06/10/2026
Western Nevada Supply's Sparks campus has been "almost done" for about ten years now.
It's not one project. It started as the original build, then an addition, then a seismic retrofit on the existing PEMB, then a mezzanine, then a TI. Most of those overlap. Each has its own OAC series, and the meeting count across the campus is well past anyone's ability to count.
Paul worked the original build years ago at Gabbart & Woods. When G&W wound down he kept the EOR seat — finished the PEMB retrofit and is now stamping work across several concurrent projects on the same site. The current TI in Area 3 involves opening walls in the South counter addition, checking whether the existing structure can take each opening, and reinforcing where it can't.
The thing that doesn't show up in a portfolio shot is institutional memory. Why a column is offset at that grid. What the original lateral system was sized for. What got added back in the retrofit. Stuff you just know if you were on the original drawings, instead of trying to reconstruct it from a 15-year-old set.
Out at WNS with Western Nevada Supply, Plenium Builders, and Don Mackey Architect — the campus that's been "almost finished" for ten years and counting.
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