest’s 2021 Top Specialty Contractors ranking reported $2.5 billion in combined regional revenue during 2020, up slightly from $2.23 billion in 2019.
Liberty Industrial Group Inc., based in Phoenix, posted $17 million in regional revenue for 2020. The company handles commercial and industrial scaffolding, insulation, painting, general labor and other services in 40 states.
“在Covid的头几个月中，我们有一些项目延迟和取消，但是我们的许多工作与维护相关，只能延迟这新利18备用网址么长时间。因此，我们在2020年底看到了强劲的上升。”该公司总裁兼首席执行官罗伯特·普林兹（Robert Prinz）说。“ 2021年在所有领域和所有市场上都表现出色。”
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RKS管道和机械报告的2020年收入为4,700万美元，排名第17，超过了其2019年的4000万美元数字，用于在两个亚利桑那州办事处完成的工作。该公司完成的项目中有新利18备用网址三个在斯科茨代尔（Scottsdale）：7180 E. Kierland的550万美元公寓，41.8亿美元的Kierland Apartments和450万美元的Copperwynd Resort。
“Our biggest challenge is finding people and procuring material in a timely manner,” says Joe Stachel, COO at RKS. “Materials costs continue to go up—everything from start to finish on a project.” He adds that increased PPE expenses are now required to be included in bids, and competition for talent is pushing costs higher. “We now have two people with 100% of their time devoted to onboarding people,” he explains. “And due to COVID-19, we have had long-term employees retire rather than deal with the changes.”
The 35-story Circa Las Vegas was completed in 2020 at a cost of $1 billion. The luxury resort and casino has the largest sports book in Las Vegas with the biggest screen in sports book history. The project required 5,400 tons of steel.
Photos courtesy of SME Industries Inc.
结构钢，砌体，混凝土
对于结构性钢铁和其他金属提供商SME Industries Inc.，区域收入总计6460万美元，比上一年下降，在今年排名中将该公司排名第15位。尽管如此，“与新的协议和程序一起继续进行，每项工作都可以继续，”总裁兼首席执行官Dieter Klohn说。
The West Jordan, Utah-based company also offers seismic protection systems and heavy haul trucking. In 2020, SME completed major contracts at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., and Resorts World Las Vegas.
“We are enjoying an upswing in projects, and things seem to be moving consistently with 2019 and 2020 project numbers,” Klohn says. At the same time, he notes that steel pricing has almost doubled on some products and metal deck has become a long-lead item.
2020年，总部位于凤凰城的Sun Valley Masonry的收入从2019年的7,840万美元增加到了9379万美元，将该公司的收入提高到第9号。公司的大部分砖石和混凝土工作都在西南部完成。
“我们非常感谢拥有强大的劳动力和忠实的客户。我们很幸运地有很少的项目在短暂的时间内被暂停，以帮助亚利桑那州的每个人在前所未新利18备用网址有的时期找出下一步。”运营副总裁戴维·佩洛克（David Peloke）说。
Projects the firm completed in 2020 and 2021 include the $2.6-million ASU Durham Hall in Tempe, the $1.5-million Banner Ocotillo in Mesa and $1.3-million The Grand at Papago Park in Phoenix. The longer lead times for materials created opportunities for Sun Valley to participate with design-assist partners during planning, allowing for earlier procurement, Peloke explains.
Current projects include four in Arizona: the $2.1-million Legacy Sports Park in Mesa, $1.65-million Union on 6th in Tucson, $1.5-million Creighton University Health Science Campus in Phoenix and the $7.8-million 2nd on Filmore in Phoenix.
Opened in June, the 59-story Resorts World Las Vegas fuses three premium hotel brands. Requiring 23,472 tons of steel, the luxury casino is the most expensive resort property ever developed in the city at $4.3 billion.
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More Growth Ahead
“我们希望ful the business will continue in an upward trend,” Peloke says. “We have good work continuing to come in, and the outlook is positive in all areas.” He notes that multifamily building continues to be robust, leading to the need for additional schools, health care facilities, entertainment districts and other facilities.
中小企业工业公司的克洛恩（Klohn）预计“在前两个季度，狭窄的上升幅度狭窄，在2022年的第三季度和第四季度增加了。”
同时，Stachel预测，RKS将在2021年达到4300万至4500万美元的区域收入。“幸运的是，我们能够为所有工作人员提供劳动力，但是在许多情况下，材料不断增加，交货日期增加了一倍，”他的交付量增加了一倍，”说。
While COVID variants could change the marketplace, “as we see it now, there are many segments of the market that appear strong and moving forward with capital projects or planned maintenance outages,” says Prinz, noting that biofuels, alternative energy and semiconductor markets will comprise a large portion of the firm’s work in 2022.
Firm leaders all agree that labor remains the central issue. “We have continued to see a decline in the younger generation joining the trades, so training, employee retention and providing lasting career opportunities will be the focus for us over the foreseeable future,” Prinz says.
